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Can You Pick Up Some M&Ms And A Box Of Tampons While You’re Out, Darling?

Can You Pick Up Some M&Ms And A Box Of Tampons While You’re Out, Darling?

December 16, 2011 No Comments

Tampons. You use them, right? So do I. I try to keep a variety in stock, for emergencies. But occasionally I’m caught short and need to pop out for a box. And that, dear reader, is what a boyfriend is for. Here is a thing which has recently come to my attention. SOME MEN DON’T ...

Could Your Man Rock A Pair Of Manolos?

Could Your Man Rock A Pair Of Manolos?

October 19, 2011 No Comments

Robin Hood, David Bowie and Mick Jagger are three men who really knew how to wear tights and, although a questionable trend at first, it became kind of hot (remember Bowie’s bulging member in Labyrinth?). But if you have to stop and ponder whether you want to see men in tights outside the world of ballet, how ...

Braces Still On Battered Girls

Braces Still On Battered Girls

April 14, 2011 No Comments

Teenage girls are becoming the new population of battered women. A startling new study in the UK has found that 16 to 19 year old girls are now more at risk for situations of domestic abuse than any other female age group. Something that used to be thought of as happening in the family home ...

If Sex Sells — It’s Porn

If Sex Sells — It’s Porn

August 25, 2010 1 Comment

Jenna Jameson has sex on camera, and she isn’t afraid to admit it. Sex tapes featuring Kim Kardashian and Kendra Wilkinson are making the rounds, and Spencer Pratt is threatening to release one of him and Heidi. They are not the first stars to have a “private” video hit the shelves. Paris Hilton and Pamela ...

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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