Sex & Relationships

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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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He Said, She Said

Relationship musings from the pages of ELLE through the years

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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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Sex and Relationship Advice for Women

ELLE experts offer exclusive relationship advice for women. With a variety of topics to choose from, you will definitely find a topic on sex and relationships that piques your interest. Find out the best way to break up with your boyfriend, or even read about faking an orgasm.