Tales of the City, the first of Amistead Maupin’s series of six novels, was originally serialized in 1978 with the final installment appearing in 2010. It’s likely you’ve heard of the series, if not read the books. Viewed through the eyes of Mary Anne Singleton, a young woman, from what the reader is meant to ...
Not all gay men are (anal) sex fiends. If you ask any Tom, Dick or Harry what they think gay men do in bed, the reply will probably involve an asshole, but a new study from Indiana University and George Mason University is set to challenge this widespread misconception. Apparently, anal sex is the least ...
British defense secretary Liam Fox is under investigation for breaching the ministerial code. His friend and former flatmate Adam Werritty accompanied him on official visits, had regular access to the Ministry of Defense and had business cards made describing himself as Fox’s advisor. Fox is hanging on to his job with a desperation I haven’t ...
Dear Madame X, I grew up in the 1980s, when AIDS warnings were run at every commercial break in the Saturday morning cartoon line-up. It worked. I’m petrified. The fact that I’m a gay man doesn’t make it any better. Although, they were effective because now I’m very diligent about suiting up before going ...
Australian homophobes suffered a major blow this week when an ad campaign for safe sex, initially scrapped by promoters, was reinstated. The advertizement, which features two fully-clothed men having a cuddle, one holding a condom, is part of the “Rip n Roll” campaign; a Queensland Association for Healthy Communities’ initiative that aims to promote safe ...
Unfortunately a lot of people, women especially, don’t think they are at risk of HIV infection. This is because it is still seen as something that is only a gay man’s disease or that men can pick up from sex workers. But this is wrong and today, World AIDS Day 2010, I want to make ...
In Cuba in the 1960s they had forced labour camps for gay people. Fidel Castro has just given an interview after several years of being off the map
A British MP has compared gay sex to fighting on the front lines of a war (as in life-threatening). The leader of his party is being urged to sack the homophobic naysayer. I’m not sure if that’s right, but this certainly needs to be addressed.
Mack, Morning Quickie
A lot of people say anal isn’t really sex. It’s a good alternative which preserves their virginity or keeps their numbers down. Whatever. The thing is that it still requires a condom and less than a quarter of women polled by the NYC Department of Health report used protection. The report, “Women, Unprotected Anal Sex ...
Dear Madame X, I have recently married a lovely man. He is a very kind and caring man from a religious family, but not at all religious himself. However, he often insists on having anal sex and does not seem comfortable with vaginal sex or with me facing him during sex. I think he may ...
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...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
