Always read the comments. But extra-always if it’s a New York Times health blog post (sorry newsletter) about sex. But first, a word on that newsletter itself. Jesse Singal recently pointed out that a NYT article about mismatched libidos failed to speak to any possible man-woman differences in this regard. This one’s by a different author but maybe it’s the Well section style guide or something to do this, because here we have a whole entire newsletter about the people who “bristle” when their partners touch them. They “bristle” you see because their partners only ever give them a cuddle or a high-five or whatever it is as a way of announcing it is time for sex.
There is a point here, I promise, but you first need to read the funniest passage:
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