dear prudence

Stay Away From This Woman

כ״ב באלול ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 1 September 2010)

Sometimes I can read an advice column just for the questions, and ignore the answers. This is one of those times: Dear Prudence, Twenty years ago, I had a child out of wedlock. I had slept with two men during that period, “Tom” and “Mike.” I assumed Tom was the father, but when I told [...]

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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 [...]

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