Category: Sex

  • Women Don't Talk More Than Men

    Eat it Chatty Kathy: “No reputable study has ever measured the widely repeated numerical comparisons that show women talking two or three times as much as men.”

  • Iranian Lesbian Blogger Faces Her Faith

    (via Frostpaw) Let me tell you something. I really believe in God, Mohammed, and Ali. I believe in some of the prayers like “Ayatolkorsi”, “Naade Ali”, “Va En Yakad” and so on. And I say these prayers whenever I’m going out of the house. But I also believe there are some rules that are getting […]

  • Toys R Us to Sell Rapist Action Figure from Grindhouse

    I don’t fully believe it yet: Apparently Quentin Tarantino’s character from the new Grindhouse movie Planet Terror, Rapist Number One, is being made into a toy and sold at Toys R Us stores across the country. Seriously. Garance doesn’t buy that the doll will be widely avaiable, and thinks that this is “a manufactured outrage […]

  • ‘Debbie Does Dallas… Again' Reality Series Wraps

    Hee hee. The documentary of the making of Paul Thomas’ Debbie Does Dallas…Again and a parallel version by Vivid-Alt director Eon McKai, reaches a climax on the Showtime network with the broadcast of the seventh and final episode of the series this week. The popular reality series chronicles the struggle to assemble a cast for […]

  • Gov't Study: Abstinence Programs Don't Work

    This is my surprised face: The major findings were that the abstinence programs they studied had no correlation with a decreased level of sexual activity in the population of teens they surveyed. Interestingly, one of the programs they studied was a voluntary after school program consisting of daily 2.5 hour sessions with enrollment beginning at […]

  • India Gov't Requires Women Employees to Disclose Menstrual Cycle

    The questions at the root of the controversy are on page 58 of the new appraisal forms for the current year issued by the federal Ministry for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. Women officers must write down their "detailed menstrual history and history of LMP [last menstrual period] including date of last confinement [maternity leave]," […]

  • Teenager Runs Brothel in Chicago Burbs

    [A] teenager in the western suburb of Berkeley was arrested Thursday for running a house of ill repute. Kimberley Peterson, 17, allegedly put up posts on Craigslist advertising “beautiful blondes” for a fee of $250. Apparently the business runs in the family: Peterson’s mother was arrested last year for running prostitution services out of a […]

  • Alan Moore on Erotic Art and Western Civilization

    Porn is everywhere, just as it was in ancient Greece, but nowhere is it art. Nowhere is it an affirmation of common humanity the way it was in classic culture but instead affirms only our alienation and our distance from each other, and despite its mass availability does not appear to be making us any […]

  • Illinois Moves to Tracking all HIV/AIDs Patients By Name

    The names of people infected with HIV will be tracked in all 50 states by the end of 2007, marking a victory for federal health officials and a quiet defeat for AIDS advocates who wanted to keep patients’ names out of state databases. … “I have patients who are very high-profile individuals — physicians in […]

  • Chicago Archidocese to Abuse Vicims: Stop Suing Us

    The Chicago archdiocese is trying to stop a measure designed to help victims of childhood sexual abuse. The bill allows abuse victims to sue those who harmed them — even decades after the fact. Protests from church leaders prompted state lawmakers to gut the measure, and now legislators are now working on a compromise bill.