Melissa Petro

You may have heard the old joke that 98% of people masturbate, and the other two percent are lying.

Sometimes the fights I pick with my fiancé are really fights with myself.

"We built a luxury dream home but can only afford to have two children."

Is there anything problematic about trading foot rubs for blow jobs? Or is it a healthy way to add a little spice to a long term relationship?

Hate hurts us all, but we don’t all receive it with the same systemic intensity. Those of us with the privilege to do so need to push against the borders of what is “permissible” in this society. We need challenge the idea of “normal” — rather than conform to it — so that all of us can live more closely to our truths.

Teaching sex ed the right way doesn’t have to be weird or hard.

Engagements being the universally stressful occasions that they are, what this has meant is that I’m constantly pushing my fiancé to make wedding-related decisions, and he is constantly having to ask me (nicely and less-nicely) to give it a rest. It all came to a head this past weekend.

Stock photos seemed to get pregnancy and parenting all wrong. When a Facebook friend posted looking for a real life pregnant stock photo model, I offered.

How do you break up with a best friend?

Especially if you’re a woman, people assume you’re hungry for a man.