Would you show teens something that could kill them? Would you make it appear sexy and fun? Alcohol companies do it every day. We all know the Four Loko insanity story: the lethal combination of alcohol and stimulants that allowed teens to keep drinking for longer. The company was forced to remove the caffeine from ...
Everyone wants to fit in. Overweight girls have taken this idea to a new level, sacrificing their health for the acceptance of others. This issue surprisingly does not surround the weight loss of modern girls, but how they seem to be coping with their extra weight. Most girls that are overweight or obese tend to be thought of as ...
Russia is trying to push a bill through parliament that will classify beer as alcohol for the first time. Amazingly, beer is currently classified as “foodstuff” so the makers don’t have to follow rules for alcohol sales, taxes, and marketing. They are making this change to help improve the health of the country. The rate of beer ...
Anorexia + Drunk = Drunkorexia Women across college campuses are going out for drinks, but they’re not eating dinner first. In fact, in many cases they are skipping meals to make up for the calories they will consume while drinking. Obviously this is an epidemic, because otherwise it wouldn’t be news. ABC reports: Diet blogs ...
Apparently midwives are having a hard time determining how much alcohol their pregnant clients are consuming and have to do “detective work” to find the truth. The pregnant women either don’t know how much they drink or don’t want to tell their midwives. But why should they?! It’s the midwife’s job to educate the pregnant woman, ...
The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe and the government is constantly putting money into sex education programs, birth control, and the like to help reduce this. But I have a more radical (realistic?) idea on how to curb teenage pregnancy: the culture of alcohol and drinking in the UK is the ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
