jss | July 5, 2010
According to, like, every news source in the world that covers what celebrities do and say, Cameron Diaz said, just the other day, that monogamy is outdated.
That’s the consensus headline or near-the-top-of the story tidbit, anyway.
Like here:
Monogamy outdated: Cameron Diaz
Only, of course, she did not actually say that monogamy is outdated. She said that [...]
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jss | June 28, 2010
“Yes, yes yes … Like you, I’ve heard everything I ever wanted to hear for the rest of my life … about President Clinton and his marriage …”
From the This American Life archive at WBZ in Chicago, a *great* discussion from March 7, 1998.
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jss | January 17, 2009
My girlfriend and I were at a swingers’ “Meet and Greet” party at a bar in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, on Saturday night. The cover charge was $25 per couple, enough to keep the sports bar’s regular clientele at bay for the evening, and perhaps a hundred couples showed up – a typical crowd for this sort of thing in north central Connecticut. I asked around. If they hadn’t watched “Swingtown,” they’d sure enough heard of it and were going to tune in …
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Tags: 1970s, CBS, FaceBook, FriendFinder, Jeff Schult, monogamy, MySpace, Roger Catlin, swinging, Swingtown
jss | December 31, 2008
We could try to do this in song, in Billy Joel “We Didn’t Start the Fire” style:
Carla Bruni, Sarkozy
settle for monogamy
Spitzer with his pants down
Call girl finds some brief renown
John Edwards is a lure
National Enquirer
Elizabeth, blown away, stays married to him anyway … what else do we have to say?
Etcetera. But this is a First [...]
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Tags: alanis morissette, Billy Joel, Bruni, Edwards, into temptation, monogamy, national enquirer, Obama, palin, Sarkozy, sex, sex in 2008, sexual culture, Spitzer, teen pregnancy, We didn't start the fire