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first love is a haunted house
and this is a ghost story
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Rebecca Woolf
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Instead of Death Valley, Death Valley
on exchanging one kind of voraciousness for another
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"...but where are her friends?"
Too Much and The Materialists are cautionary tales for what happens when you are an ambitious straight woman who does not prioritize female friendship…
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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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Rebecca Woolf
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mothers are people, too
and we need to stop acting so surprised when women act like it.
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year of the snake
'honor your hunger and feed yourself' and tell adam he can watch
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speaking of sex and grief... (and los angeles)
... with more soon
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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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Rebecca Woolf
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do you like to be read to?
if so, here's an audioessay and a 20% discount to celebrate the braid's second birthday
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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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Rebecca Woolf
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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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sex & the single mom is moving... to... here!
after years of writing about sex, relationships and parenting for Romper, they've retired all freelancers. so I'm gonna resuscitate my column here…
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Rebecca Woolf
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