Women have a variety of methods for contraception, but only two methods are commonly available to men: condoms and vasectomies. Both methods have their drawbacks.
(And let's just not mention the very PiV-centric model going on here.)
But that wasn't actually the main that struck me about this: Heating Up Testicles With Nanoparticles Can Work as ( Read more... )

Or at least, a couple of centuries.
Spent a chunk of this afternoon virtually attending a webinar (actually I suppose one can only attend webinars virtually) on the history of vasectomy in the UK in the later decades of the C20th.
(I hav knowingz and it was actually being practised in the 30s but really only if you knew the name of the right bloke ( Read more... )

What I read
Finished Friday's Child, which, actually, held up pretty well as frothy fluff, providing you don't think too hard about the actual prospects of the two marriages posited as wonderful loe matches with which it concludes. Possibly Sherry is on the path to growing up, but the other pair have shown themselves utter drama llamas throughout.
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I put this on my 'interesting?' list a while ago, and I recently noted that it was Very Cheap On Kindle, so bought it.
It is, I apprehend, self-published: this is the author's website.
It's about six young women writers of the 60s who wrote plays/books that are a) now considered iconic of the period and continue to be produced/reprinted b) had ( Read more... )

What I read
Well, indeed it was a Courtney Milan re-read all the way as predicted: The Brothers Sinister sequence: The Heiress Effect, (2013) The Countess Conspiracy (2013), The Governess Affair (2013), The Suffragette Scandal (2014), A Kiss for Midwinter (2012) (I cannot believe I did not pick up on, or at least mention, the anachronistic use of ' ( Read more... )

I've been seeing those various comments hither and yon comparing the statistical likelihood of bloodclots from vaccine to the known statistic for the Pill -
- actually I am just a little hmmmmm about that because these days, are there not quite a lot of different kinds of Pill and can one wildly generalise? Certainly Back in The Day when it was ( Read more... )

I daresay there are those among my dr rdrz who make bread who are well acquainted with Allinson's flours, or even if they don't bake their own, with Allinson's Bread. The brainchild of Thomas R Allinson, passionate advocate of wholemeal bread long before it became A Thing.

However, that bio on the Allinson website rather sanitises the story, I feel ( Read more... )

What I read
Finished Anna Buchan and O.Douglas and there were a few things I'd have liked more details on, but most of them were me and my particular interests (she was involved with the National Vigilance Association?!). Reading her Pink Sugar (1924) shortly afterwards made me think about the role of house-porn in her works and whether, in fact, ( Read more... )

Obituary of Maureen Colquhoun, Crusading Labour politician who was the first openly gay MP: Among the many issues for which she campaigned were the abolition of women’s prisons, abortion on demand, creche facilities at political conferences and the decriminalisation of prostitution.
She was outed by the Daily Mail gossip columnist and refused to ( Read more... )

Happy 117th birthday, Barbara Hepworth - the video to go with today's celebratory Google Doodle.
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I was initially cynical about an interview with a sexual psychophysiologist and neuroscientist but it's wonderfully It's All More Complicated about simplistic views about sexuality, sexual arousal, ideas of the gendered brain and patterns of arousal ( Read more... )