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Arianne Cohen

  1. Hero HikeBack to nature with Ayn Rand true believers.
  2. Fat Is a Four-Legged WordUnderwater treadmills, melba toast, and no more canned peaches: An obese Chihuahua shapes up for summer.
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    The Peripatetic Hot Young Thing Once a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Peripatetic Hot Young Thing: female, 20, Soho, food-manufacturing administrator, straight. DAY ONE Midnight: Party at my house. 1:00 a.m.: Roommate’s friend tries to hook up with me, as he generally does when he’s drunk. 2:00 a.m.: Matt arrives. Two weeks ago I was totally crushing on him and we still have that awkward sexual energy. 3:00 a.m.: We leave together to visit a friend in Brooklyn. 7:00 a.m.: He begs me to stay out longer and come over, but I decide to be a responsible adult and come home.
  4. Be CoolerConquer the humid months with breeze-producing solutions.
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    The Busy FreelancerOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Busy Freelancer: male, 28, Hell’s Kitchen, freelance writer, gay. DAY 1 10 a.m.: New construction next door wakes me up. Wonder if any of the construction workers are hot. Get undressed in front of the window, just in case they’re looking. 10:30 a.m.: A hot guy is checking me out on the subway. Actually, I think he’s straight and eyeing my Thundercats lunch box and not my ass. 1:15 p.m.: Get worked up thinking about a past hookup with a masseur who likes to give a rub-and-tug. E-mail him to see if he wants to hang out this weekend. 2:50 p.m.: Get a text from a friend inviting me for a blow job at his private glory hole tomorrow night. Quickly respond, “Can’t wait.” Get hard. 12:25 a.m.: Log on to Manhunt.net to see who’s around, knowing I’m too lazy to get off the couch tonight.
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    The Twentysomething MistressOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Twentysomething Mistress: female, 27, Upper East Side, event director, straight. DAY 1 9:00 a.m.: My older boyfriend is in the city tonight for his production work, happiness. He’s married. When we met sixteen months ago, he was separated, but because of some incidents with his children, he returned to his family. He lives in the suburbs and often has to work until very late, so he stays over. I usually spend two nights a week with him. 10:00 a.m.: He’s busy all day, but I pop over to the studios to say hi and grab coffee with him. Just a kiss from him excites me. 1:00 p.m.: I come back to the apartment. Turned on by the sight of boyfriend and his kiss, I masturbate. 7:00 p.m.: Pop by studio before show starts, tell boyfriend not stay over tonight. I have to be up too early tomorrow for flight to Canada. He won’t even give me a kiss good-bye since there are people around. Whatever. 7:30 p.m.: Leave studio and buzz a guy friend. We meet for dinner and bitchfest. I’m irritated by boyfriend, as always.
  7. Great Wall StreetDowntown as Asian bedroom community.
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    The Lesbian PlayerOnce a week, Daily Intel takes a peek at what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Lesbian Player: female, 27, Spanish Harlem, product-development manager, single. DAY 1 10:00 a.m.: Met ex at airport. Kissed and hugged. Kissed more. 12:00 p.m.: Car broke down. While waiting for AAA to show up, we played “I remember when” and she stroked my arms with very light tickles. We made plans for nookie later on in the day but got distracted by the car. 7:00 p.m.: After dinner we cuddled and watched some TiVo. Light tickles turned into heavy petting and then lots of kissing and full-body tickles. My shirt came off right away, and we were rolling on the floor making out and rubbing each other’s bodies. We very quickly ran to the bedroom. I pleased her first. And she liked it. I picked up some new finger tricks from my current Lady Friend (a friend with benefits) and used them on her. She liked them. Then she pleased me and we cuddled. I fell asleep almost immediately. 10:00 p.m.: Felt guilty about not telling my Lady Friend. I think she has feelings for me that she is not telling me about.
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    The Separated FortysomethingThe sex diaries we ran last week proved so popular we’re making them a regular feature. Once a week, look to Daily Intelligencer to find out what your friends and neighbors are doing behind doors left slightly ajar. Today, the Separated Fortysomething: female, 47, East Village, event planner, straight “but waiver occasionally.” DAY 1 9:30 a.m.: Woke up for some spooning, caressing with lover of the moment, James. Noon: Watched hilarious small penis/giant vagina episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. 6:00 p.m.: Kisses and caresses throughout the evening. No sex though.
