Carlin's blog

Thank you nooneknow1028 for the link. George Carlin's rant about anti-abortion conservatives is right on the money.

Father Ksawery Knotz's book, entitled In Sex as you don't know it: For married couples who love God, has been described as a "Catholic Kama Sutra".  The Franciscan friar has raised eyebrows by going into graphic detail about how married couples can spice up their sex lives.

"Every act - a type of caress, a sexual position - with the goal of arousal is permitted and pleases God," he writes.

"During sexual intercourse, couples can show their love in every way, can offer one another the most sought after caresses."  Sex in marriage, Father Knotz explains, should not be boring but "saucy, surprising and fantasy packed".

New guildlines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first pap smear until they're 21 years old. Hasn't anyone heard of HPV?

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reaffirmed that women SHOULD get mammograms at 40 defying those BS recommendations of that bogus task force. The American Cancer Society must be pleased.

Kate Moss takes the heat for saying, "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels". Betty, Christina and I debated this last night and we get her point.

The US Department of Health and Human Services commissioned a task force to study mammograms.  Their findings: women don't need mammograms until their 50s and even then we only need a mammogram every two years.  The cherry on top: we don't need to do self breast exams either.  Why would you discourage people from examining their own bodies - something that takes no time and no money - when it could mean the difference between life and death?

And they're promoting their findings all over the place - The Today Show down the line.  The argument is that for every 1900 women who undergo a mammogram only 3-4 will have breast cancer.  In other words, 3-4 female lives aren't worth the expense.

The first pics from Levi's Playgirl pictorial have hit the web.  He looks kind of hot - the best he's looked yet.  You so know that this issue is going to sell like hotcakes.  Who doesn't want to see the penis that knocked up Palin's teenage daughter. 

And Playgirl timed Levi's spread to dovetail with Palin's book release.  That's what happens when you deny someone's paternity rights after parading him around in your unsuccessful bid for the White House.  Levi has been quite vocal about Palin blocking him from seeing his son.  He also made claims that Palin makes fun of her special needs child (I believe it).  Hell hath no fury like a teen dad scorned.  This 19 year old has successfully inserted himself into every interview Palin has had on her book tour....even with Oprah:

A real government agency has finally said it...the emperor has no clothes on...10 years of abstinence-only sex ed hasn't kept kids from having sex at all.  They still have sex, it's unprotected, and sex infections are spreading rapidly. 

The latest statistics on chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis show that these three highly treatable infections continue to spread in the United States.

"Chlamydia and gonorrhea are stable at unacceptably high levels and syphilis is resurgent after almost being eliminated," said John Douglas, director of the division of sexually transmitted diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

What do people think is sexy?  A rosy complexion.  What gives you a rosy complexion?  Eating fruits and vegetables.  I just heard Eric say a "hell yeah". 

In a study were people were asked to rate an individuals level of attractiveness, researchers have found it was all about skin tone (another study confirmed these findings -"glow" and "radiance" were the key indicators of "beauty" even over symmetry).  An individual with a rosy complexion was rated as the most attractive even over those with a "golden" complexion so you can save some money on spray-on tans. 

If you've never watched Secret Diary of a Call Girl on Showtime, you should.  It's based on a british blog about the day-to-day life of a high-end escort.  There's been widespread speculation about "who" really penned this blog with rumors it was a gay escort and not a woman at all.  Most felt that it glamourized sex work.  It does and that's the point.

Well, meet the real Belle Du Jour: Dr. Brooke Magnanti.  Magnanti is a respected specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology in a hospital research group in Bristol. Six years ago, in the final stages of her PhD thesis, she ran out of money and turned to prostitution through a London escort agency, charging £300 an hour.

I love my labia.  And I renewed my love for my labia yesterday during an oral sex session.  For the most part, it's always a race to the vagina....a race to the clitoris and sometimes we forget just how sexually sensitive our labia are and how much pleasure they bring us as women.  They're so soft and tender to the touch.  They fold and undulate between our legs carrying with them lubricating juices.  I love the way they feel when I part them and run my finger past their smooth center and into my vaginal opening.  I love to feel them plump up with pleasure...pulling open...ready to receive whatever I may slide past them.

Diva antics aside, Naomi Campbell is redeeming herself by picking up the feminist banner.

First, she took on maternal mortality becoming a global ambassador for the White Ribbon Alliance, an international coalition for maternal health.

Naomi stated publically that "no woman should die giving birth."  Most of us don't realize that pregnancy is the leading killer of women of reproductive age in the developing world -- more than 80 percent of them preventable. A woman dies in childbirth or pregnancy every minute worldwide.

Then, Naomi took on discrimination against black models, "Where do we see a woman of colour in an advert? It's quite blatant."

Inspired by the Guardian's coverage of Chella Quint, a menstruation activist (yes, that's her in the pic and that's not red lipstick it's menstrual blood), I decided to ask our female bloggers to answer this question,  "what does your period mean to you?" 

As a young girl, I was terrified by first period stories.  You know the period lore - the accounts of the girls who got their period in school unprepared with either blood running down their legs or blood soaking through their panties and their jeans to the jeers of their classmates.  I was so thankful when I got my period the morning before school right after my shower.  Somehow I had been spared the indignity that a simple panty liner could have eliminated. 

The first time I heard about labiaplasty was about 10 years ago on the Howard Stern show.  It was right when we started seeing the "clamshell" asethetic in porn and all the porn stars who came on the show would talk about the surgery.  One pornlet had her snipped labia suspended in a clear resin block and auctioned it off on ebay.

What struck me then was that there had been no research.  No one knew what the risks were in removing sexual tissue directly from a woman's genitals.  Most women say they want the surgery because they're embarrassed of their labia during sex.  Not that far off from Betty's experience believing she was genitally deformed because she had "dangling inner lips".  It took the right lover to convince her that she was "normal".   

Finally, someone is standing up for women. Gynaecologist Sarah Creighton and psychologist Lih-Mei Liao are challenging the ethics of offering women surgery to address such insecurities, suggesting it is advertisements for a "homogenised, pre-pubescent genital appearance" which creat these anxieties in the first place. 

The blogosphere was abuzz yesterday with the report that Duke University has a new sex toy research program.   Duke is a catholic university and the thought of a program where female students were brought together in to a passion party type atmosphere selecting sex toys that they could take home for free has panties in a bunch.  

As I was reading about the story and Father Joe Vetter's statements (he runs Duke's Catholic Center) about why they were concerned about the research, I found myself agreeing with Vetter when he said:

"I'm concerned about promiscuity also," Vetter said. "And to be honest, I don't have the solution. ... My concern is these students are in this developmental phase, and I don't think it's a good developmental practice to just tell somebody to just sit around and masturbate. I don't think that promotes relationships."

Yes, that's why masturbation is a feminist issue.