This New York Times article reports on research - or at least the media’s willingness to pay attention to research - that suggests that teenaged boys, like teenaged girls, want relationships. They are not just all about sex though of course they experience sexual desire and arousal.
This is what I see among the college students [...]
In this San Francisco Chronicle article, the examples given are more of women switching wine to accomodate men’s choice, rather than either men switching their taste, or a straight couple just agreeing to disagree and order glasses of wine rather than get a bottle (though that option is finally presented toward the end). The article [...]
In Vancouver! (You didn’t really think this would happen in the US, did you?) Canadian sex workers have legally formed a co-op. Their co-op may involve forming a brothel and it may even involve a catering service. To learn more about their plans, read the full article here.
In yet another example of someone using their status or job to pressure people who have less power to have sex with them, a male US foreign service officer - according to the Associated Press - pressured female visa applicants in Brazil and in the Congo to have sex with him and to tape him [...]
According to this article from the Louisville Courier-Journal’s Pam Platt, political cartoonists may be facing unique challenges when it comes to drawing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. To what extent are they/should they be sensitive to race and gender, while still doing their job to use cartoons as social commentary? (and race and gender are [...]
And an interesting play on issues between women (i.e., catfights).
The Spelling Bee with FERGIE on FunnyOrDie.com
Many women are being killed in Iraq not just for honor killings (which previous reports have regularly documented) but also for violating Islamic law. As a result, many women are living in fear that their head scarf is the wrong color or with concerns about their make-up and whether these types of things will get [...]
