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Nearly Half Of All Couples Confused About Monogamy

Nearly Half Of All Couples Confused About Monogamy

January 24, 2011 No Comments

Sure you’re dating, but are you monogamous? A recent study found that 40% of heterosexual couples had differing ideas about whether their relationship was sexually exclusive. The survey of 434 heterosexual couples aged 18-25 found that many times one person is convinced the couple is monogamous while the other believes they have an open relationship. ...

Choose Your Own Adventure: Sex Edition

Choose Your Own Adventure: Sex Edition

November 15, 2010 No Comments

People often make bad choices and are left to live with the consequences for the rest of their lives — but what if you got a do-over? Condom, No Condom is a choose your own adventure style series of videos about a guy who fancies a girl at a party. Before he even gets there he ...

In Praise Of Teenage Sex

In Praise Of Teenage Sex

September 8, 2010 1 Comment

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 ...

Putting A Price On A Woman’s Life

Putting A Price On A Woman’s Life

October 11, 2009 No Comments

One shot can protect people from genital warts and cervical cancer for life. It is recommended for girls and women to protect them against the virus linked to genital warts and cervical cancer, often caught from men. But giving the shot to everyone to save women’s lives is not cost effective. Men and women are ...

How Many Lovers Is Too Many?

Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...

A Beloved Novel

Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...

The University Men’s Non-Wanker Centre

My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...

The Patriarchal Overlords And Your Shoes

Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...

Lack Of Female Film-Makers Is Not Gender Bias

The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...

Why Macho Men Are Sexy

Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...

Fifty Years Of A Clockwork Orange

When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...

Why Manly Skincare Is Better

Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...

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