It’s not often that a day goes by without hearing the word “penis.” Hey, I’m not complaining. Austin Powers had some funny euphemisms for it, but lately, I find that I want it raw and uncensored (the word or the actual flesh and blood). And this is just what’s on the menu this fall. I’m ...
This week a pregnant, and still remarkably bootylicious, Beyoncé admitted her cravings were coming thick and fast in the form of an insatiable appetite for bananas with tomato ketchup. It may seem like tawdry gossip or the odd fixations of self-conscious madwomen, but knowing the weird and wonderful cravings of pregnant celebs seems to be ...
Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears: all of them are overcoming a tragic existence rife with turmoil. In terms of literature, they may not be Jane Eyre, but writer Carina Chocano believes they are the modern day Gothic heroines: The girl, meanwhile, has taken up residence in a gloomy and most certainly haunted chateau ...
From rap to pop to country, the music industry is guilty of playing the double standard game. Sex appeal is still overshadowing the most talented female musicians. We’ve seen it all before. Rap stars are thugs, pimps and bros. Women are sluts, skanks and hoes. This seems like an old conversation, one that has been ...
No doubt you read about Abercrombie’s new bikinis for little girls — the one that is essentially a waterproof push-up bra. As expected, most parents reacted with disgust, panic, rage, shock, etc. and vowed to never, ever, ever let their little Stephani be sexualized by corporate America. But some parents liked the top — for ...
This guy doesn’t like naked pictures of Britney Spears. Her former bodyguard, Fernando Flores, says he was sexually harassed on the job. According to him, she sent a series of explicitly naked pictures to his mobile phone in an attempt to lure him into bed last Spring. “They are really explicit images that will shock ...
Dancing and music videos go together like Fred and Ginger. Janet Jackson lead the rhythm nation and Britney Spears followed in her choreographed steps. But the women of the noughties are falling short, preferring poses to fancy footwork. But less dancing can only lead to better music. Hortense from Jezebel is saddened by this state ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
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...
