Prior to being engaged, it never occurred to me that I would face the question of whether or not to change my last name. As naïve as that may sound, taking on the name of a man as my own “new” name never struck me as a question. To do so was the customary practice in the...
Being a lesbian is very tempting. Ask any straight woman (and I mean in particular women who have done the dating thing in New York for more than one year), and you will quickly find a secretly harbored desire to have been born a lesbian. This might seem to be an overly generalized...
A stripper I used to know liked to wax poetic on themes of Bill Clinton’s sexuality. His penis seemed to fly like an eternally burning Hindenburg through the cloudscapes of her imagination: “Man, I’d love to get my hands on Bill Clinton’s dick,” she’d...
Many people don’t know what sexual addiction is. Some people even deny that it exists. However, from my work as a prison educator and an adjunct associate professor at John Jay College, it is clear to me that sexual addiction not only does exist, but that it has destructive...
WALT: Dad, what’s gradual school? GARP: Gradual school? WALT: Yeah, Mommy said that she teaches kids who go to gradual school. GARP: Oh! Well, gradual school is where kids go and then gradually realize that they don’t want to go to school anymore … Michael Douglas and...
