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Events
Come See Me at Sex & Secularism in Montreal!
Good news! The Canadian Humanists are hosting what’s sure to be a fascinating, entertaining conference called Sex and Secularism in Montreal next weekend, August 3-5. Better news! I’ll be there, along with badass mofos like Maryam Namazie, Greta Christina, Andrew Copson, and Humanist of the Year Sue Johanson, who many of you may know as the hilarious lady with the…
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Science
Can Stick Insects really mate for 1400 hours?
I saw this tweet a while back, and it made me awfully curious: Is that true? Because that seems like not a very smart thing to do, if you are a large and tasty insect. Or, in this case, two large leaf-eating insects belonging to a group that specializes in being invisible to predators by looking like a stick. Two…
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Science
8 More Myths About Birth Control and STIs
There are far more than seven, as I found. #8: Douches have some legitimate uses. Douches were invented to clean up vaginas and were marketed as contraceptives. We now know that vaginas clean themselves just fine and that douching doesn't prevent pregnancy. The only remaining legitimate use for douches is for the word itself — as an insult, its namesake is…
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Feminism
Ask Surly Amy and Sophie: Is Sex Work Anti-Feminist?
What is the rational, skeptical stance in the feminism vs sex work debate? See further: http://www.xtra.ca/public/Ottawa/Hostile_clashes_dominate_womens_conference-10497.aspx Can one be feminist and still see a rational buck to be made from selling a service with constant demand, if it means using your body to do so? I’d love to see a Surly Amy / Skepchick response to this. Charlene Dear Charlene,…
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Science
It’s National Pollinator Week!
Once again, It’s time to celebrate the little animals that…facilitate plant sex by moving plant sperm around. I’ve discovered over time that a lot of people don’t actually know what pollination is, other than it’s something that’s needed to get fruit. That’s certainly true; apples, bananas, blueberries, melons, peaches, pumpkins, almonds, and a whole bunch of other plants need to be pollinated…
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AI: Sex. Just sex. Really. Sex.
This is my last AI of the year, and while we all begged Rebecca to give us the week off so we could start drinking early, she said no, hiccuped and said, “Scheptichism ish moooor impotent hahahaha I shaid impotent. And scheptishizm izzzz mooor impOOOOOORRRRRtant tan drinshing.” Then Sid said something about Rebecca needing a nap and that they’d both…
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Supernatural Sex
Did you know that wet dreams, morning erections and arousal itself are caused by ghosts? Forget what biology tells us, or what you learnt in the schoolyard; Dr Narek Helms will re-educate you in his peer-reviewed Supernatural Sex. However, the dashing Dr Narek Helms is actually me. Yes, I submitted a patently ridiculous article to the believer site Haunted America…
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Snake oil perfume for horny men and women
An amusing email arrived for me earlier this week: Hello, My name is Margot and I’m the webmaster of www.best-pheromones.com. I wanted to know if you could do a paid UNBIASED review of our product/site. Please let me know if you are interested. Thank you, Margot [name and email removed] I was especially intrigued by the capitalization of “unbiased.†After…
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