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Marriage, for women, traditionally at least, has been an economic proposition, as Amy explains in the 2019 version of Little Women. From the perspective of a marriage historian (as heard in a Hidden Brain episode): “the earliest marriages had nothing … Continue reading →

My Problem with Dating Apps I have to create a profile on which I will be evaluated on whether I meet someone’s criteria. What is this, a fucking job? Okay, so there are apps that ask people to select based … Continue reading →

I don’t date. There’s something about dating that makes me uncomfortable. I suppose I don’t fully understand why people date. I mean, I understand on some objective level why people do it: it just doesn’t click with me. This can … Continue reading →

This whole year I have been grappling with the rather confusing question of what is the difference between romantic love and platonic love. I spent many hours thinking about it, theorizing about it, discussing it with others, and even trying … Continue reading →

First of all, what is asexuality? Not very many people are familiar with the term. I will give a brief overview of what it is, but I encourage you to read further at the Asexuality Visibility Network get a more … Continue reading →

I tried to coherently express my thoughts about what I was going through over the course of the past year, but it was never quite possible to summarize them. Also, my thoughts were wildly erratic. As part of a therapeutic … Continue reading →

Written in January 2016 Did you know it’s a bad idea to take graduate level Economics courses when you haven’t taken any intermediate Econ? You probably knew that. I don’t know what I was thinking. Likely that all I need … Continue reading →

I grew up in a pretty conservative society. So it’s not surprising that I was taught that promiscuity is a sin, having multiple sexual partners in a sin, and of course, pre-marital sex is a sin. As you can imagine, … Continue reading →