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[Un]veiled Contempt: Why I Choose Not To Cover Up

[Un]veiled Contempt: Why I Choose Not To Cover Up

February 13, 2012 5 Comments

Wedding veils have been a point of contention for progressive brides since the birth of feminism. “I didn’t want to walk into this life-changing event looking like I didn’t have my eyes open,” my mother, married in 1970, told me. “It didn’t make sense to me that I should want to hide myself or imply ...

Breaking News: Hymen Does Not Exist!

Breaking News: Hymen Does Not Exist!

May 5, 2011 1 Comment

You’ve always wondered exactly what it is. Before you lost your virginity you wondered if something would snap up there. Thinking back on all those times you were horny but too scared to risk breakage, you’ll love the new name for hymen. Like balls loaded with semen, the RSFU (the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education) ...

Buy Back Your Virginity With ‘Artificial Virginity Hymen Kit’

Buy Back Your Virginity With ‘Artificial Virginity Hymen Kit’

October 23, 2009 2 Comments

The Artificial Virginity Hymen Kit is now available and is causing trouble in Egypt. It allows women who are not virgins to fake it so their new husbands will think their hymen has broken, something like blood will appear, and husbands will never know that their wives have had other lovers.

The Dick In American Pie

The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...

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...

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