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Melanie Hamlett

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Past articles by Melanie:

In This Season of Love is Blind, The Women Choose Themselves

Love is Blind Season 2 contestants Natalie and Deepti played parts in a new kind of love story. → Read More

The Pope Says Childless Couples Are "Selfish," But What About the Man Child?

Earlier this week, the pope said childless couples are ruining humanity. Sorry, childless dude, but some women are too busy raising their own man child. → Read More

From Super-Spreader Sex Houses to Nude Beach Fistfights, Vaccinated Partying Not All It's Cracked Up to Be

Ilan Deutsch/Paris Match via Getty ImagesAfter being woken up by the sound of a little dog below me humping his favorite teddy bear, I crawl down the ladder ... → Read More

As a Survivor of Partner Violence, I Saw Myself in Grace Fraser

The most important lesson from The Undoing: how women (like me) can be fooled by men and our own minds. → Read More

A 38-Year-Old Woman Is the Bachelorette—And Yes, It Matters

Clare Crawley knows her worth. Not despite her age. Because of it. → Read More

Taylor Swift and the Trap of Needing To Be Liked

Swift's constant search for approval is a product of our internalized misogyny, but in 'Miss Americana,' she lets that go. → Read More

I Never Wanted to Settle Down. Then I Met a Man Who Lets Me Be the ‘Dude’ in Our Relationship

As a woman, I never expected to be adored for the precise things I’d been told for decades make me too “un-feminine” to be in a committed relationship. → Read More

A Cheap Hippie Doctor, Seductive Clown, and Sexual Awakening in Peru

If you’re going to have adventures on the road, you’re going to have to endure some uncomfortable encounters, particularly from, to put it perhaps too delicately, needy guys. → Read More

21 Comebacks to ‘So Why Don’t You Have Kids Yet?’

This holiday when prying relatives ask why you don't have kids yet, be ready with an arsenal of witty responses. → Read More

Forget Being Nice—I’m Getting What I Want in Bed

When I learned to say "no," my sex life finally became about my pleasure. → Read More

I Blamed Myself When Men Couldn’t Finish During Sex—Then I Realized That’s BS

When men I dated experienced delayed ejaculation—aka they couldn't finish during sex—I blamed myself. Then I realized that's bullshit. → Read More

Dating in America is so casual. In France, men tend to commit instantly. But do they really mean it?

I was delighted but also thoroughly confused. → Read More

Men Rigged a World Built for Them and Called It ‘Neutral’—Women Call Bullshit

Women are 51 percent of the population. We shouldn't be an exception to the rule. → Read More

How Men Became "Emotional Gold Diggers" — Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden

Increasingly, women are playing the role of best friend, lover, career advisor, stylist, social secretary, emotional cheerleader, mom, and eventually, on-call therapist to their male partners. → Read More

I Wrote About Having Sex After 40 and It Literally Became International Tabloid News

My essay about sex after 40—and why being called a 'cougar' is BS—went viral, getting picked up by over a dozen tabloids. Apparently, the idea of a woman in her 40s having great sex with younger men is too much to handle. → Read More

Pete Buttigieg and Beto O’Rourke Lost High-Profile Elections but Get More Media Attention Than Women Who’ve Won

The media lavishes attention on Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke, and Bernie Sanders, all of whom lost high-profile races. When will it focus on women who've won? → Read More

Popeye Village is One of the Mediterranean’s Most F*cked Up Attractions

It’s almost like Popeye Village put an ad in the paper saying, ‘Seeking cynical chill pot smokers with zero acting skills for multiple roles at over-priced tourist trap.’ → Read More

Men My Age Wouldn’t Date Me, so I Became a ‘Cougar’

I resisted being called a cougar at first, but then I found power in it. Honestly, my sex life has never been better. → Read More

Dear Men: It Is Not My Responsibility To Explain Sexism To You

There are endless articles and even a book about how often men try to teachwomen things we already know → Read More

Ted Bundy Is Not Hot. He's a Serial Killer.

Why is Hollywood so relentless to humanize and fetishize white men who like to hurt people—particularly women? → Read More