I’m better in relationships. The longer and more committed a relationship is, the better for my general well-being. There really is a lot to be said of shacking up including that age-old adage that “a problem shared is a problem halved” and the fact that you are with someone who knows your tastes (sexual and ...
Thanks to Margo Hannah for letting us repost this great article! After years of inhabiting a female body, I believe I’m entitled to a partial opinion on how it operates. One thing I’d like to bring up is the hormonal excuse we drag out to exempt ourselves from owning erratic behaviour. As far as I’m ...
If you put your faith in popular media you’d assume that men drool at the mention of sex but wince at the sound of snuggle and that women are so snuggle obsessed that they’ll even go to the extraordinary lengths of having sex to get it. Truth is, the gap in male and female needs ...
Dear Madame X, I’ve heard that taking prenatal vitamins can help your nails, hair and can even relieve some symptoms of PMS. If I don’t have plans to have kids anytime soon (if at all), is it safe for me to take? Will it make me more likely to get pregnant or mess with my ...
This phrase may be uttered more often by women than by men, and it’s not just because men are so tough and macho. Although it’s possible for men to underplay the pain they feel in the name of preserving their masculinity, researchers suggest there’s something much deeper underlying the difference between men and women when ...
I read a newspaper article today about the ages in the UK at which men and women (or boys and girls, it turned out) are having sex. Its main thrust (ho,ho) was that women are tending to have sex for the first time at a younger age on average, with a recent survey revealing that ...
Not planning to have a baby? There’s a pill for that. Not planning to have a baby ever, or to die from ovarian cancer? There’s also a pill for that. The same one, actually. As well as helping you to not become pregnant when you don’t want to be, that pill can also decrease your ...
Dear Madame X, My period makes me horny. I don’t know why but that is the time of the month that I most want to get down and dirty. My nights are filled with sexy dreams and at work I keep having naughty thoughts (sometimes ones that make me blush). Most men don’t mind so ...
A woman in PEI is hoping to change hospital rules to allow women the right to eat their placenta. Currently the local hospital does not let women take their placenta home with them. But a business woman, Amber Morrissey, hopes to help women turn their placenta into pills. Other mammals eat their placenta, and, in ...
Is it possible that women cause prostate cancer? Researchers in Toronto are looking at a possible correlation between the birth control pill and rising rates of prostate cancer. What a surprise! The story goes something like this: women consume the pill and pee out excess estrogen into the water, which then goes into our environment ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
