May 7, 2013

The Week Our Clits Went International

Who shouted “clitoris” and did not feel the earth move? We so-called Western women have many common sexual problems. Some of us cannot manage penetration, or genital touch for that matter; some of us don’t know that it is quite normal not to have vaginal orgasms and spend their lives frustratedly working at it; some of us have bad relationships and do not relax enough to orgasm; yet... read more

Apr 23, 2013

Dirty Underwear

One of the words that the world associates with safe sex is Durex. They are not necessarily that last word in condoms, but they’ve done their damndest to make their name what it is. Sexual behaviour surveys, lubricants, vibrators and now, Funderwear. Their adverts are fantastic but their surveys are scientifically dubious, the lube is sticky, the vibrators are run of the mill and the... read more

Apr 1, 2013

Keep Your Nose Out of Here

Google thinks that they have made another great step forward for human-kind, but this may just be the beginning of the end for anyone who believes that porn is going to rule and destroy our culture. That may be a disturbing opening, but if you haven’t already heard about Google Nose, just out in its Beta version, then check it out NOW. Google have (don’t ask me the technical details, I’m... read more

Mar 8, 2013

A Word for the Women on Our Day

To the truly empowered woman, there  365 woman’s days a year. But for the vast majority of us, reality blows stronger than our empowerment can withstand, so we take one day a year to recognise our strengths and look ahead at what we’d like to achieve for ourselves, our sisters and our daughters . To us, the real women, I offer a  word of encouragement. Just to remind us who the really... read more

Mar 3, 2013

19 Forever (God help the post-pubescents)

Who still remembers the Joe Jackson song “Nineteen Forever”, which speaks of 19 as the ideal age, mature enough to take on the world but before it all gets complicated? I recall listening to it incessantly at that particular age, knowing I’d be looking back one day and sighing. I was somewhat grown up when I was 19, not like Justin Bieber who, as far as I’m concerned, will be 15 forever. But... read more

Feb 13, 2013

Left Loveless on Valentines Day

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he’ll be a free man by the end of the month. There are one billion Catholics who are asking what this means for the Church, but I beg the question is there life after 62 years in the deepest chambers of the Catholic Church? Let’s start with some superficialities. He’ll be losing all those lovely garments and... read more

Jan 21, 2013

Having Moore Sex on Holiday

Let’s face it – we all have more sex on holiday. Whether we’re there with a spouse, a boy/girlfriend or single, we get more action in a week of vacation than in a month on our home turf. I’m not working for the Tourism Board either, it’s just the way our minds work. Have hotel room, will mess the sheets. Now, if we mere mortals can get more somethin’ somethin’ when we... read more

Jan 7, 2013

Sad, Sore and Strong

The Indian gang-rape story has to be the ugliest start to a fresh new year, but the sisterhood (and pro-sister brotherhood) that has arisen across the sub-continent and around the globe, tells us that we still have the power to change things, and we must never forget it. Rape isn’t new. It’s an act of violence in the sexual sphere but it is not sex. It exists wherever there is a power... read more

Dec 14, 2012

More and More Sexy Old Coots

It’s official, not only am I getting older, but so are all the people of the world. I’d have thought you wouldn’t need years of research to tell you that, but my colleagues, the epidemiologists, don’t take anything for granted. The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, a study that was so massive that it took two years to wade through the data and announce that the earth’s... read more

Dec 1, 2012

Spread Condoms for World AIDS Day

Are you not quite moved on World AIDS Day by the fact that more than 30 years after it changed sex for ever, AIDS is still killing and HIV is infecting by the millions each year? You, like most people who have had time to grow indifferent have lost touch with the desperate state of HIV/AIDS and we cannot afford for that to happen. And yet you care; you wish there was some way you could do something,... read more

Nov 26, 2012

9th Month Orgasms… aah

Any woman who has been pregnant and reached that epically long 40th week, when the belly feels bigger than her bed, and the bladder smaller than a bedbug, will remember the ancient wisdom that was then, and only then, passed along to her. She will be handed the magical potion that can get it all over with. Sex. Yes, that act that got her into this situation, is said to get her out of it. There’s a... read more

Nov 14, 2012

Paula, Lovely in Scarlet

Dear Paula Broadwell, I can understand the confusion. You went to Afghanistan and for a while you lost your perspective and thought that you were the fortunate child of a modern culture, a new century where women could drive, study and write books. You figured that you can move around the world freely all the while letting your locks flow over your bare shoulders. You are young and sexy and smart, so why... read more