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evil trends

  • 12.08.11
    Muff March! Protest against “designer vaginas” Bodies, evil trends, News, sex and health | (2)
    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 ...
  • 08.12.10
    Sexvertising bizarre, evil trends | Comments Off
    Irish newspapers love a press call. This generally involves a young woman of attractive proportions in a bikini standing next to a grinning bald man and the product being advertised, which could be anything from drainage pipes to cars to hamburgers. In the "using sex to sell" stakes this qualifies as cheesy, but harmless. Compared to some international advertising campaigns, the press call or indeed the Hunky Dory's crisps ad that caused all the brouhaha, look a little quaint. Here's sexvertising at it's best... or worst. You decide. The tag line here reads: "Becoming a donor is probably your only chance ...
  • 03.05.10
    Crystal Studded Bikini Wax: Yay or Nah? evil trends, opinions, safe sex | (6)
    Men of Ireland, I want your opinion! Vajazzling is the trend for adding rhinestones, crystals or other blinging adornments to one's Hollywood wax. What I want to know is, is this a good idea? More specifically, would this entice you to or put you off going down on your partner? Hair in the teeth is one thing... Here's an article to give you the idea.
  • 02.22.10
    Quarter of British women don’t have sex! evil trends, random surveys, relationships, sex and health, sexual frustration | (4)
    Yikes! According to a poll done by Sky Real Lives, 25% of UK women over 35 years old never have sex. The figure rises to 38% in Scotland. The same poll also found that almost all women suffer from violent mood swings during their period. I wonder how exactly these two findings are related... You can read the full story here. According to Toby Young (author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People) this is because men have become so feminized that they are not really men any more. Interesting, but I ain't buying it. Read his take here.
  • 02.15.10
    50% of women blame rape victim evil trends, opinions, sex laws | (6)
    Here's a rather shocking report from across the water. Haven, a sexual assault clinic, commissioned a survey of 1000 people of both sexes and found that half of women prefer to blame the victim of a sexual assault. While I agree that it is necessary to act in a responsible manner when out and about, it is shocking that in this day and age so many people have such a poor understanding of what sexual assault is. Just as worrying, one in three men don't think it's rape if they make their partners have sex when they don't want to. Read ...
  • 02.08.10
    Would you sell your virginity? bizarre, evil trends, sex work | Comments Off
    Ah yes, another year and yet another story about a college girl auctioning off her virginity to pay for university. The latest one is a Kiwi known only as Unigirl who accepted an offer of over NZD45,000 (around 22,000 euro) for hers, which is a paltry sum compared to Natalie Dylan, an American who picked up a cool USD3.8 million for hers. The whole cash for hymen thing makes me feel a little queasy. Prostitution, it is said, is the oldest profession, and there are plenty of women who swap sex for financial gain in relationships or marriage. But I ...
  • 07.29.09
    Sexist T-shirts evil trends | Comments Off
    I wrote a piece in HP a few weeks ago which mentioned sexist T-shirts. Well, these are beauts. No boys! Don't do it...
  • 12.03.08
    Bad sex, anyone? evil trends | (15)
    Rachel Johnson, author, Sunday Times columnist and sister of Boris won the 2008 Bad Sex In Fiction Award for a passage in her novel Shire Hell. Norman Mailer, Sebastian Faulks, Tom Wolfe and AA Gill have all won it in the past. Here’s an extract from Johnson’s ‘winning’ passage: “I find myself gripping his ears and tugging at the locks curling over them, beside myself, and a strange animal noise escapes from me as the mounting, Wagnerian crescendo overtakes me.” Hmmm… I’ve read worse. Anyway, this got me thinking – what is bad sex of the literal, not fictional kind? Here are my nominations: THE ...
  • 11.13.07
    Anne says ‘No scalpels!’ evil trends | Comments Off
    I was reading the other day that vaginal surgery is becoming all the more popular. Popular procedures include tightening, labial reductions, clitoral enhancements and G spot augmentations with collagen and the most bizarre of all, re-virgination. Why anyone (at least in the Western world) would go to all the trouble, pain and expense of creating a fake membrane only to break it again is beyond me. Hmmm… a very worrying trend. Many women ain’t that fond of their vaginas, and apparently this low self-esteem can really put a damper on their sex lives. But the thing is, like faces, no two ...