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Sex

Protect Yourself, Before You Wreck Yourself: Safe Oral Sex

Q. My boyfriend and I haven’t had sex, but we have done oral. I was talking to a friend recently about a female condom she had gotten as a joke-gift and I commented that it seemed like it would less effective and she said that it would be good for oral probably. I was surprised. You […]

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This Week in Misogyny

This Week in Misogyny: It Just Keeps Coming

There’s never an end in sight when it comes to finding misogyny in the news. People are literally getting away with murder, telling high school girls that they ought to focus more on being moms than getting jobs, making it harder for women to get healthcare, and just generally being terrible human beings. (As usual, […]

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Science

Science News: 4/23/13

News in the real world has been pretty terrible recently; mercifully, science has brought us some things to smile about. Mars probably isn’t gonna get smacked by a comet after all, wet washcloths do interesting things in space, and it’s ok to have the occasional drink when you’re pregnant!

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Pop Culture

What I Watched Last Night: HBO’s “Girls”

You know what I said last week? Well, forget it. I take it all back. Well, maybe not all of it, but after watching Sunday’s episode, “All Adventurous Women Do,” I can see the gold nuggets in the pan of silt.

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The Frisky Feminist

Honey, We’ve Got A Leak: Anal Sex And Its Friendly Fluids

Hello chickadees! I’m self-welcoming myself as one of the newest contributors to Persephone’s ever loving (in all the right ways) sex advice column. Like a moth to the flame, I’ve really enjoyed reading the best and brightest advice that the Frisky Feminist has offered and now I say with great pleasure (potentially the self-loving kind, […]

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Science

Gimme the Gardasil

Or, why I got myself vaccinated against HPV.