Kate, 21 What has being a D&D player taught you about dating? If you’re going to date friends, be willing to deal with the consequences. My Game Master and best friend recently divorced — killing three long-term games in the process. On the other hand, dating your dice-mates  guarantees...

The Source: Mrs. Web, Dear Mrs. Web The Dilemma: “I am eighteen and a student. I recently slept with a guy at work and he has not paid attention to me since. I have totally fallen for him. We have known each other since primary school and he always was shy. Why won’t he speak to me, let...

I am a happily married, happily nonmonogamous male. We are not wild swinger types. For us it’s more about the fact that monogamy does not work than about nailing everything that walks by. Anyway, I have encountered an odd situation a few times now, and again last night, where I’ll be flirting...

The movie: In this famously sappy — but at times quite moving — romance, Julia Roberts plays the least-convincing prostitute in cinematic history (she looks like a Yale student/runway model dressed up for Halloween). Small surprise then, that wealthy businessman Richard Gere buys her some decent...

Have a question? Email erin@nerve.com. Letters may be edited for length, content and clarity. Dear Miss Information, I swear I am a grown-up! I have a great full-time job and am getting my masters; I live with my boyfriend and we have a pet; I know how to cook and balance my checkbook. However, I have...

twihard -noun. 1. Obsessed fan of the gripping vampire love story/adventure/thriller saga, Twilight. [urbandictionary.com] Jeff, 23 I’ve been on a few dates with this smart, funny and totally cute girl. Each time, she’s ended up wasted. Last night, we split two bottles of wine at dinner,...

The Source: Dear Margo, The Boston Globe The Dilemma: “[My husband] has been an alcoholic since he was fourteen. When he decided to quit drinking, he wanted to go out ‘with a bang.’… He wanted to go to a strip club and have an intense version of a lap dance…I wasn’t at...

I am a thirty-year-old woman, married for five years to a man eight years my senior. Lately I have become more aware that I am turned on by the idea of bondage, specifically men locked up in chastity devices. I am ashamed of myself because it seems, well, pretty perverse and disturbed. My husband...

The movie: A modern-day remake of the eighteenth-century classic (and naughty, naughty novel) Les Liaisons dangereuses — this time with wealthy New York high-school kids as the protagonists. The scene: The young ingénue, played by Selma Blair, tells Sarah Michelle Gellar’s character that...

Have a question? Email erin@nerve.com. Letters may be edited for length, content and clarity. Dear Miss Information, Hope u r well! I am so happy to have found your site! I have a female friend who I have opened up to about all my fetishes. She knows that I am submissive and a cross dresser. She got...