There’s a reason two-person kayaks are called “divorce boats”!

I read The Good Girl hoping it would like those other “Girl” books (“Gone” and “On A Train”) — a fun genre read with compelling characters and a twisty plot— and was sorely disappointed. The writing was unmemorable, the characters were one-dimensional, and I saw the “plot twists” coming a mile away (and I’m definitely…

I read The Good Girl hoping it would like those other “Girl” books (“Gone” and “On A Train”) — a fun genre read with…

Dong semaphore aka (according to this vintage poster) dong flag wagging! Far as I can tell, they’re spelling “Lgseh.” Hmm. Must be Polish or something.

Did you overlook this quote from Laurie Penny in the piece or just not understand it?

“Polar-fleece clad tundra sausages”: marvelous!

I’m pretty sure the STD portion of my sex ed classes wasn’t meant to be educational. It was meant to be a deterrent to becoming sexually active. I’m not sure what else would have justified the graphic images of severely infected sexual organs (advanced syphilis, anyone?) that my 11th-grade health instructor shared…

YES. I was going to post something very similar. Despite good sex ed, despite reading Savage Love religiously, despite living in a liberal city and dating liberal dudes, despite being perfectly capable of climaxing solo ... for years I thought that the fact that I didn’t orgasm during p-in-v intercourse meant I was…

I remember getting the “no means no” message, but it wasn’t until fairly recently that I heard the “anything that’s not a clear and enthusiastic ‘Yes!’ means no” message. I was like, “Why wasn’t this a thing when I was teenager! It would have made things so much clearer!”

Song Travels is one of my all-time favs! It is wonderfully transporting to listen to Michael Feinstein talk to singers and songwriters. The magic is that Feinstein is both a fan and a highly skilled musician, so he can switch between articulating why a song is meaningful to him to deconstructing the bassline.

“That thing you’re walking down is an airplane aisle, not a fashion show runway ... [s]o save the super-sexy, eye-popping outfits for another time.”

Ew. Reductionist much?

I got all excited! But then I checked it out and realized that the database doesn’t track the single biggest factor in my foundation purchases: color. For those of us with less common (or less well represented within the makeup industry) skin tones, the first consideration is, “Do it come in my shade?”

So there’s nothing wrong with talking about your desires, but do you not see the irony in talking about the particulars of what makes you climax in this particular forum, which is about how most hetero women don’t get off when they have sex with their partners and most hetero men do? This one isn’t about you, my…

I was looking for the slo-mo option!

Fair ‘nuff. I put on hard-soled slippers (unlike socks, you can wear them when you’re taking out the trash in foul weather) as soon as I get home from work on weekdays and it’s not unusual for those bad boys to be the only things on my feet over the weekend, so to me, $100 for something I use every day for several…

Fair ‘nuff. I put on hard-soled slippers (unlike socks, you can wear them when you’re taking out the trash in foul…

All Terrain Herbal Armor: https://www.rei.com/product/751171…. Mosquitos love me and I have a really strong histamine response to them: welts, insanely itchy bites, etc. I’m not necessarily anti-DEET, but I don’t like the way it melts my clothes and camping gear and let’s be real, the chances of me wiping off all my…

All Terrain Herbal Armor: https://www.rei.com/product/751171…. Mosquitos love me and I have a really strong…

This human oil machine is an enthusiastic convert to baking soda and vinegar, a combo that seems to work best for people with straight, fine, oily hair. I used to be one of those people that was like, “I HAVE to wash my hair AT LEAST every other day or it gets insanely greasy.”

My dealbreaker? People who say, “It’s basic evolutionary psychology ...”

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I respect your willingness to go the extra mile for verisimilitude! I am a lazy-ass cook and thus if the recipe calls for brown sugar and I have none, I just add white sugar. Or honey. Or maple syrup. Or agave. (You get the picture.) But I usually find myself going the other direction and substituting brown sugar for…