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Breathless: Should You Be Friends with Your Ex?
Unfortunately, our exes don’t disappear from the earth after a breakup. They keep existing, seemingly for the sole purpose of appearing when you’re horribly hungover, buying Advil and coconut water in...
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Breathless: Mastering the Art of Sexting
Sexting is an important life skill. If the ability to pen a beautiful love letter got our grandparents the girl, today, having a baller sexting game can be the difference between a Tinder match that...
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Breathless: Has Anyone Else Noticed That Viagra Is Everywhere?
Last summer, I was casually dating a 32-year-old magazine editor. (I’ll call him Steve.) He was healthy, in shape, and his dick worked fine. For the most part. When we were alone, there were never any...
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Breathless: Proper Condom Etiquette Is Sexy
The stupidest thing a guy ever said to me in bed was this: “I don’t need to use condoms, because I only sleep with girls from wealthy families.” Right. As will come as no shock to anyone, guys will...
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Breathless: Is Christian Grey a Bro?
Last Thursday marked the release of Grey, the latest in the Fifty Shades series. Grey is literally the exact same story as Fifty Shades of Grey, except this time it’s told from Christian’s...
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Breathless: Bachelorette Parties Are the New Bachelor Parties
Last month, I flew from New York to L.A. to attend the bachelorette party of a close childhood friend. I’m at that age when suddenly everyone I know is getting married at once—seemingly with zero...
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Breathless: Why Amy Schumer Is an Amazing Feminist
“How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?” a guy friend of mine recently asked me. Me: “I don’t know. How many?” Him: “That’s not funny!” While I did laugh at the joke, I probably...
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Breathless: Why Can’t Straight Men Talk About Sex?
At a recent dinner party, a guy friend of mine mentioned that he wanted to start a podcast about sex. He’s been hitting Tinder hard, and felt that he and his guy friends had enough hookup...
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Breathless: Are You Having an Emotional Affair?
When I imagine an affair, a few things come to mind: steamy sex, clandestine hotel rooms, raunchy texts, scandal, the population of France—it’s all very cinematic. But betrayal can be far less...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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