let them eat cake

An article on remystifying the orgasm in response to a book:
It’s not that the sexual revelations and revolutions of the recent past have not brought considerable good. It’s great that men know more about women’s bodies than they did, great they no longer imagine, like the cad in Milan Kundera’s 1972 novel The Joke, that […]

romantic summer’s night

Ever since I turned recognizeably female, somewhere in junior high, I have glommed older men like a piece of gum in a sandbox. As an introduction to the world of being picked up, there was the sci fi convention guy, who upon learning my age (14) mumbled that he must be drunker than he’d thought […]

misogyny is the new pink

Meet George Ouzounian, whose purported girlfriend’s taste I hold in question.
Melissa Lafsky offers a very insightful analysis. I wonder if her writing or lawyering skills are better.
And a reader’s response to her column says what I was thinking.
In the space of a conversation he claims to be educated (went to college and worked in computer […]

birthing

Two times in two months that I’ve heard the same comment about childbirth is making me think about my stance on a particular liberated-woman-sensitive-man theory I’d accepted without much thought.
This theory is that both parents should be able to share equally in the birth of their child, from the beginning, and also that a strong […]

brokeback addendum

I failed to mention one thing that seriously did bother me about the film, and that was the absolutely shitty treatment of all women involved. The women, Ennis and Jack’s wives, helped pay of the price of their husbands’ officially denied relationship, as unsuspecting straight women married to undercover gay men.
As this NYT editorial […]

clubbin’

Yesterday in a moment of inspiration I called a fellow JET whom I don’t often see, and she had a friend over, so I joined them for a viewing of Stepford Wives and more.
(Skip the next couple paragraphs if you don’t want Stepford Wives: The Movie spoiled.)
My sci-fi devotee self wishes to point out that […]

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