Teen Pregnancy Decline: Teenage pregnancy rates continue to drop in Hackney, new figures reveal. The Office of National Statistics shows the number of teenage pregnancies has dropped by 28 per cent since 1998, compared with a national average of 13… Read More ›
sexuality and health
Popularity of long-debunked rape myths: talk about disheartening
Update 2013-01-08: Welcome to you new visitors! Since comments on this post were closed long ago, I’ve reposted this post. Please comment there if you have something to say. The top link offered to me on Stumble-Upon for Women’s Issues… Read More ›
“Honey, what’s five plus three?”
Via Copyranter, this ad for “Love Machine” condoms. (Extra thick? Anaesthetic-endowed? Who knows?) Their other ad has a join-the-dots bunny centred on a headless woman’s navel. What market are they going for? The chaps who are thinking, “What?! You want… Read More ›
“For the first time, it is possible to determine by a simple, rapid and inexpensive method if a woman has got a G spot or not.”
Well, surprise me cunt! “We’ve hit the G spot, say scientists”. Yet another Italian science team has added to the body of “knowledge” by claiming that some women have G-spots and some don’t. Emmanuele Jannini writes about developing a “clinical… Read More ›
Gratuitous Official International Kilt Day men in kilts blogging
Today is indeed International Kilt Day – at least, so says kiltday.com, and who am I to argue when it means that I thus have a totally reasonable excuse to satisfy Beppie’s desire to see David Tennant and John Barrowman… Read More ›
Weekend Wibble: space gems, stem cells, a spot, some spin, and a switch
Tigtog’s posted your reading; I’ve got your Weekend Pick n Mix right here. ~~~ Courtesy of Jeff Fecke at Shakesville, this compelling bit of Jesus kitsch. ~~~
Margaret Mead and long bows: is the sexual revolution all her fault or not?
There’s an excellent post by Mercurius at Larvatus Prodeo regarding the drawing of long bows from scanty (nay, unrelated) data. It’s based on a notably incoherent op-ed column which asserts many things, but particularly makes the now common charge that… Read More ›
Baggy vaginas are Out for 2008: stiletto-therapy agenda science
[image via Feminist Law Profs] We really need some new and stronger synonyms for “festering bilge”. Today’s media fashion tips are all about how we need to rectify our baggy vaginas with fashion therapy. From the Courier Mail comes the… Read More ›
Gestation Anxiety: the othering of intentional single motherhood
“Maverick Mother” is playing on SBS tomorrow, Friday February 1, at 10 pm. (on XY Doc). [1] “Brave stuff”. “Controversial”. ABC’s Life Matters has this to say about Janet Merewether’s autodocumentary, “Maverick Mother”. Did Merewether climb Mt Everest? Take her… Read More ›
The Rotting Cryptkeeper is at it again
Via a commentor at Larvatus Prodeo, I discovered that Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church hate group, is planning to picket the funeral of Heath Ledger as a “fag enabler”. As I’ve blogged before, the WBC’s funeral-picketing… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 