Dating Bradford: Nervous In-Digression

One day as I lay in mutual postcoital bliss with a certain special friend of mine, he said, "Sorry about the, uh . . . umm . . . well, you know . . . me going soft there for a little while. I got nervous, and now I'm a little embarrassed."

Dating Bradford: Defensive Strategy

I recently went out with a guy I've been playing a sort of casual dating game with, akin to flag football. You know, very nonaggressive, with nothing definitive to use as a frame of reference, like goal posts to punt to at kickoff. Just a lot of mutual fumbling for a grasp on the ball, with very little yardage gained. We haven't had sex yet, and are hovering in the confusing end zone of "hangin' out."

Dating Bradford: The Best Fig

Over a pitcher of margaritas with the boys at Mary Ann's Mexican in Chelsea, my best friend Baby Chic recounted -- in his thick multi-Asian accent -- his bathroom sexual tawdriness at a recent party at my country place upstate. "Honey, he fun for da party but I saw after dat, he not so pretty in da pictures."

Dating Bradford: Fireworks at Pride

What the hell does Gay Pride mean anyway? Long gone are the days when I didn't feel proud to be exactly who I am every day, so why the need to reaffirm that we aren't still living in shame? Can't we just name it National Gay Day and get a three-day weekend out of the deal? Don't people with real jobs get Martin Luther King Day off, and isn't everyone's freedom worth a paid holiday? For now, let's just unveil Gay Pride Day for what it appears to be -- a rapidly becoming commercialized semi-holiday with corporate-sponsored parade floats, inflated admissions to bars that are normally free and overpriced circuit-party tickets for people still using expensive designer drugs.

Am I A Bitch?

You have seen the looks and heard the whispers. Finally, a true friend tells you that you "act like a bitch." You laugh and wear your bitch crown with pride, but soon your jeweled headpiece starts to tarnish. You can blame your behavior on being picky, blunt or opinionated. But sometimes those are just nice words for saying you're just a bitch!

Here are four warning signs to help you see why you might be perceived as a bitch and great solutions on how to combat these behaviors so you receive better results.