World’s first Agony Aunt column about love, sex and relatonships

The Athenian Mercury – a London-based broadsheet, one-page, two-sided periodical, brainchild of John Dunton, a printer, not a therapist whose main aim was to make money. Walking in a London park one day, it occurred to him that the (male) patrons of London’s fashionable coffee houses might like to gin up their intellectual discussions with questions posed to a panel of experts – just Dunton and his brothers-in-law- and would pay to see the answers. Published and advertised as “Resolving all the most Nice and Curious Questions Proposed by the ingenious of Either Sex”, in 1690s London which included the … Continue reading World’s first Agony Aunt column about love, sex and relatonships

Know what Women Want

Who do you fantasise about when the light are off, when you think about sex, what do you really really want? When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. Sexual fantasies of women from around the world, are all extraordinary, full of desire, fear, intimacy, shame, satisfaction and ultimately liberation.  From dreaming about someone off-limits to conjuring a scene with multiple partners, from sex that is gentle and tender to passionate and playful, from women who have never had sex to women who … Continue reading Know what Women Want

Dating App Addiction

Dating Revolution: The world has never been more connected, or more alone Funny memoir about sex, dating, and relationships in the digital age, intertwined with investigation into the challenges to love and intimacy wrought by dating apps by 49-yar-old famed Vanity Fair writer and New York Times-bestselling author Nancy Jo Sales asks who to blame for the modern dating malaise:tech companies. Jo Sales award-winning journalist and single mom, who became a leading critic of the online dating industry, reporting, writing and even making her directional debut with the HBO documentary Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age, was  nursing a … Continue reading Dating App Addiction