Clothing is never an invitation to rape, even if it is deemed “provocative.” Though the SlutWalk protest marches have been met with controversy, they have become worldwide movements with a positive message. Scantily-clad women walk to show that showing skin doesn’t mean you’re open to sexual assault and that blaming victims over their perpetrators is ...
Dear Madame X, A nice couple is willing to pay me $10,000 to harvest my eggs and I’ve accepted. Now comes the hard part (no, not the medical stuff) — telling people. My boyfriend was horrified — even though he never wants kids. He doesn’t like the idea but can’t give me a good reason ...
I may have had her do obscene things and wear mismatched outfits, but I loved playing Barbie when I was a little girl. When I saw Barbie and Ken’s wedding album on the blog “Rock N’ Roll Bride,” I was thrilled. Her and Ken look cute, happy and (as always) her dress fit perfectly! Then ...
Porn is not just adults having sex in front of a camera. It’s not quite that simple, or innocent. At least that’s what UK Feminista is hoping to show with the tenth anniversary screening of Hardcore today. However, the porn documentary has sparked a controversy in the feminist community. The drama over the film being ...
A new Obedient Wives Club consists of 800 women who are determined to make their men more than satisfied sexually at all times, an idea springing up in different parts of the world as well. The plan is to keep their husbands happy in the bedroom to keep them from straying. This should also stop ...
IVF, or in vitro fertilization, is all over the news these days, and there’s hardly a person who doesn’t know about assisted conception. But it wasn’t always this way. It used to be that infertile couple either had to adopt or just never have children. With up to ten percent of all couples being infertile, ...
Is an abnormally high reduction in the number of children born in your own race considered racist or genocidal? Or are you simply looking out for your family by allocating resources and making sure every child is wanted? A controversial billboard in Texas proclaims “Black & Unwanted” with a photo of a sad Black baby’s ...
Last week a study came out from Britain that concluded the g-spot does not exist. The French have responded to the British announcement that the g-spot does not exist by declaring the study as flawed and saying that around 60% of women do have a g-spot.
Today is the 37th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the historic ruling that legalised abortion in America. NARAL Pro-Choice is asking people to blog about what “Trust Women” means to them in honour of the abortion doctor, Dr. Tiller, who was killed last May and who often wore a badge with this phrase on it.
A New Zealand church erected a billboard advertising for their services which caused outcry from some community members. It shows Joseph and Mary lying in bed, clearly after sex, with looks of embarrassment and confusion respectively. “Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to follow”.
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...
