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Quickie Sex Tip

Quickie Sex Tip

September 2, 2011 No Comments

Do you and your partner have to live apart? Whether it’s just one night or several months phone sex can spice up your lonely nights and bring you closer by doing something that’s a little bit taboo. Too shy to talk about what you want? Just listen to each other’s heavy breathing and cries of ...

Ambivalence About Having Kids Shouldn’t Be Taboo

Ambivalence About Having Kids Shouldn’t Be Taboo

February 25, 2011 3 Comments

All my life I have assumed that I would get married and have kids, but I never once had an active urge to make babies. I knew women and men who had always dreamed of the day they could have their own families, and next to them I felt like I was a bad person. ...

Dubai Pays Lip Service To Love

Dubai Pays Lip Service To Love

March 17, 2010 No Comments

Dubai gets a lot of attention for its staggering displays of wealth, as it positions itself as a London-meets-Disneyland on crack. But that wasn’t the experience for one British couple, who face a 30-day jail sentence for kissing. Back in November, the two defendants were casually strolling through a beachfront shopping mall when the offending ...

Sex Shops No Longer Taboo

Sex Shops No Longer Taboo

November 9, 2009 No Comments

The British lingerie and sex toy chain Ann Summers has just opened its 134th shop. They are part of a mainstream sex shop trend proving that in the “consumers’ psyche – the pursuit of pleasure is no longer taboo. Prudes be damned.” Having worked in this industry and for several similar shops I can say this is ...

Girls’ Bikes Suck

It’s that time of year, when spring blossoms counteract the car pollution, beer gardens are filled with humans on...

The Dick In American Pie

The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...

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...

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