One year after Donald J. Trump’s election, which party’s troubles strike you as looking more like a war movie directed by Daffy Duck? For a while, the GOP’s devolution into a Pennsylvania Avenue food fight was getting all the attention, and rightly so. All happy political parties are alike, but every unhappy one is unhappy in its own way. After a generation of marching in lockstep, the Republicans’ version was more of a deviation from tradition.

Q:I recently started dating a great woman I’ve known for a while through friends, but we’ve been serious for only a few weeks. She’s friendly and easy to be around, but because she’s so laid-back, we haven’t defined boundaries yet. I want to introduce her to my family at Thanksgiving, but I don’t want it to be a big deal. How early is too early to invite someone over for the holiday?—L.K.

Saying that Kevin Spacey’s career is toast is an understatement. Within days of actor Anthony Rapp’s late-October accusation that a drunken Spacey had pawed him when Rapp was just 14, the “Me too” queue was stretching from here to London, whose Old Vic repertory theater had apparently tolerated Spacey’s Mr. Gropey vices for a decade.

If Hollywood’s unflinching narrative on friends with benefits tells us anything, it’s that casual sex between buddies is anything but casual. The story is always–always–the same. Two super hot singles want to have sex, so they establish an unofficial friends with benefits partnership. “It’s just sex,” they agree. “Nothing more.

What does it mean to be a man these days? With gender roles and traditional norms continually being challenged, it is a divisive question to answer. Thankfully, new research by University College London (UCL) released a study about what the modern man really cares about, and the results may surprise you while proving the topic is more orthodox than one might expect. For starters, the component that makes the modern man happiest is — get this — marriage.

Winter is coming, folks, and if you’re feeling like it’s time to lock down a mate for the cold and lonely months, you aren’t alone. In fact, this biological urge has its own season. According to urban dictionary, “During the fall and winter months, people who would normally rather be single or promiscuous find themselves along with the rest of the world, desiring to be ‘cuffed’ or tied down by a serious relationship.

One of the common questions I’m asked, both as a woman and the Playboy Advisor, goes something like this: “My girlfriend is into choking. What’s up with that?” As someone who occasionally enjoys a little light gripping of the neck, that question is something worth exploring because, to be honest, I don’t have the answer. In fact, the question alone brings up feelings of internal shame and embarrassment.

Robots are having a moment. We’re having sex with them, playing games with them and now it appears we’re granting them citizenship. Saudi Arabia recently made history as the first country to grant citizenship to an artificial life-form, an announcement they made at this year’s Future Investment Initiative. The lucky bot goes by Sophia and is the latest creation of Dr. David Hanson, founder of the renowned Hanson Robotics.

As far as I know, there are two ways to cheat in a relationship. First, there’s physical infidelity, which involves things like kissing, oral sex and penetrative sex. Then there’s emotional infidelity, where one engages in non-sexual yet suspect behavior, like intimate conversation and flirtation. Which one is worse? According to new research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the opinion varies by gender.

Three weeks after a New York Times investigative report outed Harvey Weinstein as a serial sexual predator, the story is still rolling along like a giant snowball—one that keeps acquiring more pairs of legs sticking out of it as it accelerates down a crowded ski slope on the way to smashing into the Hollywood sign. In addition to Weinstein’s fellow perps, a whole lot of clay feet are also on display, from George Clooney’s to Quentin Tarantino’s.