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And though Jaxton is an obvious skeeve, decentering his maleness only as a kind of tantric come-on, Foley does it so well that the character is somehow attractive.

Men who don’t want to skeeve women out—most men, I’m sure Roiphe would agree—should be grateful for the chance to hear straight from a woman herself that he should think twice before drunkenly creeping toward a woman in the backseat of a taxi, ignoring her hostile body language while bragging about his powerful friends.

He gave up both a long time ago, and cigarettes a decade ago, but is very funny about the lengths he went to “skeeve” drugs, and the precision with which he timetabled writing periods around substance abuse.

I hate to skeeve out the squeamish even more, but some women do experience arousal during breastfeeding—it’s actually normal, and can happen regardless of the infant’s age.

“Ordinarily, double-dipping on a razor would skeeve me out completely,” Miss Ohio explained.