I’m the pastor of a small church which hosts a Halloween event every year (as a stop for trick-or-treaters, with candy and cupcakes for the kids and hot coffee for their frazzled parents), so I wanted to go in costume but “sexy” anything was not going to fly. A brown robe (which I believe was [...]

Marryam, I’m sorry you are going through that! Like I said in my post, I’m no doctor. My advice would be to talk to a gynecologist about what you’re experiencing. I also wonder if you have talked to your partner about it. If your relationship is healthy, he should be concerned about your well-being and [...]

On a related note, did anyone read the piece about Sarah Robles, the weightlifter with a very good shot at the gold, who was living on food stamps because she’s “too big” (said with the most exaggerated airquotes possible) to get lucrative endorsement deals? Being at the top of your sport, if you’re female, doesn’t [...]

I was supposed to be at Momentum this past weekend (I spent $100 for a ticket—as an unemployed graduate student, that’s a lot of money!). Reading this made me wish I could have been there all the more. But I went to the Emergency Room with a kidney infection on Friday instead, and spent Saturday [...]

The comment about losing your virginity was kind of a throw-away line, but this is what I meant: For some women, losing one’s virginity hurts. For others, it does not. What I think is harmful is the idea that it must hurt, that you must leave blood on the bedsheets, or else you did something wrong (or [...]