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Rachel Kramer Bussel

Rachel Kramer Bussel is the author of "Sex & Cupcakes: A Juicy Collection of Essays" and the editor of more than 70 anthologies, including "The Big Book of Orgasms" and the Best Women's Erotica of the Year series. She teaches erotica writing workshops online and in-person, writes widely about books, culture, sex, dating and herself, and Tweets @raquelita.

N95 respirator and KN95 respirator mask PPE for protection against COVID-19 (Getty Images/sockagphoto)

I can’t stop buying N95 masks: As a hoarder, my instinct is to shop my way out of the pandemic

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Rejecting the mommy mandate: “Our culture made motherhood feel so inevitable”

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(Carina Press / Avon / Nicobar Press / Dirtyscribbler Press / CreateSpace)

Welcome to the Romance Resistance

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Forget about “inbox zero”: The real problem with email isn’t your unread messages

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How I learned to love “adulting” — the word, if not the act

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Pamela Anderson (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff /Invision/AP, File) (AP/Colin Young-Wolff/Invision)

Porn is not “for losers”: Pamela Anderson is wrong to blame it for Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1563968p1.html'>Adisorn Saovadee</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

“Having it all” is impossible: What women really need is balance, fairness and respect

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Gaby Dunn (Robin Roemer)

“Life was always a financial hellscape”: Gaby Dunn’s “Bad With Money” wants to break the “secret shame” of money talk

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Anthony Weiner (AP/Richard Drew)

The Anthony Weiner scandal trainwreck: Why we can’t stop gawking at his baffling lack of judgment

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Millennial sex panic! Why are we so worried they aren’t getting enough action?

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Keira Knightley, John Carney (Evan Agostini/invision/ap)

John Carney’s mea culpa: This is how you apologize to Keira Knightley—or anyone, for that matter

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Maggie McMuffin (ABC13)

JetBlue’s unwritten dress code for women: Airline’s issue with shorts exposes a serious flaw in employee “discretion”

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Sara Benincasa

Stop saying you’re sorry: “Women will apologize to inanimate objects for bumping into them”

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"Troll 2" (Epic Productions)

Right-wing trolls attack #ShoutYourStatus campaign: “American feminists now feel the need to brag about what stds they’ve caught”

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-239818p1.html'>tommaso lizzul</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Men aren’t entitled to sex: Crybaby guy throws racist fit at woman who politely refuses to hook up

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Stop pressuring women to be moms: It’s insulting to assume we all want the same thing

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Harvard still has a boys’ club problem: Exclusive all-male club claims the very presence of women would put them in danger

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(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/profile/becon'>becon</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Say no to this YES to SEX app: Avoiding “awkward” consent conversations shouldn’t be a goal

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Erykah Badu (AP/Arthur Mola)

Erykah Badu is wrong: Longer skirts won’t “keep our girls safe” at school

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Bryan Adams (Reuters/Toby Melville)

The Bryan Adams factor: One singer canceling a show won’t stop a hate bill, but these actions add up

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(CBS 47)

“Diabetes, here I come”: Starbucks drink-shaming is bullying, and it’s part of a larger problem

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Porn is not the enemy of good sex: Don’t blame a male “virility” crisis on browser histories

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Georgia O'Keefe (AP/Wikimedia/Salon)

Beyond “the eternal feminine”: Novelist Dawn Tripp reimagines the life and work of Georgia O’Keeffe

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Bree Olson (flipchip/LasVegasVegas via Wikimedia Commons)

Our porn double standard: Bree Olson slut-shamed after leaving adult industry while James Deen gets more work than ever

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