Who’s the daddy?

I watched the story of Alfie Patten, 13, and his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15, unfold over the last week. The two kids had a baby and now it emerges that there are two other teenagers claiming paternity. It’s turned into a Jeremy Kyle-esque DNA test fiasco that’s now set to play out in the press.  
There’s also [...]

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It’s A Mad World

This is a spoiler-free post: Mad Men, the drama series about ad men on Madison Avenue in the early sixties, is probably the most written-about show on the planet right now. So here’s just what you need – another post on the subject. The second season has just kicked off on BBC4 but I finished [...]

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Porn to make me happy

Dear reader, I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I was to read that Kanye West is on for starring in a porno. Not that I’m a huge fan of Kanye per se (too sulky for my personal taste, and that’s before we mention the Brazil-sized ego). I’m more impressed with the type [...]

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Return of the vampire

Vampires have been on my mind lately. Last week I gave myself the unparalleled luxury of taking in an early-evening screening of Twilight, the teen vamp movie based on Stephenie Mayer’s best-selling novel. The movie had all the elements of a great teen movie – major love interest and then major obstacle to that love [...]

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The Ex Factor

Just before Christmas, on a night out with some friends, I found myself in a pub I haven’t been in for years. Unsure as to whether I had arrived before my mates, I wandered the length of the bar to see if they were lurking in a darkened corner. The pub was a blur of [...]

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The Wedding March

Gender stereotypes are always annoying, but few are more annoying than the idea that all women are desperate to get married and all men are terrified of the prospect. Strangely enough, not all women are marriage-crazed and not all men are marriage-phobic (and some women wouldn’t want to marry men anyway)! But you wouldn’t know [...]

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Barrier free

Yesterday I went to the doctor to pick up my six-monthly prescription for the pill, despite the fact that I am still single after the foot-rub-guy. What can I say, I live in hope. Not to mention the fact that the pill makes periods carefree non-events that last three days.
Anyway, in the doctor’s waiting room [...]

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Helen Mirren and date rape

Post-holiday blues hit in a big way last week, and stopped me getting off my ass and finishing a post I started about Helen Mirren. Her recent comments about date rape tap into something I discussed in a post called Sex, Consent and Expectations.

I’ve always liked Helen Mirren. To me, she has always seemed [...]

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F&Run

So, all this talk of Liz Phair’s album yesterday got me thinking about some other stuff, most notably, fuck and runs. We’ve all done them. Hell, I’ve even done the middle-of-the-night dash, which is, in my opinion, the worst of all. I had the good grace to feel bad about it after. Romantically speaking, I [...]

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Crushes of Shame

We’ve talked about hot girl crushes, we’ve talked about role-dependent crushes, but now it’s time to talk about the crushes that dare not speak their name. Yes, the crush you know is wrong, wrong, wrong (or, to put it more accurately, embarrassing) but can’t help it. The men or women you know aren’t really attractive [...]

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