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camillestyles.com

27 Long-Distance Relationship Ideas to Stay Close—Even When You’re Miles Apart

A personal roundup from a writer navigating a Portland-to-San-Francisco relationship, offering a curated list of nearly 30 concrete ways to stay connected across distance—ranging from shared playlists and voice notes to virtual cooking classes and surprise care packages. The framing is less about "surviving" long-distance and more about building small, repeatable rituals that make everyday intimacy possible despite the miles. Worth keeping for its practical, low-effort ideas rather than abstract relationship advice.

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www.mensjournal.com

The Best Sex Positions: 50 Fun, Different Positions to Try

This comprehensive guide catalogs fifty sex positions across various categories—from classic moves like missionary and cowgirl to specialized positions designed for pregnancy, anal play, shower settings, and specific body types or penis sizes. Each position includes step-by-step instructions, explanations of why it works, and product recommendations for enhancing the experience with lubricants and sex toys. The article emphasizes that exploring new positions can help couples discover erogenous zones, improve communication about desires, address physical discomfort or body insecurity, and deepen intimacy.

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redsetteragency.com

Words we love: Pebbling – a new love language | Blog

Named after Gentoo penguins, who court mates by presenting pebbles for nest-building, "pebbling" has become dating-world slang for sending memes and gifs to signal you're thinking of someone. The author riffs on this, extending it beyond dating to everyday relationships — small gifts left for her daughter, memes exchanged with friends — arguing these low-cost, low-effort gestures matter more than their size suggests. It's a light personal essay on how tiny, frequent tokens of attention sustain connection, worth keeping as a reminder to keep "pebbling" the people you love.

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Esquire

Sex and the Married Man: Portrait of a Serial Adulterer

This 1994 Esquire profile presents an extended interview with a 47-year-old married Manhattan executive who has systematically conducted affairs throughout his twenty-year marriage, discussing his philosophy of seduction, his evolution from carefree philanderer to would-be romantic, and his current paralysis over whether to leave his wife for a younger woman he claims to genuinely love. The author uses the subject's own words and rationalizations to examine how adultery functions as both a mirror of cultural values and a psychological escape, ultimately suggesting that the man's self-deception and inability to change may be so fundamental to his nature that genuine transformation—and therefore genuine love—may be impossible for him.

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The New Yorker

Why Are So Many Americans Single? : The New Yorker

Eric Klinenberg's "Going Solo" examines the dramatic rise of solo living in America—from four million people living alone in 1950 to thirty-one million today—and argues that this shift is not a social pathology but an inevitable result of mainstream liberal values like women's liberation, urbanization, technology, and increased longevity. Rather than portraying solitary life as uniformly isolating, Klinenberg's research reveals that people living alone experience complex emotional lives and often use autonomy as a tool for career advancement and personal development, though this individualism comes with a social cost: diminished civic participation and community bonds. The piece raises important questions about whether solo living benefits the individual while harming collective welfare, and suggests the real danger lies not in choosing to live alone but in being unprepared for crises like illness or aging without adequate support networks.

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