Entries Categorized as 'Sex'

Personal, hard decisions

Date July 19, 2006

“The Elf”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/ is frequently exhausted, but otherwise fine. She’s even “posted herself about getting pregnant”:http://www.elfnoodles.com/wordpress/?p=248. We’re keeping our fingers crossed. As far as we know, everything is fine. But we’re anxious nonetheless.
It’s partly the fault of all the pregnancy books which do such a great job of telling you how many ways things can go [...]

War on Sex: the next theater

Date June 30, 2006

In the right-winger’s war on sex, the birth control pill is like Iran — it’s where the wingnuts want to invade, but they’re getting a bit ahead of themselves. The birth control pill is often credited as a significant factor in the increase of women’s rights, and has been under attack recently, again, as an [...]

Irresistable to Men

Date June 15, 2006

The ad in Gmail said:
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!http://static.flickr.com/48/127615618_cee6c34815_m.jpg!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/teotwawki/127615618/ This is important information to have, since once the liberal elite are elected they’re going to mandate homoism and I’ll be forced to find a suitable male mate. So I clicked the link. Author [...]

Radical feminism v. marriage

Date May 15, 2006

Amanda at Pandagon expresses the “radical feminist” position that we should “tear down the institution of marriage”:http://pandagon.net/2006/05/15/the-radical-feminist-politics-of-oprah-and-glamour-magazine/. What does “tear down” mean? And what is the expected benefit?
If we disposed of marriage entirely because it doesn’t fit “radical feminist” principles, no one would gain any rights — we’d just lose ones we already [...]

War on Sex gets mainstream notice

Date May 8, 2006

The _New York Times_ has noticed that the anti-choice crowd has become more and more the “anti-sex crowd”:http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07contraception.html.
bq. Many Christians who are active in the evolving anti-birth-control arena state frankly that what links their efforts is a religious commitment to altering the moral landscape of the country. In particular, and not to put too [...]