In Estonia, the smoke sauna is an 800-year-old tradition carried out with regularity — to this day — by the Voro community in the southeastern part of the country. Singled out by UNESCO as one of the world’s great cultural heritages (like the baguette in France or shadow puppetry in China), the Estonian practice begets … Read more
Boobs — they make people happy, and there’s science to support that. Some women, including celebs like Rihanna, Kylie Jenner, and Lizzo, have a habit of cupping their own breasts, presumably because it sends happy hormones coursing through their bodies. A 2020 TikTok from Cosmopolitan magazine that recently resurfaced gives viewers a “boob science lesson” … Read more
Women can’t make cents of this “sociopathic” behavior. Men are courting women with “the penny dating method” — a toxic tactic that involves treating investment in a relationship like deposits in a piggy bank. According to Indy100, the method involves a man putting in a 100 percent investment at the beginning of a romance, before … Read more
Meet a man, get married, have a family. That’s the timeline women have historically been sold as the most successful pathway to a happy life. But despite that messaging being shoved down our throats at every conceivable opportunity, women have had enough. New data has revealed women are sick of the constant pressure to follow … Read more
It’s been known that women tend to outlive men, but a new study shows that the gender-death gap is widening. A research paper published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine found that U.S. men on average die nearly six years before women — the largest rift since 1996. The difference increased to 5.8 years … Read more
As the old saying goes, don’t put all your eggs into one basket. Women are doing just that by putting a bigger emphasis on friendships ever before compared to how they tackle dating. New research from Connected Women, which helps women over 50 build community, revealed that 81 percent of women over 18 consider friendships as … Read more
Some things are better left unsaid on the internet. Former NFL All-Pro receivers Chad Ochocinco Johnson and Terrell Owens revealed NSFW details about their past partying days together during an Instagram Live session, which was passed around on social media. Johnson and Owens, who played together briefly with the Bengals in 2010, recalled a trip … Read more
DEAR READERS: Twenty-five years ago tomorrow, I told you about a new, nationwide effort to honor and remember our nation’s troops, veterans and families by seeking out and preserving their war correspondence from every conflict in U.S. history. The response was overwhelming. The founder of this initiative, Andy Carroll, just told me that, as of … Read more
A Miami-based luxury maven says she spends a staggering $37,000 per year on her appearance — and is encouraging other women to “level up” in all aspects of their lives. Koko Slunjski, 32, moved to the US from Croatia a decade ago and says she quickly learned the importance of looking good. “English is not … Read more
While holding a 3-foot-long cane behind my back, I walked the plank — wobbling along a narrow wooden platform in a pair of hot pink, 4-inch pumps that I’d dug out from the back of my closet hours earlier. I was getting professional help — to walk in high heels. In September, Olga Kuznetcova, a single … Read more
Don’t mess with Jenny from the block’s man. Jennifer Lopez went viral after she told several admirers of her hubby Ben Affleck to “back up” as the pair left dinner Sunday night. In a video obtained by TMZ, Affleck, 51, can be seen wearing a gray T-shirt with a lightning bolt on it and a … Read more
On June 16, 1963, Russia edged ahead in the Space Race with the United States when 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go into space. Soon after, the US press launched a counteroffensive, publicly denigrating Tereshkova, as Loren Grush explains in “The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts” (Scribner). “Articles … Read more
Sydney Bean found it odd that she hadn’t started her period by age 17. But after noticing some light spotting, the Gen Zer eagerly rushed to insert a tampon in anticipation of her inaugural flow. Her excitement, however, immediately turned to shock upon realizing she didn’t have anywhere to place the feminine product. “I tried … Read more
Ella’s bed is open for business. With her waiting arms open wide, the single mom from Washington Heights gives warm, comforting hugs on a daily basis. She loves snuggling, no matter the position — be it standing up, sitting down or spooning on her plushy queen-sized mattress. But the folks she holds the most aren’t … Read more
Halloween is for candy — especially eye candy. Pure, a sex-positive dating app, recently surveyed 2,000 adults over 18 years old to unveil what costumes Halloween-goers planned on wearing this year. According to the poll, 58% of adults are likely to wear a sexy costume, and 19% hope their disguise helps them end the night with … Read more
It was an ink-redible day. Two cross-country pen pals, who had been corresponding with one another since they were elementary school students in 1980, finally met for the first time in Wayne, Pennsylvania. “Only difference is now we’ve been in the same place at the same time,” Krystel Alston of Ontario, California, told ABC7 about … Read more
Extreme weather events kill a number of Americans every year. For many of those events, however, the deaths tend to skew toward one demographic: men and boys. For example, they account for more than 65% of direct victims of hurricanes and more than 70% of deaths caused by lightning, according to the National Weather Service. Additionally, men and … Read more
“Do you have a high sex drive?” This is the type of unwanted sex chat young women are being forced to navigate on dating apps and it isn’t uncommon. An anonymous woman in an Australian women’s Facebook group shared a screenshot of the first message she’d received from a man on the dating app Hinge. … Read more
In her feature debut, “The Assistant” (2020), the Australian filmmaker Kitty Green followed an underling (Julia Garner) at a film company run by a toxic male boss, tracking her growing understanding of his harassment. The taut drama was quickly understood to be a prescient take on gender dynamics in the nascent #MeToo era. Green’s latest … Read more
Hide menu In our 2023 Greats issue, out Oct. 22, T celebrates four talents across music, film, art and fashion whose careers are a master class in curiosity, composure and defiance. Whenever I read the profiles for this, our annual Greats issue, I’m always struck by the same thing: how many of our subjects say … Read more