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Arianne Cohen

  1. HeadlinersWhat became of ten memorable newsmakers.
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    The Overserved Ivy Banker ChickA week in the life of a New Yorker, between the sheets. This time around, enough club name-dropping to impress Patrick Bateman.
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    The Morose Married Musician With a Partner in a Midlife CrisisA week in the sex life of an average New Yorker. This time around, it’s a gay man who’s getting laid by the (imaginary) pizza guy.
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    The Gal Who Looked for Love (or at Least Sex) Through a Computer ScreenA week in the life of a New Yorker like you, except only the sex bits. This week, a lusty gal with a laptop.
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    The Musician With Lots of Ones, But No One-and-OnlyA week in the life of an average New Yorker, between the sheets.
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    The 33-Year-Old Yearning for His First Real RelationshipA week in the life of a New Yorker, with only the details you care about. This time it’s an introspective gay man looking for love.
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    The Aspiring Cool Best Friend With BenefitsA week in the life of a New Yorker, between the sheets. Or, in this case, via text message.
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    The Blissfully Engaged Web GuyA week between the sheets in the life of a New Yorker. This time, a guy who’s really, really, really happy with his fiancée.
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    The Heartbroken Summer U.N. InternA week in the sex life of a cute, young thing missing her ex.
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    The Rehabbing Mailroom WorkerA week in the life of a New Yorker just like you (well, not JUST like you) between the sheets.
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    The Middle-School Teacher in an Open RelationshipA week in the life of a New Yorker, between the sheets.
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    The Two-Timing Substitute Teacher With the Porn-Addict FriendAnother week in the life of a New Yorker, between the sheets. This time around, little-people porn and hair care down there. Really.
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    The Potential Jehovah’s Witness Co-edOne week between the sheets with a New Yorker just like you.
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    The Possibly Cuckolded Wall Street DadOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Possibly Cuckolded Wall Street Dad: 51, male, derivatives trader, financial district, straight, married.
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    The Loner Guy Trying Not to Be a LonerThis week, 27, male, Times Square, straight, single, unemployed.
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    The Jewish CarrieA week between the sheets with another hapless New Yorker. This time, she’s a sexpert with ex-boyfriend issues.
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    The Cheated-On, Out-of-Work ActorA week of one young man’s life between the sheets. Or, um, in the shower.
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    The Super-Single Graduate StudentWould Jake Gyllenhaal be the perfect boyfriend? If you’ve ever caught yourself legitimately pondering the question, this is the sex diary for you.
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    The Casual-Encountering Retail MerchandiserAn example of interracial dating gone awry. Or, perhaps it’s awright?
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    The, Um, Interactive Producer in a Workplace AffairOnce again, it’s time for our weekly Sex Diary, in which a New Yorker overshares about their life between the sheets. This time, with infidelity!
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    The Rebounding Divorcé LawyerOur weekly sex diary. This time around, it’s a newly single thirtysomething on the prowl.
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    The Terrified-of-Seeing-the-Ex Fashion StudentToday, the Terrified-of-Seeing-the-Ex Fashion Student: 20, female, Manhattan, straight, single.
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    The Guy in a Smoking-Hot, Not-Quite-in-Love RelationshipThis week’s Sex Diary is a little naughtier than usual. Enjoy.
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    The Rebounding Law StudentA young legal lady documents a week in her renewed love life in this week’s Sex Diary.
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    The Very Busy, Very Horny Single Mother of TwoThis week’s Sex Diary proves that having kids, even if you’re a single parent, doesn’t have to kill your sex drive. At all.
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    Sex Diaries: The Office Don Juan With a Taste for Casual EncountersOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar.
  27. Need a Ride?It looks (and accelerates) like a bumper car, but the Smart Fortwo is a joy in the city. *Car below not actual size.
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    The 29-Year-Old Desperately in Love With a 19-Year-OldOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the 29-Year-Old Desperately in Love With a 19-Year-Old: Female, Bensonhurst, straight. DAY ONE 10:30 a.m.: He calls me from work, and I ignore the call on purpose to seem not so interested. He’s 19, and I’m 29. This is my tactic to keep him interested and wondering what I’m doing. 10:33 a.m.:: Two minutes later I feel stupid for not answering his call because I really want to hear his voice. I contemplate on whether to return his phone call, but don’t. 5 p.m.: I return his call, knowing he’s not going to answer because he is on the train coming home from work. I leave him a voice mail asking him to call me back when he hears this. I wish he would come over tonight, but he’s very inconsistent.
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    The Hot, Everything-But GuyOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Hot, Everything-But Guy: 26, male, Chelsea, gay, single. DAY ONE 7:05 a.m.: Wake up an hour before alarm, ugh. I need to pee. 7:10 a.m.: Once the morning wood deflates, I climb down stairs from my loft bed, put on boxers, and scurry out of apartment into hallway to the shared bathroom. 7:45 a.m.: Making yummy omelette with hot peppers when I hear sounds of flip-flops flip-flopping from the hall. I look through the peephole with a clear view of hallway to the shared shower hoping for Hot Neighbor in apartment #4 or guy above me in #10. Nope, it’s just Cliff.
