August 2, 2011
Womanizing for the sake of self-exploration is a no-no. Once a figment of my girly imagination, protagonist Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye now really pisses my feminist side off. The Catcher in the Rye has always been one of my absolute favourite novels. Holden Caulfield was always so adorably opinionated and angry at ...
Tags: book review,
childhood,
coming of age,
confusion,
feminism,
Holden Caulfield,
innocence,
J.D. Salinger,
novel,
sexism,
sexual awakening,
sexuality,
The Catcher in the Rye,
Tuesday book club,
womanizing
July 8, 2011
Thick black hair, smouldering good looks, barrel chest, 6’2”; the strapping fireman bursts into your blazing apartment, risking his life to whisk you from the flames, scaling the 10-storey wall to deliver you from danger — but not before he ravishes you on the balcony. It’s a lot to live up to. Mills and Boon, ...
Tags: break-up,
empowerment,
fantasy,
Harlequin Romance,
Mills and Boon,
relationship breakdown,
romance novels,
romantic,
sex,
sexual awakening,
Sexual Health,
STI,
Susan Quilliam,
unprotected sex,
unwanted pregnancy
September 8, 2010
Teenagers have been having sloppy, enthusiastic sex since before “teen” was a term. Parents used to marry off their children once they hit that randy age, but now we try to keep them cloistered and chaste. It hasn’t been working so well. The Netherlands has a different approach to sex. There boys and girls are ...
Tags: first sex,
hooking up,
losing virginity,
monogamous relationship,
Netherlands,
sex,
sexual awakening,
sleepovers with boyfriend,
sleepovers with girlfriend,
STDs,
STIs,
teen pregnancy,
teen sex,
teenagers,
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