What about that spare rib?
Category: myth
Baubo, or not, or what?
'Baubo' and the urge to tie otherwise puzzling physical objects to equally mysterious fragments of text...
Period pain and Artemis (from The Conversation UK)
Artemis is a new body suit for period pain – here’s why it’s named after a Greek goddess Helen King, The Open University A new body suit to control period pain is in the pipeline – and it’s called Artemis. Named after the Greek goddess of chastity, hunting, childbirth and the moon, it works by combining… Continue reading Period pain and Artemis (from The Conversation UK)
The moving clitoris
I've been thinking this week about the Ghana 'Family Values' draft Bill and its clause 23 which would "assist" (their word) parents in securing surgery for a child with variation in sex characteristics. Considering the amount of evidence out there on the danger of such surgery on children - the story of David Reimer is… Continue reading The moving clitoris
Acting up in the Vagina Museum
If you hang out on social media, or read the newspapers, you'll know that the world now has not just a Penis Museum and a number of Sex Museums, but also a Vagina Museum. Unlike Iceland's Penis Museum (actually called the Phallological Museum, which sounds more formal and scientific), containing 'more than 280 penises and… Continue reading Acting up in the Vagina Museum
Mistaking histories 