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Catherine Townsend
A sex and dating columnist, Catherine Townsend published her first novel Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress in 2007, and followed up with Breaking The Rules: Confessions of a Bad Girl in 2008. She also appeared in How To Have Sex After Marriage on Five, and is now writing a third book. Born in Arkansas, Catherine was a gossip columnist for New York Magazine before moving to London in 2003, since when she has had a very interesting - and pretty public - private life...
I feel for Richard Batista, the New York doctor who donated a kidney to his estranged wife to save her life (and, ironically, their marriage). The marriage fell apart, his wife filed for divorce and now he's accusing her of having an affair, saying that he wants either $1.5 million--or his kidney back.
He claimed he was suing for the kidney because his wife is now denying him contact with their three children, saying 'This divorce is killing me.' I can totally understand the doctor's bitterness and anger, but he can't give someone an organ just to get something back from them in return, or control their behaviour afterward. That's like donating a liver and trying to monitor the recipient's drinking.
The Daily Beast asks if pre-nuptial agreements should now specify the fate of organs given during marriages, and there have been cases where, for example, men wanted to be compensated when they have shelled out for breast implants.
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