You'll never see a dude turn to another dude and ask, "Do I look fat in these pants?" But that doesn't mean men are invulnerable to insecurities, no matter how much we'd like to think so. Women are upfront about their fears, doubts, and self-esteem. I used to think it was just compulsive gabbiness, a quirk of the fairer sex. But, in fact, it is an admirable coping mechanism that's even a little bit courageous. That said, I'll sack up and admit that I've spent a lot of my life feeling like a fatty, a chubasaurus, half-man and half-marshmallow. Read More

The semi-Sapphic ménage a trois is supposed to be ultimate male fantasy*. But all is not as dandy as candy in "2 chicks at the same time" land-y.

I'd first heard of the downright anti-American idea that a girl-on-guy-on-girl could be anything other than legen-wait for it-dary in an old issue of Maxim (Read: 9 Things I Learned About Women From Editing Maxim). In an article debunking sexual fantasies, a writer said the reality of a threeway was having to hear, "are you finished yet?" in stereo. "But what did he know," I thought, "he's just some nerd writer … Read More

The female psyche will never recover from the pop cultural icon that was (is) Sex and the City's Samantha Jones.

There she was. A blissfully single and liberated woman pushing fifty, who had zero desire to allow conventional wisdom or age slow her sexual prowess. (Not to mention tarnish her good looks.)

Women. Everywhere. Ate. It. Up.

The appeal was undeniable for lots of reasons, but Samantha Jones certainly took the edge off female aging. She made sex after forty seem not only attainable, normal, and smoking hot but aged to perfection. Like a fine wine.

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Doctors from the top gynecological organization in Australia and New Zealand have spoken out against "designer vagina" surgeries because they believe the operations "prey on people with insecurities and fears who actually need psychological help.''

In a plastic surgery-happy world, there's nary a frontier left on the human body that can't be expanded, adjusted, lifted, shrunk or otherwise altered. If the thought of elective surgery on the exterior of the vagina ruffles your feathers, then the G-Spot orgasm-enhancing shot probably isn't for you. But, what about surgeons remaking the nether regions is so different from every other cosmetic operation?

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