E-readers are the great equalizers of literature. With no one to be impressed by your choice of the complete works of Noam Chomsky, will you still go for such high-brow fair? Apparently not. Romance novels are the fastest growing segment of the e-book market. Fans tend to be voracious readers who purchase multiple books a ...
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 ...
Feminism threw a wrench in the works, not only redefining womanhood, but in many ways obliterating the foundation of masculinity. Manhood for Amateurs is Michael Chabon’s attempt to explore the issue, yet it is blessedly free from lectures about the subject. It’s salvation lies in the tagline, which reads: The Pleasures and Regrets of a ...
Total body sex is the idea that all parts of the body can give and receive pleasure; that erogenous zones are not limited to the genitals and face. This is the goal of all sexual pleasure. Amazon.com WidgetsWritten in the Flesh, A History of Desire, takes a look at what kind of sex people have always ...
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 ...
Feminists have become one of the most misunderstood groups around today. At least 100 years ago, everybody knew it was about getting the vote, and in the 1960s it was about sexual equality. Amazon.com WidgetsThe Noughtie Girl’s Guide To Feminism, by Ellie Levenson, examines what feminism hopes to achieve today.
A literary award has been given for ‘Bad Sex in Fiction’ to Jonathan Littell for his novel ‘The Kindly Ones’. In spite of the bad sex the book was called ”in part a work of genius” and also won the Prix Goncourt in 2006 and sold over a million copies in Europe. The committee ”hoped the author would ...
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts. I have no literary ...
Do you like your romances at a steady simmer instead of a rolling boil? According to the Wall Street Journal, “Bonnet Books”, or love stories set in Amish country, are setting the romance market ablaze. Or at least making it pleasantly warm.
Tuesday Book Club
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
The British nation stood shocked this morning. No, it was nothing to do with us being back in recession...
Dear Madame X, I am in an interracial marriage. Things are fine most of the time, but members of...
There’s not much that hasn’t been said about Alexander Trocchi’s treatment of women, real and literary. I read Young...
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My attention was brought this week to an article claiming that men exaggerate more than women. Nothing new in...
There I was in the supermarket. It was an ordinary day, in an ordinary shop. Nothing sinister about the...
Don’t tell anyone — but I turned 30 today! Last night, to celebrate the last day in my 20s,...
