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Miranda July • No One Belongs Here More Than You
But you know what unsettles me the most? This business about your lover being the only one who has “KNOWN” you in a “spiritual, sacred way,” coupled with your conviction that you will “never find this again and thus” you stay. Find what, pray tell? A sexually and emotionally withholding lover who is terrified of commitment and intimacy?
Cheryl Strayed • Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Bien qu’American Pie24 soit le film culte de son groupe d’amis, Nicolas prend aussi ses distances par rapport à cette image de sexualité adolescente pataude. La maturité hétérosexuelle se construit par la mise à distance des figures du « frustré » et de l’« obsédé ».
Florian Voros • Désirer comme un homme (French Edition)
The Myth of Monogamy, David P.
Tristan Taormino • Opening Up: A Guide To Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
(Spousal rape was not criminalized in Virginia until 2002, and the state senator Richard Black is still fighting to decriminalize it.) A Times
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It (Published 2017)
But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living.
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
when maybe it would be nice if it went both ways, you know?” As Dr. Broder explained, too often in dating we expect to be given a lot of things from men—constant compliments, vacations, meals, 24/7 emotional support, romantic gestures—and those men who don’t meet our standards in any of these departments get the boot, unnecessarily. One woman I spo
... See moreLori Gottlieb • Mr Good Enough: The case for choosing a Real Man over holding out for Mr Perfect
Sex was the last thing such a girl gave a man, an ultimate or ultimatum. It was as much a philosophical decision on her part as an emotional one and it had to be justified on ethical and aesthetic grounds. To sleep with a man was the end of a long chain of behavior that began with calling yourself a liberal, with appreciating modern art—sex was a m
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