Word: singlehood
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...improbable leap from copy editor to columnist at a hip San Francisco magazine (we know it's hip because editor in chief Judd Nelson has installed a rock-climbing wall behind his desk), gets drunk on Jell-O shots, sings It's Raining Men and further embraces her nascent singlehood with earnestly delivered proclamations like "For the first time in my life, I don't know what's going to happen next...
...Singlehood in the Fin de Siecle, English 90nb...
...mate swapping), group sex and bisexuality can be grouped with open marriage as declining "odd" forms of experimentation. To compare the fad of swinging, which has affected at most 2% of married couples, with sexually and emotionally open, co-marital relationships is simply an overgeneralization. It is probable that singlehood with multiple sexual and love relationships, open marriage and traditional monogamy are already the major life-style choices...
...business careers, singlehood has its liabilities. As Vance Packard reports in The Pyramid Climbers: "In general the bachelor is viewed with circumspection, especially if he is not well known to the people appraising him." If he is still in his 20s, the personnel manager worries whether he is too busy with his love life to devote full attention to his job. "The worst status of all is that of a bachelor beyond the age of 36. The investigators wonder why he isn't married. Is it because he isn't virile? Is he old-maidish...