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... )

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... )

Reminders of the longer history, a little behindhand of Black History Month:
The story of a man who became one of Britain's first black gardeners is being marked with a rose named in his honour.
I’m a fourth-generation black British man. Yet still I’m made to feel I don’t belong. My great-grandparents came here in the 1800s. Too few people realise ( Read more... )

A bit late for World Menopause Day, but ugh: New Study shows Vaginal Laser Therapy Ineffective for Menopause Symptoms: Vaginal rejuvenation is a sham.: We have a very long history in gynecology of under tested medications and therapies gaming the system in some way or another with women paying the price. Diethylstilbestrol (DES, birth defects and ( Read more... )

I read this yesterday (it's actually in the print edition today) I stuck my foot out to trip her - I just wanted her to have a tumble so that we could laugh about it. Then I heard her screaming, is it, or am I being a prejudiced feminist harridan, always blokes who think this sort of 'prank' is going to be funny, even well after they have passed ( Read more... )

Big vagina energy: the return of the sheela na gig -
Not that they'd ever gone away, possibly the word there should be recuperation? recovery? re-evaluation? re-interpretation? Some say the explicit medieval carvings were fertility symbols; others that the figures were meant to ward off evil. Now a group of Irish feminists are bringing them back - ( Read more... )

Vulva masks and labia serums: the marketing of women’s genital shame.
WOT.
Back when I was a young thing, the way Evil Capitalism was capitalising on female fears about the noxious nature of their specifically female parts, was vaginal deodorants. I had actually, silly me, thought that these had gone the way of the dodo, but no, they are still very ( Read more... )

Today's entry in the weekly column in Guardian Weekend on 'My Life in Sex' isfrom a man who finds that being very well-endowed is by no means all it's cracked up to be when it comes to actually having enjoyable sex with a partner.
Plausible.
But the Below the Line is full of weak jokes and blokes saying they wish they had that problem, and the ( Read more... )

Madhumala Chattopadhyay, the woman who made the Sentinelese put their arrows down: (and did not try to evangelise them): Dr Madhumala Chattopadhyay, then a researcher (initially a fellow and subsequently research associate) with the Anthropological Survey of India... went on to spend six years researching the various primitive tribes of the Andaman ( Read more... )

Because I'm more likely to put it down to male-gazey prurience. Do we need to know the identity of the woman who posed for Courbet's L'Origine du Monde?
Experts say they are 99% sure model who posed for L’Origine du monde was ballet dancer Constance Queniaux.
Jonathan Jones, who has a certain amount of form for ponceyness, higher codswallop and ( Read more... )