It's like shooting yourself in the vagina with a ray-gun. In a good way.
vibrators
pregnancy
I’ve been approached or touched by more strangers in the past 7 months than in my entire native New Yorker life.
stds
My friends and I are all highly educated young women. We can talk for hours about the merits of Madame Bovary -- so why are we so tentative about talking about risk?
entertainment
An overwhelming majority of the articles I posted were about women. But rarely were these articles about their professional accomplishments. Or anything other than their appearances, their romances, and their personal failures.
okcupid
I very specifically took full body photos of me on my not-most-awesome day, rather than choose more flattering photos. I embraced underpromise and overdeliver -- I was petrified of trying to deceive anyone.
protest
What made me say "this is enough" was having two young people killed by the police.
ihtm
I started hoarding my hairballs in high school. Now I keep the hairballs in my purse pocket, the way other women would guard a confidence-boosting lipstick or nicotine gum.
cosmetic surgery
Two boyfriends, in the last two years, have asked me to get augment my behind. As in surgically alter it.
ihtm
All we needed was my dad’s permission and a bunch of paperwork, and I could be on his health insurance, live with him senior year, and most importantly, cut down on or completely eliminate contact with my dad.
eating disorders
Making rent each month meant planning every expense down to the cent and food was one of the only things that wasn't a fixed cost. So increasingly I found myself cutting it out of my budget, and just not organizing to have something to eat every day.
memoirs
Although I had kind of become numb to what I was writing about, I was still aware that other people would be at least a little shocked. Abortion. Gangbang. Orgy. These are words that get people’s attention.
ihtm
How could my cherished and super-lovely professional boyfriend have pined for a woman who made a career out of selling sex?
And if she fucked guys for a living, was she far better in bed than me?
fwb
Seriously, how hard could it be to find a f*&#-buddy?
girls gone wild
I was 18, it was Mardi Gras, and I'd never heard of Joe Francis, a man with the moral constitution of a bowel movement.
cheating
I’ve been happily married for five years and the sex with my wife is great, I just gave into an impulse.
bad mothers
Some years, I've spent the day crying on the couch, watching bad cable and eating takeout Chinese food.
ihtm
I will tell you, when someone commits a felony in order to no longer share their life with you, it’s a big, fat, fucking “FUCK YOU!” with a judge’s approval.
sex
I am addicted to the pursuit and the reward of first time sex. I lack the skills and know-how to cultivate a sustained sexual relationship with someone I care for over a long period of time.
boston marathon
There are lots of pictures that are too graphic to publish. Even on the Internet. I have to look at them anyway.
condom
He waited until he was putting on a condom to inform me that he’d “never done this before.”
it happened to me
I didn’t win Jane’s IHTM contest, but your comments were so sweet, I couldn’t leave you hanging.
mental health
I was fidgety, inattentive, and had a hard time putting together sentences that were longer than one or two words. According to my doctors, this was "good," because it was a sign that my medication was working.
best friends
Ending a tight friendship as an adult is similar to ending a romantic relationship in that it’s a major life change.
strippers
I’d been scanning Craigslist for part-time gigs and came across an ad that seemed too good to be true: “Beautiful college girls sought for nightclub modeling. Receive up to $1000/night. Email pics.”
