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Enter To Win…A Baby?

Enter To Win…A Baby?

October 7, 2011 1 Comment

Most people have babies, they don’t win them. But some couples need help to have kids and assisted reproductive technology can be costly and, therefore, inaccessible. Recently, an Ottawa radio station gave couples hope with their “Win A Baby!” contest. You may not literally win a baby, but one couple wins a chance at having ...

World’s Oldest Newlyweds Say “Use It Or Lose It”

World’s Oldest Newlyweds Say “Use It Or Lose It”

March 30, 2011 No Comments

They began by making beautiful music together — or at least dancing to it. Forrest Lunsway, 100, married his ballroom dance partner Rose Pollard, 93, on his centennial birthday. “She never thought I’d ask her and I never thought she’d say yes, but here we are,” said the groom. The couple dated for 28 years ...

Fertility Clinic For Gay Couples Only

Fertility Clinic For Gay Couples Only

March 23, 2011 No Comments

A lesbian couple has started the UK’s first fertility clinic exclusively for homosexual couples. It will help match parents with sperm donors, egg donors and surrogates. “We wanted to set up something where we would act as a go-between and where couples could meet potential donors face-to-face to work out how they would work things ...

Fido Is Family, But Your Gay Lover Can Get A Motel

Fido Is Family, But Your Gay Lover Can Get A Motel

September 16, 2010 No Comments

Your family is expanding. Who would you rather pick? Option A has a reputation for good personal hygiene, cleanliness and impeccable manners. Option B has a reputation for being loud, drooling, stealing food and licking his balls on the couch. A third of Americans say they would pick Option B (perhaps because the only balls ...

Real Life Romances Are Going The Distance, Increasing Revenue

Real Life Romances Are Going The Distance, Increasing Revenue

August 26, 2010 1 Comment

Rumours are circling that sweethearts Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are dating again. This news conveniently comes out at the same time as their movie

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 ...

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...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

Laptop Bags: Too Big And Too Sparkly

Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...

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