Hit Them Where it Really Hurts, in the Stock Market. — Like all of us, I’m upset. This latest ‘blow’ to women’s rights, the removal of abortion as an option for unwanted pregnancies, is an unmitigated attack on women’s freedom, by those in power. The threat to our autonomy, health, bodies, and lives is existential and very, very real. In response…

And Why You Should Stop Checking Your Stats — Claps. Followers. Views. Stats provide a snapshot of our reader engagement on any one day and over time. For example, in my case, the stats tell me readers are starting to stay longer and read more deeply into my stories than when I first began writing on this platform. They…

Exciting New Drugs To Enhance the Female Libido! — Spare a thought for Lynn, the poor PR lady whose unenviable job is to spruik female libido-enhancing drug Vyleesi to the public. Unfortunately, Vyleesi, a use-as-needed medication, delivered by injection, comes with some not very sexy side effects. …

Forget the film industry; this is much, much bigger — Johnny Depp is an icon of cinema — it’s hard to disagree with that. But in the past few years, he’s been pretty busy leaving an even bigger legacy: the man who got #MeToo buried. Cue a round of enthusiastic applause for Johnny. Not a fan of either Heard or…

Understanding Risk Takes Maturity — The 1990s. There was a lot that stuck in my mind the first time I read Naomi’s Wolf’s “The Beauty Myth,” but one thing in particular, was the revelation that wealthy American parents were celebrating their daughter’s college degree, not with a trip to Europe as they once did, but…

It’s messed up, weird and oh-so-sexist — Do celebrities, I wonder, get a say in the extent to which they are airbrushed when participating in photoshoots? When it comes to Vanity Fair’s recent cover image of Nicole Kidman we have to assume the actress got no say at all. Stretched out like the elastic animation figure Gumby…

Step 7: Adopt a Whimsical Persona — If you’ve ever tried to get off an antidepressant you know how tough it can be. Yet, as I’m here to tell you, it’s not impossible. Fact is, I’ve just managed such a feat and now feel completely qualified to advise you on doing the same. True, I’m not a…

The hijacking of Eros — Children’s consumption of online pornography. Is there any conversation quite so awkward? Guaranteed to make everyone present uncomfortable, feel shamed for their own consumption of pornography, and set you up forevermore as the resident overwrought prude for having raised it. And yet, you have concerns over the way children’s sexuality…

Until it didn’t. — Keto, my friends. Hacking your body’s metabolism through dietary changes to burn ketones for energy, instead of the body’s usual energy source: bad, nasty, unfashionable glucose. Naturally, you wonder, am I someone who might be capable of this extreme new way of eating? But after dining out with your keto…