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Somebody please stop me, but I'm afraid I have more to say on the subject that Tim Noah challenged us to: "What makes married women want to have affairs?" I ran into Meghan in the ladies' room, and we both scoffed at the notion that "You don't hear stories Read More...
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Great answers in "The Fray" to Timothy Noah's question about why women cheat: Desire takes many forms . Laura Kipnis’ Against Love answered Tim’s question! It’s about body image . My “open marriage” was really a lousy marriage in disguise . Why I cheat Read More...
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Tim and Ellen , the few married women I know who've come right out and said they were having affairs all wound up divorcing the hubby and marrying the "other man.'' Only, those are just the ones who talked about it. One of my most gorgeous married friends Read More...
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All right, Tim Noah , I will bite. "What makes married women want to have affairs?" you ask? The same things that make married men want to have affairs (excepting, of course, the desire to "spread seed"). Monogamy is hard. For all of us. It's unrealistic Read More...
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A guest post (or rather a challenge) from Slate 's Tim Noah: May I put in a good word for Philip Weiss? Before proceeding, let me stipulate that I know Phil and have edited him in the past. It would be a stretch to call him a friend (we've exchanged perhaps Read More...
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Has anyone sat down yet with New York 's cover story, a long essay entitled " The Affairs of Men: The Trouble with Sex and Marriage ," pegged to the Eliot Spitzer scandal? Inside, however, is not an outré confession but a fiftysomething baby boomer's Read More...
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Well, if you're not, go to the playground and look around. One of the three married mommies innocently trailing their little tyke is cheating, according to a new " Sex and the American Mom " survey conducted by Cookie magazine and AOL Body and apparently Read More...
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The good news is, Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow did not hold a news conference to say she was sticking by her hubby of five years after he confessed to police that he'd been with a prostitute. On the contrary, after the news came out, Stabenow didn't Read More...
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This morning is a flashback to 1998, toward the end of Lewinsky hell, when Bob Livingston decided not to run for speaker because someone had figured out he'd had an affair. And then came all sorts of rumors about who else Larry Flynt was going to out. Read More...
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And a new record, isn't it, for time elapsed between the swearing in and the swearing at? That's quick work, when right under the New York Times headline "New Governor for New York, Pledging Unity" is this second offering: "Patersons Acknowledge Extramarital Read More...
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I always thought pedophiles became priests (and ministers and rabbis and teachers and scout leaders) so they could be around kids. So maybe Spitzer got into his line of work that same way? For that and whatever 12 other reasons he and his (hopefully grandfatherly) Read More...
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Rosa, I'm glad you mentioned tragedy in your last post . I've been thinking all day that what makes Spitzer's downfall electrifying to watch isn't just the comical pop schadenfreude of seeing a public figure stand accused of the very vice he has publicly Read More...
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