Attention Fidelity: What Long-Distance Relationships Reveal About Love in the Age of Distraction (opens in new tab)

Most discussions about masturbation are secretly discussions about loneliness. They simply don't know it yet. A partner leaves for medical school. A deployment. A work assignment. A continent. A season of life that neither partner would have chosen but both agree to endure. Suddenly two nervous systems that have grown accustomed to regulating each other are forced to improvise. The morning coffee disappears. The hand on the shoulder disappears. The familiar laugh from the next room disappears...