Parisian café people watching with the soft lick of rain drops caressing my cheek. My mother’s warm embrace, the one that tells me everything will be just fine. Huddled in the corner of a crowded bar, with a friend I haven’t seen in months, shouting “WE NEED TO DO THIS MORE!” over Bowie’s “Modern Love” …
Right now, there are few booming industries due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With the economic downturn looming and unemployment rates soaring, many of us have tightened our spending over the past few months. However, green shoots are appearing in one field: global sex technology. Read more: Are You Having Enough Sex? Lockdowns and social distancing …
The lunch break, something we all used to look forward to, is starting to feel like a thing of the past. A huge 79 per cent of us don’t actually take a break at lunch, with one in five of us using the time to run errands or spending it on social media instead, according …
Plunging into a pool of ice cold water sounds pretty good right now, doesn’t it? As temperatures peak and we are reduced to sweaty puddles of our former selves, fantasies of cooler environments start to consume us. But would you actually try submerging yourself in an ice bath? You may know of Wim Hof through …
Since emerging onto the Hollywood scene five years ago, Dakota Johnson has been a thoroughly modern sex symbol. Of course, this is due in no small part to her role as Anastasia Steele in the film adaptation of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, which served as a rousing introduction to the dynamics of a …
Philosophers call it ‘our best teacher’, psychologists claim it’s ‘essential to the human condition’ and evolutionists credit it for our survival as a species, but anxiety has a really bad rep. Anyone who has experienced it knows just how deeply unpleasant and unsettling it can be — however, emerging data shows that there may be …
Growing up in the Arab world, as a woman, from pre-pubescence onwards, I was often taught to view my body and desires with a sense of shame. For years, it seems the media, schools, doctors, and even friends and relatives have perpetuated the myth that my virtue is tied to my chastity, and that being …
I’m not really one for virtual exercise classes, partly because the lack of atmosphere puts me off, partly because you’re not actually obliged to show up. However, last year forced everyone’s hand when it came to keeping up with regular exercise classes, and gyms and trainers had to adapt quickly to catering to clients remotely. …
Inside a splendid mansion that was once home to Napoleon’s daughter is one of the world’s most cutting-edge medical spas: Villa Stéphanie. Offering full-service diagnostics (the on-call team of specialists includes cardiologists, gastroenterologists and dentists), and astonishingly advanced treatments, visitors leave Baden-Baden the picture of good health. The spa’s renowned nine-night “The Kings Way” programme …
The “dreaded” menopause comes for us all whether we like it or not – and some of us will inevitably find it difficult. But the more prepared we are, the easier it will be. Like ageing, it is unavoidable, but there are certain things we can do to make the transition an infinitely more positive …