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February 12th 2010

Well...It's the Thought That Counts...

- Stefanie

I was snowed in at my apartment for a week (just emerged today). This gave me a chance to cross some movies off of my “watch when your roommate is gone so she doesn’t mock you” list. This is code for bad romantic comedies. I’ve noticed one major theme in all of them: the grand gesture. In the movies, the grand gesture is always followed up by “they lived happily ever after.” But in real life, the grand gesture can go horribly wrong and be downright awkward.

Exhibit A (and the only one you’ll be seeing here): Hippie Chick and The Overachiever.

December 11th 2009

Teen Moms Are Everywhere--and Some of Them Aren't Teens

- Lauren Mann

MTV’s new show Teen Mom premiered last week and introduced us to the difficulties involved with actually raising a child after pregnancy and delivery. Farrah wants to date, Maci and Ryan are attempting to get along and plan a wedding, Amber is trying to find balance in her life with baby Leah and boyfriend Gary, and Catelynn and Tyler are working to get back to normal after their adoption experience.

December 7th 2009

Sexual Assault on Campus: Can There Be Justice Without Transparency?

- Laura Sessions Stepp

Of all the college women I’ve interviewed who said they’ve been sexually assaulted on campus – and there have been a good number of them – not one ever reported the attack to campus authorities.

Their reasons have varied. Maybe they kinda' knew the guy and didn’t want to make him or his friends mad. Or they were drunk and couldn’t remember enough details to prosecute. Or they thought they should’ve known better than to put themselves in a potentially dangerous situation.

Or, and this was their biggest concern, they feared that if they did talk, nothing of substance would be done.

December 4th 2009

Why Victoria’s Secret Should Be Your Secret Too

- Kaarin Moore

“I’m kinda in between boyfriends right now, so I don’t need anything sexy.” – Pam Beesly, while visiting Victoria’s Secret

November 13th 2009

Jane Austen and Rob Reiner: Ruining Romance For Real People

- Stefanie

The other night I was out to dinner with Hipster Boy, Calendar Girl, Sunshine Girl, and The Philosopher. The conversation soon turned to movies, as it often does. The Philosopher had recently watched Pride and Prejudice with his girlfriend (because he is a good egg and will watch chick flicks without much objection), and it left him with some lingering questions.

The Philosopher: “What is with girls and Mr. Darcy?”

He looked expectantly around the table for one of us to answer – and was met with silence.

Side note: There was a period of time when History Boy awarded himself “Darcy Points” whenever he did something he deemed chivalrous.

October 9th 2009

How "Teen" Is Nineteen?

- Laura Sessions Stepp

Even before it hits the newsstands, November’s Teen Vogue has people talking.

Why? Because the cover displays two 19-year-old supermodels, one of whom, Jourdan Dunn, is pregnant.

Critics say Dunn shouldn’t be there because she is a role model for teen girls. She makes pregnancy look cool - and there are way too many pregnant teens already.

September 22nd 2009

Seen On Twitter: #whateverhappenedto Condoms?

- Liz Sabatiuk

We were pleasantly surprised to see the trending topic #whateverhappenedto come up in our "Condoms" twitter feed today ("pleasantly" because we're glad people are discussing birth control--the bad news, I guess, is that the topic is people not using it!). Anyway, I couldn't resist choosing a few favorites to highlight for posterity. Here are my top 11 #whateverhappenedto condoms tweets (with commentary), in no particular order:

September 18th 2009

'Bright Star': Naked Passion, Fully Clothed

- Laura Sessions Stepp

In her new cinematic love story, “Bright Star,” filmmaker Jane Campion reacquaints us with delicious sexual passion and reminds us that it need not be accompanied by intercourse. I, for one, thank her for that.

Not that I have anything against "doing it." But many of today’s media and entertainment figures, as well as political pundits on the right and left, reduce the bountiful buffet that is sex to one dish – intercourse. One kiss and the young partners are bouncing on 300-thread count sheets. A sexy voice, lingering glance, hungry eyes, stolen kiss, tender touch, poetic language…all are hardly more than appetizers, and easily skipped.

September 8th 2009

A Great Little Moment on "Greek"

- Amy Kramer

Nice scene on ABC Family’s “Greek” last night: Rusty and Jordan are mid-hookup and he interrupts the action to say “I have one question…” and before he can get any other words out she responds with “Yeah, I have some in the drawer.” He wasn’t going to ask about contraception -- he was preoccupied with trying to impress her visiting dad and was about to ask whether he was succeeding -- but when Jordan hinted at the condoms in such close proximity, Rusty seemed happily surprised.

September 3rd 2009

Seen On Twitter: Eight Good Reasons to "Break Up With" Someone

- Liz Sabatiuk

If you've explored SexReally, you may have noticed our shifting "_______ On Twitter" feed (if not, scroll down now), which displays real-time tweets about topics we want to hear about. This week and last, we've been talking break ups on the site, and we've seen some interesting tweets on the subject... Here are SexReally's top 8 twittered reasons to "break up with" someone: