The column’s founding editor and the former Styles editor discuss the origin of Modern Love (which wasn’t originally going to be called Modern Love).
In this essay from 2017, a young woman offers powerful testimony about the damaging effects of men’s possessiveness over women’s bodies.
Siempre sentí que organizar mi vida en torno a un futuro marido de ensueño no era para mí.
Having barely met, we fell deep through late-night phone calls. Did that mean we were meant for each other?
Nuestra intensa conexión no encajaba en ninguna categoría, ¿se nos permitiría tenerla?
Organizing my life around some idyllic future husband has always felt wrong to me.
Our intense connection fit no category. Would we be allowed to keep it?
Él no podía hablar ni moverse, pero la energía sexual entre nosotros seguía siendo palpable.
We realized much too late that we were right for each other.
He couldn’t speak or move, but the sexual energy between us was still palpable.