Online dating is for everyone — heterosexuals, homosexuals, and apparently even married folk, so it’s no surprise that there are dating companies, like Stars in the Sky, that arrange dates for the disabled. What’s more surprising is that the trials and tribulations of disabled daters are now coming straight to British living rooms. Undateables is the new series ...
You have to hand it to Beyoncé and Jay-Z for entering the parenthood phase of their lives with style and grace. Instead of making millions off of Blue Ivy’s first moments, essentially turning their newborn into a cash cow, they post the intimate pictures on Tumblr to share their little babe with the world on ...
Last August, an Alberta teen was arrested on charges of aggravated sexual assault after being accused of having unprotected sex without disclosing her HIV-positive status. Under Canada’s Criminal Code, it is a criminal offense to transmit or expose another person to HIV through unprotected sex or drug injecting equipment if one’s HIV-positive status had not ...
After watching movies like Taken and Trade, and reading the real-life details of the ongoing Pickton inquiry, it’s hard to think anyone would be a sex worker voluntarily. We assume that all sex workers are somehow coerced into the trade because a life of selling your body for profit is unimaginable for most of us. But a ...
Attempts have been made to map out the mysteries of female pleasure, but women’s sexuality continues to evade art and science. Mind you, art has put in a valiant effort. Films have given us a representation of female pleasure that is so desirable we can’t help but cross our fingers that it’s real. Just as ...
Ad campaigns featuring feminine hygiene products often feature a woman with long flowing hair jumping around in a field of fresh flowers, if not a depressed woman in a hoodie looking embarrassed. Thankfully, Summer’s Eve has stopped trying to convince women they need to smell like lilacs down there. Their ad campaign celebrates the vagina ...
Each day, women shoulder violence, inequality, racism, sexism, and simultaneously stay optimistic in the face of these challenges. As a humanitarian organization, the United Nations works to attack the serious issues they face head on with the noble goal of making the world a better place. A recently released Progress Report by UN Women, shows ...
Thought the doctor’s surgery was somewhere you could be yourself and seek help, free from judgment? Think again. A Yale University study reveals health care professionals, including doctors, nurses and dieticians, routinely stereotype their heavy patients. Not only do they stereotype by assuming unrelated health concerns are due to people’s weight, they also make judgments ...
In the past couple years, African women athletes have been swarmed with question marks surrounding their gender. Caster Semenya was tested to determine if she was really a man after winning the 800 metre race at the 2009 World Championships. Semenya’s talent triumphed over questions of gender and she got to keep her gold medal, ...
A 71-year-old man who had sexual relations with a horse has been given a 2-year community order. Apparently he was found with the horse’s head in his groin by the owner of the horse. The witness was “shaken and disgusted”.
Mack, Morning Quickie
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...
