Archive for July, 2008

Down the Blogging Abyss
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

I’ve been getting plenty of questions about this, most of them along the lines of: “Does this mean you’re plunging down the moral abyss into lurid sex journalism?” Well, no, assuming there is some abyss down which one can plunge in this already free-falling industry.
But if you’re looking for something a bit “higher […]

Selling Your Eggs: No Big Deal?
Monday, July 28th, 2008

This piece also appeared in The Huffington Post.
Last week, I heard a panel of women speak in a Lower East Side bar. They each had three things in common: They were magazine-cover gorgeous, had enough combined graduate degrees to create a new department at M.I.T., and every one of them had sold her eggs.
The […]

In Which We Address Sex (Hear that, Google?! “Sex”! Start Your Search Engines!)
Monday, July 14th, 2008

I’ve never had much to write about sex. Call it prudishness, call it the last remaining shreds of a desire for privacy, but I’ve always operated from the default setting that nothing I had to say on the matter was all that interesting. We all have sex, we all like it, we all allow it […]