Another Sunday has rolled around; in the States it’s Mother’s Day, so happy Mother’s Day to my mother and all the other mothers out there. It’s also Six Sentence Sunday, so I’ve selected another story to tease you with. It’s definitely a tease, because while I’ve sent the story off to my publisher in Italy,…
Category: sex
BitchBuzz: Women’s Dangerous Desires
Just a tad bit too late to make it into the column, two news stories today: HarperCollins has a new erotica imprint, Mischief, and the Wall Street Journal has another gasping-for-the-shock-of-it story about what women read on their Kindles (oooh, scandal!). All this frothing shows the ultimate futility of the attempts to stuff women back…
Tuesday’s Overlooked Film: Cat People
Simone Simon stars in the Tourneur/Lewton frightfest Cat People from 1942. I’m teaching this today along with a first toe-dipping into Freudian theory. Old Siggy had a lot of hang-ups from his time and misapprehensions about human nature (as opposed to its particular manifestation during his particular and odd time) but there were enough astute…
BitchBuzz: Women, Sex and Stephen Fry
What’s the link, you’re asking yourself: Women, Sex, Shame, and Stephen Fry Stephen Fry’s recent faux pas highlights a cultural blind spot about women’s sexuality and shame. There have been such brouhahas in the Twitterverse this past week. Most writers focused on the take down of Cooks Source magazine, but the more frivolous among us—scandal…
Publication: Sex and How to Get It
Drop by Polite Company magazine to see my humor piece, “Sex and How to Get It.” Worth a chuckle or two, I hope. Feel free to leave a comment or repost it to Twitter or Facebook. That’s how word of mouth spreads these days. Which reminds me: Kit Marlowe‘s The Big Splash can now be…
BitchBuzz: Sugarbabes
Tip o’ the pen to my pal Saranna in this week’s column: Holly Hill and “Sugarbabes” as Surrogate Wives Sometimes it’s all I can do not to turn into Little Bunny Foo Foo and hop through this world bopping people on the head. No, not about the mosque—though that issue has exposed the ignorance of…
BitchBuzz: Old Spice
[yes, I am up this early — again] Doing Online the Right Way: Old Spice By K.A. Laity We’re so accustomed to ill-conceived ad campaigns that make us wince, it’s a genuine pleasure to find one that not only proves successful, but give plenty of laughs as well. I’m sure many of you remember the…
BitchBuzz: It Makes You Gay!
My column this week chuckles a bit at a Republican senator’s Chief of staff, who told an audience that “pornography makes you gay” and was not kidding. Whatever your thoughts about pornography, surely you’ll agree that it’s a kind of goofy thing to suggest. But it’s just one more strange piece of the puzzle that…
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