So, another year is done. How did 2017 shape up for women and girls around the globe? Here is a selection of news: Council on Foreign ...

From the Guardian : We believe in sexual freedom. We take it for granted that consenting men and women have the right to do what they like ...

From Slate : Before Monica Lewinsky, Camilla Parker Bowles, or Marilyn Monroe, there was Hagar—the world's first known mistress. Severa...

From Ezega : In recent months local and national initiatives have shown a clear intensification of the struggle against the practice of Fema...

Further to my post:  " Heaven's Bride - The Unprintable Life of Ida Craddock " comes this article on Ida Craddock from Boston....

From Killing the Buddha , comes this interesting article "The Sexologist's Secret": In Heaven’s Bride: The Unprintable Life of...

Article from Nodo50.org : In medieval Japan, sexual entertainers and their customers enjoyed great freedoms until a growing orthodoxy stifl...

I came across this ever so interesting article on London, 18th century city of vice and immorality posted on Canadian Content. Hope you enjo...

From Associated Pres s: Conservative Egyptian lawmakers have called for a ban on imports of a Chinese-made kit meant to help women fake thei...

This week from the Blogosphere: The Myth of the Chastity Belt by Master Jack On Patriarchy by Historiann Its History - The Ideal Medieval ...

From Al Jazeera : Women's groups in Kenya have started a week-long "sex strike", in an attempt to press the country's lead...

From the Times of India : A spray, initially sold as a cure for men’s erectile problems, can improve sex lives of millions of women, who reg...

A number of articles have appeared reporting on the decrease in female circumcision in Egypt. And the reversal is coming from women who hav...

I was reading the article " Women urged to put on veil to maintain respect " - in which women attending the celebrations in Freeto...

Yes, the saga of the bride who was not the virgin she purported to be continues. Further to: " Virgin Appeal " - from Australian n...

Further to my earlier post on the " Myth of the Modern Virgin " - it would seem that an appeal in underway in the case of a Muslim...

In this modern day and age, are women being pressured to be "pure"or to at least portray the persona of being "pure" on ...