P.E. Moskowitz
A Different, Messier World
P.E. Moskowitz
The United States is a lonely country. The pandemic didn’t help, but it wasn’t the cause: the amount of time Americans spend talking and socializing with one another has been declining for at least two decades, about an hour and a half less per week in 2019 than in 2003. We’re having less sex than ever — the percent of 18-to 29-year-olds who reported having had none at all in...
No Returns | On Family Functions and Dysfunctions
P.E. Moskowitz
In December, The New Yorker asked, “How Did Polyamory Become So Popular?” in a piece that tracked the rise of the open relationship, from the obscure “province of utopian free-love communities” to its status as a mainstay of “Park Slope marriages and prestige television.” In January, New York magazine took on the same topic in a cover story, which explored the “increasingly mainstream world of ethical non-monogamy” and included “a...
