Based on an unscientific 2018 study conducted by contributing writer Bridget Phetasy, women seem to think that sex should last “somewhere between 10 to 30 minutes of knockin’ boots.” “The giant caveat being that you can really only get away with a five-minute roll-in-the-hay if you take care...
Money: Everybody wants it. And everybody seems to want it from you at times — even friends or family members. But if they ask to borrow money, are they really gonna pay you back? Should you even lend it to them in the first place? What should...
What’s a guy working a normal job supposed to do when his friends and fellow colleagues are all busy blowing out the candles on their retirement cakes? Everyone’s career trajectory being different, it’s not hard to believe that some of us will still feel the urge to...
First off, congratulations: The fact that you have a date planned means you must be doing something right. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, though — if you want to be your best possible (hopefully naked later on) self, you need to make sure that whatever your...
“Don’t get involved.” That was the singular message I got from the University of Maryland’s Geoffrey Greif, author of Buddy System: Understanding Male Friendships on the subject of two of your guy friends suddenly being at odds. “You should role model for them that you’re sure they can work out...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
Do men fight each other just so they can feel less guilty about hugging it out after? It’s a question that came up recently when I was watching the episode of Sex and the City where Big and Aiden quickly go from wrestling in the mud to sitting across...
So your buddy just got divorced, and you have no clue what to say when you go for drinks tonight. Does your friend need you to be a shoulder to cry on? A distraction from all the horrible stuff going on with the divorce? A reminder of the fun...
Recently, a colleague shared a story of going to the doctor for a cold and being asked if he was in a relationship. Puzzled, he answered yes but prompted the doctor to explain why. The answer: New couples are swapping a lot more than saliva and awkward...
Several months ago, I stumbled upon a Reddit thread that chronicles the intense — and downright illegal — disciplinary actions implemented by an unspecified California retail store [sic]: “My girlfriend works at a retail store in California. They’re supposed to ask customers if they want to buy...
A public display of affection — more commonly referred to as PDA — is a bit like the smell of a fart: If it’s your own, it’s inexplicably pleasant. If it’s someone else’s, it stinks of crap. In 2016, researchers looked into why people are so repulsed...
If you don’t care that your desk is messy, you should. Or at least, that’s what a recent study from the University of Michigan tells us. To figure out to what degree the messiness of an office affected someone’s perception of the office holder, three researchers took two empty...