Sahiba Gill, Author at The Phoenix

Sexual Scripts, and Learning to be Your Own Director

I should start this column by saying that I had some pretty great sex this past week, that there's a spring in my step because of it, and that this [...]

September 18, 2008

Opinion

Oh, Henry! Notes from a Very Conservative Guinea Pigâ€™s Life

Dear Mom and Dad, Thanks so much for the parsley! I shared it around with my whole hall (they said that it was good, but that next time I should [...]

September 17, 2008

Opinion

Life in the Lowlands: Braveheart Didn’t Prepare Me for Scotland

In the two weeks I've been in Edinburgh, I have yet to see even one blue-faced, kilt-wearing warrior, much to my dad's disappointment. I've actually only seen a few kilts [...]

September 16, 2008

Opinion

Ten Days Before the Mast

"...[T]here is such an infinite number of totally new names of new things to learn, that at first it seemed impossible for me to master them all. If you have [...]

September 15, 2008

Opinion

Cuckoo Clock Neutrality

In the classic film The Third Man, Holly Martins, an American writer of dime novels, goes to postwar Vienna looking for his old friend Harry Lime, who has gotten involved [...]

September 12, 2008

Opinion

You Are Not the Tin Man, Or, Disembodiment During Sex

Thanks to the Internet, I now know that I'm a self-obsessed and sex-hating harpie in serious need of therapy, and also that I am a unique little snowflake whose sexual [...]

September 11, 2008

Opinion

The Fringe Moderates: Thereâ€™s No Place Like Home

This past spring, primary elections were being held in the United States and races won and lost by candidates seeking to be their parties’ nominees to the presidency. During that [...]

September 5, 2008

Opinion

Your New Sex Columnist is Breaking all the Rules

My name is Dr. Strokes, and I'm your newest sex columnist. Here are some things you need to know about me: 1. I'm a white female who was raised in [...]

September 4, 2008

Opinion

Oh, Henry! – Notes from a Very Conservative Guinea Pig’s Life

Dear Diary, The way things work here is very confusing for a simple-minded guinea pig like myself. I feel like I suddenly dropped down the Rabbit Hole in Alice in [...]

September 3, 2008

Opinion

Nautical Terminology: Arrival

It was only the second night here, after a celestial navigation lecture, that we looked up through the hundred-foot-high riggings of the three-masted C.W. Morgan and pointed out the stars. [...]

September 1, 2008

Sahiba Gill

Sexual Scripts, and Learning to be Your Own Director

Oh, Henry! Notes from a Very Conservative Guinea Pigâ€™s Life

Life in the Lowlands: Braveheart Didn’t Prepare Me for Scotland

Ten Days Before the Mast

Cuckoo Clock Neutrality

You Are Not the Tin Man, Or, Disembodiment During Sex

The Fringe Moderates: Thereâ€™s No Place Like Home

Your New Sex Columnist is Breaking all the Rules

Oh, Henry! – Notes from a Very Conservative Guinea Pig’s Life

Nautical Terminology: Arrival

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