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Don’t say feminists never want men to have fun
Amanda at Pandagon, in a comments thread about sex-positivity, strawfeminists and anti-feminists, casually mentioned that some men can be multi-orgasmic, just like many women can train themselves to be. How? With pelvic floor exercises (aka Kegel exercises). As a physio,… Read More ›
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The togmob goes to the cinema: “Click”
Yesterday, for the last day of hols before going back to Term 3 of school, mr tog and I took the kids to see Click (the togster particularly had been very taken by the premise when he saw the trailer… Read More ›
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Weekend 80s flashback: man in tights
Picture from http://www.alexsolca.com
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Now THAT is a hat
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Raising boys without fathers
A piece provocatively titled “Do boys need fathers? This woman says no” was published in The Observer over the weekend, a profile of the work of American psychologist Peggy Drexler on fatherless families. Drexler has engaged in a longitudinal study… Read More ›
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I nearly ran over a pedestrian today
Do you think a judge would be sympathetic to my explanation that I was trying to work out whether the hunkaspunk talking on his cellphone while standing at the lights was indeed Hugh Jackman? We weren’t too far from the… Read More ›
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New Zealand channels Dame Edith Evans
Handbags? Handbags!?! Some Kiwis (I blow my nose at you) think that the traditional (your father smelt of elderberries) pre-Bedisloe Cup match taunting (we’ve already got one) has maybe gone a bit far this year, as Channel 7’s ad for… Read More ›
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Kim Jong Il has many screws loose
and his brainwashed subjects would undoubtedly be better off in the long term if his regime were overthrown. But I nonetheless want to applaud him giving the one-fingered salute to Washington with today’s missile test launches. I wish I didn’t… Read More ›
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The “Joke” of Sexual Harassment
Everybody’s talking about the Big Brother incident that led to Jon and Ash getting evicted for “breaking Big Brother’s Rules” – where she was held down by Jon while Ash rubbed his penis in her face. Initial claims of a… Read More ›
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But a doctor wrote it! It must be true!
Ever heard of “Disenfranchised Father Syndrome“? No? How about “Divorce Related Malicious Mother Syndrome“? Me neither, but to a lot of men, particularly in the USA, the conditions are believed to be real, including one I had heard of –… Read More ›
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Missing Cassini already
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Sociology ›
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Abortion will remain in the NSW Crimes Act
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