boys

Sex and the City

ה׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״א (Monday 13 September 2010)

For many years I was only vaguely aware of Sex and the City. In all the time I lived in New York, I was not about to pay extra money for premium cable, and peer-to-peer filesharing had not yet advanced to the point where I could download entire television shows and watch them (it also [...]

Read the full article →

Boys & Girls & Maturity

י״ג באלול ה׳תש״ע (Monday 23 August 2010)

When I was a “pre-teen,” I was informed multiple times by adults in my vicinity that girls matured faster than boys (now “pre-teens” don’t even exist any more, having been replaced by “tweens”). Some evidence around me seemed to support this contention. By all accounts, the girls around me matured physically a year or two [...]

Read the full article →

Text Messages & Genital Adjustment

כ״ה בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Monday 11 January 2010)

“Dear Prudence” is not my favorite advice column by a long shot, but it’s the one that I just happened to read, so I’m going to comment on it now. One woman writes that she is “28-year-old single woman, … tired of being asked out on dates via text message,” and goes on to explain [...]

Read the full article →