Sex Outside of Marriage

In the beginning we didn't know anyone who had consciously opened up their marriage so we had to figure things out ourselves. We also didn't know what to call what we were doing.

A group of researchers got together to compare and contrast the sexual behavior of Americans and the French. What they found, in short, is that Post50 French women seem to have more active sex lives.

Due to a minor computer snafu on my part, my name will be forever linked to an anonymous column we ran on Huff/Post50 on open marriage. When I discovered this, I wondered what my husband of nearly 20 years would think. Not to mention my daily-Mass-attending Irish Catholic mother and mother-in-law, my ten siblings, four siblings-in-law, and the principals at my kids' Catholic schools. My father, nine years in heaven, was no doubt laughing his head off.