Alana Massey

Though “financial coercion” is something of a phrase du jour for hand-wringers describing unsavory employment decisions by women, there is a new phrase in town that seeks to take its throne. It is “consensual trafficking,” and it is brought to you by a New York Times ...

While alerting the next-of-kin and helping make funeral arrangements are thought to be the primary responsibilities of a person who has recently lost a friend, the deletion of the deceased’s online browsing history has lately earned a place among them. It is one of the kindest ...

It seems that every few years, some intrepid reporter feels the need to make the game-changing discovery that a lot of people use the Internet to conduct their business. Though this sounds like an absolute non-story, when the people in question are sex workers and their business ...

The start of the 21st century saw the emergence of a set of euphemisms to describe the class of universities that are prestigious, but not quite in the Ivy League. These schools were dubbed “The New Ivies” in a number of media outlets, “The Little Ivies” in admissions ...

A flagship Abercrombie & Fitch store had its grand opening in Shanghai last month, one of one hundred Abercrombie stores set to open in China in the coming decade, according to AdAge. As befitting such an event, young men with the half the clothing and twice the lean muscle ...

David Foster has, correctly, received a lot of criticism for his comically misguided column in the Guardian, in which he appeared to argue in favor of women accepting direct sexual propositions as the harmless, and ultimately positive, result of sexual liberation. Pack up your ...