What token of acknowledgement do I bestow upon the man who decided that my resistance and pleas were of less value than the penis he pushed into me? I don’t need flowers or a card, I’ve always been a low-maintenance kind of girl. And I certainly wouldn’t expect you to know that, traditionally, copper is […]
Mother’s Day celebrates what mothers should be, while actively ignoring an absolute truth: Many of us harbor deep sensations of ambivalence toward mothering, pregnancy, and our children. Martha Stewart’s website is bursting with Mother’s Day craft ideas that engaged co-parents can make with their children. Gifts that will find their way into the sheets after […]
Where are the gaggles of innocent college boys lusting over stretch-marked and taco-eating female parents? Last week, when The Odyssey published 500 words on Why Girls Love The Dad Bod, fathers across the Internet exhaled, allowing their distended tummies to hang generously over their belt buckles. Mackenize Pearson, piggybacking on our recent obsession with Lumbersexuals […]
If women masturbating is taboo, then the notion of a mother masturbating is either dismissed as an aberration, or more likely, just not considered. But becoming a mother doesn’t end our personal relationships with our vulvas. Despite a recent Kinsey report that points out that 85% of women masturbate, this popular form of self-love is missing […]