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    The Temporarily Celibate ActressOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Temporarily Celibate Actress: 23, female, Astoria, straight, single. DAY ONE 10:13 a.m.: Co-worker from my part-time job resurfaces from her walk of shame and begins to give me details of her date last night. I am living vicariously through her. I walk away before I get TMI (too much information). 12:04 p.m.: Working out at the gym during lunch has sufficed to get rid of my sexual frustration, since I don’t seem to do sex lately. I’ve only slept with one guy and am singly in pursuit of lucky number two. The gym provides eye candy, although working out in the theater district leaves me constantly questioning what team they’re on. 12:23 p.m.: Male co-worker is scoping me out as I am elliptical-ing and wording lines to myself to memorize my audition for the end of the week. He asks me if I’m working later. I would probably hook up with him if he didn’t already have a kid.
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    The S&M ComedianOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the S&M Comedian: 27, male, Midtown East, straight, single. DAY ONE 8 p.m.: Meet Jen for dinner. 10:25 p.m.: Back at my place and Jen tells me she is sleepy from the wine. 10:30 p.m.: We go to the bedroom, and I put a leather collar on her for the first time. She gives me that loving submissive look. Tie her hands behind her back with rope.
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    The Multi-Orgasmic Woman Test-driving a Potential New BoyfriendOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Multi-Orgasmic Woman Test-driving a Potential New Boyfriend: 23, female, Greenwich Village, straight. DAY ONE 5 a.m.: Suffering from insomnia, horny. Contemplate how I’ve been single for over a year after an intense three-year relationship, burnt out on casual/drunk/let’s-just-be-fuck-buddies sex. Realize Potential New Boyfriend is just finishing his shift at Über-trendy restaurant. Send booty-call text. 6 a.m.: Potential BF arrives smelling like truffle oil. He suggests he shower, I respond by yanking him on top of me. He tastes like red wine. Excellent sex ensues.
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    The Single and Lonely Hot ActorOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Single and Lonely Hot Actor: 32, male, Manhattan, straight. DAY ONE 8:32 p.m.: I am sitting at the Union Square Starbucks fidgeting, and avoiding eye contact of a brunette, who seems to be tirelessly staring at me. 8:47 p.m.: Brunette left. I’m too lazy to hunt these days. Today the doe lives. The alpha male retreats. I’ve been single for two years or so. I’ve dated a lot, but I’m single. I just want someone to wake up to on a daily basis. 10:30 p.m.: In bed. Thinking of Ashley, a girl I dated for four months. We have not spoken for about five years. I think she didn’t trust me. Or thought maybe that I was unreliable. She’s my One Who Got Away. I wanted a life with that woman. Something tells me she is lonely. Very lonely. Obviously.
  34. Don’t Go, Hill, Says Columbia ProfA face for victory.
  35. Myanmar From the 36th FloorFrustration at the U.N.’s global-disaster-relief HQ.
  36. Camp NebulizerA retreat for kids with asthma.
  37. End of the LineFor Second Avenue shop owners, it’s a subway to hell.
  38. Bear Bankers Hibernate With PayUntil they get laid off.
  39. Not Ready for SubprimeNew Yorkers behind on their mortgages try to save their homes. How’d they get in such a mess?
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    The Ivy League Co-ed Who Has Orgasms in Her SleepOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Ivy Leaguer Who Has Orgasms in Her Sleep: 19, Manhattan, female, straight, single. DAY ONE 10 p.m.: Banker Guy, a friend I sporadically spoon with, calls me. He’s just left work, which I find ridiculous. Inform him that I’m going to picket his company headquarters in a “Free Banker Guy” T-shirt. Make vague plans to hang out. 11 p.m.: Turns out Banker Guy and I are headed to the same NYU dorm. Hug hello awkwardly in front of ten of his friends. Before splitting up, we make tentative late-night plans. I get the feeling he’s going to flake. 12:30 a.m.: Cute friend comes over to my place. Hangs with my gay roomie and me. I’m tipsy after one glass of Champagne. Make a joke about sleeping with cute friend. He kindly rejects me: “That would be letting the rumor mill win.” Apparently, people already think he’s a notch on my bedpost. 3 a.m.: Cute friend leaves. Sadly, our friendship will not be heading toward the bedroom anytime soon. 3:15 a.m.: Banker Guy texts, “Sorry babe.” Knew it.
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    The Semi-Depressed Museum WorkerOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Semi-Depressed Museum Worker: 35, the Bronx, male, gay, single. DAY ONE 6:15 a.m.: Fire alarm goes off in my apartment because my ex, who still lives here, left the stove eye on all night after cooking. Scared the shit out of me! Thankfully, all was fine. 9:45 a.m.: Didn’t masturbate this morning because I was running late for work due to the aforementioned fire alarm. Horny as hell on the subway, checking out the packages of the fine Bronx Rican boyz. Yeah, papi! 11:59 a.m.: My Madonna obsession always gets the best of me at work. Can’t stop checking out Madonnalicious.com every five minutes to find out the latest Maddy gossip. Love her.
