Don’t we all wish that our sex education in school would have told us what sex was really about? Most of us have gone through the ubiquitous “Your body is changing talk” followed by the fear-inducing “Don’t do it or you’ll get pregnant” sermon. Yet, parents are still worried about a new sex-education campaign in ...
Usually, giving birth is something we want as little people to see as humanly possible. At most, I’m thinking a doctor, a nurse and my husband. And it’s not just because there may be some (or many) embarrassing moments while trying to poop pop out a kid, there’s also the fact that it’s an extremely ...
For parents, sex education is a strange mix of awkwardness and controversy. Not everyone is comfortable with sex, even as an adult, and that may effect how (or if) they talk about sex with their kids. Most people agree that parents should have some sort of sex talk with their kids, but a recent sex ...
Teaching a child to apply a condom on a banana is almost saying: “Now go and try this for yourself.” That’s what Conservative MP Nadine Dorries said to the British parliament as an argument in favour of requiring schools to start abstinence classes for teenage girls. According to Dorries, current sex education just isn’t cutting ...
The war on sex ed is still raging. A teen run website might be shut down for “inappropriately speak[ing] to teenagers about sex and abortion.” Two Massachusetts lawmakers called for Gov. Deval Patrick to shut down the website mariatalks.com yesterday. The website, which was created by 18-year-old Maria and contains contributions by her friends and ...
I would not have sex with a giant spider — would you? For most people, a requirement in a sexual partner is that they are not scary, yet most safe sex adverts continue to tell us to wrap up because sex is dangerous. The problem with this tactic is that sex is generally the opposite of scary ...
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...
