Jena Ardell/Moment/Getty Images Like many women, I’ve always had a complicated relationship with porn. My first experience as a teenager was a tangle of curiosity and discomfort—an early sexual awakening clouded by confusion and the tension against culturally ingrained messages of shame. Over time, my feelings evolved into a mix of empowerment, intrigue, and occasional...
Getty Images I have vivid childhood memories of my younger brother saving up all of his money and heading to a Black Friday sale at the crack of dawn with my dad to buy a video game console. It was a lesson in saving for what you really want and — critical to the Midwesterness...
NBC/NBCUniversal/Getty Images I’m not a big “Ooh! New episode tonight of this new show!” TV watcher; I’m more of a “binge the same episodes of the same shows 8,000 times.” But in November, the advertisement for a new show got me good, and now that’s why my husband and I have to watch a new...
ABC As an entertainment editor, I watch a lot of TV. Some of it good, some of it bad, all of it entertaining in one way or another. In the broad swath of genres I binge, I’ll be the first to admit that a lot of it falls under the crime umbrella; your girl loves...