Female genital mutilation surgery (FGM) is still being offered in the UK, despite being illegal. This thought horrifies me. Investigators from the Sunday Times report that doctors have offered to do the procedure on girls as young as ten. They also reportedly video taped a doctor, a dentist and an alternative medical practitioner offering to ...
Dear Madame X, I’m a grown man and my doctor says I need a circumcision. I went because it hurts when I get an erection and he said something was probably pulling. Do adults get this? I’m worried because my doctor is Jewish, so maybe he doesn’t know about other options. Ouch! I did it ...
You’re lying there unconscious. Without your consent a guy slides something inside of you to get a better look. Rape? Nope. Merely a teaching exercise for medical students to learn about pelvic exams. In Canada is it common practice for surgery patients to be subjected to pelvic exams while they are still unconscious from surgery ...
Female Genital Mutilation (or ‘cutting’ as is more politically correctly known) has been banned in Uganda. This practice of cutting off part or all of a girls clitoris and/or labia has been practiced for generations and it seems that Ugandans have finally admitted that “it is a disgusting act”. Not only is the procedure itself ...
It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
