Sexual Health
Welcome to this week’s I Call Bullshit. Get ready to get steamy. The hot topic du jour is romance novels and the apparent threat they cause to women’s sexual health.
A UK medical journal has published a piece from ‘agony aunt’ Susan Quilliam arguing that bodice-ripper romantic fiction is discouraging condom use and giving women crazy ideas about orgasms.
Before we go any further, let’s have some gratuitous ‘literary’ sex scenes, just to give you the flavour.
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Has there ever been one that’s pushed you too far - an advertisement that’s taken you past the silent grimace stage, to the point where you need to slap the offending television or radio right off?
Notable over the years for their mind-numbing, though no doubt commercially effective, advertising style, were the likes of Saba, National Tiles, Franco Cozzo, and Ken Bruce. But that ‘s not what I’m talking about here, I’m talking about an ad that manages the seemingly impossible – it can numb your mind while at the same time making you mad.
My advertising nemesis is AMI. Perhaps I could just relax and take a chill pill, as my little brother used to instruct me, if I didn’t hear their ads every time I get in the car with the radio on.
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theadder says:
And I don’t know how ugly the girls you’ve been with have been, but you cannot last hours when the girl has a smoking hot body and you’re doing it properly. Seriously, if the girl is hot and you’re not having sex at a snail’s pace, how could you last… Read more »
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