enter the fray: our reader discussion forum
The Fray Browse by Tags
Sign in
  
Advanced
All Tags » sex » Emily Yoffe

  • Sending Mixed Signals at the Gym?

    Its about time that someone brings attention to an annoying matter of sexual decorum, or conflicting sexual norms, found in most gyms across America: people sending mixed signals. *There's the guy who stares at you no matter where you go, even if behind him. If he was focussing on his work out, then why did he turn around to stare at you? No ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Usama2 on June 5, 2008

  • Dear Prudence Shoddy Sterotypes

    This article is a shoddy mess of overused stereotypes and snippets from letters to Dear Prudence with little to no actual supporting data. It starts out with an overly generalized statement that “we still think of the archetypal unwed mother as a Jamie Lynn Spears—a dopey teenager who dropped her panties and got in over her head.” Since I have no ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by Socrates_Is_Mortal on March 20, 2008

  • Sex outside of Marriage & Man's Arrogance

    I commend Ms Yoffe for tackling a daunting, yet ignored societal crisis. The effects of this crisis are most evident in the social services offices, public schools, juvenile detention centers of America. If one has never visited or taken part there in, one can watch The Wire, Season 4, to get a fictional, yet poignant and masterful portrayal of ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by Usama2 on March 20, 2008

  • Grow a Pair, Dude

    Without seeming crude, the male worker in a female led environmental organization office needs to consider his OWN identity. If you believe in the cause and the idea of that organization, then do NOT leave that office. Rather, get in touch with your identity as a man. First, consider that God made Man. God granted man many powers and abilities ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Usama2 on January 18, 2008

  • A Man's Rant: Spandex and Public viewing

    After going to the gym nearly everyday over the past couple weeks, I am compelled to rant on a matter of public decorum which is visually distracting but seems to escape all public mention. WEARING SPANDEX CLOTHING IN PUBLIC WITH NOTHING OVER IT IS IMMODEST, PROVOCATIVE, AND at the very least PUBLICLY OBTUSE and at worst PUBLICLY SALACIOUS. ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Usama2 on January 4, 2008