My Sluthood, Myself -- Although my more serious involvements are poly, not monogamous, there's a lot I find to resonate about this post. And frankly, casual sluttiness is often as much up for judgment from poly folk as from monogamous people (sometimes extra defensively, out of fear of making all poly folk "look bad"), so there may be little ( Read more... )

Small structural differences in the brains of men and women may mean nothing; or they may have significance. For the most part, we just don't know. What's important is that women don't cede to men the ability to reason, organize and lead, thanks to our "different" brains. If we do, we'll be marching backwards into history. That's why I'm alarmed to ( Read more... )

Sex Writers, Drooling Horndogs, and the Suspectability of Male Sexuality

As I said when I originally posted it:

Greta for the win, yet again. She writes like she's inside my brain, only coherent and eloquent. It's absolutely something I wish I found more often, a perspective I'd love to hear more frequently.

Three particularly good bits:

The ( Read more... )

Yoga Stretches Terrain for Sex-Trauma Therapy

In and around the Rwandan capital of Kigali, Deirdre Summerbell teaches an athletic and vigorous form of yoga to about 250 to 300 girls and women; most have survived assault or abuse. Many contracted HIV during the genocide.

Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?
Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey's stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization

International Condom Day in IndiaAside from the thyroid worry, life is good. Yesterday and today we had the neighbor's dog Coco again; I'm really pleased with how it's going. She's ( Read more... )

A whole run of interesting and infuriating articles on feministing and feministe recently, especially as relates to clinic escorting, and to murderous fuckwad Roeder.

On "voluntary manslaughter" and the encouragement of future murderous fuckwads -- I cannot begin to express the extent of my rage over Dr. Tiller's assassination, or over the fact ( Read more... )

Why Do Women Have to Go to Clinics for Abortions?

But someone else's post reminded me that I'd meant to.

I can't even express how hysterical (hmm, interesting choice of word, there) I find it that there are researchers currently trying to argue the g-spot is basically mythical. Wowza. I did, in fact, burst out laughing when I first ran across Body Impolitic's take on the whole ridiculous mess. ( Read more... )

Greta Christina's alternate 10 Myths and Truths About Atheism (triggered by Sam Harris's piece). I feel particularly strongly about points 2, 3, and 9.

In November, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first ever U.S. study of Ecstasy as helpful medicine. -- Excellent news!

Handwriting Is History -- I haven't decided entirely how I feel ( Read more... )

I haven't been posting much, as I've been reminded occasionally. Life has settled into winter hibernation mode, which mostly just means I'm going through a lot of jigsaw puzzles again, and continuing to be antisocial, only without getting as much done on the house. Have met some cool folks in the neighborhood, though. Makes me regret that I'm so ( Read more... )