The pill has celebrated its 50th birthday all year, but 1960 was not the year it entered the US market; it was the year the FDA approved it as a form of birth control.

It had been around throughout the '50s and prescribed to a suspiciously large number of women for "severe menstrual disorders." Yet nobody, not even The New York Times, publicly acknowledged its birth-controlling powers until 1957.

That was when three clergy men — a priest, a rabbi, and a minister — accidentally got it some press while arguing against its dangerous, off-label use of preventing pregnancy. Even then, when The New York Times reported it, it did not mention the brand name, Enovid, so it was not like women could run out and ask their doctors for it.

It wasn't until May 10, 1960, when the FDA approved Enovid as a contraceptive, that the Times finally called it what it was: the "first birth control pill."

When the San Francisco Giants won entry into the World Series Saturday night, I was not watching the game in San Francisco. But I knew the second they won from cheers in the street, firecrackers in the air, and the voice of a policewoman over a bullhorn saying they will arrest anyone for igniting fireworks. It made me ask a question sports psychologists have queried for decades: if winning feels so good for fans, how bad is losing?

Bad enough that a study last year found losing is associated with increases in domestic violence, but it's not all negative. In fact, people who follow sports, particularly notoriously losing teams, are more likely to have better emotional resilience than the rest of us. And when a losing team wins, victory is much sweeter.

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Sexual dysfunction is far from uncommon in men and women. Despite dissatisfaction among 43 percent of women, only 10 percent report it. What of the rest? They're what researchers have dubbed "happily dysfunctional."

I don't buy it, though. First, we should account for women who are just too embarrassed to seek help. I have no idea what percent that is, but I'm confident it's a sizable swath of women not reporting problems. Now we should acknowledge, and to be fair so do researchers, that sexual dysfunction in women is not nearly as clear cut as it is in men. If men have erectile dysfunction then they can't have sex, but a lack of desire (the usual suspect for women) does not necessarily prevent sex.

Could these women just not care? Find out below.

Soap operas might be the low of American culture (don't tell James Franco), but in Afghanistan they serve lofty objectives. In a country where the Taliban forbade women to even go to school not too long ago, it's empowering for women to work and gain public recognition. And for viewers at home, the show tells the familiar story of life since the fall of the Taliban. In last weekend's New York Times Magazine, Elizabeth Rubin interviewed actresses on the country's first soap opera: The Secrets of This House. Here are six things I learned. You can check out part of the first episode (subtitled) in the video below.

1. The actresses risk their lives. One explains: "If the Taliban come back, they'd behead all of us."
2. "The Murdoch of Kabul" produces the show, and according to Rubin, he "darts around the world tending to kids and business and politics in Australia (where he spent his teenage years) and in Dubai, Kabul, Washington, Los Angeles."
3. The writers workshopped with the screenwriter of Pretty Woman.

See the rest after the jump.

Gay marriage is legal in New Hampshire, but that doesn't mean all nuptials are treated equally. The state's largest newspaper, the Union Leader, has refused to print a newlywed couple's announcement simply because they're gay. The decision was not an oversight but a political decision, according to publisher Joseph W. McQuaid, who said:

This newspaper has never published wedding or engagement announcements from homosexual couples. It would be hypocritical of us to do so, given our belief that marriage is and needs to remain a social and civil structure between men and women, and our opposition to the recent state law legalizing gay marriage.

Of course, he went on to say that the paper is not antigay, but simply "for marriage remaining the important man-woman institution it has always been." Seems like the paper shares the opinion of President Obama, who cut an "It Gets Better" ad to speak out against gay bullying, but still opposes gay marriage. Do you think such a position is possible? Can you support gay Americans while opposing gay marriage?

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I have been single for about a week and half from a 5 year, on-and-off relationship. My exboyfriend decided that he did not want to be in a relationship that he is too young to be settled right now, so he left and he is doing his own thing.

It hurt me since we have been together for a long time but it is not the first time. I had a hard time dealing with it for the first few days but I'm better as time passes. I miss him a lot and I am still in love with him but he did not know how to treat me and I deserve better.

Anyways I meet this guy through Facebook, he used to go to my high school and requested me and I added him. He said hi through a post, I replied, and we had a great conversation about basketball, which both of us are extremely passionate about. He gave me his number and we have been texting back and forth for the past 3 days, but today he didn't text me and I will not chase him, though he seems to be a wonderful guy.

I am still in the recovering stage and I should be giving myself time but he has made it easier for me. I don't know what I want and I don't know what he is going to mean to me in my life. Should I continue talking to him if he texts me back?

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