Why Do Women Feel Bad About Doing Things That Feel Good?

Women feel greater guilt about looking at porn than do men. Why are they primed to feel bad about pleasure?

AlterNet / By Liz Langley

The first time I rented porn alone I wasn’t really alone. There were other customers in the store, a small chain, popular in the days before Blockbuster had swallowed and sanitized most neighborhood VHS rental outlets. Back then most video stores had a back room where you could find adult films, typically separated from God’s wholesome sunlit earth by a set of white, swinging saloon doors, so that you'd feel like a big sex outlaw just by swaggering in. 

Which you never did. You skulked casually past a few times before sidling into the pervert annex and getting knocked in the face with an array of filth beyond your wildest dreams.

I was not always the only woman behind the swinging doors but I was almost always the only one who was alone.
It was a little discomfiting but it was also exciting. I was young, curious and not about to let a embarrassment stand between me titles like “The Czech is in the Male.”

Sexting makes it into the American dictionary

by Zoe Briggs

We’ve all indulged in a bit of sexting in our time but the American dictionary has finally caught up as it puts it into their new edition.

Here at Cosmo we’re big fans of sexting so we were super excited to hear that the American dictionary, Merriam-Webster's has officially added the word to their latest edition!
 
 Including a definition which reads, “The sending of sexually explicit messages or images by cell phone,” we’re wondering what took them so long? We’ve been into sexting for years now!
 
 Other words that also made it into the new edition include ‘f-bomb’, ‘aha moment’ and er, ‘earworms’. We'r wondering when 'leg bombing' a la Angelina Jolie will make the cut?

http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/love-sex/sexting-goes-into-american-dictionary