You wake up in the morning and you’re in someone else’s bed. You calculate that there is a 75% chance you will need to vomit within the next hour. You are not sure whether you want to roll over and see the face of the person spooning you and snoring so nonchalantly into the back…
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It turns out that penis size does matter to women, according to a recent Australian study. Researchers found that penis size is just as important as height to a woman assessing a male’s attractiveness. The group of women who participated in the study were shown computer-generated images of men with varying body shapes, heights and…
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Despite 102 International Women’s Days, the sexual revolution, and countless contraceptives in a girl’s favour, heterosexual women are still vilified for their sexuality. On this year’s International Women’s Day, Julia Gillard addressed what she no doubt thought were the big issues in women’s rights today: violence, education, gender pay gaps and human trafficking. While the…
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We’re told from a young age, if our parents use anatomically correct language, that boys have a penis and girls have a vagina. But if we are being accurate, the female external genitalia should be called the vulva. Why is this distinction important? By labelling your downstairs mix-up ‘vagina’ you are skipping over a lot…
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“Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?” We’ve all heard it. Some of us have even said it (when we were young, naïve and not yet as knowledgeable about feminism, I’m sorry!). But it is 2013, so why does this phrase, and this idea of holding out, still hold any weight?…
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It is a brand new year. A time to get the most from each day and each lay (sorry, I had to). I have decided to steal my inspiration for this column from Cosmopolitan. Except instead of giving you hot tips to blow his mind, I want you to blow your own mind (the weird…
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There is a ranking that occurs when you’re a feminist thinking of sexual acts – those that are ‘empowering’ and those that could be considered ‘demeaning’. Within the confines of heterosexual sex, there has been a long held notion of dominance and submission as being gendered, usually as male and female respectively. This is somewhat…
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Do you ever worry about how your body and/or body parts are perceived by society? Attention: People With Body Parts is a new international project that aims to address the issues of body image – to encourage us to celebrate our body parts and their connections to ourselves and to others. ‘Our bodies are filled…
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He smiles. She bites her lip. He ‘accidentally’ brushes his hand against her shoulder. She leans in to “hear him better”. Flirting. We all do it. With words, intonation, a lascivious gesture, a coquettish glance. Is it biology? Are we trained by society or fuelled by our emotions? Most people, predominantly those who are already…
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Recently, I had a minor television appearance that required me to read Fifty Shades of Grey. It was a tough couple of nights, forcing myself to read the book (though I should say, it actually gets a lot easier to digest the more you read), but overall, I probably wouldn’t repeat the experience. That said,…
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For about $US30 you can buy an artificial hymen pack from China and have it shipped to anywhere in the world. This ‘newly developed technology enables (customers) the amazing ability to become a virgin again’. The page warns the customer to watch out for inferior products which ‘might cause a very negative situation when the…
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Have you ever had that moment, when you climb into bed next to your partner/casual-sex-partner (look, I don’t know what kind of relationship you may be in), and you’re kind of filled with dread because although you would normally jump at the chance to ravage their sexy body, tonight you’re just not up for it?*…
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In episode one of Girls (yeah, we’re back there again), Hannah and her ‘casual sex partner’ Adam are about to get down to business, when she says ‘Will you get a condom?’ To which he replies, ‘I’ll consider it.’ Hmmm. Wrong answer, Adam. Brining up contraception when you’re about to have sex can sometimes be…
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Have you ever felt like there are some serious gaps in your sexual education? Like maybe you don’t know as much as you should? Do you find yourself sometimes nodding along during a bawdy conversation with friends while actually secretly panicking about what they mean when they say ‘tea-bagging’? I’m going to put this out…
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