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Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Akshully....

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 10 16th, 2009 | No Comments
O hai. Ur dumped. Plz to enjoy my last Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog post. My gig at Bitch ends today, so the topic is breakups, complete with much oversharing about my own fraught history of oddball breakups (the LOLCat may remind you of one). All things must come to an end…whether by voicemail,...
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Is Google A Dater’s Best Friend?...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 10 12th, 2009 | 11 Comments
From my latest post at Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog at Bitch Magazine: A relationship question for our modern times: Do you Google the people you date? Before a blind date? After a first date? Just quick background check? It’s undoubtedly the greatest invention in history if you want to check up...
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In Praise of Casual Sex...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 10 4th, 2009 | 17 Comments
Last week over at Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog, we talked about the joy of no sex. In this week’s post, it’s all about the not-boyfriends. I’ve simply never bought into the idea that all sex must live up to the shining heteronormative ideal of candlelight and roses and true love (which,...
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No Sex, Please, We’re Sex-Positive...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 09 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment
In this latest post from Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog at Bitch Magazine, I wanted to let readers get the last word on the “Is No Sex Sex-Positive?” post. Between Bitch, Facebook, Harpyness and e-mails I received, it was clear that plenty of women have strong opinions about not having sex, and...
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Is No Sex Still Sex Positive?...

Posted by BeckySharper in Solo Flying, Thoughts on 09 26th, 2009 | 19 Comments
Via Liz_Kelly @ Flickr. In my most recent post for Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog, I actually switched from talking about sex to talking about…no sex. This was in response to a brilliant reader comment: Becky I’m interested to know if you’ve ever thought about abstinence from a sex positive...
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Rear-Ended by Porn...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 09 20th, 2009 | 8 Comments
Via romeotees @ Flickr. Today in my Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog at Bitch Magazine, my pornography blame-a-thon continues. This week the topic is anal sex. (And let me just say that the Google search results involved in researching this post were…interesting). Recent scientifc data–which we’ll...
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A Hook-Up Deferred: Shameless Tales of R...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 09 17th, 2009 | 5 Comments
Via mathiole @ Flickr. My latest post from the Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog at Bitch Magazine, in which we explore what Time dubs “the retrosexual”: when reconnecting via Facebook gives you a second chance to hook up with that hot girl or guy you missed out on in high school, an experience...
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Three Times the Fun? Or Just Sloppy Thir...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 09 12th, 2009 | 2 Comments
via mickeysacks @ Flickr. The latest post from my Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog on Bitch Magazine in which I respond to a reader who wrote: Curious to know what you and Bitch readers think about threesomes. I tried a threesome, and feelings got hurt just like I’d feared they might. I think you gotta...
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Newsflash: Summer Flings Also Appropriat...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts, You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me on 09 6th, 2009 | No Comments
For those of you enjoying your Labor Day weekend with some end-of-summer sexytime, gather ’round. In my Labor Day post from Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog at Bitch Magazine, I have my say about Glamour’s “helpful” article that promises “6 ways to turn your summer fling into...
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Ex Sex: The Ultimate Recycling...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 09 4th, 2009 | 4 Comments
My latest (and mercifully uncontroversial) post from Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog at Bitch Magazine, in which I ponder–and overshare about–the pleasures and perils of having post-breakup sex with your ex.
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No Sex Please, I’m “Wrinkly&...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 08 22nd, 2009 | 1 Comment
My latest from the Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog at Bitch Magazine, in which I commit a wee bit of feminist-on-memoir violence against The Virginia Monologues, Virginia Ironside’s nastily sex-negative new book about the “joys” of being a woman over 60.
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Love, (De)Friendship and Facebook...

Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 08 19th, 2009 | No Comments
Does anyone else snicker whenever they get a message saying someone has "poked you?" My latest from Bed, Bitch and Beyond blog at Bitch Magazine, in which I tackle burning questions about Facebook and the sticky issues of on-line breakups, defriending and why you should never put your relationship...
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