The British government has unleashed yet another obstacle for working mothers everywhere. Two female police officers, both mothers, have been taking turns caring for each others’ children while one of them works. Their arrangement has been declared illegal and the Department for Children, Schools, and Families (DCSF) wants them to each register as a child ...
A woman has just made history by getting pregnant while already pregnant! According to her doctors, when she went for a routine ultrasound to check on her pregnancy they found a second fetus which was 3 weeks younger. This is called superfetation and is so rare there are only 10 cases in recorded medical history. ...
Mack // The UK is currently debating whether it should allow young people to have sex legally at the age of 14 instead of its current 16. The question: does the law do more harm than good?
Mack // It has been claimed that John Phillips, co-founder of the Mamas and Papas singing group, repeatedly raped his daughter throughout his lifetime.
Morning Quickie
Mack // A professor who compared lectures to lap dances has been accused of not respecting women. Critics says he needs to retire, and students are making it a point to avoid the uni until he is forced out.
Mack // Shere Hite, a sex researcher famous for the Hite Report in 1976, was featured in an article in the Times about the debate over motherhood and the right to bear children. Hite’s view is that motherhood is a feminist issue and women should have the right to bear children at any age. When asked ...
Results of a study show that the most religious American states also have the highest teenage birth rates. As childish as it seems, I can’t help thinking “I told you so!” With abstinence-only programs teaching young people only the failure rates of birth control methods, they would not have the confidence to buy them, let ...
According to an article in the BBC there is a large black market for sperm donation in the UK. People are meeting online through unregulated sites and arranging either to have sex or receive samples from donors. I can understand the desire for children and the barriers to using regulated sperm donation, but this practice ...
The world’s tallest man, a Turkish 27-year-old named Sultan Kosen, is in London and is looking for love. This is the first time he has left his country to travel the world promoting the Guinness Record. The poor man simply wants to get married and settle down like anyone else, but has always had trouble ...
In spite of the fear of another shooting with such a large crowd of Pouillon’s pro-life colleagues, over 300 friends and neighbours, not to mention those drawn by the unusual facts of this case, were at the memorial service for the anti-abortion protester killed on September 11. Makeshift shrines and vigils were held throughout the ...
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...
The British nation stood shocked this morning. No, it was nothing to do with us being back in recession...
Dear Madame X, I am in an interracial marriage. Things are fine most of the time, but members of...
There’s not much that hasn’t been said about Alexander Trocchi’s treatment of women, real and literary. I read Young...
Check out 200,000 years of of women’s hair and makeup!
My attention was brought this week to an article claiming that men exaggerate more than women. Nothing new in...
There I was in the supermarket. It was an ordinary day, in an ordinary shop. Nothing sinister about the...
