Mélanie Berliet

My boyfriend’s father, the renowned artist Michel Tcherevkoff, is an older version of his son — in handsomeness, infectious charisma, and the tendency to refurbish broken-in shoes rather than purchase a new pair.

As sisters, we shared a lot, but I wasn’t aware of this booklet’s creation until Céline’s death, at age 30, in the spring of 2009.

This past November, my parents hosted a bunch of close family friends, including several children, over the Thanksgiving holiday. I was playing tea with a girl of about six when she stopped suddenly, miniature sugar bowl in hand.

Sex is an integral part of humanity. And yet, few of us are comfortable discussing this aspect of our lives openly with our parents. Why?

The choice to enter a creative field is the choice to work for free, at least for a while, and the choice to subject oneself to a constant cycle of pitching, waiting, acceptance, validation, rejection, and self-doubt.

Aside from the fact that he was a drug dealer, nothing seemed unusual about the guy sitting on my couch one recent sweltering Thursday night as I applied one last swipe of mascara.

Not even the least sexually inhibited are immune to awkward moments between the sheets. The reason for this, I believe, is twofold. First, we’re all susceptible to the involuntary nature of bodily functions.

Perched atop an exam table at Rutgers’ Imaging Center, twitching bare feet, I glance from the standard medical gown keeping me cold to drab linoleum floor to unforgiving fluorescent ceiling lights.

As Mary Cheney and her wife, Heather Poe, learned after Mary’s sister Liz announced her anti gay marriage stance, it can feel like a gut-wrenching betrayal when a loved one’s allegiance to an ideology contradicts your way of thinking, let…

“Anyone who tells you that money can’t buy happiness doesn’t have any.” When I first heard this mantra, I was a bond trader at an elite investment bank, and I nodded and smiled knowingly at the “wisdom” trickling off my…

To be clear, right off, I am not a fetishist: For a long time, I didn’t even know it was pee.

We all seem to agree that young women are embracing hookup culture as fervently as their male peers. But according to a recent study led by the Kinsey Institute’s Dr. Justin R.