December 13, 2011
Most people don’t even want to touch anything on the subway, let alone lie naked on the floor of one. So many germs! But that’s exactly what one couple did in Toronto this weekend. The man and woman were charged after having sex on a subway train. When police were called, the couple got off ...
December 13, 2011
If Lindsay Lohan’s long-awaited and already leaked Marilyn Monroe-inspired Playboy spread was not controversial enough, her discussion of sexuality within her interview is heating things up even more. She discussed the idea of how posing nude gives her confidence and “an important thing” for her as a woman. Sex and sexuality are a part of nature, ...
December 13, 2011
Edited by Jill Dawson in 1992, The Virago Book of Wicked Verse is a collection of international, century-spanning work by women who have subverted the status quo. Sex and misery are the main topics, though they’re never represented the same way twice. Bawdy songs about impoverished prostitutes and compassionless poems about cruelty sit alongside childhood ...
Tags: A Poem From Holloway Prison,
Alison Chisholm,
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Dorothy Parker,
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Jennifer Maiden,
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Lightly Bound,
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Office Party,
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Resume,
sex,
Stevie Smith,
The Virago Book of Wicked Verse,
Tuesday book club,
women
December 13, 2011
Sometimes our everyday lives interfere with our sex lives, leading a romp in the sack to be typed in our smartphone calendars. It’s unromantic and a little dull, but apparently only “79 percent of Canadians report spontaneous sex, versus 86 percent globally,” according to results of a recently released online poll by Eli Lilly. So what ...
Tags: Canadians,
excuses,
love,
planned sex,
relationships,
Saturday night,
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spontaneous,
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December 8, 2011
Human sexuality is nothing to be ashamed of, but this doesn’t mean we leave nudie magazines on our coffee table for guests to enjoy a sneak peek. But how would you feel about Playboys at the public library? In all my years as a library-devotee I’ve never even noticed Playboy magazines lying around, but it ...
Tags: books,
budget cuts,
censorship,
education,
Jane Pyper,
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library programs,
literacy,
literary,
magazines,
objectification,
objectify women,
Pirelli calendar,
Playboy,
pornography,
recreational reading,
Rob Ford,
sex,
Sex in the City,
Toronto Public Library,
TPL
December 6, 2011
Does “teen” plus “texting” always equal “sexting?” Although some parents may think it’s fairly harmless, especially if it means their teen is not actually performing a pas de deux, we must be fully aware of what sexting implies. How much sex is in sexting? We should also reflect on the danger of minors taking and sending ...
Tags: child pornography,
communication,
fantasies,
fantasy,
porn,
sex,
sex-crazed maniacs,
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sexualization,
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study,
teen sex,
teens,
texting,
youth
November 24, 2011
Nothing ruins a good book like bad sex. Let’s clarify. I’m not talking about the hideous, awkward and violent encounters that form a legitimate part of a story or character. I’m not talking about graphic or ugly sex. I’m talking about badly written sex. There’s a whole award for this crime, organized by the Literary ...
Tags: Bad Sex Awards,
Bad Sex in Fiction,
book review,
books,
erotica,
Haruki Murakami,
how to write sex scenes,
Literary Review,
sex,
sex scene,
Stephen King
November 23, 2011
If you do a quick Google search of the word “rape,” you get dozens of headlines about the victims of sex crimes around the world. Most of us have no trouble saying that a great deal of these victims are women. In the Pickton inquiry alone there’s an ever-increasing list of women who are coming ...
Tags: anti-men,
crime,
domestic abuses,
history of violence,
male victims of rape,
masculinity,
men as predators,
misandry,
perpetrator,
Pickton Inquiry,
rape,
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scapegoats,
sex,
sex abuse,
sex crimes,
sexual harassment,
sexual violence,
Steven Pinker,
victim,
violence,
violence against women
November 22, 2011
With the abortion debate many of us take for granted raging on Prince Edward Island, I decided to go back in time a bit, when reproductive rights were a newly won battle and the female sexual experience was a subject not everyone spoke about. The stream of consciousness narrative in Andrea Dworkin’s Ice and Fire ...
Tags: all sex is rape,
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book review,
feminism,
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Ice and Fire,
objectificaiton of women,
rape,
second wave,
sex,
sex as punishment,
sex-negative,
sexual assault,
Tuesday book club
November 18, 2011
Massage can help you have very sensual sex. As part of foreplay, it’s a great way to start things off slowly, and relax into the feel of each other’s skin as your arousal intensifies. It also allows you to get more familiar with each other’s bodies.