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 ...
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 ...
It was almost two years ago when my co-worker, Laura and I were breaking out. We were not breaking out of prison, or the underground club scene, nor were we breaking out like MC Hammer doing the running man in front of a harem of spandex-clad dancers. We were breaking out in acne, presumably a ...
Chocolate. It’s been known to ease PMS and soothe a wounded heart, but it can do even more. For years, women have kept a secret stash in our cabinets for a private indulgence when we were no longer unable to resist the temptation. Well, that was until now. Chocolate, especially dark chocolate, has been proven ...
Attempts have been made to map out the mysteries of female pleasure, but women’s sexuality continues to evade art and science. Mind you, art has put in a valiant effort. Films have given us a representation of female pleasure that is so desirable we can’t help but cross our fingers that it’s real. Just as ...
A new ad campaign claims milk reduces PMS. And men are the sad puppies that have to deal with us. Men have always been fearful of the wrath of a women’s period. We have been linked to the likes of evil villains and have been made fun of to extreme degrees for our tempers that ...
It’s always been accepted as a given that women are more weepy than men. It’s just the scapegoat that changes. Women are hormonal, PMS-ing, menopausal and overall more delicate than men. Men learn to control their tears. Their fathers, peers, siblings and even women might think they’re pansies if they don’t. We all know that ...
Imagine having to warn your office every time you had your period. One boss in Norway ordered all female employees wear a red bracelet at their time of the month, so he can easily determine who is on the rag when. Apparently excessive toilet time is a concern in Norway and this is a way ...
All women have a menstrual cycle and bleed and usually have some kind of emotional changes once a month. Whether or not you are open enough to discuss it, this is what is happening with your mother, sister, daughter, and wife. There is a range of problems that can come with PMS. And, although it ...
We knew this was coming. Period pains cause abnormal changes in brain structure, scientists have been able to show. Which makes most of us ladies, well, abnormal too. Professor Jen-Chuen Hsieh, from the Institute of Brain Science at National Yang-Ming University in Taipei, observed the changes in the gray matter, but has not yet determined ...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
