Could a Pill Be the Key to Marital Bliss?
Improving a long-term relationship can be grueling, but what if you, your partner, or both of you could make things easier by taking a pill? Would you?
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Can Singles Live Happily Ever After?
With the rise in Americans living alone has come a surge of cultural chatter about the manifest wonders of the unaccompanied state. Veteran solo flyer Daphne Merkin questions the new conventional wisdom
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After Years of Faking, Finally a Happy Ending
Tracy Clark-Flory spent her twenties having lots of good sex, but faked her way through nearly every climax. Which prompts the question: Do we really need that happy ending?
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Life Lessons from the Sex Diaries
Arianne Cohen took a page from the men whose sex diaries she published for four years: Figure out what you want, articulate it, find a playmate (or two, or three), and let the adventures begin
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Married But Separate
Can you love him—even marry him—and still have a place of your own? Kate Bolick investigates a new kind of monogamy and finds that the secret to staying together may be living apart
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‘I’m Not What’s Best for My Baby’
With a budding law career, a new home, and a doting husband, Julia was ready for motherhood. Nina Burleigh investigates the circumstances that caused a soon-to-be parent to give up her child
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This is Your Brain on Sex
In Dirty Minds, author Kayt Sukel explores the neuroscience of love and sex—and donates her body to advancing the science
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What Makes a Good Wife?
Heidi Julavits had to transform from reluctant caregiver into a domestic role when her husband became sick
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My Tragic Marilyn Monroe Moment
For Emma Forrest, a devoted cinephile who has always felt like a Marilyn, her curves invited a sex life she wasn’t always prepared for
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