As the title suggests, I’ve been spending quite a lot of time fannying about on pinterest. I’m sort of making good use of it by creating boards like Women Who Rock and More Women Who Rock  for women who’re up to important and exciting things, WTF for appalling things, one thing… Read full post »

Sharon Mitchell: A great heroine of mine.

In this film, Lorelei Lee talks about the treatment she receives when people find out she works in porn.  She wants to be accepted as a person who goes to work like any other – and why not – but this is a woman who’s paid to perform in films… Read full post »

Because I’m sure you’re just dying to know what they get up to and why, my book on flashers will be out soon.

Here are the details: A sexual climate consumed by display ought to be ideal for flashers, yet their actions are taboo and illegal.  While others flirt with… Read full post »

I was recently asked by a journalist to write 100 words about what would or wouldn’t be attractive about Ken on a date.  I don’t know if she’ll use it so I thought I’d put it up here seeing as I wrote it.  Here’s my best shot.

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Bitching on the beauty pageant circuit is hardly news, but in attempting to make it a little more political, Jenna Talackova has managed to gain some media coverage as the first transsexual to enter (that anyone knows of) and be disqualified from the Miss Universe Canada competition for failing to… Read full post »

I want to be all egalitarian about this, I really do, but I can’t help finding it pitiful. Disturbing, too, having malnutrition eroticised by these poses. Or, perhaps, I’ve got it all wrong and the women’s bodies are as sexy as any other and the freedom to be emaciated as much… Read full post »

I’m a cosmo sexpert!

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Magnificent and tragic all at once.

Few things so neatly divide a people as the Brussels Sprout.  The love camp tends to base its preference on taste and a positive association with festive occasions.  The loathe camp, on the other hand, is peopled by victims of childhood neglect, abuse, and the British education system who were forc… Read full post »

Dislocated my shoulder this morning which is always super fun.  I’ve done it before and have been to hospital so many times, even at the end of a 48-hour shift, the doctors recognise me.  Most of them are the baby doctors, delighted with their stethoscopes and still green enough to think… Read full post »

A take on life pre- during and post-hysterectomy.  A funny take.  I think it’s funny, anyway – doing it kept me entertained when I wasn’t allowed to do anything beyond putting on enormous knickers.

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If you’re stuck for things to look up, here are some things I’ve found I think are worth taking a look at.

Vintage Adverts.  I think the sanitized tapeworms are my favourite.  No doubt someone will be looking at our adverts someday and marvelling at how backward we must have been.… Read full post »

I’m being stalked by an online psychic.  She started off quite nice when I clicked on the ad and said yes I’d like a free online psychic reading.  Her site said she had to spend the night tuning into me then would send me the reading the next morning.  When it… Read full post »

Sigh.   Some of my friends love seeing a man with a baby, but really, it’s baggage in a buggy.  Baggage that throws up on you and tends to come with a mum attached who’s unlikely to be thrilled you’re trying to steal her man and her baby.  How attractive.  A… Read full post »

The fibroid in my uterus is so large, the doctor says, it feels like I’m pregnant.  I tell him I’ll be seriously pissed off if I am and the only way it could have happened is through some sort of alien abduction where they sedated and impregnated me.  If something green… Read full post »

Whether we know it or not, this is what women’s hearts desire.  Drawn by D.W. Kellogg, circa 1833-42, he attributed it to “A Lady” and warned of the dangers to those who travelled in the land of a woman’s heart.  I think “Tenting Ground of Uncertainty”,… Read full post »

at 15, plagiarising poems in the park

Sorting through a pile of childhood stuff my mum brought round the other day I found a fan letter I’d written to Jack Nicholson when I must have been about 14.  It was very earnest with a Shakespeare quote because I’d read in an… Read full post »

“Men don’t pursue women who are pursuing them.”  These words of wisdom are from Christian Carter, dating guru, and author of How To Catch Him and Keep Him (a title that contradicts all his advice, but that he presumably thinks is what women want to hear).  He was so tickled… Read full post »

When a man I rather liked called last week to see if I fancied a drink, my first thought was that it sounded great and I’d love to see him.  This thought was immediately followed by one about body hair and how I was going to get rid of it.  After… Read full post »

When I was 17 my aunt told me that men find nothing sexier than white cotton knickers. I got some Marks & Spencers finest – 100% cotton, not quite granny pants but not far off. They didn’t have the “I must have you now” effect I was hoping for, though that… Read full post »

As an antidote to a post I wrote a little while ago about the negative depiction of women in advertising, I thought I’d look for ads that present women in a way that doesn’t mutilate, degrade, objectify, murder or beat them. I put “female-friendly ads” into google and g… Read full post »

Did you know that wearing socks in bed may improve your sex life?  It’s true: in a study, 80%  of people wearing socks came, compared to 50% of those with no socks on.  Brain scans carried out during sex (there were no diagrams so I’m a bit hazy on the details… Read full post »

Been listening to these all day.