Mick // With their usual careful treatment of facts, the Daily Mail has declared that the pill “has put women off masculine men.” My love affair with Brad Pitt, like all great romances, was a complex thing. What it did, however, was prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that being on the pill does ...
The Daily Mail has published a story that attempts to explain how the contraceptive pill might cause women to be attracted to less masculine men and how taking the pill makes women less attractive to men. This is a great example of how scientific research is often drastically misrepresented by the media and how the ...
Researchers are recruiting for a trial birth control injection for men in Scotland. Getting an injection to lower sperm count will work better than condoms and is fully reversible. Research on male contraceptives continues to progress and hopefully in the near future men will be able to share in the responsibilities as much as women. ...
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 ...
The perpetually-penis fixated doc was convinced that the best, more “mature” orgasms, involved classic man in woman action. A woman satisfied by any means other than full-on sex was the sign of a less mentally developed female. Sigh… according to results from a study done by the University of the West of Scotland he was ...
According to results of a study done by the University of Oregon and published on the BBC, nature rules over nurture when it comes to age of first sex. The study looked at cousins and their family situations such as presence or absence of a father-figure, poverty, education, and religion. It was concluded that “the ...
John Burnside’s novel A Summer of Drowning takes us into the mind of Liv, a woman remembering the strange,...
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~...
Are you a couple? Aren’t you? Maybe it’s just complicated. Thanks to xkcd.
This week I had a meltdown. In its wake, the remains of a Very Nice and Thoughtful Man who...
If you are breastfeeding your child, they are less than six months old, they only eat breastmilk (no other...
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat...
Dear Madame X, I have been on a few dates with a guy I met online. He is really...
Achmat Dangor’s novel Bitter Fruit begins in post-apartheid South Africa, when Silas spots the police lieutenant who raped Lydia...
