Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she had slept with over 30 guys. I find this gross and am really put off her. What should I do? Grossed Out Dear Grossed Out, Everyone has a different threshold for which they are grossed out ...
Although Obama’s contraception mandate contained a religious exemption for various faith-based organizations, it was still a major milestone in women’s health. Under the mandate, American women are able to get prescriptions for birth control under their health insurance plans without having to co-pay, even if they’re taking birth control for its stated purpose — to ...
Apparently there is more than one way to be an animal lover. The term usually refers to someone who, plain and simple, loves animals. Each day I do whatever I can to enrich the life of my kitty, whether it means petting, cuddling or playing with him. Like an animal rights activist or someone who ...
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 ...
If you have a problem with MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, it might be even harder to accept the reverse: 61 and pregnant. Although she’s old enough to be a granny, an unnamed 61-year-old Brazilian woman is due with her first child this November. After having “undergone a very thorough medical clearance,” her and her 38-year-old ...
Plastic surgery has always been a little controversial. It started out as a way to actually help people and has become a way to cheat your genes to fit Hollywood’s standards. We have always been asking the same questions: is it okay to make a profit off of someone’s insecurities? Is it okay to tell ...
It’s one thing to agree with the exchange of sex for money and quite another to propose it should be legal for women to be sex slaves. Salwa al Mutairi, a female Kuwaiti politician, has said that men should use women as sex slaves. But there’s more. She adds that prisoners from war-torn countries would ...
Is chemical castration the answer to Russia’s growing pedophile problem? Russian president Dmitry Medvedev believes it is and he has urged lawmakers to consider it. In the past year alone more than 9,500 sex crimes were committed against children in Russia, not including the countless incidents that went unreported. The proposed chemical castration process involves ...
Paternity tests are now sold over-the-counter at one of the UK’s biggest pharmacies, Boots. It will cost about $250 and needs to be sent away to a lab to get the results. The company who makes these kits says it will help the 50,000 children born every year in the UK without a father on the ...
Founded as it is on love, people often get into a snit when they are reminded that marriage is a state that must be recognized by the government to be legal. This doesn’t meant that their vows to love and cherish until death were not true promises, just that they won’t be valid for bureaucratic ...
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...
