Breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure has ended its relationship with affiilates of Planned Parenthood, effectively cutting off grants of approximately $600,000 per annum from Komen. Komen’s given reason is the pending investigation by Congress into Planned Parenthood, while Planned Parenthood have accused Komen of taking the decision following pressure from ...
The Porn Industry is about fantasy. Most of the women act and look far differently than those you would find in the real world. The men have larger than average penis size. And no one uses condoms. The fantasy aspect is a big part of the appeal. Because of this, many members of the porn ...
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 ...
It’s the same old story. The conservatives don’t want to fund abortion and liberals back a woman’s right to have the choice. In an alternate ending, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has funded “an international aid group that provides abortion along with sexual and reproductive health services,” despite promises that Canadian dollar tax dollars would ...
Unprotected sex is on the rise, STIs are spreading like wildfire and education is sorely lacking — everywhere. A worldwide study, involving 6,000 people from 26 countries found that teens are clueless about contraception and sex. Unprotected sex went up 111 percent in France in three years, which makes the American increase of 39 percent ...
A new brand of condoms make doing good feel downright orgasmic. Sir Richard’s Condoms are the Tom’s Shoes of sex. For every condom that is sold, the group donates one condom to organizations such as Partners in Health, based in Haiti. This way, those of us who can afford to get it on safely can ...
Syphillis-awareness ad campaign, “Plenty of Syph,” pokes fun at the online dating world to help spread awareness. Sometimes the most shocking or controversial ads are the ones that get the most done. Such is the case with “Plenty of Syph,” the Alberta-based PSA that pokes fun at dating website “Plenty of Fish” to get the ...
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, ...
With the news that annual pelvic exams (pap or smear tests, depending on your geography) might not be necessary, women across the world are cheering the end of the stirrups. A year after the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists relaxed the exam requirements, a new article in the Journal of Women’s Health suggests they’re ...
Australian homophobes suffered a major blow this week when an ad campaign for safe sex, initially scrapped by promoters, was reinstated. The advertizement, which features two fully-clothed men having a cuddle, one holding a condom, is part of the “Rip n Roll” campaign; a Queensland Association for Healthy Communities’ initiative that aims to promote safe ...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
My first encounter with Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto’s 1988 novel (translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus) was in...
A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
We know that a lot of women love cats. And we know that a lot of single women supposedly...
The other night, I was watching one of the many, many cooking-based shows currently broadcast, wall-to-wall and round-the-clock,...
