Most people are familiar with the awkward behavior that comes with being near a crush. But it can disappear just as easily, too, as you can read about in this week’s Sex on Monday.

Lust & Other Flighty Feelings

Carmel DeAmicis

I step into the harsh light of the fraternity and I spot him immediately. The fluorescent bulbs don’t do much for his skin tone, highlighting a few acne scars across his forehead and making him appear small and frail. Standing at 5′8″, he’s surrounded by men who are bigger, buffer and move with a lion-like agility as they stalk about the frat looking for their evening’s fun. I see him nervously glance my way and in an instant the desire and obsession that had compelled me here in the first place melts from my body. Fantasies that I had painstakingly created in late night ponderings, or during classroom boredom, come crashing down around me. Left sitting amongst the rubble was the

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Chickens often get an unfair rap when it comes to sex euphemisms, and that won’t change in this week’s Sex on Monday. If you thought pecking was just a way of explaining “what a guy does with his pecker,” think again.

Finding Your Fellow Chicken

Carmel DeAmicis

Oh God. I blearily opened my make-up encrusted eyes and peered at the body lying next to me under the covers. Shit. I brought the Italian Stallion home with me.

For those of you who don’t regularly keep up with my column, I decided a couple months ago to take a break from my sexcapades. I’m not entirely sure why, but sex just wasn’t doing it for me anymore and all the lube I had to buy was getting expensive. So I donned my little abstinence cloak and decided to revert to my high school system: play baseball all you want, but never run past third. Since that decision, I’ve been waiting to tumble into bed with someone who

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Can you define love? Maybe not, but you’re bound to get some good ideas by visiting this Website.

It’s a think-tank project started by Ryan Rushing, with the hopes of gathering as many descriptions and experiences of love as possible, and sharing them with others. Check it out to see how your conception of love matches up, and post your own words of love to the world.

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