Clik here to view.
Breathless: Why I Can’t Stand PDA
Last week, I was walking through the East Village when I saw it: a two-headed monster coming toward me. It was a couple, arms outstretched meeting in hands tightly locked, taking up the entire...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: Why Friends With Benefits Are the Most Sustainable Relationships
In a few days, I’m going to Cuba on vacation with a guy I’ve been sleeping with for eight years, but whom I’ve never once called my boyfriend. We live on different continents, but inevitably, a few...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: Would You Sleep With a Republican?
In the run-up to the presidential election, it’s natural to reflect on our own politics and values. There are big questions to answer: What is my stance on abortion? What is my position on gun...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: Why Raya Is the Soho House of Dating Apps
So the other night I was at a party, talking to a friend of a friend—one of those special types of New York artists who never actually make any art. I started telling The Artist about this sweet ER...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: Is Dating Someone With an Android a Deal Breaker?
I recently started dating this really sweet guy. We have a lot in common: We’re both writers; we’re the same age; we both hate being outside. But there’s one fundamental difference: He has an Android,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: Are Dating Apps Better for Meeting People Than Bars?
Last Friday night, I was bored and horny at my apartment, swiping aggressively on Tinder but having no luck. And then something dark happened—I swiped left on a guy who I thought maybe looked...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: Are You Obsessed With Your Partner’s Ex?
Last month I was at a Planned Parenthood benefit lunch at the Pierre hotel, making small talk with a fashion designer seated next to me. “That woman over there,” the designer said, pointing across the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: Am I Jaded?
It’s been more than six months since my ex-girlfriend and I put the nail in the coffin of our creepily codependent three-year relationship. I’ve since gone through the obligatory breakup cycle. First...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: Can a Shaman Cure My Fear of Normalcy?
Last weekend, I found myself sitting in front of a shaman in a mansion in Berkeley, talking about my commitment problems. You know, cliché white people stuff. “I have this fear,” I told the shaman,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Waiting Game
Love Stories is a series about love in all its forms, with one new essay appearing each day for the first two weeks of February, until Valentine’s Day. Nothing gets me wet like rejection. I suppose...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: Why (Some) Women Love Strap-Ons
Last week, I found myself at Cafe Gratitude in Los Angeles, eating a gluten-free scone and fuming about gender, as one does in 2016. On the receiving end of my rant was my friend “Lori,” a 23-year-old...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: The Year in Sex
2015 will go down in history as the year when love won. But there were lots of other extraordinary advancements in the world of sex and relationships. Here, my list of 13 highlights, which includes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: To Ghost or Not to Ghost?
It was 8:00 p.m. on a Friday and Sarah was staring at an open book but not reading it, too busy glaring at her phone out of the corner of her eye. Sarah had dinner plans with Ed. They’d met on Tinder...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: Is Having Feelings Embarrassing?
Having Feelings, Part 1 Last month I was in Los Angeles, on a self-imposed writing retreat, aka Tindering. I matched with Josh, a gangly 36-year-old with protruding ears and a body like a line...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: There’s a Name for My Problem and It’s Called Sudden Repulsion...
I recently dated a guy named Dan, a graphic designer. It was love at first swipe. He was perfect: 6-foot-2 and 125 pounds, like an overgrown dandelion, aka my ideal male body type. I thought about him...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: I Rang In My 30s With a Foursome
I woke up on the morning of my 30th birthday naked and alone in an unfamiliar hotel room, with a dead phone, covered in peanuts. As I crawled around the room, desperately searching for a phone...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: How to Tinder Your Way Out of Your Social Scene
For years, during my mid-20s, I slept almost exclusively with skinny hipsters. (Real talk.) It can get a bit formulaic: You meet for an overpriced cocktail at some Brooklyn bar with a faux-1920s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: Is UberPool the New Tinder?
This past spring, I spent a month in L.A. doing what everyone in L.A. does: “writing a screenplay,” aka drinking coconut kale smoothies and sitting in cars. “It’s so 2015,” said one friend, who’d...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Breathless: In Defense of Hookup Culture
Hookup culture: The end of civilization, or the biggest NBD ever? If you’ve read a single article about dating apps lately, you are well primed to believe it’s the former. According to a recent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do Women Really Need the Newly Approved “Female Viagra”?
It might surprise you, but for some women, the Ginuwine Pandora station and a quick vape are not enough to get in the mood. Surveys have estimated that about 10 percent of women have something called...
View Article
![Various Artists – Old School / New School [iTunes Plus M4A]](http://i.imgur.com/GEFz815.jpeg)
