Monthly Archives: February 2012
Bra Hopping
by thevagenda
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2105008/What-does-bra-reveal-From-date-bras-weekend-bras-lingerie-drawers-speak-volumes-us.html As per usual, the Daily Mail sidebar of shame has wisdom to impart and this is it. What do you think about when you put your underwear on in the morning? Is it a date day? A home day? An out with friends day? Should it be lacy; racy; black; […]
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A Six Year Old Boy Investigates Tumblr’s "Topless Tuesdays"
by thevagenda
Today I wanted to go on Neopets but my big brother Simon was on the computer. I told Mummy and she made him let me have a go. He stormed right off so that the chair fell over and left his internet window up and I saw some boobies. I have seen boobies before, because […]
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Conscience-free country babes living a life of crime
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For a little light relief, we thought we’d turn to the musical harbour of all things dark – country and western – to showcase some serious ladies doing serious shit, ranging from the badass to the just plain bad. Shawn Colvin – Sunny Came Home Summary: Sunny ‘comes home’ and WREAKS FUCKING HAVOC, arsonist-style. Choice […]
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Feminism By Numbers
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* Mind words: Mental, brain, psychological, psychoanalysis, conscious, subconscious, mind, intelligence, thoughts * Body words: Body, breasts, thighs, curves, bum, figure We have not counted terms pertaining to female genetalia Source: Cosmo UK March 2012
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We’ll Give You An ‘F’ Word, Cosmo.
by thevagenda
Did anyone else catch this nice little interview in the Guardian with Cosmopolitan editor Louise Court. If not, you’ve spared yourself at best, a frustrated sigh, at worse, a full on rage attack, palpitations and all. The main crux of the article is that Court is somewhat frustrated at the fact that many young […]
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Are you Lover-woman, Mother-woman or Neuter?
by thevagenda
Ever wondered what Cosmopolitan’s relationship advice was like in 1922? Nestled amongst short stories with names like ‘His Children’s Children’ and ‘Broken Barriers’ in the July issue we’ve found a revealing article penned by Elinor Glyn, the influential pioneer of mass-market women’s erotic fiction, and inventor of the concept of the ‘It’ girl. Her face […]
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Girl Meets Lobster
by thevagenda
So you think you’ve got erotic literature covered. You’ve read, re-read, and re-re read the smutty bits of Forever, you’ve winced through vaginal mutilation in Delta of Venus, you’ve done Story of O (though really, you’re ashamed to admit it, but none of the kidnappings or bindings or anonymous sexual power play even […]
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Your Body is a Battleground
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YOUR BODY IS A BATTLEGROUND: The Breyer P-Orridge Pandrogyne and the Re-conditioning of Gender Stereotypes By Kate Ross In my last article for the Vagenda, I looked at how gender and ideas of tribal femininity were used by the band The Slits to produce a variation on punk rock that was as […]
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Selling sex: we’re all getting screwed
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A few ways in which Ann Summers has screwed you, and not in the ways it intended to As has been pointed out in the past by numerous writers much better than I, this old myth that ‘sex sells’ has been shoved down our throats continuously for the past decade or so, and I refuse […]
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