Marriage

Jeanine Basinger Explains Why There's So Few Great Marriage Movies

Kiss kiss ho hum

My Taste In Films Was Discussed In The New York Times

The Times' Real Estate section just ran a piece on Shaokao and Niki Cheng, who own a chain of upscale BoConcept furniture stores, and who talk about their home, their background, and their love of fabulous coffee tables. Anyway, enough about them. The most important part of the article is the line ... More >>

John Travolta, Buy Tomorrow's Enquirer!

No really, hon, pick up a copy. You're going to want to read it.

SSM Update: NJ Gov Follows Through On Promise To Veto Bill, Maryland On The Road To Equality

On Thursday, we told you about the passage of a bill in New Jersey's Assembly that would make same sex marriage legal in the state. N.J. Governor Chris Christie promised that he would veto the bill when it landed on his desk, and he held true to his word. The New York Daily News says that Christie w ... More >>

Ralph Richard Banks Asks if Marriage is For White People Only

​Ralph Richard Banks is the author of the new book Is Marriage for White People? While Banks, a Stanford Law professor, was in town for an event at Cardozo Law School, we met him for lunch in the West Village to talk about why black folks marry so much less often than whites, why black women a ... More >>

Your Rude Coworker Is Giving You Social Herpes

​If science says it, it must be true! And, even if it's not, this is grounds for being rude right on back to your rudest coworker. A Baylor University Study has found that stress created by your coworker being a total and complete asshat (partial disclosure: We have never worked with anyone li ... More >>

DISCOMFORT INN

Check in with the Amoralists

This Week's Pop-Up Blog: Wedding Week

​Plighting their troth legally in NYC for the first time In only six days, on Sunday, July 24, the state's Marriage Equality Act goes into effect, making it legal for lesbian and gay couples to get married in New York for the first time. It will be cause for celebration, but LGBTs won't be t ... More >>

Sitcoms Know the Secret to a Happy Marriage, Says Science

​Our good friend science has made another groundbreaking discovery about human relationships. This time it's that "marriages are more satisfying when the wife is thinner than the husband." What? Yes. Actual researchers followed actual newlywed couples for four years, checking up on them every ... More >>

Anti-Gay Activist Actually Loves Gay Marriage

​There's an adage about intelligent people changing their minds, so maybe anti-gay activist Louis J. Marinelli is smarter than we thought. He formerly served as the National Organization For Marriage's tour organizer and social media expert, and writes that he "spent the last five years puttin ... More >>

LEGENDARY LAUGHS

Indie all-stars in adult comedy

The Foodie Registry Invites Married Couples to Hit Their Friends up for Dinner

​Couples in Hong Kong recently began turning to McDonald's to fulfill their twisted dreams of matrimonial bliss, and now a fast-growing website is making it possible for American couples to gain edible pay-off for their decision to wed.

The David Epstein Case: Is Incest Really "All That Different" From Homosexuality?

Epstein​David Epstein, the Columbia University political science professor accused of having a consensual 3-year-long affair with his 24-year-old daughter, is back in the news with the recent statement from his lawyer, Matthew Galluzzo, that incest is not all that different from homosexuality. ... More >>

HARDCORE DRAMA

Bollywood gets serious

Is Divorce Contagious? Is the Pope Catholic? And Other Very Important Questions...

​What with Tiger Woods and Al Gore and even all those humdrum average people who live in your neighborhood calling it quits, Time magazine wants to know, "Is Divorce Contagious?" And while they don't really come out and say it's at swine-flu levels, yet, they do quote a study that estimates th ... More >>

"You Should Always Have Seafood Newburg in the Fridge ...

​In case your husband brings some of his business associates home for dinner." That's what Joan Crawford always said, and except for hitting her kids on a regular basis, she was a hell of a hostess. Doesn't it sound like a good idea? Will there be room in the fridge? And what the fuck is s ... More >>

What Was Your Biggest Personal Mistake?

​If you could turn back time--and even change your hairstyle--which relationship that you royally messed up would you try to save? Assume culpability for once and admit that you'd still be besties with that lovely human if you hadn't subtly back-knifed them with a smile.

Talking With The Kids Are All Right Director Lisa Cholodenko

About making a traditional (lesbian) domestic comedy for the sperm-donor age

People With Money: Think Banks, Not Suitcases

​Why are suitcases full of money so fraught with trouble?

Happy in the Poorhouse GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS

MIND THE GAP

America and England join hands for Sam Mendes

Chatting with a signer of the 'Manhattan Declaration'

​This week, 150 Christian religious leaders unveiled the Manhattan Declaration: A Call to Christian Conscience, named after our very own borough. It's a manifesto signed by prominent Christian leaders that calls for staunch opposition to things like abortion, gay marriage, and other satatanic ... More >>

Pine Sol: babe magnet

​Cleaning product ads generally show someone, usually a woman, cleaning, or explaining how they owe it to their family to clean. With a number of recent studies showing that partners who share house work improve, among other things, their sexual relationship, Pine Sol has decided to go with cl ... More >>

Eat Dinner, Help Fight Racial Prejudice

If anyone managed to forget that bigotry is alive and well in this country, then last week's news that a Louisiana justice of the peace refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple earlier this month provided a stark reminder. It also provided timely context for the Hapa Kitchen's up ... More >>

I AINT SAYIN' SHE'S A GOLD DIGGER

When times are tough, just marry up

"The Tragic Failure of America's Women": Studies in Crap Presents Coronet magazine

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Coronet Date: September, 1947 Discovered at: Estate sale The Cover Promises: "The tragic failure ... More >>

Alan Ayckbourn's Conquests Leaves Everyone Marginally More Miserable

Clip Job: Mailer's Solution to JFK's A-Bomb Jitters -- Jackie as Hostage

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 20, 1962, Vol. VIII, No. 9An Open Letter to JFK From Norman MailerDear Mr. President:For a few days I thought I might be going to the conference you will have in Nassau with Prime Minister Macmillan on December 19 and December 20. Then a ... More >>

From the Crap Archives: Sex Without Fear

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Sex Without Fear Author: S.A. Lewin and John Gilmore
 Publisher: Medical Research Press
 Date: 1965†... More >>

Wanda Sykes Comes Out

SUBURBAN SOUL

Rise of the house of Usher

THE DEVIL INSIDE

One of the scariest movies of all time turns 40

Let's Stop Talking About, You Know

Another Outrageous Governor Scandal! What Next?

Clip Job: Review: "The Bachelor Party"

Intimate Strangers

The hidden costs—and benefits—of shacking up

The New Faces of Chastity

For Lauren Winner and Anna Broadway, married sex is the only sex

Crawling Up the Wall

We got a first-time home grant from neighborhood housing services

Bride and Prejudice

What would Elizabeth Hurley do? How our society goes from wifelust to wifelash

Film

Film

Film

Separate Still Not Equal

If Gay Marriage Is the Question, Civil Unions Aren't the Answer

Sex in the Axis of Evil

Life on the Outside

After 16 Years in Prison Elaine Bartlett Came Home to a City and a Family She Barely Knew. Freedom Wasn’t at All What She’d Imagined

My Mixed Marriage

Can a Woman Find Passion and Partnership With a Gay Man? Believe It!

My Life So Far

Chasing Amy

Lolita Complex