Emily Shire
Emily Shire is chief researcher for The Week magazine. She has written about pop culture, religion, and women and gender issues at publications including Slate, The Forward, and Jewcy.
Latest articles by Emily Shire
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Does oral sex help prevent female infidelity?
feature A recent study suggests cunnilingus is a mate retention strategy
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What happened to wedding night sex?
feature Changing social norms may be killing newlyweds' libidos
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Does watching porn make you sexist?
feature Or does it depend on the type of porn you watch?
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Men: Don't blame your cheating on 'stronger sexual impulses'
feature That old excuse is not going to fly
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Why people hate feminists, environmentalists, and activists in general
feature A new study offers insight into why so many of us are unmoved by their grating do-good ways
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The 5 funniest — and real — Craigslist roommate ads
feature When it comes to Craigslist, the truth is always funnier than fiction
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The problem with TIME's cover story on the child-free life
feature And what it says about our attitudes toward the childless
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Forget Andrea Sanderlin: 5 real-life Nancy Botwins
feature The Scarsdale mom who ran a marijuana facility looks pretty innocent compared to these mothers
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OkCupid lets you filter out unattractive people (for a price)
feature A-List members on the free dating site are paying to filter by body types and attractiveness, but is it fair?
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Why sexism persists in the culinary world
feature TIME's "Gods of Food" cover is just the most recent example of female chefs being ignored
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To wax or not to wax: How pubic hair became a debate about feminism
feature The year 2013 has been hailed as the Return of the Bush
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Should we pay women to breastfeed?
feature The latest skirmish in the Mommy Wars is unfolding in the U.K.
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Is Facebook making you unhappy?
feature More evidence that the social network leads to the blues
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Men care more about having it all than women
feature They just don't know how implausible it is
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The surprising case for abortion contracts
feature J.J. Redick's alleged agreement may not be as crazy as it seems
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The Father's Day Index: By the numbers
feature You can't put a price on a good dad — or can you?
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Plastic surgery's newest obsession: The 'perfect' vagina
feature As if there weren't enough pressure to change women's breasts, butts, and faces
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Why '300 sandwiches' is a horrible price for an engagement ring
feature For Stephanie Smith, the way to a man's heart is still his stomach
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Elizabeth Wurtzel joins the Generation X trend of bashing millennials
feature Move over Joel Stein, a far less coherent critique of those pesky youngsters has arrived
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Why American Apparel's Period Power T-shirt is a useful controversy
feature A shirt featuring a masturbating, menstruating vagina gets people talking about real issues
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You can be obese and metabolically healthy
feature Give credit to your mitochondria
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Do men experience menopause?
feature A new study suggests men are not immune to the typical symptoms
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Anthony Weiner may cost Huma Abedin her career
feature Clinton 2016 wants no Carlos Danger associations
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Once-a-month, post-sex birth control pills could be a reality
feature If political opposition doesn't get in its way
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