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    Sex Diaries: The Bisexual PolyamoristIt’s the Sex and Love issue of New York this week, and for it six New Yorkers kept Sex Diaries that chronicled their sexual lives (or lack thereof) over a period of seven days. Daily Intel has even more diaries, and today we end our week of sex diaries with a big one. Here’s the Bisexual Polyamorist: female, 28, lawyer, Boerum Hill, single. DAY 1 10:00 a.m.: Arrive for the weekend at a nudist swinger sauna retreat in Maine. 5:00 p.m.: Give an impromptu sexuality workshop. Two grandmothers ask for a G-spot demo.
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    Sex Diaries: The Crazy Co-edIt’s the Sex and Love issue of New York this week, and for it six New Yorkers kept Sex Diaries that chronicled their sexual lives (or lack thereof) over a period of seven (or in this case, six) days. Daily Intel has even more diaries, and we’ll bring you a new one each day this week. Today, the Crazy Co-ed: female, 22, undergrad, Tribeca, “disappointingly straight.” DAY 1 3:00 a.m.: Guy I’m dating is out of condoms, again, despite knowing that I was coming over. Me: Unimpressed. Instead he undresses me, handcuffs my hands behind my back, blindfolds me, and places clothespins on my nipples. He proceeds to go down on me like a starving man. There are spankings, but they are weak. Noon: I wake up to feel the guy placing my hand on his morning wood. Five minutes later, I go back to sleeping. 6:00 p.m.: Thinking about watching porn, but there are people at home and I’m running late. 9:00 p.m.: Attend party. Somehow results in me topless with four to six other girls. 11:30 p.m.: Decide to go to fetish party. Dance my ass off on stage, eventually stripping down to my skivvies and covering my tah-tahs with makeshift pasties. Bump into a friend and her boyfriend, make out with her boyfriend, make out with her, then make out with an innocent bystander.
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    Sex Diaries: The SwingerIt’s the Sex and Love issue of New York this week, and for it six New Yorkers kept Sex Diaries that chronicled their sexual lives (or lack thereof) over a period of seven days. Daily Intel has even more diaries, and we’ll bring you a new one each day this week. Today, the Swinger: male, 37, party promoter, West Village, “engaged, straight, and practicing polyamory.” DAY 1 12:50 a.m.: Winding down for bed, read Playboy on toilet. See one good pic of nude real-life female bounty hunter. 12:40 p.m.: Fiancée asked me to rub lotion near her anus, gave me a semi hard-on. 1:00 p.m.: Trimmed down pubic hair; much-needed topiary management. 3:30 p.m.: Me and my fiancée’s girlfriend of three weeks arrives. Ridiculously sexy South American. Short catch-up, then unbelievable sex. 7:30 p.m.: Visible afterglow all evening at dinner and movie. Intermittent daydreaming about earlier encounter.
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    Sex Diaries: The Single GirlIt’s the Sex and Love issue of New York this week, and for it six New Yorkers kept Sex Diaries that chronicled their sexual lives (or lack thereof) over a period of seven days. Daily Intel has even more diaries, and we’ll bring you a new one each day this week. Today, the Single Girl: female, 31, lighting designer, West Village, “the kind of girl who kisses girls and sleeps with guys.” DAY 1 2:29 a.m.: Got high and fucked a new boy. I hope the spanking and screaming didn’t wake my roommate. 3:00 p.m.: Just ate breakfast that my new lover cooked for me. It was good, but he is talking the whole time while I’m trying to check voice mail/e-mail/get shit done. 4:00p.m.: New lover is a photographer I call Paparazzi. We had semi-undressed portrait session. 7:00 p.m.: Dinner with the girls (roommate and best friend). We talk about everything: love, sex, jobs, apartments, gossip, and Paparazzi’s penis. 9:00 p.m.: We disturb the next table with our graphic discussions about sex. (They didn’t say anything; they just got really quiet.) 11:00 p.m.: Dirty texting with Paparazzi. He’s so scatological.
