Like a song set on repeat, we keep hearing that Brad and Angie are not getting married until everybody else can. Gossip magazines and tabloids: stop suggesting that they’re planning a big fat Brangelina wedding. But I admit, I share their desires for a world where marriage is an equal opportunity institution. Despite its legal, ...
Supporting heterosexual marriage is not, and should never be, about dismissing gay marriage. Throw in a casual denial of the severity of slavery and you’ll find yourself in a well-deserved political shit storm. Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum learnt this the hard way. The pair, and a host of other politicians, recently ...
Ahhh the beloved orgasm. We’ve seen it imitated (or simulated) in movies but we all want to experience it for ourselves. Although it’s not at the forefront of our brains 24/7 (hormonal teenagers excepted), it’s a unique experience that has been described as euphoric, out-of-body, even transcendental. For some, it may be a spiritual or ...
Star watchers across the country are giddy about the possible match-up between Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock. America’s Sweethearts are making America’s heart go aflutter. But most articles seem to be overlooking the suspiciously short jump from Scarlett’s bed to Sandra’s. Could there have been some overlap? When Brad left Jennifer for Angelina tongues tutted ...
Mick // With their usual careful treatment of facts, the Daily Mail has declared that the pill “has put women off masculine men.” My love affair with Brad Pitt, like all great romances, was a complex thing. What it did, however, was prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that being on the pill does ...
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...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
