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Coming of age in the ‘80s and ‘90s meant absorbing confounding, often contradictory, advice on how to avoid sexual assault — particularly at college.

Salad was the last straw. Typically, I’d eat one for lunch — the bigger the salad, the better. But these days, salad and my stomach are not the friends that they used to be.

It’s hard to decide if this is a primal pull, just human hormones, or if it’s a thing that I actually want to do.

by Karen Russo Perimenopause, meaning “around menopause,” is nature’s allegedly gentle fade to the end of women’s menstrual cycle. But the vagueness around “around” is confusing, and the transition is often anything but gentle. Not too long ago, when I thought about menopause, I recalled watching movies where women stick their heads into refrigerators to…

“It’s safe to say that anyone who gets divorced probably wasn’t getting laid a ton leading up to the divorce.

As a young teen in the ‘80s, I used to lay out in the yard slathered with baby oil.

By Emily J. Sullivan If your introduction to TikTok was cute teens doing catchy dances, you might be surprised to stumble into the soft-core world of #cougartok. Like a romance-novel cover come to life, CougarTok is dominated by hot TikTok influencers and their openly thirsty, over-40 following. The influencers of CougarTok may range in sexuality…

Every few years, an expensive, near-mythic skin-care product makes the rounds.

To grow out your gray, all you really need is time.

In my early 20s, I nearly married my boyfriend. We lived on Martha’s Vineyard and I pictured us raising five children there.

The second-biggest risk group for eating disorders after adolescents is people in menopaus

Sometimes I forget about it entirely, but the re-emergence of low-rise pants and the upcoming summer season reminds me of my decision, years ago, to get a lower-back tattoo.