I arrived in Moscow with no expectations of the dating scene. I was writing my dissertation amidst a career change, and had just left a significant relationship in Scotland. It was the last thing on my mind. When I started to tune in, I noticed the well-documented phenomenon of beautiful women on the arms of ...
As a two year Moscow resident, I can vouch for the lack of exaggeration in A.D. Miller’s Snowdrops. In this novel the city functions more as a vortex than a character. Elaborate strip clubs, intrinsic corruption, casual bigotry, ostentatious displays of wealth and brutal poverty assault the senses and dehumanize the book’s inhabitants. Although the ...
There’s a line where self-defense ends and the attacked becomes the attacker. Olga Zajac, a 28-year-old Russian salon owner not only crossed that line. She trampled all over it, slashed it and threw it out like a dirty trash bag. When 32-year-old Viktor Jasinski tried to rob her salon, being learned in the art of ...
If you’re visiting Moscow, you can now find sex in not-so-obvious places. Tochka G (“G-Spot”), Moscow’s first museum to showcase sex in all its glory, may be the first place to check out for frisky tourists who aren’t ready to visit the Russian capital’s many strip clubs and brothels. Though the museum comes equipped with ...
Is chemical castration the answer to Russia’s growing pedophile problem? Russian president Dmitry Medvedev believes it is and he has urged lawmakers to consider it. In the past year alone more than 9,500 sex crimes were committed against children in Russia, not including the countless incidents that went unreported. The proposed chemical castration process involves ...
Russia is trying to push a bill through parliament that will classify beer as alcohol for the first time. Amazingly, beer is currently classified as “foodstuff” so the makers don’t have to follow rules for alcohol sales, taxes, and marketing. They are making this change to help improve the health of the country. The rate of beer ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
