( did I say sex on a stick? )

I can't get everything to work, but I do have a new laptop.

Here's an email I sent earlier (with relevant updates):

( My mishegas )

I spent the weekend doing some reading that was not for Pure Entertainment, or at least a different kind of it.

First off, I read a white paper on solutions to the current economic crisis, co-authored by Nouriel Rubini. I think I got the referral from something else I read in the Times, so it's not like it's really academic or anything. Basically, I ( Read more... )

You could tell something unscripted was happening on the set of Thursday night's prime-time discussion programme on Dominique Strauss-Kahn by the stony faces of the male guests. There were several top newspaper and news magazines editors, a former Justice Minister and president of the Supreme Court, and a couple of politicians. The lone woman on ( Read more... )

Working late, because it's finals week or reading day or something. So the library is open till 9 (usually it closes at 5 on Friday).

But fortunately for me, they changed the schedule so I just have to work my regular Saturday, not Saturday and Sunday, and another guy will do 6-9 both days (usually the library closes at 6 on the weekend). So I will ( Read more... )

SADY: Or, for example, you can be telling a story about a guy who grabbed your boob in a bar, and male onlookers will weigh in to tell you that you have no idea how hard it is for the men, what with their having to initiate sexual encounters!

AMANDA: HAH. That one I haven’t heard! “You don’t understand-if I can’t just reach out and touch your butt, ( Read more... )

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seriously, all those “accidental” rapes we keep hearing about where the person WHOOPS just up and raped someone? could really be avoided by adopting a measure such as, “don’t pick out piss-drunk people who can’t even form a coherent sentence as sex partners.”
Tiger Beatdown › Sexist Beatdown: Tiger and Cheetah Edition

excellent advice!

At her group therapy sessions for women despairing of low sexual desire, Lori Brotto likes to pass around a plastic tub of raisins. The women, usually six to a group, sit around two pushed-together beige tables in a fluorescently lighted conference room at the British Columbia Center for Sexual Medicine in Vancouver. A little potted tree is jammed ( Read more... )

From this synopsis, my image of the book is essentially a shopping list of 237 things that are worthy enough for sexual favours, from strapless sandals to a time share apartment in the seychelles.
Why women have sex | Life and style | The Guardian

yes, the comments really are more interesting than the article ...