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8 Women Over 50 Share Makeup-Free Photos To Normalize Aging Without Botox Or Fillers

8 Women Over 50 Share Makeup-Free Photos To Normalize Aging Without Botox Or Fillers

Published by Jenni Sidey

To be 50 is to enter an empowering realm of womanhood. Many women say that at this age, they feel more comfortable in their own skin, finally feel the confidence they always wanted, and embrace the power to love themselves with zero filters. The no-makeup look continues to be embraced as a higher standard of beauty, the new natural. Do women in their 50s without makeup become a more authentic version of themselves — or are they giving up on the tools (Botox, fillers, lasers, surgery) that are right there waiting to be used and appreciated? It all depends on the person. Some of us refuse to leave our homes without some tinted moisturizer, a touch of lipstick, or maybe some mascara. Others wonder why we put in all that effort, money, and time just to take away from the beauty nature already gave them. To figure out what was going on, we talked to a few friends in their 50s and learned a lot about how these women feel about themselves with and without makeup. Women over 50 …

Commentary: The Cuban Americans who want to normalize relations between the U.S. and Cuba

Commentary: The Cuban Americans who want to normalize relations between the U.S. and Cuba

Published by Sam Flores

When I was growing up, the Cuba I heard about in stories was akin to a floating haunted house. I spent much of my youth in Miami: an enclave for Cuban immigrants, many of whom arrived in the United States after 1959, when Fidel Castro and his army claimed victory over the U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. I knew neighbors who were ejected from universities and family friends who were imprisoned for resisting the nascent communist government. In the writing of Reinaldo Arenas, I learned about labor camps that held gay Cubans in the 1960s, as well as Christians, Jehovah’s Witnesses — even long-haired hippies who owned Beatles records. In grade school, we’d play a game of tag called “Fidel vs. the Cubans.” Most of my relatives vote Republican. Most have never been to Cuba. My grandparents left as kids in the 1950s, then met while dancing salsa in Union City, N.J. This is all to explain why I didn’t tell my family that in March, I followed a humanitarian brigade to Havana, under an oil …

New Findings Normalize Women’s Orgasm Differences

New Findings Normalize Women’s Orgasm Differences

Published by Jenni Sidey

Some women enjoy releasing fluid on orgasm. Others feel mortified that they’ve wet the bed. And some women who don’t release fluid worry that they’re abnormal. Some partners of squirters feel fine about it. Others fret. And some partners of non-squirting women wonder why they don’t. This issue may cause considerable anxiety. Those who feel stressed should feel comforted by recent studies. They show that whatever happens is normal. Controversy Reports of women releasing fluid on orgasm date back 2,000 years. Western physicians largely ignored the phenomenon until the 1970s, when it became quite controversial. Western sexologists first took this issue seriously in 1982, when eminent sex researchers coauthored a bestselling book, The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality. It argued that pressing on the vagina’s front wall (the G-spot) triggered release of up to a teaspoon of milky fluid, which they called “female ejaculation.” They said it originated in the tiny Skene’s glands that surround the opening of women’s urethras. Scottish gynecologist Alexander Skene discovered the glands in 1880. He called …