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
Dan Brooks, Elisa Gonzalez, Gaby Del Valle, Karim Kazemi, Lydia Kiesling, Nancy Ko, Nawal Arjini, Noelle Bodick, P.E. Moskowitz, Paul McAdory, S.C. Cornell
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...
