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First of all, vomit. Did Time really have to headline this piece “The Science of Cougar Sex: Why Older Women Lust”?

It’s a report on a study by evolutionary psychologist David Buss, the guy at UT Austin who explains much of current human behavior in terms of our being programmed over time to seek out characteristics that reflect reproductive fitness in our partners. In the past, Buss’s work was used to explain how men are basically hardwired to be horndogs for younger, easily impregnateable women.

Now he’s wondering, why would “older” women–which in the study is defined as 27 to 45, just in case you were deluded in thinking you only recently left the category of young–be so sexual? His theory is that as our fertility wanes, we increase the frequency of our sexual encounters (or at least want to) in a last ditch effort to propagate the species before our eggs expire entirely. (more…)

Sarah Jessica Parker and I might just be the same person. Think about it: Have you ever seen us in a room together? No, right? (That would be because, with one exception, we’ve never been in a room together. The one time we were, maybe ten years ago at a restaurant in SoHo, she ate heaps of linguine while I stared at her eating heaps of linguine. It was all very thrilling for me and probably annoying for her. Linguine is hard to eat with some lady staring at you.)

ANYway, aside from the fact that she’s tiny, blond, rich and famous, we have tons in common. She has twins, I have twins. She lives in New York, I live in New York. She is a fashion icon, I…try not to wear yoga pants out of the house more than three times a week. See? Mirror images.

Up until yesterday, I thought that’s where the similarities ended, until I read that, like many Formerlies, she says, “I feel old and tired.” Well, sometimes I feel old and tired, although usually it’s just tired. (more…)

My friend Sara and I had a running gag back when I worked at Self. Whenever one of us would come across a study that proved something that was so patently obvious we couldn’t believe anyone would fund the research, we’d send the link to each other with a comment like, “From the Your Tax Dollars at Work department: Turns out, having sex makes a couple feel closer! Whew, glad that hotly debated issue is finally put to rest.” Or “Wait, did you know that women who eat store-bought baked goods and then sit on their asses all day everyday tended to weigh more than those who do not? Stop the presses.” Well, it cracked us up, anyway. You’d be shocked at how many of those kinds of studies are published each month. (more…)