I was really trying to avoid blogging about anything concerning sex but I guess it was highly inevitable.  Today I am sharing those things most women wish men knew but simply don’t tell them.  My personal thoughts are points 1-10 and 30 and the rest of the points are from the women I asked.  Here’s hoping no one takes offence but maybe takes notes instead and make sex something both you and your partner enjoy.

1. It is not about the quantity but the quality of sex. Why are you trying to have 8 rounds of 2 minute sex??  One session of good sex is good enough and if you are doing things right and hitting the spot then by all means rest assured I am fine.
2. Size does matter. For me that is, that motion for the ocean line doesn’t hold water.  I am a big girl, I like big things.

This is a first in what I hope will be a monthly series of book reviews of classic advice/self-help literature. Since I am about to live alone again, after a year of living with a romantic partner and umpteen years of roommates, it seemed apt to pull out the 1936 bestseller Live Alone and Like It:  A Guide for the Extra Woman by Marjorie Hillis.  My copy is a 1936 first edition, as pictured, and has some extremely literal margin notes from someone who either bought it or received it as a gift (awkward) in 1951.

Let’s get some stuff out of the way first.  Hillis is writing to a very specific audience:  White women of a certain background who made up the audience for women’s magazines like Vogue, where she was an editor.  Plucky shopgirls and office girls who have moved to New York, handsome women who…