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I Cannot Stop Thinking About the French Husband Who Drugged His Wife So He Could Watch as 90 Men Raped Her Over a Decade

By Lori Perkins Not quite the topic you might expect on a blog titled RomanceDailyNews, since this story is the antithesis of romance....

Hotel Happy – A Play about Sex Workers and a Donkey

By Lori Perkins I received an invitation to join friend and colleague Veronica Vera , noted feminist and sex workers rights advocate, at...

E. Jean Carroll is My New Icon

By Lori Perkins 2023 definitely belongs to Taylor Swift – no question. But I’m thinking that even though it’s only January, 2024 is...

Cat Person: A Viral Short Story Becomes a Movie

By Lori Perkins The movie version of the New Yorker short story “Cat Person” will probably be as controversial as the story itself...

Minx: The Penis Parade Comes to HBO

By Lori Perkins Let me just start this article by saying I was a young woman in the 70s (I remember trying to buy the issue of Cosmo with...

January: On This Day...

Saturday, January 1st 1986: Barbra Streisand and Jon Peters break up. He goes on to be her manager and godparent to her children. 2011:...

Pregnant Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over Streaming Revenues on Black Widow

By Lori Perkins We’ve all been a little distracted this past year and half, but most of us were eagerly awaiting the theatrical release...

“Cat Person” and Blurring the Line of Fiction and Reality

By Rachel Zimny The short story “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian was published almost four years ago in The New Yorker and was...

Thelma & Louise Turns 30 And Still Impactful

By Lori Perkins Thelma & Louise is my favorite movie—it’s my feel good/feel bad go-to film, which often frightens away perspective...

Say It Isn’t So, Brad!

By Lori Perkins It’s been a hard month, what with the on again/off again J-Lo/ARod relationship on the rocks (and on again as of this...

The Second Wave of the #MeToo Movement

By Olivia Haveron In Late-2017, following sexual abuse allegations — and later convictions— by more than 80 women against Harvey...

Alyssa Milano to Star in Netflix’s Brazen Virtue by Nora Roberts

By Lori Perkins While we were all gobsmacked by how the Reddit bros were toppling Wall Street with the Game Stop stock uprising, or even...