Explore pop-culture, current events, hot-button topics and all things relationship-related with Pittsburgh native, editor and co-founder of twodaymag, Natalie Bencivenga.
Oh, to have the life of a evangelical professional football player. Or wait a minute...maybe not.
In case you haven’t heard, AshleyMadison.com is offering one million dollars to any woman who can prove that she has had sexual intercourse with Tim Tebow. I know, sleazy right? But then again, when your website helps people to cheat on their spouses, what do you expect?
This year, I began my first year playing professional golf on the tour. Playing golf on tour can be a lonely experience. One thing many people don't realize is how isolated the tour is from the real world. When you are gone two to three weeks at a time, maintaining relationships at home can seem impossible. I worried when I started playing professionally how I would create a sense of normalcy on the road, and if I would have meaningful friendships.
Being a student of the University of Pittsburgh, you would think that I would know more about the bomb threat investigation that has made national news rather than someone who was not at all affiliated with the University.
Unfortunately, you’d be wrong.
When seeking information about these unsettling threats, I turn to online news sites in order to get information about the investigation. The University seldom updates us on the progress of the investigation directly. The only information we are privy to is when the bomb threats happen and where so we know to evacuate. We also receive the occasional new email about the measures that the University is taking to deal with the problem and to, as they say, ensure our safety.
So today is my 28th birthday and I have been reflecting on the past 12 months (and the past 28 years) of my life and what I would tell my 18 year old self if I could. Here is a list of 5 life lessons I have learned along my journey so far. Maybe you will identify with one, and feel free to post your own life lessons in the comment section below.
First of all, let me first state that I know no intimate details about Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart’s relationship. It could be marvelous, stupendous, the paradigm of health and happiness, etc., etc…
Either way, I have no idea. Jennifer and I aren’t what you’d call “tight.”
What little I know is what I see on the covers of magazines and the stories they run when it’s a slow news day on ABC; shortly after the dissolution Jennifer Lopez’s third marriage, Ms. Lopez was already said to be dating a Mr. Casper Smart, a backup dancer who is some fifteen years her junior.
It’s no secret that transgender people are perhaps the most commonly mocked members of our society. I believe this because they are terribly misunderstood.
This has been very aptly demonstrated in the recent firestorm over Canadian beauty queen Jenna Talackova’s expulsion from and then re-admittance to the Miss Universe pageant on the grounds that she was not born a female, despite the fact that she knew that at the age of four that she was a girl trapped in a boy’s body, began hormone therapy at the age of 14, and surgically changed her gender four years ago at 19.
Some people are upset she was expelled in the first place, others were upset she was allowed back in. She was originally expelled for not being a “natural born” woman, but after a little discussion with GLAAD, she was allowed back into the competition.
The very terminology sends people into a tizzy. What does transgender mean? What does it entail? Is she really a woman? Can a person be both a woman and transgender? Can we still find her attractive? Is she really a him because she was born a him?
Because sometimes you’re just not in the zone...
Yes, you read the title of this article correctly. Sometimes, people do end up in bed together and don’t have to have sex to be intimate or to have fun. Whether you are abstaining for personal reasons, are not in the mood, or are just plain exhausted, not every evening needs to end with a bang. Here are 5 fun ideas to try in bed with your lover that keep intimacy alive (without the sex).