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The Sexist Business Of Sex Writing

I'm pissed. It's an anger that's been on a slow boil that's beginning to bubble over, and at this point, there's no putting a lid on it. I've been writing about sex on a pretty public platform for some time now, at first anonymously, and then under my real name. I've had to endure ignorant assumptions and cheap shots made about my looks, my weight, my vagina, my tits, my sexual health, my mental health, my morality, my character — and all for what? Being honest? For liking sex? I've poured my guts out all over my keyboard, and I'm well aware that that invites criticism, particularly on the internet, where people think they can say whatever the fuck they please — in the most offensive manner possible that they would never employ in real life — with impunity because they're protected behind a shroud of anonymity. It's frustrating. And lemme tell you, I am so sick of people telling me, "You write about sex and personal issues. You have to accept that people will sling insults." Fuck. That. Shit. I don't have to accept it. I refuse to accept it. Mostly because I know that this wouldn't happen if I were a man.

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Six Things You Somehow Didn't Already Know About Dennis And Elizabeth Kucinich's Beautiful Love

You guys are not going to believe me, but there are things you didn't know about the unique and special bond shared by Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich. Sure, you already knew they met the day Ravi Shankar told Dennis he was going to meet someone special, that it was love at first sight, that they married on their second date, and that the top of his head reaches somewhere around her rib cage. And you could probably could have imagined that a writer embedded for a few days in their sphere of amorousness would find their incessant "all-limb embracing" and tendency to "practically lick each other" upon seeing one another somewhat, well, "disgusting." But Lisa DePaulo's story in next month's Elle goes beyond the call of duty! I I can't pretend to do justice to the soul-quaking power of their bond, but I can distill it into a tantalizing assortment of anecdote chocolates on which you are welcome to gorge, throw up et cetera! (Vegan, fair trade, etc.) More »

polls

The Really Unmentionable: A Back-Door Banging Primer & Poll

When Pillhead IM'd me a couple of days ago to ask for a comment for her fabulous piece (no pun intended), it got me thinking about that idiot guy and his fascination/obsession with anal sex. To a degree, no matter how much women will dish on vaginal intercourse and cunnilingus, there are very few of women that are willing to go on record about what they like about (and how to have fulfilling) anal sex. Which is why, when I need to get information on the subject, I have to either get my girlfriends really, really drunk or ask a gay friend — which always goes ever so well. Their thoughts, and a poll, are after the jump. More »

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Hymens: The New Old Chastity Belts?

This post from Feministing last week notes that there's an abstinence logo out there comparing one's virginity (and, by extension, one's hymen) to a diamond. You may be saying to yourself, hymens are easy to break, and hence not at all diamond-like! Well, please, let me be perhaps the first to inform you of how very, very wrong you are, after the jump. More »

starving stars

Celebrity Diets: So Crazy They Just Might Work?

The Sun has has a funny little graphic/story thingy about weird diet restrictions celebrities give themselves. Like, Reese Witherspoon reportedly eats only baby food "along with at least one grown up meal a day," Liz Hurley eats watercress soup "when she wants to stay slim," and Mariah Carey is into "purple foods." More »

our bowels, ourselves

The Nuances and Complexities of Digestion

There's something that's been bothering me—and womankind in general, I suspect—for quite some time: my bowels. (Between this and the pubic rumination, I suppose it's increasingly clear that I'm going to be the gross, TMI guest editor, as opposed to the gross, TMI regular editors.) More »

gross things that happen to your body

The Second Period No One Tells You About

This is a post about hemorrhoids. Does that gross you out? Because guess what, someday you might have a human being burst through your pussy and you will probably crap all over it in the process, so grow up. Our bodies are gross. This column is about that. But it is also a touching tale of a doctor named Wang, and how he liberated the bowels of the woman he loves. And no it was not written by me, it was written by someone we'll call Poshterior Spice, and you can thank Intern Cheryl for the high art.

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let's not shit ourselves

In Which We Convince Our Friend To Try Alli

The pharmaceutical industry is sort of like women's magazines: staffed by blandly attractive people, determined to make you feel bad about yourself, and brimming with new ways to stop you from being fat! Unlike women's magazines, however, Big Pharma has come up with a few weight loss ideas that actually work, which is why have learned to sit back in consent as it decimates the American health care system. With that in mind, welcome to our first installment of 'Pillhead', in which a real connoisseur reports on this exciting field and tries not to crap her pants in the process.

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inner circle jerk

Laundry Baskets: Good Things To Have, But Not As Sex Props

There's this new book out about Porn for Women that depicts guys (like the one at right) doing all sorts of sexy things like vacuuming and offering to take care of the kids, a premise that implies, suffice it to say, about half a gazillion assumptions guaranteed to irritate pretty much every male or female we know who has ever listened to NPR and irritate them in a unique and special way. Whatever. The important question is, does porn get women off? We thought we would take some batteries and some naked pictures of an ironing-and-clothing folding blogger called "Figleaf" into our bedrooms and, since we were already there anyway, see how long it took to get off. More »