Frisky Q&A: Erica Kennedy, Author Of “Bitch Lit” Novel “Feminista”
Erica Kennedy is known to many readers for her hip-hop novel Bling, but her latest novel, Feminista, has been making waves for its so-called entry into the “bitch lit” genre and its unapologetically...
View ArticleGirl Talk: Should I Be Jealous Of His Female Friends?
The other night, after having sex with the new guy I’m seeing, he said casually, “I’m going out for a drink with my friend. I’ll be back in half an hour.” Fair or not, it bothered me that he was going...
View ArticleGirl Talk: My Love/Hate Relationship With Thinspiration Blogs
The other night, I was wading through all the junk scattered around my apartment, starting to panic because I couldn’t find a book I needed to review. I threw out bag after bag of garbage and finally...
View ArticleGirl Talk: Sex With A “Top Chef”
At the end of last year, I was in Los Angeles for a TV appearance that required me to be dressed up and in full makeup. That ended in the early afternoon, and I walked around downtown all glammed up,...
View ArticleGirl Talk: I Want My Boyfriend To Fantasize About Other Women
I read Eliza Jules’ essay “I Obsessively Monitor My Husband’s Lube Bottle” over at xoJane and was left with this question: Is a partner’s masturbation something we should worry about? The more I’ve...
View ArticleThe Bold Single Bride Who Married Herself
What would you do if you wound up single on what was to be one of the most special days of your life—your wedding day? My friend Desiree did something remarkable and revolutionary: instead of hiding...
View ArticleGirl Talk: I’ve Got “Recovery Envy”
I’m not an addict, and I’m not an alcoholic. But as offensive as this may sound, I sometimes I wish I were, if only so I could have a language and a community to help me deal with what often seem like...
View ArticleGirl Talk: Let’s Talk About Negging
I was at the bar at the Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas enjoying a glass of champagne and having an intense one-in-the-morning chat with a new friend about raising kids (she’s a mom, I want to be one)...
View ArticleGirl Talk: Are New Friends More Exciting Than Old Friends?
The other night, I met a fellow writer at a dinner party. I’d read her work and followed her online but had no idea what she was really like. I think I assumed because she’s 10 years younger than me...
View ArticleGirl Talk: Why I’ll Never Date Another Guy Named “Tom”
Relatively recently, I dated two men in a row with the same first name—I’ll call them both Tom for the sake of this essay. One I fell in love with, and while I’m mostly over him, I’m not there all the...
View ArticleGirl Talk: Thoughts On Panic Attacking
Two days before my birthday last November, I got a facial at my favorite spa. I lay down on the bed, with the paper gown tucked around me, and the technician went about working her magic on my pores....
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Girl Talk: My Date Told Me To Wear More Makeup
A few months ago, I went on two dates with a guy I met on the online dating site OKCupid. We emailed and talked a bit before the first; I was looking forward to meeting him and wanted to look good. I...
View ArticleGirl Talk: I’m Glad My Boyfriend Is Divorced
Some women shy away from divorced guys, but I’m grateful my new boyfriend is divorced—or at least, on the way there (he is at the end of the process, in the final stages of paperwork). This is not a...
View ArticleGirl Talk: I’m A Binge Eater (Sometimes)
A few weeks ago, I was sitting at my boyfriend’s living room table, alone, in the middle of a weekday afternoon, my laptop open, trying to fend off both a cold and a bad mood. I was frustrated that I...
View ArticleThe Soapbox: Leave Lolo Jones And Her Virginity Alone!
I have to respectfully disagree with Alexandra Gekas’ recent Soapbox excoriating Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones for considering her virginity “a gift I want to give my husband.” Taking Jones to task for...
View ArticleGirl Talk: I Don’t Have A Dating Checklist
In the preview for Bravo’s upcoming reality show “Miss Advised,” internet personality Julia Allison boldly exclaims that she’s looking for a husband and has a 73-point checklist. When I heard that, my...
View ArticleGirl Talk: Why Checking Your Partner’s Email And Phone Is Not Smart
Recently, Jools Oliver, wife of chef Jamie Oliver, and writer Samantha Brick both proudly declared that they check their husbands’ emails and phones regularly, and credit their successful marriages in...
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Girl Talk: Taking A Pregnancy Test At 36
The first time I bought a pregnancy test I was 17. I’d gotten my period but was so new at the whole sex thing, not to mention paranoid, that I wanted to be sure. We hadn’t used condoms, but instead a...
View ArticleThe Soapbox: What Calorie-Obsessed Vogue Diet Mom Dara-Lynn Weiss Ignores In...
Dara-Lynn Weiss, the woman who became infamous for writing in Vogue about putting her daughter on a diet, wants it both ways: she repeats over and over in her new memoir The Heavy: A Mother, A...
View ArticleGirl Talk: I Lied To My Gynecologist About My Number Of Sexual Partners
I didn’t think I was ashamed of the number of sexual partners I’ve had in the 20 years I’ve been getting it on until I found myself filling in a number half the true total at a recent gynecologist...
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