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The Sexual Renaissance February 12, 2025
A new era dawns?There’s an old New England ballad called “The New Bundling Song,” about the custom of “bundling” a young couple side-by-side in bed before marriage. The aim was to afford potential spouses a night together that would test their compat...
The State of Sexuality in Fashion Week September 20, 2024
Hello and welcome back to Many Such Cases.Last week, I had too much fun attending Elena Velez’s New York Fashion Week show documenting her Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear collection “La Pucelle” on Tuesday, and the after party that followed. The next day, ...
Sally Rooney’s Adventures in Style September 20, 2024
Sally Rooney’s fourth novel is not exactly her best, nor likely to be her best loved. In her last book, Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021), a character – fresh from reading Henry James – enthuses: “Have you ever read such a juicy novel?” It’s not ...
Secret Gardens September 17, 2024
It’s a reasonable assumption that thousands of people around the world have imagined themselves in the situation I found myself in last week, waiting in a five-star hotel in London for Gillian Anderson to talk about sex.Right from when Anderson first...
Kesha Has Earned the Right to Be Crazy September 11, 2024
For the first time in Kesha’s career, the only person she’s answering to is her own damn self. This summer, following a lengthy legal battle against her former producer Dr. Luke — whom she accused of sexual assault in 2013 — the singer-songwriter dro...
The Sadness of AI Boyfriends September 10, 2024
ChatGPT has become a common feature of the workplace, with many people reaping the benefits of AI to help them with their tasks and projects. But, some women in China have been using a “jail-break” version of ChatGPT, which bypasses some of the safet...
A Conversation with Tony Tulathimutte September 09, 2024
In 2016, I was lolling around Miami on the eve of Florida’s Republican presidential primary. I had time to kill in the March sun, and with me was a new book called Private Citizens. The debut novel of Tony Tulathimutte, a graduate of the famed Iowa W...