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    The Self-Professed ‘Damaged Goods’ From a Never-Ending BreakupOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Self-Professed “Damaged Goods” From a Never-Ending Breakup: 25, Brooklyn, female, advertising associate, single. DAY ONE 7:59 a.m.: Awake suddenly with a fierce charley horse that makes me cry out in pain. Wonder if my housemates might confuse the outburst with crazy morning sex. Dismiss idea. 11:20 a.m.: Review text message that my date from the night before, Terrance, sent me fifteen minutes after our subway entrance make-out session and five minutes after I informed him of my post-relationship status. I had called myself “damaged goods.” His text: “Ur the best-lookin’ damaged goods I ever seen.” 12:56 p.m.: Log into Gmail account and see that my ex, Marcus, is online. I say “ex” with quotation marks. After a one-year relationship, followed by a one-year hiatus while I was abroad and then a six-month breakup, we still talk … and fuck … a lot.
  43. Full-Volume MeditationOne woman’s search for peace, equanimity, and a perfectly pronounced om.
  44. Retreats Around the CornerWhy schlep to the mountains or the islands when you can have a wellness weekend right in the city?
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    The Horny Editor Visiting the ‘RentsOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Horny Editor Visiting the ‘Rents: 25, Long Island City, male, gay, single. DAY ONE 10 a.m.: Hit the snooze button four times. Morning wood. Not so much a raging hard-on as a gentle swelling. An ex-boyfriend once told me that he couldn’t get off with morning wood. I think that’s become a self-fulfilling prophecy for me. 12:10 p.m.: Co-worker and I speculate about Eli Roth’s sexuality. He sends me a link to “Eli Roth Has the Biggest Dick in Hollywood.” It’s his naked thighs that turn me on, not the enormous prosthetic penis. 2 p.m.: Totally uninterested in naked-porn-star photo I receive with a press release for some gay party. I worry that gay porn has totally desensitized me. 3:05 p.m.: This guy e-mails me — he has like two boyfriends; we go out to dinner and make out occasionally; it’s way too complicated. I invite him out to Lotus. Not sure why, I don’t even like him that much.
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    The Solo Filmmaker Looking for HarmonyOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Solo Filmmaker Looking for Harmony: 26, Astoria, female, single. DAY ONE 8:30 a.m.: Woken up by vibration somewhere in my sheets. 8:31 a.m.: It’s my phone. I just started dating again after a two-year hiatus. I don’t answer in fear that it’s one of my dates. 8:40 a.m.: Can’t get back to sleep. Go pee. Sore from masturbating last night. Haven’t had sex in 23 months. 8:45 a.m.: Check e-mail. Received eight matches from eHarmony. Just signed up last night, so I’m super-excited. One guy is holding a little puppy. Begin to figure out how eHarmony works. Send “1st Questions” to the puppy guy.
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    The Cheating Long-Distance GirlfriendOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Cheating Long-Distance Girlfriend: 25, Harlem, (sort of) straight, in a relationship. DAY ONE 7:15 a.m.: Running late but think about Joseph while standing over coffee pot. I’m in a long-distance relationship with my boyfriend in Paris but recently had sex with Joseph for the first time. We spend a lot of time together. 10 a.m.: Phone call to boyfriend with sweet words and such. 12:17 p.m.: Joseph and I make loose plans to hang out later. Looking forward to the amazing sex, but I don’t want this to come between me and my boyfriend. 6:43 p.m.: Meet Joseph, friend, and one of friend’s random girlfriends for drinks in Chelsea. Horniness is running rampant. Joseph and I make out a lot.
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    The Self-Servicing WaiterOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Self-Servicing Waiter: 25, male, Long Island City, gay, live-in boyfriend. DAY ONE 10 a.m.: Wake up horny after disturbing threesome dream with Tori Spelling and her semi-hot man. Walk naked to kitchen. Hope neighbors don’t mind that we sleep in the buff. Take my daily herbal antidepressant, which I refer to as my “happy pill.” 2:20 p.m.: While working on an article from home, my mind wanders to last night’s activities. He’s a white boy with a swimmer’s build and a southern charm. I’m a Hispanic-American with a penchant for tattoos and stylish clothes. We’re hot together. Erection. 3 p.m.: Xtube surfing for the last 40 minutes. Finally decide on military men with tattoos.
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    The Saucy BridezillaOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Saucy Bridezilla: 26, female, East Village, straight, and newly engaged! DAY ONE 7:04 a.m.: Wake with a southern tingle. Still a hot mess over fiancé’s surprise proposal two weeks earlier (culminating from two and a half years of togetherness and my father’s behind-closed-doors declaration that I am no longer a “spring chicken.”) Don’t want to rouse him earlier than his alarm. Peck his pecker and start the day. 3:24 p.m.: Search the Web for “win free wedding” contests during downtime at work. Seeing photos of happy couples gives me that super-special feeling. Eager for the 6 p.m. whistle. 6:58 p.m.: Consider buying my first porn. I’m a married woman now. After researching on the Internet, find out that talk is cheap but Tease Before the Please ($39.99) is not.
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