Cristen Conger

If you're looking for love during this Presidential campaign season (or any time, as a matter of fact), there's a quick way to figure out whether that online profile incarnate is a genuinely compatible match: talk about politics. Oh, wait. That's one of the four topics -- alongside money, sex...

To ultimatum or not to ultimatum: that was the question posed by a Stuff Mom Never Told You listener on Twitter earlier this week in reference to a guide to getting a guy to propose by strategic negotiation. Because that's all an ultimatum really...

Don't let the title of this post fool you. I'm not about to trot out statistics on female sexual dysfunction, nor is this an HPV refresher course. And although the female body -- particularly the region between the belly button and the knees -- already...

Last holiday season wasn't the best for me romantically. My ex and I waved the white flag on Christmas Eve after being called out on our joint unhappiness by a total stranger sitting across the bar from us. When kindly barflies can sniff out a couple's soured eggnog...

I'm not the first person to say this, but it bears repeating: hymens are a myth.

Or rather, intact, virginal hymens that can "break" or "pop" inside of us don't exist.

Countless young women, myself included not so long ago, have fretted over what happens with the...

Allow me to cut to the chase: I'm single and considering online dating.

I haven't lost faith in randomly meeting someone who rings my bell, but why not jumpstart the process a little bit, right? Why not see who's out there in my fair city...

Many, many episodes ago on my podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You, I jokingly commented to my co-host Molly that life would be a lot easier if society abolished marriage. We had been discussing the differences between civil unions and marriages, and after dissecting the legalese...

You know what's a fun topic to bring up on a first date with a guy? Feminism. Once you get hard-lined religious and political beliefs out of the way (preferably first thing in the car, or during the appetizer if you must wait that long), toss out a...

As we fret over precocious puberty turning little girls into little women, why haven't more people stopped to ask what's going on with the boys? For all of the conversation about how precocious puberty might wreak havoc on girls in terms of lowered self-confidence and earlier sexual activity,...

When reading Jessica Bennett's stellar Newsweek piece on "The Beauty Advantage", one figure stuck out to me. The magazine surveyed 202 corporate hiring managers about the impact of attractiveness on hiring and performance, and while a majority stressed the importance of paying attention to personal grooming, "47 percent...

Cruising through Huffington Post's 8 Jobs In Which Women Make More Than Men left me more crestfallen than keyed up for women's advancement in the workplace. The slideshow, based on the June 2010 women's earnings report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is meant to offer...

With the Fourth of July upon us, Americans thankfully have something do with all of those leftover flags we bought for the World Cup and wept into last Saturday. Sure, it might not be the best of times for the ol' U.S. on and off the...

Love her or hate her, you have to hand it to Lady Gaga - the woman knows how to sell. Beyond the Rolling Stone covers, business rags have also tracked Gaga's moves with the breathless fervor of her very own "little monsters," awed at the lickety-split empire she's...

First it was her beauty pageant figure. Then the glasses, designer duds and hair. And don't forget about those shapely gams.

As if we couldn't collectively deconstruct Sarah Palin's body and appearance any further, now it's time to check out her breasts....

As a kid, I spent hours flipping through my mother's butter-stained Betty Crocker cookbook from circa 1960. I'd sit and salivate at the sight of the signature cakes and casseroles enlivened by vivid shades of maraschino cherry reds and American cheese oranges

Today, that cookbook is more of a how-not-to...