Why Men Treat You Like Crap
9 Strippers Share Tricks Of The Trade

“Male stripping isn’t much different from female stripping, minus a bleeding penis every 4 weeks.”
Honor Thy Narcissistic Mother: The 4th Commandment And Going “No Contact”

Her snide comment that day had not been the apex of her cruelty. The most cruel? Years ago when I told her I was finally pregnant with a long awaited 3rd child and she put her head in her hands and sighed, “Oh no. . . .” Or a few weeks later, when I miscarried that child and she said nothing.
24 Tips For Mind-Blowing Sex

Most guys tend to lose themselves in the moment, so it can’t hurt to try and plan out what you’re going to say at your climax, rather than just blurting out the first thing that comes to mind (i.e., “9/11 was an inside job!” or just “UGHHHNNGGN!”)
5 Times When You Really Should Stay Single

You need a certain level of self-awareness if you want to avoid the mistakes you’ve made before and not inflict more unnecessary pain and hardship on yourself or on the people you want to date. So it’s important to recognize that there are times when we shouldn’t be dating… at least for a little while.
23 Untranslatable Foreign Words That Describe Love Better Than You Ever Thought

We have several words to describe love in English yet still, there are some shades within the spectrum of that emotion we haven’t been able to capture in our own language.
Grace Dunham May Not Have Been Molested By Lena, But My Sister Molested Me

After I told my mother, she yelled at me for being so upset and shouted, largely out of frustration, “What am I supposed to do now? She was a child?” I ran out of my house crying, furious with her.
7 Fantastic, Underrated Movies You Can Watch On Netflix Tonight

10 Words or Fewer Summary: Chilling documentary explores family’s unimaginable secrets
Battered Spouse Syndrome: Why Victims Don’t Leave

What these people don’t understand is the psychological difference between outsiders and victims.
6 Ways That Feminism Insults And Demeans Women While Claiming To Protect Them

The earliest waves of feminism fought long and hard to give women all the rights and some of the responsibilities of adulthood. Today, we don’t need a movement that undermines women’s agency and adulthood.
23 Painfully True Lessons You Learn By Age 23

You are not your failures or rejections. You are not the boy who couldn’t love you, the job you couldn’t get, the school who wait-listed you.
10 Ways I Know My Boyfriend Is “The One”

People have different meanings for love and show their love in different ways. Therefore, it is important to be with someone who shows you love the way you want to be loved.
What Your Secret Sexual Desires Say About You

Accepting that you have these desires doesn’t make you sinful or wrong; it empowers you. And by empowering yourself, you’re better able to address those desires, even the dark, disturbing ones, in ways that are safe, sane, and consensual.
7 Important Lessons You Can Only Learn From A Failed Relationship

If you’re blaming past relationships for your emotional baggage, don’t, because the time spent on a failed relationship was not time wasted.
5 Sneaky Things Narcissists Do To Take Advantage Of You

It’s important in any kind of relationship that we learn to identify the red flags when interacting with people who display malignant narcissism and/or antisocial traits, so we can better protect ourselves from exploitation and abuse, set appropriate boundaries with others, and make informed decisions about who we keep in our lives.
6 Extremely Weird Movies You Can Watch On Netflix Tonight

A patently ludicrous cult thriller about Devil worship and human sacrifice in which Martin Sheen screams a lot, The Believers occupies a strange space between camp and grim mean-spiritedness (the opening scene seems specifically designed to have traumatically scarred me as a child, which is exactly what it did).
My Husband And I Didn’t Ask The Realtor If Anything Bad Ever Happened In Our House, It Was The Biggest Mistake Of Our Lives

The moment the priest walked through the door, he turned his nose up at the ceiling and a look of general distaste formed across his once expressionless face. He turned to look at my husband and I, but then caught himself and just nodded. “And who were the previous owners of this place?”