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Changes of Desire
There’s been a lot of talk lately about womens’ ’sexual problems’. And most of it from the pharmaceutical industry. It seems that our changeable sexual desire is a medical disorder and medical treatment. Good heavens, we must need some drugs!
Congratulations to Quentin Bryce and Australia
Australia’s 25th governor-general is Quentin Bryce, prominent lawyer, academic and womens’ activist. Her appointment ends 107 years of male dominated tradition. Australia is showing signs of finally moving into the 21st century. This news is fantastic, historic and quite thrilling as Bryce has a background in discrimination and human rights, and will restore some compassion, …
Mastalgia, a real pain
When I was a child, the women who gathered in my mother’s kitchen quaffing numerous cups of tea and exchanging complaints about the men, often referred to an annoying person as ‘ a real pain in the left tit‘. This interesting turn of phrase may well have been based on real physical experience. Breast pain, …
