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Becoming a Mamme

September 26, 2011
By FreiFem
Becoming a Mamme

Does having a baby mean inhabiting the physical form of the "mammes" of one's youth?
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Tags: pregnancy, sexuality, tznius, weight
Posted in Blogs, FreiFem | 4 Comments »

Teen Mag: Cover Up, Obey

August 17, 2011
By FreiFem
Teen Mag: Cover Up, Obey

Insisting frum adolescence is all about modesty and obedience has its costs.
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Tags: girls, magazine, sexuality, Tablet, Yaldah
Posted in Blogs, FreiFem | 15 Comments »

Memoir

Eyes Shut Tight

August 16, 2011
By Deena Kohn
Eyes Shut Tight

A remembrance of childhood secrets.
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Tags: childhood, featured, feet, house, modesty, molestation, sexuality, siblings, sisters
Posted in Essays, First Person, Love & Sex, Readings, Topics | 15 Comments »

Square One

May 25, 2010
By Shulem Deen
Square One

We all love sex. We like it in the darkness of night when all we can hear are the strange house noises from electrical appliances, during broad daylight with the sounds of bustling crowds around us, or as the birds begin to chirp in the wee small hours of dawn. We like to vary...
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Tags: sex, sexuality
Posted in Essays, Love & Sex, Opinion | 69 Comments »

One Giant Leap

May 24, 2010
By Vei Zmeer
One Giant Leap

Chasidishkeit is not a way of life; it's a way of death. It manages to take everything exciting in life - food, sex, adventure, travel - and maul it, mangle it, distort it to a point where there's little left of their original allure. It has a particularly vicious stranglehold on sex. In high schools...
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Tags: education, sex, sexuality, yeshiva
Posted in Essays, Love & Sex, Opinion | 44 Comments »

Here Comes the Messiah

May 3, 2010
By A.M. Yehuda
Here Comes the Messiah

The phone calls started when I was thirteen. My mother said no, no and no. By the time I was seventeen it was calls every night, my mother carrying the cordless into her bedroom, to whisper and scribble notes.…


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Tags: bible stories, family, infidelity, religion, sex, sexuality, shidduchim
Posted in Fiction, Readings | 45 Comments »

Sin, Samantha, and the Talmud

March 3, 2010
By Chezkel Shammes
Sin, Samantha, and the Talmud

One who sees his evil inclination getting the better of him should dress in black and go to a place where he isn’t known.

That’s the famous passage in the Talmud that played in my head over and over like…


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Tags: sexuality, sin, Talmud
Posted in Essays, First Person, Love & Sex, Religion | 116 Comments »

The Dressing Room

March 2, 2010
By Leeba Weisberg
The Dressing Room

I followed my mother around the side of the multi-family townhouse and almost slipped on the narrow, icy steps leading to the basement shop. Steadying myself, I entered a store that was almost certainly “off the books”. Racks of robes…


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Tags: lingerie, sexuality, shopping, women
Posted in Essays, First Person | 65 Comments »

Belle Meets Belz

February 3, 2010
By Stephanie Cleveland
Belle Meets Belz

As a teenager I read an article in Cosmo about how guys with stubble like the red they can bring to a woman’s cheeks during kissing: It’s a she’s-so-tender-I’m-so-tough type of thing. The first time I saw a Chasid, his beard looked vaguely terrifying. I’ve always hated beards, macho like my Dad’s, like Hulk...
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Tags: discrimination, feminism, love, non-Jews, sex, sexism, sexuality, women
Posted in Contests, Essays, Love & Sex, Off the Derech, Opinion, Winter 2010 Contest | 12 Comments »

A Clear Mind

January 21, 2010
By Isha Yefastoar

He came to her house, and they played with her little daughter. She was a little hyper, and seemed excited at the sight of the stranger. When the little girl fell asleep, the man came to her bed, and kissed…


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Tags: human nature, infidelity, sexuality
Posted in Contests, Fiction, Love & Sex, Readings, Winter 2010 Contest | 27 Comments »

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