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    Sex Diaries: The Attached VillagerIt’s the Sex and Love issue of New York this week, and for it six New Yorkers kept Sex Diaries that chronicled their sexual lives (or lack thereof) over a period of seven days. Daily Intel has even more diaries, and we’ll bring you a new one each day this week. Today, Jessica Delfino: 30, comedian and dirty folk rocker, East Village, straight and in a relationship. DAY 1 Midnight: Reunited with boyfriend after he was out of town all week. Trade wet kisses. 12:30 a.m.: Boyfriend tells me we should go home and 69. 12:57 a.m.: Get fondled in the foyer, followed by some love pecks and pokes in the elevator. Steven Tyler would have been proud. 1:27 a.m.: Attack my boyfriend in bed wearing nothing but a softball jersey. He’s watching That ‘70s Show and isn’t responding. 1:32 a.m.: After five minutes of kissing him, he’s still not with the program. Warn him that I’m documenting our sex life. He calls me weird. He caresses my vagina and thighs between eating chocolate-covered raisins while he watches the show. 2:07 a.m.: Sex o’clock. We both win. Me first, as usual.
  15. The Sex DiariesSix real New Yorkers, seven days of longing glances on the subway, text-message hookups, and hot marital romps.
  16. Hellhole Opens on Second Ave.UES stores boxed in.
  17. Attack of the 6-Foot Women’s StoresWest 39th Street has been overrun by statuesque female shoppers. It began last year, when drag-queen haven Tall Size Shoes, which occupied a hol […]
  18. Mutt ScienceThe days of breed-guessing at the dog park are over. But will a new dog DNA test rock the world of high-priced purebreds?
  19. Kibble MethodInside the furry actor’s studio with Broadway’s dog whisperer.
  20. The Doggie-Doom DisparityAn animal-euthanasia-free NYC is further off than promised. Let the growling begin.
  21. Getting a MassageHow do you choose from among the dozens of FOOT BACK RUB! basement entrances? Aim for 70 cents a minute. Skip places that charge more than $1 a […]
  22. The Jack & Suzy ShowJeff Zucker probably wouldn’t still have his job if Jack Welch were still running GE, and other postretirement revelations.
  23. City Council Gets a Bit PissyOver new sidewalk pissoirs.
  24. Orchestral ManeuversThe rise of the fund-raising philharmonic supergroup.
  25. Because We Like to WatchNew Yorkers don’t need to watch sex tapes. We live in the voyeurism capital of the world, where we can catch our neighbors in the act practicall […]
  26. Because These Four Couples All Went on a First Date on Saturday, December 2 (and Appear to Still Like Each Other)Jim Saint-Amour, 32 percussionist Jessica Bay, 21 actress
  27. The Preschooler GlutRabidly breeding Brooklyn parents faced with booked-up preschools.
  28. Big Pimpin’ GrandmasThe Nets audition a troupe of old folks to grind to hip-hop during halftime (it’s not their favorite music).
  29. Parade RunnerEx–elf wrangler keeps the Macy’s balloons flying high.
  30. Joachim’s TemptationUpper West Side Baptists pray for real-estate guidance while façade-worshipping neighbors fret.
  31. The Posture PeopleAlexander Technique disciples want New Yorkers to straighten up.
  32. Frank Bruni’s New Boss Pans Prose“Ripe fruit basket.”
  33. Under SurveillanceAnother day, another fall from grace for a public figure with a checkered past. How to watch your back—and your cell phone, your e-mail, your hu […]
  34. But Where Do You Sleep?With real-estate prices through the roof, Murphy-bed sales are “off the hook.”
  35. Naked BunchSomewhat persecuted area nudists escape to Gunnison Beach in New Jersey at the end of the season.
  36. They Built This CityWould construction workers actually want to work in all these buildings they’re putting up?
  37. Hot SpotsAn illegal eBay for parking spaces?
  38. Lobster Van Susteren, Anyone?Fox News anchor to tend bar.
  39. The Soda FountainheadFinally, there�s a vegetarian refuge for Ayn Rand fans.
  40. The Life AquaticWhat happens when the city�s top aquarium man is hired by David Blaine? Either the fish die or Blaine dies. (Or, no fish.)