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DIY Pap Smears?

DIY Pap Smears?

November 3, 2011 2 Comments

Have you ever fancied a bit of vagina-based DIY, but lacked the tools? No, I’m not talking about vibrators. We’ve been there, done that and bought the lubricant. Researchers from the University of London would like us (women, I mean)  to have access to a smear test we can perform ourselves, in our homes. Oh ...

Condoms Might Be Mandatory In LA Porn

Condoms Might Be Mandatory In LA Porn

February 10, 2011 No Comments

Lawmakers  in Los Angeles want condoms to be mandatory in porn. This is an issue that has been on the tables on and off for years. It recently came back on when a porn star was diagnosed with HIV. “Last week, city lawmakers voted unanimously to draft an ordinance that would require condoms to be ...

Conservatives Want To Increase Cervical Cancer

Conservatives Want To Increase Cervical Cancer

September 1, 2010 1 Comment

At least that’s what the end result will be if they prevent young girls from getting the HPV vaccine. HPV is a genital warts virus and it leads to over 70% of cervical cancers. There has been much controversy over girls as young as 12 getting this vaccine, and the most recent attack comes from ...

Putting A Price On A Woman’s Life

Putting A Price On A Woman’s Life

October 11, 2009 No Comments

One shot can protect people from genital warts and cervical cancer for life. It is recommended for girls and women to protect them against the virus linked to genital warts and cervical cancer, often caught from men. But giving the shot to everyone to save women’s lives is not cost effective. Men and women are ...

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...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

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

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