Yesterday somebody (a journo-type person, name vaguely familiar) contacted me via DM on Twitter, could they speak to me?
About what, I respond.
Apparently a certain niche sex practice is becoming practically mainstream, is writing piece about this, would like some historical background. Did not ask for phone no and convenient time to speak.
As it ( Read more... )

Because conference (ended lunchtime-ish today).
Trying to think what I would like to read, because nothing I have currently on the go hits the spot.
Have some links:
Katharine Whitehorn, still nailing it after all these years, though if I were her I'd be more than somewhat miffed that I'd had to keep on making the same points over 5 or so decades ( Read more... )

In the past few days I've had yet another couple of those SEO-touting emails.
As heretofore remarked, they are completely useless at parsing my website as 'Not a business': not marketing anything, not selling stuff*.
To go on with, to inform me that 'your website is currently not listed on the first page for your niche and popular keyword (Product ( Read more... )

A short while ago I had an email from somebody about something I was being debunkery about on my website, saying that they had seen a picture of [thing in question] in A Book they had read about 20 years ago -

- and yes, I totally concede that that in itself does not conduce to confidence -

- of a popular nature. By one of those people who has ( Read more... )

Thought inspired by that article I linked yesterday about the ambition to have All
The Answerz available for people to access via their brain implants...

There's knowledge, and there's knowledge.

The other day I was looking at some old entries, and came across the Victorian Nipple Ring Research Saga.

And there are things where, sure, the ( Read more... )

When I'd finally picked myself up from the floor, where I had been screaming, biting the carpet and drumming my heels and generally invoking one of Charcot's more performative hysterics after reading this, I then went 'Huh. If you're going to mess with history and hysteria, let's really go to town'.

So I give you:

Victorian Sex Factoids: The Movie

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