Sexual Double Standard

Why Women Should Take Lovers

Elizabeth Abbott | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Marriage, Byron, Duchess of Devonshire, Sexual Double Standard, Teresa Guiccioli, Bess Foster, 18th Century Italy, 18th Century England, Mistresses, Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman, Charles Grey, Arranged Marriages, Lord Byron, Cavalier Servente, Georgiana, Divorce News
Elizabeth Abbott

In the 21st century, egalitarianism reigns -- or does it? Why, if a husband can have a mistress, can his wife not have a mister? Not just a "piece on the side," certainly not a gigolo, but a man with whom she shares a long-term, extramarital romantic and sexual relationship?

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Looking Through the Bushes: The Disappearance of Pubic Hair

Roger Friedland | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Pubic Hair, Brazilian Waxing, Bikini Wax, Pubic Hair Shaving, Brazilian Waxes, Hooking Up, Brazilian Bikini Waxes, Sexual Double Standard, Feex, Feminism, Style News
Roger Friedland

In the avant-garde literature of the 1960s, female pubic hair was everywhere. Pubic hair marked the site we all wanted to see, to touch, to enter. It marked pleasures yet to come. Not today: Pubic hair has gone missing.

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Why The Schwarzenegger Affair Was Thoroughly Traditional

Elizabeth Abbott | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Patty Baena, Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger Love Child, Adultery, Divorce, Monica Lewinsky, Sexual Double Standard, Maria Shriver, Tradiitional Double Standard, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Child Support, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, Strom Thurmond, Divorce News
Elizabeth Abbott

Arnold Schwarzenegger is a traditional man! His cheating on Maria followed the age-old tradition of the sexual double standard for husbands by allowin...

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Grey Hair as Fleeting Trend, or Social Statment?

Tove Hermanson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aging, Fashion, Feminism, Sexual Double Standard, Hair, Fashion Trends, Style News
Tove Hermanson

As a young woman who has atypically looked forward to turning shocking silver, I've read with some curiosity but ultimate skepticism, the rash of articles and blog posts about the supposed trend of women embracing grey hair.

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Celebrities Need To Shut Up About Their Sex Lives

David Wygant | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Dating Etiquette, Sex History, Megan Fox, John Mayer, Neil Patrick Harris, Relationships, Doogie Howser, Dating Advice, Sexual Double Standard, Sex, Tips, David Wygant, Neil Patrick Harris Gay, Sex Partners, Advice, Healthy Living News
David Wygant

Hollywood's gone from diet-itis, to baby-itis, and now sex-itis. What's next? Will Tom Cruise admit that he never had sex with Katie Holmes, and that baby Suri was artificially inseminated by Scientology sperm?

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Adam Lambert: A Fine Example Of The Sexual Double Standard

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Television, Logan Levkoff, Sexual Double Standard, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Adam Lambert, Madonna, Music, Feminism, Double Standard, Entertainment News
Dr. Logan Levkoff

What is it about Adam Lambert that infuriates and scares people? Is it that he is both masculine and feminine enough to be considered sexually attractive to many of us, regardless of how we identify?

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Reading Between the Lines in The Reader: When is Abuse Not Abuse?

Thelma Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Germany, Kate Winslet, Holocaust, Academy Award Nominees, Stephen Daldry, The Reader, Hugh Jackman, Film, Auschwitz, Sexual Abuse, Ralph Fiennes, Movies, David Hare, Oscar Nominees, Child Abuse, Statutory Rape, Harvey Weinstein, Nazis, Sexual Double Standard, Gender Issues, Literary Adaptation, Annie Liebowitz, Cougar Women, Bernard Schlink, Entertainment News
Thelma Adams

The Reader? It's goodish. And Kate Winslet is, as ever, brilliant. And it has Nazis, which elevates it on the Oscar nom scale. But it doesn't fully address the fact that Michael is a victim of abuse.

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Hooking Up At The Office Party: Don't!

Catherine Specter | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Holiday Season, Office Party, Sex, Sexual Double Standard, Tips for Holiday Season, Healthy Living News
Catherine Specter

Once the holidays are over, nobody remembers how much they ate, how badly they danced, or even how much they drank. But they will remember that you got freaky.

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