Posts Tagged ‘ sexuality ’

Square One

May 25, 2010
By Hasidic Rebel
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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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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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…


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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…


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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…


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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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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…


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