Category: sex

re choking during sex

https://theequitablehome.substack.com/p/choking-during-sex-went-from-rare

“T]elling a young man he might give a girl a brain injury was not sufficient reason for him to stop, but telling him it might land him in court was.”

Women, understand this. Remember this.

And this:

“So: choking is strangulation. Strangulation causes brain damage that leaves no bruise …

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Men Need Sex (fiction from Fighting Words)

We got so tired of hearing that.  Men need sex.  There were so many iterations, so many variations  … 

In 1943, Maslow, in his hierarchy of needs, included sex among the physiological needs that must be satisfied before anything else.  Unfortunately, his theory, along with an unforgettable pyramid illustration, became accepted as fact, …

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Research into male/female differences: is a redo required?

Does any research into the differences between male and female distinguish between females who have experienced pregnancy and childbirth and those who have not?  It’s doubtful, since most research is conducted by men, to whom making such a distinction would not even occur.

But there are permanent changes to the brain as a …

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The APA, Gender, and Sex – great post

The American Psychological Association – Out of Touch and Deep in the Gender Weeds.

8 Handy Tricks Women Can Use To Beat Trans Athletes

Delightful post at the Babylon Bee:

https://babylonbee.com/news/8-handy-tricks-women-can-use-to-beat-trans-athletes

The Onion on condoms

Be sure to look at both slides, 6 then 7:

https://www.theonion.com/birth-control-myth-vs-fact-1851274941/slides/6

https://www.theonion.com/birth-control-myth-vs-fact-1851274941/slides/7

from Dale Spender’s Nattering on the Net  — quotes and notes

According to 19th C feminist scholar Matilda Joslyn Gage, 9 million women were executed or burned for having knowledge—i.e., for being witches (p163)

Wow.  Did not know it was that many.

“Had women ever  contributed to the design of roads and vehicles, there is no doubt that the entire system would look …

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What’s in a word? (on being ‘knocked up’ or …)

So I’ve been thinking not only about the words people use to describe sexual intercourse (screwed, fucked—both used to describe what is done to the woman—both of which also describe a general state of disaster) (which, actually, is often accurate if pregnancy results), but also about the words used to describe pregnancy itself:

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A great idea from Jodi Taylor

“Helen and I watched a short film about childbirth and it was so gruesome we had to turn it off.  She had a stiff drink, I had a cup of tea, and we swore we’d never have sex again.” Jodi Taylor, The Long and Short of It (p181)

But yes!  That should …

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Can’t decide which is more appalling …

While reading Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women, a scene from a movie based on a true story about a young woman who was captured by a man and kept imprisoned/enslaved by him for years popped into my head: at one point, she was allowed outside to help him wash his car or something and …

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