I don't have a bed. I put all the money on the fancy astronaut foam mattress and I am glad I did.
The reason there is a 170,000$ bed is so someone can buy it and tell the world that he/she can totally afford such a bed. That is the only 'raison d'être' of the highest priced choice in any product category. It seems like…

5K is an excellent wedding budget! Plus if you ask your friends to send you Kiva.org gift certificates (25-50$ if they do) then you can back something like 125 businesses in 5 years and go on a second honeymoon when you take out then money :)

I had a wonderful $5,000 wedding in the Chateau Frontenac and this included *lunch* for everyone and our honeymoon trip to Washington, D.C. It is possible to have a wedding at a decent price, I mean it's not a fundraiser. The fact that people today gamble with their wedding in the hopes of making money is unbelievable…

The UN is a huge organization and it applies efforts to all sorts of programs. Let's say you want to do a 6 month project that studies the needs of women in order to establish a clinic that treats them for rape-related injuries in a specific refugee camp (medical and psychological). UN can only fund such a project if…

Bravo to the guys helping out by creating a safety barrier. I hope that as more and more men learn of the daily struggles of women in a sexist world (thanks social media), they will speak up when they witness sexism and hopefully intervene when they encounter threatening behavior towards women (or anyone really).

We need women to come over and talk to us about living in the narrow corridor, that very restrictive path that men set up to prevent women from joining the society as full members. Last week Haifaa Al Mansour, who is Saudi, talked with Bill Maher about her experience of sexism in her home country. Maher is a terrible…

I think that the entire composition of the U.S. as we know it today (culturally) is set up to make sure women get harassed sexually on a regular basis. I am including random stranger street harassment, groping in public, judgmental talk to girls based on dress or attitude, threatening comments on social media,…

In a segregated country where women are intimidated into staying home it is not possible for a small number of men to sexually harass, assault and rape a large number of women... They need access... So it can only mean that it is normal, expected and habitual for men to work together to make sure that almost every…

I am in Montreal Klah :) but I have a gmail account under the same name if you want to connect!

I might find them in the used book shop (rarely) but a good place is Etsy and Ebay.

OMG! I collect these friggin' books (vintage sex manuals and lady's household/marriage stuff) and this is going into the collection :) Thank you!

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You are right Garvakill. I will change my language.

There is a procedure to establish if someone has been sexually assaulted. It's called a rape kit. But if there is no comprehensive care and support immediately after the events, this is much less useful. A key to serving and supporting women who are victims of assault and abuse is women's health clinics!! But these…

I have gone through the process of encouraging and accompanying young victims (17-22) through the process of naming and putting in the paperwork to send a criminal to jail (fraudster and stalker) and it's incredibly difficult to do because the authorities minimize the victims claims in order to avoid work and that is…

That's the thing, a traumatic event will trigger a dissociation that can last for a few weeks to help the victim survive an attack emotionally. Historically, rape is the way a perpetrator kills a woman without removing her from the service pool. A rape victim goes through an ordeal that is more akin to kidnapping and…

Nooooo, we need complex multi-dimentional female super vilains, or, even better, anarchist characters whom you can't really tell if they are heroes or vilains!!!

Seizing the moment to address the harassment (or any kind of assault) takes a lot of guts and is really difficult to do (ie. see how people DIDN'T tackle the naked subway dude!) I commend her!! I guess now Boston transit will have to put up posters to tell guys not to masturbate on the subway putting THAT image in…

A woman's awesomeness and her being 'in control of her life' is COMPLETELY unrelated to her spouse CHOOSING to be awful, mean, destructive emotionally and physically. These are HIS problems. In addition to being in an abusive relationship, I would say that knowing that everybody knows about it is INCREDIBLY…

Scored some brand new vintage Gloria Vanderbuilt mom jeans at the thrift store and I LOOOOVE them. Plus if you wear jeans that sit atop the muffin errr top, they can't fall down when you run for the bus!