Okay, the article itself is pretty much on the side of It's All More Complicated:
Who Killed the ‘Female Pleasure Button’? In 1998, a North Carolina doctor accidentally discovered a device that could make women cum at the drop of a hat. Two decades later, we've got nothing to show for it. This is the long, strange story of the Orgasmatron.
(Me, I ( Read more... )

Yes, it's the return of No Nut November as reported here last year, though apparently some voices are crying that it should be cancelled for pandemic reasons.
Though I suspect that the overlap between the kind of bloke who does this because Manly Challenge and Increase in Macho Powers and the ones who refuse to wear masks because those compromise ( Read more... )

What I read
Finished reread of Conspiracy Theory. Not, I think, one of the top entries in the series.
Carol Dyhouse, Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire (2017) - mostly C19th-C20th and possibly trying to do a bit too much in the space, but shooting off lots of interesting ideas and materials, and to my mind to be preferred to those works ( Read more... )

John Colapinto Revives the Male-Centric Literary Sex Novel.
Yawn?
Mr Mybug has risen from the dead yet again, and zombie-Mybug has written a novel. There was a time when the great American male novelists took delight in writing about sex. Rebelling against a literary tradition that perhaps underestimated how much space animal urges take up in the ( Read more... )

I have a sexual bucket list, but my wife won’t play along.
Somehow I am reminded of those (alleged) male libertines of an earlier day who set out to roger a woman of every nation on earth (or at least one from every continent) -
He presents it as a check-box experience that he wants and she doesn't rather than something that's a serious mismatch of ( Read more... )

Yes, well, o sigh, 'pink Viagra' gets FDA approval:
Addyi gains US marketing licence after third attempt, but questions remain about its effectiveness, potential side-effects and the true need for the drug: includes some good solid sense from the ever-reliable Dr Petra Boynton: Dr Petra Boynton, an agony aunt and psychologist who has researched ( Read more... )

On the one hand (yesterday) you have bloke obsessing on woman he has met for somewhat under a minute and exchanged a few insignificant words with and who lives a very long way away.
(I have now tracked down the classic princess lointaine story: Rudel and the Lady of Tripoli - yes, crusades are involved - According to his legendary vida, or ( Read more... )

Richard J Evans on history, it's all more complicated and the national curriculum.

The problems of re-enactment as a form of historical research (though I can see that it has its virtues if integrated into a broader framework).

O dear: there was an article about the research in this book in the Weekend magazine last week, and, honestly, my dearios ( Read more... )

I daresay everyone is already aware that Women's viagra' hoped to enhance female libido may be available by 2016.

Sigh.

Usual excellent takedown by Dr Petra Boynton:
What we're seeing is the usual rehearsal of 'pink viagra' stories with the memes of women being complicated, women not being studied, women's needs being neglected, women needing a ( Read more... )

Introversion seems to be a bit of a motif across the reading list lately.

In a locked post somebody mentioned feeling that a true introvert should be a solitary figure who did not need other people, and thus needing other people cast doubts on a definition as introvert.

My own thoughts on this are:

It is possible for introverts to feel lonely, and ( Read more... )