Stuart Greene

An old friend of mine, Rich, is gay but he was married to a woman for ten years. His was not the typical scenario, in which a closeted gay man discovers a decade too late that he prefers men. No, this was one of those marriages of convenience. Rich had had boyfriends since he was … Read more

Last month was a good one in the annals of human sexuality. Early in May, a Winona, Minnesota, student got kicked out of high school for wearing a button that said “I Heart My Vagina.” Carrie Rethlefsen, an eighteen-year-old senior, had seen a recent college production of The Vagina Monologues, and decided to take up … Read more

Being a proud Anglo-American, I have long been a fan of the BBC soap opera EastEnders. (We see it here on TPT–the Twin Cities are a hotbed of British TV fans.) Everyone on this show, set in East London, eventually sleeps with everyone else, and there is an alarmingly high incidence of accidental death, felonious … Read more

The other day, my pal Steve finally loaned me a book he’d been telling me about for years. It was John Krakauer’s Into the Wild, which has sort of been eclipsed by his later blockbuster, Into Thin Air. It recounts the story of a young man who decided to move to Alaska and try to … Read more

My pal Steve used to travel a lot for work, and he found himself in Thailand a few years ago. He tells me that one night in Bangkok does, indeed, make a hard man humble. He says there are hundreds of beautiful women who literally throw themselves at you. You cannot make eye contact with … Read more

My buddy Ben saw an advertisement for a little boutique that specializes in sex toys for smart women—a small, independent shop owned and operated by women. It got him thinking. He told me it made him want to buy something for his wife, Val, as a surprise for their anniversary. Ben started to sort of … Read more

The other day, my friend Carl sheepishly asked me a funny question while we were at the gym. I could tell he wanted a serious answer. “What would you say if your wife told you she wanted a boob job?” “Rachel wants to get a boob job?!” I almost yelled it. “What do you think … Read more

The correct answer is: No. Actually, in my experience—and a quick survey of all the usual suspects confirms it, anecdotally anyway—transitional seasons seem to be the more active time for human, uh, rutting. Among ourselves, we men frequently talk about how the “sap begins to run” in the spring, and I can tell you from … Read more

I am not a sex-advice guy, nor am I an expert on intimate relations. I’m just a regular married guy, trying to tell it like it is from my point of view. I’ve got to get something out in the open, though, and it’s going to sound kind of obnoxious. OK, I’ll just say it: … Read more

I’ve been to a few weddings this summer, and it’s interesting. It seems that most of my generation waited until our late twenties, even our thirties, to get married. Then we’re waiting another ten years to have kids—right when a woman is up against the wall, biologically speaking. Forty is when doctors really start to … Read more