I finished reading Begin Again: Collected Poems, by Grace Paley and Colors Passing Through Us: Poems, by Marge Piercy. For my tastes Piercy trumps Paley. Greater depth to her poetry, more gripping imagery, more sense of being pulled along through the poems and coming to an ending that makes you go "Oh!" Random: poetry is useful for reading while ( Read more... )

There are authors you are supposed to love, and titles you "should" read if you wish to be "well-read" or "intellectual." Gabriel García Márquez is one of those authors & Love in the Time of Cholera is one of those books ( Read more... )

This link is NSFW. You have been warned.

There often seems to be an assumption that people of previous eras weren't as sexual as people in The Modern Day, whatever the modern day may be.

Errrr, yeah. 8 Sex Tips from the 17th Century.

Enjoy.

Because everyone wants to know about sea slug sex, here is an article from Scientific American on that very subject:

50 Shades of Sea Slug Sex.

You're welcome.

:p

Score one for protecting freedom of speech!

I forget which of y'all linked to this, but it's a wonderfully written response from a library director in Colorado, to a patron who wrote a concerned letter about the book Uncle Bobby's Wedding, by Sarah Brannen.

This is absolutely terrifying-

The Department of Health and Human Services has released a proposal that "allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman's access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the birth control 40% of Americans use, as abortion. Doing so protects ( Read more... )

Yay!!! The California supreme court has overturned the ban on gay marriage, because it violates the state constitution ( Read more... )

They are long. Usually with long articles or entries, I try to summarize for you. But synecdochic does such a good job saying what she's saying, that I don't want to attempt to pull out the relevant bits, because I think it's all relevant. And very much worth reading.

- "sex-positive". what a loaded term.

- Don't Be That Guy

Thanks to Jed & Mary Anne ( Read more... )

I am oh so clearly in the wrong profession.


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Two articles on male hormones:"Rats, moths and butterflies are all known to send chemosignals to secure mates. Similar phenomena have been suggested but not proved in humans." Now a study published in this week's issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, does just that. The study was led by Claire Wyart, a postdoctoral neuroscience researcher at the ( Read more... )