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The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News

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The bittersweet lives of sugar babies

By Remy Samuels | Staff Writer February 14, 2018

With college tuition, textbook and living costs soaring higher each year, students face daunting debts that prompt them to get creative with how they support themselves. Some turn to working at Starbucks,...

(Illustration by Abigail Katz | Staff Illustrator)

Single and ready to … stay that way

By Vaibhavi Patria | Columnist February 14, 2018

It took me until my sophomore year to finally give up my need to be in a relationship. In the past, I constantly felt an urgency to date or be in committed relationships rather than casual ones. When...

Students watch a clip of “Hot Girls Wanted,” a documentary which exposes corruption within the amateur porn industry, during AAUW’s “Let’s Talk About Sex: Pornography & Feminism” event Monday night. (Photo by Thomas Yang | Senior Staff Photographer)

Students discuss porn industry’s repercussions

By Jaime Weinreb | For The Pitt News November 28, 2017

According to the Pornhub’s 2016 Year in Review, nearly 92 billion videos were viewed in on the porn streaming website in 2016 alone. “We’ve all watched it, it’s everywhere,” junior Elena...

(Vector by Jordan Mondell | Layout Editor)

Column: When hitting the sheets, communication makes it easy

By Christian Snyder, Columnist May 30, 2017

If there’s one thing that movies get right about college, it’s that people have sex. In fact, in one study published in the Review of General Psychology, over 60 percent of college students in...

John Hamilton | Visual Editor

Around the bases: defining hookup euphemisms

By The Pitt News Staff February 14, 2017

First base, second base, third base, home. We've heard these euphemisms to describe varying levels of intimacy since grade school, but it seems no one can agree on exactly what they mean. Some of us...

Enough talk: Fly away, "birds and bees"

Enough talk: Fly away, “birds and bees”

By Alex Wise / Staff Writer February 13, 2015

In our adolescent years, the specter of “the talk” loomed large. Everybody knows “the talk.” You know, the one where Mom and Dad sit you down because “soon, your body will be going through changes,...

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