Recess Columns

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B-Team to C-Team

If anything miraculous ever happened to me, it happened to my breasts—their saga worthy of their own Lifetime movie classic.


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Seeking Orgasm

Although all of us may believe we’re pursuing particular members of the opposite sex during our weekend exploits, the reality is we’re merely chasing orgasms.


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Love, Actually

As Nietzsche said, “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”


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fetish, n.

Definitions become trickier and messier as certain behaviors appear closer to the boundary of conventionality.


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Lindsay: Fully Loaded

Sure, Lindsay Lohan got into a rough patch along the road. But Jack Wilkinson still cannot resist the 11-year-old girl he fell in love with all those years ago in The Parent Trap.


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Heavenly Sexual Logic

Every religious rule worth following has always boiled down to peaceful and loving connections between human beings. Participating in sex is far more in keeping with this principle than condemning...


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The Show Biz Bailout

From the Backstreet Boys somehow going back on tour to Lindsay Lohan becoming the “artistic advisor” for Emanuel Ungaro, everyone is getting a bailout these days.


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The Case of the Ex

The circumstances vary. Everyone asks the same questions. But the past is unavoidable, bringing out the worst in the best of us.


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The Abstinent Sex Columnist

Although the average celibate individual is considered unlucky, an abstinent sex columnist is wholeheartedly pathetic. This indignant irony cannot be absolved by memories of a bygone era of sexual...