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One Or Two Drinks Okay For Baby And Mom

One Or Two Drinks Okay For Baby And Mom

October 6, 2010 1 Comment

Yet another study has come out saying that small amounts of alcohol during pregnancy do not harm the baby. This one looked at women who had one or two drinks per week and their children, now age five, who ”do not have behavioural difficulties and nor are they behind in their intellectual development.” This study was done ...

Alcohol During Pregnancy: Is It The Mum’s Or Midwife’s Responsibility?

Alcohol During Pregnancy: Is It The Mum’s Or Midwife’s Responsibility?

March 6, 2010 1 Comment

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 Dick In American Pie

The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...

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...

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