Starting November 1, New Jersey will join two other states (Hawaii and California) and cities (New York, some communities in Massachusetts) in making it illegal to smoke cigarettes (or vape) until you’re 21 years of age. Smoking is, of course, terrible for you, but does raising the...
We all have one family member or friend in our lives who we don’t want to be seen with in public, even though we love them. Maybe it’s the dad with no volume control and a tendency to say problematic things in quiet restaurants. Maybe it’s the...
Who drives on a date — whether it’s the first, fourth or the 400th? The guy, duh. Even in these progressive times, this is undoubtedly chapter and verse. Some anecdotal evidence: Not one of our female writers drives when she’s in the car with a gentleman suitor, whether he’s a Tinder...
After I lost my virginity, I told my closest friend that I’d lasted for 10 minutes. By the following week, I’d told a variation of that same story to at least a dozen other friends. Years later, I ran into the woman at a party. At some...
Male friendship is a strange thing. It’s represented in most media as uncomplicated and easy — dudes like to hang out in man caves and talk about beer and chicks and football! — but the truth is more intricate and complicated. For many men, making friends—and even maintaining existing friendships — becomes extraordinarily...
When it comes to sex, one adage holds true: Doing it is a lot different than talking about it, and people have wildly different ideas about how to discuss sex, particularly when it comes to sexual history. Should you tell someone how many people you’ve slept with?...
Thirty-seven-year-old Boston-based bartender Trevor Christian has been slinging drinks for nearly 10 years — and been sober for eight of them. Don’t get me wrong: I love alcohol. It still plays a large role in my life, just not in my body. I don’t feel like I’m better than...
With summer heat come summer smells. And beyond the scents that waft across the backyard from the grill, almost none of them are good. Particularly, summer is the time when bodies make themselves most pungently known, filled with sweat and armpit horrors, often covered by the cloying,...
Based on recent history, it would seem the popped collar originated with one of three male species: 1) frat guys; 2) Jersey Shore juiceheads; or super-rich bros who spend their many non-working hours in the Hamptons. But that wouldn’t just be recent history; it also would constitute...
Post-breakup trash-talking has only one motive, but can take many forms: There’s the artful sick burn, such as when actress Elisabeth Moss, remarking on her short-lived marriage to Fred Armisen, said that “the greatest impersonation he does is that of a normal person.” Then there’s the dirty...
If you’re in a relationship with a person who has a menstrual cycle, the odds are pretty good that you’ve been asked to go on a tampon run. And if it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will. Mastering the mysteries of the overwhelmingly pastel-floral feminine hygiene...
If there’s one thing I hate in life — and there is not; I hate many things with equal vigor — it’s being too hot. In bed, my wife sleeps under two sets of covers, wearing pajamas, still shivering, while I lie naked, the covers thrown off, two limbs ideally hanging...
