Female promiscuity confuses scientists. Obviously there is a biological imperative for men to cheat (obviously!), but why on earth would a woman stray? A study on red flour beetles (yes, beetles) has concluded that women may have a natural drive to compare sperm samples before deciding on which to commit to for nine months. Researchers ...
Why do men cheat? Why do women cheat? Apparently, science has given us the answer. Anyone can have an affair; we know that. But we still don’t always know why. We’ve looked at demographics to get a better “cheater profile” but when it comes to infidelity, they are secondary explanations. A person’s character and the ...
I hear “daddy issues” used in conversation all the time, especially on a college campus. If a girl sleeps with multiple men, she does so because she has daddy issues. If a girl gets angry and her boyfriend can’t figure out why, it’s because she has daddy issues. I even overheard this tidbit the other ...
One of my best girlfriends remarked to me one day that she was starting to worry about her “number.” As a single lady in her late thirties who had not spent a significant period of time in long-term relationships, she had clocked up a fair few sexual partners, she confided, and was concerned that she ...
Babe, it was an accident. It didn’t mean anything. So you tripped and your penis accidentally fell into her vagina? People do what they do for many different reasons, and science is intent on uncovering every one of them. New research points to a “promiscuity gene” which is most common in people who have one ...
Yuck! Who would be addicted to semen? Apparently, your vagina. Women who have regular unprotected sex can become depressed when they go through dry-spells, according to a study of 300 women by New York State University. However, they are less likely to be depressed, or commit suicide, than the women who regularly use condoms. The ...
Being a slut isn’t good. Girls are told to guard their reputations before they even know what they are guarding against. But the fact is that as soon as our hormones kick in we want to do the nasty, even if some of us wait longer than others. Horny teenage males have been immortalized in ...
Raquel Welch, noted scientist and philosopher, is worried about the effect of the pill on morality. Women being able to have sex without consequences means that fewer want to get married. It also also led to men who can’t “keep it in their pants.” She rose prominence after the release of One Million Years B.C., ...
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...
Laptop bags; conspiracy of the patriarchal overlords. Oh yes. I am a woman with hands. The average-sized hands of...
