Topic: Girls

Adele Turns Down Seven Figure Memoir Offer, Is The Anti-Hannah Horvath

Adele Turns Down Seven Figure Memoir Offer, Is The Anti-Hannah Horvath

I don’t think anyone would debate the fact that Adele has accomplished more in her 24 years than most people do in their entire lives. She’s rich and famous, she’s won nine Grammys, and she got Anna Wintour to put someone bigger than a size 2 on the cover of Vogue. But when HarperCollins offered her over a million dollars to write a memoir about her life thus far, she said no. More »

There Is A Real Ad On Craigslist Promising ‘The HBO Girls Living Experience’

There Is A Real Ad On Craigslist Promising 'The HBO Girls Living Experience'

Attention youngs! If you saw the glamorous, cosmopolitan lifestyle depicted on the popular HBO television show Girls and decided you want to further ruin New York find your inner voice by moving to hip, happening, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, now’s your chance. Someone has posted a real, honest-to-goodness Craigslist ad promising you a thoroughly depressing experience. More »

How Would Lena Dunham Feel If She Woke Up With A ‘Victoria’s Secret Body’?

How Would Lena Dunham Feel If She Woke Up With A 'Victoria's Secret Body'?

Most of the time, Playboy strikes me as the kind of magazine that doesn’t really care to include much about women’s issues. Sure, they’ll discuss the woman on the cover’s legs or her last relationship, but whenever I’ve picked up a copy to read on the plane, I’ve rarely been excited by the questions they ask a female. Fortunately, the Lena Dunham interview for their April issue is mostly fantastic.

Well, except one question and its answer. More »

How Do You Define ‘Rape?’

How Do You Define 'Rape?'

This week’s episode of Girls began with two characters, Adam and his new girlfriend Natalia, about to have sex for the first time. Natalia tells him she’s ready to have sex, and, as he approaches her, says that, ““I’m on the pill, but will you come outside of me, just in case? I don’t like to be on top that much. Or soft touching, because it tickles me and takes me out of the moment. But everything else is OK.”

Whereupon, a friend of mine rolled their eyes and pointed out that this was incredibly unsexy, because you’re, “Just supposed to figure that stuff out.” And I agreed. It seemed like laying out exactly what you liked and didn’t like beforehand would ruin some of the fun exploration that can accompany having sex with someone for the first time. But then, I also admitted, it’s hard to “Just figure that stuff out.”
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