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Is Sex Ed Too Little, Too Late?

Is Sex Ed Too Little, Too Late?

December 22, 2011 1 Comment

About seven percent of teen girls are having group sex, according to a recent study conducted by the New York Academy of Medicine. They looked at any sexual experience from a modest threesome to the more advanced orgy. Of the 328 14 to 20-year-olds surveyed, over half said they were pressured and 43 percent claim ...

Merry Binge Drinking! How Your Partner Could Make You Go Too Far This Season

Merry Binge Drinking! How Your Partner Could Make You Go Too Far This Season

December 19, 2011 No Comments

Christmastime! A time for giving gifts, loving who you’re with, snuggling, and drinking. Binge drinking. A new study put out by Dalhousie University has found that couples who celebrate together binge drink together. The psychology researchers studied 208 heterosexual couples who were in their 20s and had been together around two years. They found that ...

Abstinence For Girls Because Boys Are Bad

Abstinence For Girls Because Boys Are Bad

May 5, 2011 1 Comment

Girls are naive, vulnerable, precious creatures who need to be coddled and protected from sexually aggressive boys. And yes, all boys are sexually aggressive. At least that’s what the UK parliament would have us believe with a new bill they are trying to turn to law that sees 13- to 16-year-old girls only being required to take ...

Feminists For Anal Sex

Feminists For Anal Sex

January 31, 2011 No Comments

Anal sex has been declared a feminist issue.  Abortion and the ”low-commitment peer sexual culture” that it spawned are to blame for women being disempowered, having sex simply to please their boyfriends, and causing all kinds of mental health problems. In this article, Maggie Gallagher, founder of the National Organization for Marriage, focuses specifically on anal sex as ...

Will British Kids Ever Get Sex Ed?

Will British Kids Ever Get Sex Ed?

June 17, 2010 No Comments

Last year British kids almost got sex education as a requirement in their school curriculum from age 15. But it was dropped right before the election. Now, a public health advisory group (NICE) has again said that sex education should start from age five. It’s time to stop talking and get on with starting the program! ...

Pregnancy, Alcohol, Poverty: British Culture Needs A Serious Makeover

Pregnancy, Alcohol, Poverty: British Culture Needs A Serious Makeover

February 22, 2010 No Comments

The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe and the government is constantly putting money into sex education programs, birth control, and the like to help reduce this. But I have a more radical (realistic?) idea on how to curb teenage pregnancy: the culture of alcohol and drinking in the UK is the ...

Girls’ Bikes Suck

It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...

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...

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