Bookworm on Feb 03 2010 | Filed under: Children, Sex
This is an entirely hypothetical scenario, because my daughter is only 12, and I’m not planning on her dating for at least another fifteen or twenty years, if not more. However, the sad fact is that, contrary to my entirely reasonable wishes, the dating scene is going to start in three or four years — [...]
Bookworm on Jan 27 2010 | Filed under: Abortion, Children, San Francisco, Sex
My views on abortion have changed mightily over the years. The selfish, immature side of me still longs for a pro-choice label, but the mature, moral side of me has concluded that, subject to a few exceptions, pro-Life is the way to go. I won’t expand on that right now, but you can see more [...]
Bookworm on Dec 08 2009 | Filed under: Marriage, Sex
Steve Crowder who is not, so far as I know, married, used the GLSEN scandal as the starting point for some really sweet thoughts about marriage:
When I really think about it, it seems as though the only kind of sex at which Hollywood will ever choose to poke fun… is the kind that occurs within [...]
Bookworm on May 02 2009 | Filed under: Hollywood, Sex
In my Friday Open Thread, I promised that I’d blog about Zac Efron. First off, let me clear the air here and explain that I haven’t developed some pathetic “middle-aged woman/teenage boy” obsession with him (although he does bear an uncanny resemblance, girlish hair and all, to the teen idols of my youth). What makes [...]
Bookworm on Dec 18 2008 | Filed under: Sex
One of the saddest aspects of 21st Century male-female relationships is the “hooking up” culture — a concept that takes the love and affection and commitment out of male-female relationships, and just turns them into insta-sex moments. There is every reason to believe that this new culture is especially damaging to women, who seem to [...]
Bookworm on Nov 24 2008 | Filed under: Britain, Sex
Over at FrontPage Magazine, you can read an interview with Martin Durkin, describing Britain’s staggering social decline during its long years as a welfare state. It was a slow decline at first. When I lived there in the early 1980s, it still wasn’t clear that it was hovering on the verge of breaking entirely with [...]
Bookworm on Oct 06 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Feminism, Islam, Saudi Arabia, Sex, Women
American feminists, who have done quite a number on Palin, are remarkably silent about the mind-boggling restrictions placed upon, and indignities visited upon, their sisters in Saudi Arabia:
A new prohibition may be added to the long list of those placed on women in Saudi Arabia: A new sentence according to Islamic law (fatwa) determines that [...]
Bookworm on Oct 05 2008 | Filed under: Bill Clinton, Democrats, Islam, Mike Huckabee, Sex
Palin has the AP, not just running scared, but spinning lies. I’m careful about quoting the AP, because their stuff is proprietarial, but to the extent they have the public ear, they better damn well be honest, and the following story, which I print and fisk in relevant part, is not honest:
Sarah Palin defended her [...]
Bookworm on Sep 15 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Education, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Sex, Taxes
The McCain campaign is giving substantive responses to the attacks the Obama campaign is leveling against it:
TO: Interested Parties
RE: Empty Words And Insults Cannot Cover A Weak Record
DATE: September 15, 2008
Over the last few days, the Obama campaign has watched their poll numbers falter and decided to lash out with personal attacks against Senator McCain [...]
Bookworm on Sep 04 2008 | Filed under: Europe, Sex
I won’t comment. You know what I’m thinking:
They have amused us, angered us and sometimes – just occasionally – they have actually made us buy something.
But now the end could be in sight for adverts which use sex to sell after they came under the unforgiving gaze of Brussels.
And, this being [...]
Bookworm on Sep 02 2008 | Filed under: Sarah Palin, Sex
I’m having a very hard time finding out what the sex ed curriculum is in Alaska schools. Although Palin advocates abstinence, what are the public schools teaching? It appears from the article that they’re teaching full sex ed, with an emphasis on the virtues of abstinence.
A couple of things. First, that’s exactly the same curriculum [...]
Bookworm on Aug 12 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Israel, Sex
Three hours and 12 minutes — that’s how much time I’ve got to myself this morning. I am beyond excited. I haven’t really hit the online news yet, but I did discover some things last night that I wanted to bring to your attention (assuming you haven’t already read them). I expect that, as I [...]
