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Arizona Signs Most Restrictive Abortion Law Yet

Arizona Signs Most Restrictive Abortion Law Yet

April 13, 2012 1 Comment

There is an argument that life begins at conception, rather than at viability. But one American politician has decided that life actually begins at a mother’s last period when she’s not even pregnant! Sounds ridiculous, right? But that didn’t stop Arizona governor Jan Brewer from signing a bill into law that says life begins two ...

Mutant Sperm Causes Infertility

Mutant Sperm Causes Infertility

July 22, 2011 No Comments

Infertility is often a problem mostly associated with women but a new studyhas just uncovered a genetic mutation in men that lowers their partners’ chances of giving birth by 30 percent. Researchers from the University of California, Davis have found that around one in every 250 men has a genetic mutation that stops the production ...

Healthy Sperm, Healthy Baby

Healthy Sperm, Healthy Baby

January 20, 2011 No Comments

Men who take vitamin and antioxidant supplements have a better chance of getting their partner pregnant or have a live birth than men who don’t. Researchers looked at more than 1,000 couples at fertility clinics and found that those men who were having problems with subfertility did better if they took these supplements. Wow, what a surprise! The ...

Will Tabasco Sauce In Condom Kill Sperm?

Will Tabasco Sauce In Condom Kill Sperm?

August 4, 2010 4 Comments

Dear Madame X, I’ve heard that putting Tabasco sauce in used condoms is a good way to avoid them being used by the girl afterward to get pregnant. I’ve been doing this for years but when I mentioned it to friend he said it as just an old wives tale. Does it work? What can ...

You’ll Never Be A Mom, Study Warns

You’ll Never Be A Mom, Study Warns

January 30, 2010 No Comments

You’re a bad mother. No kids? That’s why. A new study has come out informing working women that having a baby over the age of 30 is practically a miraculous event, and that having kids over 40 is actually evidence of the Rapture.

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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