Whenever someone sees an Axe commercial, the cover of a Playboy magazine or a poster for the next big action movie, they are most likely looking at a picture of a woman’s body that has been over-sexualized. A new psychological study has found that when people view these pictures, they see these women literally as ...
When women experience or witness violence they are more likely to have “risky sex,” like having unprotected sex or multiple sexual partners, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Psychology of Violence, suggests that women have this kind of sex in order to cope with trauma. True, many women are survivors ...
Women who breastfeed their babies see a drop in their wages for as long as five years, a new study suggests. After studying 1,300 first-time mothers, researchers at Acadia University found a strong correlation between mother who breastfed and a drop in their incomes. Mothers who used formula did not see this drop. This is ...
How many times have scientists reportedly “discovered” that the female G-spot does or does not exist? More than I can count. But they’ve done it again. A new study has confirmed that women can orgasm from sex without any stimulation of the clitoris. Scientists found that clitoral and vaginal orgasms are completely separate and activate ...
The belief that homophobes and those who commit hate crimes against gays are lashing out against their own homosexual feelings is not new. But a new study has offered valuable evidence to the speculation. The study links feelings of homophobia with repressed same-sex attraction. It also adds new insight by showing the role strict, homophobic parents have ...
A new study shows that 80 percent of Australian women wear bras that don’t fit. A separate study had similar results, with 85 percent of women wearing the wrong bra. We all like to tell ourselves that our bras fit perfectly fine. Because, let’s face it, fitting rooms suck and we want to get out ...
Sex and the internet, our two great obsessions. Which one would you rather have? A new study surveyed 1,000 people in 20 countries, and the results were surprising. Americans, as it turns out, like sex a whole lot, and wouldn’t give it up even if it meant losing the internet for a year. Only 21 percent of Americans ...
Surely a woman may feel a sense of loss and pain after getting an abortion, but does the procedure actually boost a woman’s chances of suffering from mental illness? In 2009, Priscilla Coleman, of Bowling Green State University in Ohio, published a study saying that, yes, there is a link between abortion and mental illness. Using ...
Black women are generally heavier than white women, but they are also more confident, according to a study of 800 American women. The survey, done by the Washington Post and the Kaiser Foundation, found that “66 percent of overweight or obese black women had high self-esteem, compared to 41 percent of average-sized or thin white ...
Previous studies have shown that seeing thin women in magazines may trigger a self-loathing response in women. But new research casts all of this perceived negativity aside to say that viewing skinny-minnie models may actually boost a woman’s self-esteem. Huh? Excuse my dumbfounded response, but before now science has declared war against women’s fashion magazines and ...
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...