Bookworm on Jun 05 2008 | Filed under: Media matters, Sex
The CDC did a study about teen sexuality. Here’s how The Telegraph, a leading British news paper spun it:
American teenagers are having less sex, doing fewer drugs and drinking less alcohol than those who grew up in the 1990s, according to a new study.
Amid growing concern about teenage behaviour in Britain, the report by [...]
Bookworm on May 28 2008 | Filed under: San Francisco, Sex
Masturbation has been a staple of R or X-rated humor for a long time. Other than that, being a solo activity, it hasn’t had much of a public life — or so I thought until this morning. In keeping with the posts I did about the Bacchanal that San Francisco’s venerable Bay to [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Sex
Soccer Dad, who has a wonderful blog here, sent me a nice email agreeing with the points I made in my Biology will have its way post. He added an anecdote about Planned Parenthood: “The archdiocese of Baltimore announced that it would pay for counseling for women who had undergone abortions. Planned Parenthood [...]
Bookworm on Mar 11 2008 | Filed under: Feminism, Sex
One of the things the feminists insist upon is absolute equality, whether that means depriving men of the opportunity to participate in college sports simply because there aren’t enough women to create parity, something that’s now being done in the sciences as well; or allowing women to engage in sexual activity as if they were [...]
Bookworm on Jul 20 2007 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Sex
Tell me honestly — how are the state prison systems supposed to deal with the following true scenario?
The person at issue was born a man, and started taking hormones to feminize his appearance. At some point, he committed a crime and ended up in California’s state prison system. He continued to be given [...]
Bookworm on Feb 06 2007 | Filed under: Culture, Education, Feminism, Sex
My son asked me how Valentine’s Day began. I explained that, a long time ago, there was a man named Valentine who was known for his kindness to young couples who wished to get married (and he may have given doweries to poor girls so they could marry). He was also a Christian [...]
Bookworm on Feb 02 2007 | Filed under: Sex
I wasn’t quite sure what to make of a story out of England, which documents how a hospice patient in a Nun-run hospice got help from the hospice to obtain a prostitute so he wouldn’t die a virgin:
A young disabled man who receives care for his life-limiting illness at a hospice run by a [...]
Bookworm on Dec 08 2006 | Filed under: Education, Sex
…and I’m not talking about the kid whose conduct triggered this story:
A four-year-old hugged his teachers aide and was put into in-school suspension, according to the father. But La Vega school administrators have a different story.
Damarcus Blackwell’s four-year-old son was lining-up to get on the bus after school last month, when he was accused [...]
Bookworm on Dec 01 2006 | Filed under: Education, Sex
I don’t have time to comment on this article but, really, after you’ve read it, you’ll know there is nothing left to say…. except don’t send your kids to Columbia U.
Hat tip: Tracy
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Bookworm on Nov 15 2006 | Filed under: BBC, Britain, Islam, Muslim violence, Sex
My husband and I started watching Prime Suspect when it first appeared on American television and liked it enough to keep watching it every time episodes showed up. It’s a very gritty crime drama (the producers love showing partially decomposed women’s corpses) that follows the unlovable but effective DCI Jane Tennison. The first episode, back [...]
Bookworm on Oct 25 2006 | Filed under: Sex
Transgender men — that is, men who live their lives as women even though they haven’t had sex change operations — can now use the women’s restrooms in the New York subway:
The line for the girls’ room just got longer. Men who live as women can now legally use women’s rest rooms in New York’s [...]
Bookworm on Oct 03 2006 | Filed under: Democrats, Media matters, Republicans, Sex
As more facts and counterfacts dribble out regarding Mark Foley, I’m slowly getting a handle on a bigger picture. Here’s what I see:
Foley was, until recently, a closeted gay. As of about a year ago, the Republican leadership knew that Foley had sent emails to pages. The emails were awkward and bland, [...]
Bookworm on Aug 08 2006 | Filed under: Education, Political correctness, Sex
The Terminator, merely by raising his eyebrows, managed to get the California legislature to back down on a bill that would have required all California textbooks, starting in first grade, to include materials focusing on famous homosexuals — not because of their fame, but because of their homosexuality. Instead, it retreated to something much [...]
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