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The randy bellboy A member of the night shift offers seduction tips to the lonely traveler.
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Episode 49 Small world after all: Nothing could have prepared me for this.
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Bug heads, rat hairs -- bon appétit Do you know how many insect parts are allowed in your Fig Newton?
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Naked ambition You cannot imagine the position I've been in since I started writing about sex.
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Seasonal affective disorder Let the sun shine in when it's dark outside.
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Dr. Robert Burton, who is a neurologist and novelist, answers health questions every other Monday in Salon Health & Body. Please e-mail your queries to him at AskDrBob@salon.com.

Saturday, Jan. 15, 2000

Urge: Whip me, spank me, gentrify me A strange new romance is brewing between bourgeois taste and S/M styles.
By Annalee Newitz [01/15/00]

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Did Mallory make it? The Everest expedition that triumphantly discovered George Mallory's body wasn't supposed to end like this -- in two contradictory accounts and bitter counter-charges.
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Appreciation: Don Martin Remembering the Mad magazine cartoonist who created characters like Fester Bestertester and Karbuncle, yet still had the time to invent National Gorilla Suit Day.
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Married to my beeper For a doctor, having a pager is a little like being married -- only without the sex.
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The unmentionable No one wants to talk about it, but many will get this pain in the butt.
By Michael Alvear [01/05/00]
Urge: Submission! Some still reeling, readers share their best sexual experiences of the millennium.
By Urge readers [01/04/00]
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