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What’s the first metaphor that comes to mind when you think about sex? My guess is you’ll say ‘baseball.’ In this metaphor, baseball terminology becomes code for sexual activities: for example, ‘rounding the bases’ denotes sexual activity progressing in a very specific order, using the labels ‘pitcher’ and ‘catcher’ tells us there will be a […]

You’ve probably heard the saying, “It takes a village…” While most of us are familiar with this saying because of Hilary Clinton’s use of it in the 1990s, it actually originates from an African proverb, it takes a village to raise a child. I love this saying, and I think it applies much more broadly […]

Every few weeks, on a night that I can’t make it to the gym, I hit “play” on a yoga video that friends and I used to do together in graduate school. It’s a fairly good workout, and it helps me relax. For those of you who aren’t familiar with yoga, while it focuses on […]