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how to eat a meal in the middle of a food fight
living with chaos, tragedy and destruction has been the human memoir since the beginning of time. so has our resilience.
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On Dying for Sex, living for female horniness and the impossibility of healing a man's pain with a woman's hope
because paradigms aren't going to shift themselves
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it isn't weird unless you make it weird
our inability to acknowledge our children's sexuality is a litmus test for the lack of comfort we feel in our own.
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on celibacy, solo sex and quitting dating because, "why bother."
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when "good girls" are "bad girls" or why I will always root for a woman's pleasure over her fidelity to the men who can't give it to her
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How to Host a 50th Birthday Party for Your Dead Husband with Whom you Have a Complicated Relationship
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to Stay or Leave
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year of the snake
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when you know better but do it anyway
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between Tangier and the Blue City
choice is a love story
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year of the snake
'honor your hunger and feed yourself' and tell adam he can watch
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1. young men have always been turned on by older women 2. the patriarchy has always benefited from convincing 40+ women we're invisible 3…
men in their 20s and 30s are dating more women in their 40s and 50s (and 60+) because there is nothing hotter than a woman who doesn't need to be…
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when "good girls" are "bad girls" or why I will always root for a woman's pleasure over her fidelity to the men who can't give it to her
On Babygirl, desire, eroticism and pursuing middle age as both "Madonna" and "Whore"
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Introducing: 'NO SHAME with Rebecca Woolf' a new podcast ft women who refuse to behave
new episodes every Tuesday! STARTING NOW!
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Bad Sex is Not (Always!) a Man's Fault
on the "it's exhausting to have to educate men on women's pleasure" discourse, and why communicating what we want as women will ALWAYS make for better…
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2. for one night only, a pair of stoops
this is the second of two essays that are actually one essay about one night that felt like two nights and, I guess, in a way, it sort of was.
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the braid
the braid
a newsletter that explores the braided experience of mother, lover and self. personal essays & conversations on sex, death, love, loss, parenthood, paradigms, identity, culture and coming of age. written by rebecca woolf with special guests.
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