Tag Archives: Mistakes
Beauty And The Slightly Beastly Girl.
Someone once told me they were glad to be called shallow because it meant they were attractive enough to have that luxury. While this was, on their behalf, an utter fallacy, it’s an interesting idea. Shallowness is one of those things that we all fall prey to, and when we do, we tell ourselves it’s [...]
Three is NOT The Magic Number.
Reading Platform’s piece on one guy’s distinctly unsavoury experiences with threesomes got me thinking about how shitty threesomes are. Logistically they’re a total nightmare: who has the time and resources to arrange one with three sane flexible people? And once you’re in the swing of it who’s going to be the facilitator making sure everyone’s having [...]
5 Infallible Pieces of Advice.
1. Always wear a condom.
Like duh. Duh duh and OHMYGOD DUH. There are so many freaking things that can infect, inhabit, and eat away at your genitals that it’s just not worth taking a chance. Also, if you get a scary sore on your genitals go get it checked! Alexi Wasser’s awesome blog reminded me of [...]
To Call or Not To Call?
When I was younger and had only just started dating boys the time spent waiting for a phone call or text message was almost unbearable. In fact I can remember vividly, aged 14, before teenagers had mobiles (!) spending a weekend sitting by the my house phone. When he finally called and my mum handed [...]
Honesty And Sobriety: Not Always The Best Policies.
Recently I gave up drinking. At first I stopped drinking at all, just to see if I could. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be, so since then I have been allowing myself a maximum of one slightly drunk night a month, no more than 3 drinks at other times, and both [...]
My Worst Date Ever Ever EVER
A few years ago I was living at my parent’s house in Massachusetts and feeling a tad lonely. So, like the productive, go-getting gal I am I joined OkCupid (for the first time). Within minutes of finishing my profile I was shopping for boys with gay abandon, and found a pretty hipster who liked all [...]
STI Of The Month – Syphilis!
Ah syphilis! Catch this and you’ll be in the company of Baudelaire, Wilde, Hitler, Nietzsche, and my number one historical hunk Beau Brummell. Easily treated, but difficult to spot, syphilis is often mistaken for dozens of other ailments, and incorrectly treated due to its relative current obscurity.
It starts with one, or more, small painless sores [...]
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Was That A Date?
It seems that with some friendships, no matter how platonic they start out, sex lingers in the background. After all you get on so well that taking it a step further is only natural, right? Asking a friend out on a date would be strange so testing the waters by engineering a ‘not date’ is totally understandable, right? Right?
What I Learned This Year.