jss | October 28, 2009
I have a lengthy article about the Ashley Madison Agency published today at YourTango.com:
Adultery Benefits Women? A Case For Ashley Madison
The article is excerpted from a preliminary chapter of Into Temptation. So it is a bit of a sneak preview, long in advance …
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jss | October 13, 2009
There aren’t enough sex columnist jobs out there for all these kid sex columnists coming out of school. And there *should* be. Newspapers are dying, in part, because they have almost no relevance to anyone under 35. You’d think at some point they’d try dumping “Dear Margo” for Mustafa “Will Write for Sex” Shaikh …
Or me.
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jss | June 13, 2009
Ever since I first heard that “hooking up” meant having casual sexual activity with someone — which had to be about in the late ’90s — I have been predictably annoyed by the media freak-outs on the subject. Here we are in 2009, and hooking up is still a horrifying trend, even according to National Public Radio.
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jss | May 29, 2009
Is pole dancing wrong? Some feminists say pole dancing is wrong and that women shouldn’t do it for fun, exercise or profit; that the current fad for pole dancing classes, of all things, is symptomatic of a culture gone entirely to raunch, since pole dancing has traditionally been the province of strippers.
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jss | May 28, 2009
The Girls of FaceBook? The social network may censor nipples and porn, but that doesn’t prevent the competition to be hot …
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jss | March 23, 2009
There’s a journalism problem, though. Because the two teens, the boy and the girl, were sentenced before The Beast raised the double-standard question. And guess what? They got similar sentences. Neither is doing jail time.
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Tags: bad journalism, broadsheet, Daily Beast, double standard, Salon, Sheboygan, teen rape, teen sex, Wisconsin