Jill Di Donato

My girlfriends are always curious to hear what I have to say about men. Aside from my degree in Sociology and the plethora of gender study books crowding my bedroom, as a sex columnist, I have the delightful pleasure of interviewing men to see what they really think about dating,...

You might think that having a fulfilling relationship with your mother gets easier with age. This seems intuitive to women these days as we have more templates to choose from when forming intimate bonds with people in our lives. Having a fulfilling adult relationship with your mother offers profound life...

About a year ago, I had my first encounter with an uncircumcised penis. I should add that there was a man attached to the penis; he was someone who I'd been out with on a couple dates, and that night was our first time. I didn't notice the difference at...

"There's a term for when a guy stops calling," my hairdresser tells me as he curls my tresses into a Joan Crawford wave à la Mildred Pierce. "It's called dating."

Has dating really devolved into something so cynical? And why is it the man who's always pulling the disappearing...

When I first sat down to write this story -- single, with a mid-30s birthday looming -- I went into default self-deprecating humor mode. "I have a learning disorder," I typed before realizing that this self-effacing I suck at love; pity-me-for-getting-older-crap is neither funny nor true. Women are programmed to...

I'll never forget the Christmas I unwrapped a training bra in front of all of my relatives, and with all the teen angst and melodrama I could muster, threw the package -- ribbons flying -- at my mother. Pre-puberty, there was something profane about mixing anything even remotely sexual into...

This time of year, everywhere we look, we're encouraged to make a list, check it twice. Whether it's for things we want or to tally the things about ourselves we resolve to change, The List is an end-of-year staple.

But when it comes to our love lives, the idea of...

Have you ever gotten that craving for sex, but not for the usual reasons? After a particularly rotten date, a silly fight with one of my best friends, or maybe just one of those days when nothing seems to go my way, I tend to call a certain "acquaintance" who...

When my boyfriend left in the middle of the night, thus ending our six-year relationship, I thought my life was over. My ex and I had shared an apartment, family obligations, finances, arrangements to start a family, cookery, linens, a Netflix plan and an art collection. On Saturday nights, we'd...

In 1918, Freud defined taboo as a complicated idea -- and a word that conveys a twofold meaning. "On the one hand," he writes, "Taboo means to us sacred, consecrated: but on the other, it means, uncanny, dangerous, forbidden, and unclean." Nearly a century later, it seems...

Am I a sex addict, or just promiscuous?

Doctors with the American Psychiatric Association are considering the validity of this very question as they prepare the DSM-V, slated for publication in 2012. Because the word "addiction" doesn't appear in DSM-IV -- "dependence" or "abuse" are the preferred terms in reference...

A year after South African doctor Sonnet Ehlers introduced the Rape-aXe in various South African cities hosting the 2010 World Cup games, some interesting questions arise about the "Venus Flytrap" condom, and how it might serve cosmopolitan women in the U.S. and Europe.

For those who don't know about...

How can you turn a summer fling into something more? Relationship expert Kailen Rosenberg, a Masters-Level Life Coach whose practice emphasizes "keeping things real," shares her 17 years of experience in elite matchmaking, custom love design, true life makeovers, family remodels, marriage restoration and teen innovation. "Sadly most...

"Rape is not a new thing," says Lauren Rayner, a New York and Los Angeles based producer, director, and playwright and mastermind of Mendacity, a multi-media performance in this year's FRIGID New York Festival. "But the definition of what it is and means has...

From sideshow performers to masked superheroes, "the man with two faces" is no stranger to American pop culture. He's dangerous, inaccessible, vulnerable, sexy, secretive, and these days, dominating cable TV's leading men.

What's the appeal of "the man with two faces"? And why so suddenly has he become a...

For centuries, the nude human form has been the basis for figurative art, and possibly the inspiration for abstract expressionism as well. These days in modern photography, we're still compelled by the nude body, but more often than not, the female rather than the male nude is the subject de...

When two women found out they were involved with the same man simultaneously, they had coffee, became friends, and then business partners. In 2009, they started the online venture CheaterAlert Inc. 



"I think society is sick and tired of seeing sex scandals everywhere they turn," explains CheaterAlert spokesperson...

When I met Jonny Porkpie, a.k.a. the Burlesque Mayor of NYC, for this interview, he was full of double entendres, rattling them off as smoothly as an adept playa runs game. But none of his hedonic witticisms were lewd - on the contrary, they were humorous and stirring. "There's a...

It's a question we've all posed at some point: Am I beautiful? And like most questions in our techno-driven/uber-commercial/capriciously-validating culture, it's an answer you can find online. Repulsed and fascinated by the dating site BeautifulPeople, an "exclusively beautiful community, founded for the purpose of creating personal and professional...

About a month ago, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study investigating the incidence of paternal postpartum depression. Although the study describes the data as "emerging" and the literature on paternal postpartum depression "currently inconsistent," interest in today's "sad dad" seems to be growing. Overall,...