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Should Parents Let Teens Have Sex At Home?

Should Parents Let Teens Have Sex At Home?

June 23, 2011 3 Comments

  Parents may stutter and stumble when broaching intimate subjects, but opening the lines of communication helps teens develop healthy attitudes about sex and relationships. While conversations are family-specific, the highlights seem to be safe sex methods, pregnancy and being in a loving and committed relationship before considering physical intimacy. But the new approach to ...

Unhappiness Leads To Sex And Alcohol For Kids

Unhappiness Leads To Sex And Alcohol For Kids

November 10, 2010 No Comments

Unhappy young people are more likely to drink and have sex, researchers have found. I think we can all agree that we already knew this. But what this study has done which is different is look specifically at 11- to 14-year-olds. Over 3,500 young people were surveyed about their general well-being, school life, family life, ...

Hello Kitty! Hello Pinot Noir!

Hello Kitty! Hello Pinot Noir!

March 29, 2010 No Comments

Some sad lonely ladies have a lot of cats. Some sad lonely ladies collect cartoon merchandise. Some sad lonely ladies come home from work, crack open a bottle of vino and get blotto. The new Hello Kitty range of wine hopes to capitalise on all three! Sporting the tag-line: “Our favorite girl has grown up” ...

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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