Lovelies: Over the weekend, I did the party-dance: I left Shindig #1 because the two people I’d gone with were ready to take off–though I wouldn’t have minded an excuse to stick around longer–and decided to swing by Throw-Down #2, even though I hadn’t been planning to, because hey, it was still early. The friends […]
Sarah Lyall is like an American Jane Goodall, but instead of mist she’s got fog, and instead of apes she’s got a more inscrutable species: Englishmen. A reporter for the New York Times, Lyall has lived among the repressed wit-machines for 13 years — even married one — and writes about them in her new […]
My boyfriend has given me a lot in the year-and-a-half we’ve been together: a belly rub when I ate an entire pepperoni pizza in one sitting, a flat-screen TV when my ’80s model finally self-destructed, plus the usual jewelry, cards, and flowers. The one thing he never gave me was butterflies. Since sixth grade, the […]
Richard S. Under flashing red and purple lights, a dancer named Adrenalin, a slightly chunkier version of a 30-something Sting, is thrusting and grinding to a pounding disco beat at Tricky Dickys nightclub in Birmingham, England. A crowd of young women dressed in Friday-night gear — slip dresses, jeans, gauzy tops — sits on white […]
This month, after 35 years, the print version of Playgirl packs up and heads to that big bearskin rug in the sky. By way of farewell, we revisit a few of our favorite cover boys. “It teaches me to know how to know. It’s a technology about people . . . you know, when you […]
Lovelies: The other night, I was out with my friends Daisy Milliner and Ruby Finch, having a very mellow dinner at the brasserie Tabac in Brooklyn; and after spotting a guy sitting at the common table in the bar area who was absurdly cute, I actually I whispered, “Check him out!” I swear, I am […]
I got pregnant when I was 19, and in love, and having the sort of constant, frenzied, and, yes, unprotected sex that many in early adulthood know not to engage in but engage in anyway. (I would become pregnant again at 24 and at 27.) The first termination took place at a Planned Parenthood in […]
Courtesy Joanna Coles, married mother of two, who has never used an app to try to find a date herself, knows a thing or two about love and sex online. She was the editor-in-chief of both Marie Claire and Cosmopolitan, where she gained intimate knowledge of the thrills and horrors of being a 20-something single […]
