Before the days  of texting and emailing, “XOXO” was an affectionate farewell scribbled at the end of long love letters, or birthday cards from parents and close friends.
Now, mere acquaintances and even strangers are sending out hugs and kisses in emails, texts, tweets, and wall posts.  The term has taken on many meanings, from a coquettish [...]

While riding on the Amtrak from New York to Boston I had a charming encounter with a creeper. The businessman sitting opposite me at the communal table suddenly turned his laptop screen toward me with a grin and showed me a picture of myself on the Teen Vogue website. “You stalked me,” I said, as [...]

France has been absorbed in a convoluted scandal starring Liliane Bettencourt (the billionaire heiress of the L’Oreal fortune), her daughter, a gigolo photographer, and now, President Sarkozy.
It started when the heiress’ daughter filed suit against her geriatric mother and complained that the aforementioned gigolo photog, Francois Marie-Banier, was seducing the old lady so that she would [...]

Today my sister and I went to get tested for HIV at the local free clinic. Lately we’ve been spending a lot of time going through all our earthly possessions and donating all our crap to Goodwill.
Getting an AIDS test and getting rid of old clothes are parallel in so many ways:
1.  People avoid weeding [...]

Match.com is a great place to meet men and women. A friend of mine has been cruising the realm of internet dating, and he has come across some unexpectedly bizarre conditions.
Example A: an email response from his prospective date read as follows:
> Hi Jack,
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> How are you? I’d like to go for tea sounds good. [...]

The 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore, or “The Barefoot Bandit,” led a luxe life on the run, because apparently juvie and halfway houses didn’t suit his taste for the finer things. He burgled homes, stole cars and big boats, and even hijacked a bunch of planes, though he was never trained in the technicalities of flight. He’s [...]

In the art world, Larry Rivers is praised as one of the grandfather’s of the Pop Art movement. But in his daughter’s eyes, Larry Rivers is also a pervert who began filming her nude when she was eleven — and continued to document her and her sister’s development through puberty over the next five years [...]

On a trip to Sweden I got to experience the exceptional tradition of the Swedish summer solstice holiday, Midsummer. The celebrations begin with adorable Swedish children dancing around a Maypole-like structure resembling a cock and balls. The day continues with feasting, drinking (copious amounts of schnapps), and singing traditional erotic songs.
Since it’s never dark in [...]

So it’s been all a buzz in the news that there are these hot Russian ladies in Manhattan who are in trouble with the law–not for being drugged up models or high class escorts but for being secret agents.
But while “Anna Chapman” and “Cynthia Murphy” weren’t informing the Russian government, they were profiting from the [...]