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... )

There is annoying WOEZ WOEZ PC article criticising the protest against pink girly Lego ('celebrating not architecture and action but beauty salons, cupcake bakeries and poodle parlours': pass me a sparkly pink sickbag) in today's Guardian.

It is particularly irksome because Hannah Betts goes ' the one area we should never seek to police is [ ( Read more... )

John Mullan's 10 of the best: imaginary meetings:
James Barry and Florence NightingaleBarry was a pioneering doctor who made his name in British colonies but became notorious after his death when it was realised that he was in fact a woman, Margaret Bulkley, who had disguised herself to pursue a medical career. In Sebastian Barry's play Whistling ( Read more... )

Have been tackling an email recently received from a very nice person with whom I have had intermittent but very amiable interactions over a lengthy period of years being a Nexpert in my field of expertise.

Unfortunately, this tends to lead to people thinking I am Font of All Wisdom in my field of study defined very widely indeed, which ain't so.

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And I should be doing a recent reading post, but I'm still too exhausted and out-of-sync. But this irked me enough to generate a probably deceptive surge of energy to post with.

Making my way through the piles of accumulated mail, I came to Focus: the BSFA Magazine for Writers, Autumn 2007 no 51, which included an article on 'How do I stand out on ( Read more... )

Posted in a locked entry on my flist, this report in The Times on a survey of British sexual fantasies.* (And is it weird or utterly predictable that I've met the person behind the report?)

The lj post asks (among other things) why people don't act on their fantasies more, or at least communicate them to their partners?

And this set off the usual ( Read more... )