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December 2011
The Archives
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12.16.11Do men have more sexual partners than women?If new data from the UK's National Health Service is to be believed, straight men average ten female sexual partners over the course of a lifetime while women have just five. I'm confused... How exactly is that possible? This would only make sense if there were significantly more women in the UK than men, but of course, that's not the case. The population is divided roughly in half. Maybe I'm missing something here but it seems to me that if there were 1000 men each with an average of 10 separate partners, that's 10,000 sexual experiences. If there are 1000 women each with ...
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12.08.11Muff March! Protest against “designer vaginas”On Saturday, women are planning to descend on London's Harley Street to protest against vaginal surgery. The argument is porn and popular culture teaches women to feel bad about their genitals if they don't conform to certain aesthetic standards. Labiaplasty is on the increase in the UK (and presumably here too). According to the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology there was an increase of 70% in operations compared with 2007 1,118 labiaplasty operations on the NHS in 2008; 669 in 2007 and 404 in 2006. I'm all for genital grooming, but anything involving scalpels can result in loss of sensation or ...