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Lazy Sunday John Stamos Cuddling Post

Lazy Sunday John Stamos Cuddling Post

December 11, 2011 No Comments

Ever wondered what the best cuddling moves are to impress a woman? Here John Stamos gives us his best tips. Check it out! But in all seriousness, John Stamos and Bob Saget have teamed up to support Project Cuddle. They are a charity across the USA and Canada with a 24-hour helpline for women and ...

Surrogacy Lawyer Sells Babies On The Side

Surrogacy Lawyer Sells Babies On The Side

August 10, 2011 No Comments

Knowing the law gives you the best tool to bend it but it doesn’t ensure you’ll get away clean, especially when your shady line of business means making big bucks from people’s desperation. Theresa Erickson, a lawyer specializing in reproductive law, pleaded guilty to wire fraud for faking surrogacy documents she presented to the San ...

Catholic Church Apologizes For Taking Babies From Young, Unwed Mothers

Catholic Church Apologizes For Taking Babies From Young, Unwed Mothers

July 25, 2011 No Comments

The Catholic Church in Australia issued an apology today for practices of forced adoption during the 50s, 60s and 70s. Young, unwed mothers were forced to give up their children for adoptions. Many were tricked or threatened into doing so. These practices weren’t unveiled until 2000, when many mothers came forward to talk about what ...

Nobel Prize For IVF Founder

Nobel Prize For IVF Founder

October 4, 2010 No Comments

IVF, or in vitro fertilization, is all over the news these days, and there’s hardly a person who doesn’t know about assisted conception. But it wasn’t always this way. It used to be that infertile couple either had to adopt or just never have children. With up to ten percent of all couples being infertile, ...

Fido Is Family, But Your Gay Lover Can Get A Motel

Fido Is Family, But Your Gay Lover Can Get A Motel

September 16, 2010 No Comments

Your family is expanding. Who would you rather pick? Option A has a reputation for good personal hygiene, cleanliness and impeccable manners. Option B has a reputation for being loud, drooling, stealing food and licking his balls on the couch. A third of Americans say they would pick Option B (perhaps because the only balls ...

Racist (?) Anti-Abortion Billboard In Texas

Racist (?) Anti-Abortion Billboard In Texas

September 3, 2010 No Comments

Is an abnormally high reduction in the number of children born in your own race considered racist or genocidal? Or are you simply looking out for your family by allocating resources and making sure every child is wanted? A controversial billboard in Texas proclaims “Black & Unwanted” with a photo of a sad Black baby’s ...

Yes, Opposing Same-Sex Adoption Is Bigoted

Yes, Opposing Same-Sex Adoption Is Bigoted

September 2, 2010 No Comments

When a Christian organization says “opposing same-sex adoption is not bigoted” you know they must be bigoted. Bigoted means being prejudiced, biased, or forming opinions without cause. Assuming that all same-sex couples will be bad parents and that the children would not thrive in these families is quite obviously forming an opinion without cause. Have ...

Mexico To Recognize Same-Sex Marriage Nationally

Mexico To Recognize Same-Sex Marriage Nationally

August 11, 2010 No Comments

States in Mexico have been refusing to recognize same-sex marriages performed in Mexico City. This means couples have not had access to equal rights. Does this mean you marriage disappears when you cross the border? I hardly think so.

Argentina Is First Destination For Gay Marriage In South America

Argentina Is First Destination For Gay Marriage In South America

July 16, 2010 No Comments

Argentina debated for over 14 hours yesterday on the issue of allowing same-sex marriage. Thousands of opponents and supporters picketed the streets, many of them against it for religious reasons in this Catholic country. But in the end, human rights triumphed. This will be the first country in South America to allow same-sex marriage and will hopefully ...

Choose Life – And Give Me Your Baby

Choose Life – And Give Me Your Baby

September 4, 2009 No Comments

Crisis pregnancy centres are pressuring new moms into giving their babies up for adoption. An article in The Nation looks at how these organizations lure new mothers in, persuade them against abortion, and then bully them into giving their kids up to “better” families. Such enthusiasm for Christians to adopt en masse begins to seem ...

How Many Lovers Is Too Many?

Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...

A Beloved Novel

Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...

The University Men’s Non-Wanker Centre

My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...

The Patriarchal Overlords And Your Shoes

Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...

Lack Of Female Film-Makers Is Not Gender Bias

The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...

Why Macho Men Are Sexy

Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...

Fifty Years Of A Clockwork Orange

When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

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