A 29-year-old female elementary school teacher from Abington, Massachusetts faces statutory rape charges after allegedly having sex approximately 300 times over the course of 18 months with a 13-year-old boy. 

Described as an obsessive predator by police, Christine McCallum first embarked on her relationship with the boy as a surrogate mother figure. The relationship allegedly progressed to snuggling and kissing after McCallum plied the boy with alcohol, and then eventually, to sex.  

Needless to say, we find the whole situation distressing, to put it mildly. 

That being said, our aim in presenting this story is not to celebrate a scandal or express derision … Read More

Junior year of high school, my first serious boyfriend cheated on me -- with a soccer referee who was also named "Jessica," if I remember correctly.  

I should have seen it coming -- he was a soccer playing jock, a "bad boy," and so handsome that even my father said he looked like a "Greek god. But I was in loooooooove and so I did what any other 17-year-old girl would have done in this situation:

I found out that girls's AIM screenname and confronted her over the Internets.

But things didn't exactly go as … Read More

It's a humdinger all right. After all, our day jobs exist because we know relationships are complicated.

Take this week: Just when you think you've deep-sixed one seriously depraved New York politician, accusations arise that another was not only secretly gay, but, oh by the way, he and his wife were having threesomes with his driver long before he ever came out. (Not that that in itself is necessarily depraved.) Hmm.

Like we said, love rarely resembles a 50's sitcom. And we don't pretend to know what Silda should do with her Eliot, which is … Read More

I wasn't surprised to turn on 'The Today Show' and see Dr. Laura Schlessinger blame Eliot Spitzer's wife for his infidelity. After all, this woman has made a career out of selling out women. What I did feel was anger and sadness, not just for her comments but also for the fact that The Today Show felt the need to give her a national platform to spread her misogynistic rants.

Why does Dr. Laura hate women so much? Did the popular girls pick on her in high school? Did her mother not give her enough love? At … Read More

According to Dr. Teela Sanders, a senior lecturer at the University of Leeds, and the author of Paying For Pleasure: Men Who Buy Sex, nearly one in three men will buy sex at some point in his life. . .  and we're not talking porn. Below, Sanders offers some provocative ideas on why that's the case—and what you need to know about it.

What prompted you to write this book in particular? Generally my area has been in the sex industry—my first book was about studying women working as escorts, looking at how they manage risk, the … Read More

Holy Spit(zer)ing Images: Is it just us or is Silda Spitzer a dead-ringer for a slightly older Jennifer Aniston? In all honesty, we can’t shake this doppelganger effect. And we’re wondering if there are some deeper, more direct link between the two. While our office came up with nada in the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, we did notice that both have a recent history of unfaithful dudes. While Eliot Spitzer allegedly strayed at a DC hotel, Brad Pitt broke loose on the set of Mr. And Mrs. Smith … Read More