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Is Banning A Book Okay When It’s This Offensive?

Is Banning A Book Okay When It’s This Offensive?

November 4, 2011 No Comments

The Obedient Wives Club is a group of women in Malaysia who tell women they should be whores to their husbands in order to keep them. The group created a lot of controversy this summer when it first began. Now it has published a sex book called Islamic Sex that is being banned by the ...

The Joy Of Sex: Beyond Kinky Pictures And Climaxes

The Joy Of Sex: Beyond Kinky Pictures And Climaxes

October 27, 2011 No Comments

Okay, I’ll admit it. When I go into a bookstore I still like to giggle over the sex books. You would think that my flourishing interest in sexy illustrations started with the Kama Sutra but, au contraire, it began with one glimpse at the now infamous The Joy of Sex by Dr. Alex Comfort, first ...

A Note To Concerned Parents: Literature Promotes Brains, Not Boners

A Note To Concerned Parents: Literature Promotes Brains, Not Boners

October 18, 2011 6 Comments

Parents in PEI are attempting to ban a book that they think is too sexual for their teenagers. But is it that bad? Subversive. Indecent. Sexually explicit. These are just a few terms attempting to justify banning books. Although I am one among many supporters of Freedom to Read Week, I can accept that educators don’t choose ...

Pedophile’s Guide For Sale On Amazon

Pedophile’s Guide For Sale On Amazon

November 11, 2010 2 Comments

A self-published Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure is sparking all kinds of controversy on Amazon. It’s subtitle is A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct. In spite of the obvious how-to bent of the book, the author says it’s not encouraging pedophiles. This is my attempt to make pedophile situations safer for those juveniles that find themselves ...

Censorship Madness In American Schools: Anne Frank Banned

Censorship Madness In American Schools: Anne Frank Banned

February 1, 2010 No Comments

So, yet again, Morning Quickie is bringing you a censorship story from the concerned parents of America. This time a school district banned Anne Frank’s Diary because of one parent’s concern “about the sexual nature of the vagina passage”. That’s right, only one person in the entire school district in Virginia thinks the passage is ...

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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