5 reasons that men objectify women

Women objectify themselves.  No, really!  It is no good pretending that women want men to notice them for their inherent qualities if all they ever ask is how fat an arse they have or what’s different about their hair.
Men objectify everyone.  It makes it so much easier for them to carry out those other tricky [...]

Bill and his kind

Do you see that boy sitting, smiling between the legs of his Dad?  That’s my Uncle Bill, the only brother of my father.  The photograph was taken in about 1925. Bill grew up in a poor street in a poor part of a large city.  In his bedroom he had a home-made crystal set; he collected [...]

Drunk boys

I’d just poured a red wine last night when I heard the sound of loud and animated voices.  Leaning on my front fence I found three teenage boys aged about 16.  They were all obviously drunk but too young to know that it was obvious.  One of them was also clearly ill and rested his [...]

The jetty is long

The wooden jetty is a mile long.  It pulls away from the fingers of the mangroves that border the small, windy town on the Indian Ocean.  As kids, we fished for Mulloway there, sitting on the jetty’s broad beams, our legs dangling and our toes pointing to Africa.  In 1907 my great grandfather was seen [...]

Love and Coca Cola

There’s this Canadian pizza place not far from Niagara Falls.  If you look through the window you can see the tables decked out in red and white checks.  There are wooden chairs with square backs; there is a green, black and red menu.  It is a typical pizza joint like any other pizza joint in [...]

Oscarandre’s Complaint

“…when he (Onan) went into his brother’s wife, he spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother’s name. And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing…” Genesis 38: 7-10

OK, so masturbation proved very dangerous for poor old Onan but, really, it can’t hurt you, can [...]

Two cheers for America

It is almost de rigueur to have a go at America these days.  In fact, I hear generalisations about Americans from people who would never be caught dead making the same stereotypical observations about women or black people.   
Of course, here in Australia, give or take a few thousand dead Aborigines, we like to see ourselves [...]

Sexual Conundrum #31

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.  Does this still apply if I am a masochist?

The Coward’s Curse

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The U.S. military is calling on all Iraqi leaders, Sunni and Shiite, to condemn the recent kidnapping and killing of 15 Iraqi police officers in retaliation for the alleged rape of a Sunni woman. CNN News  Australia is a member of the Coalition of the Willing. Here then is death.  Here is [...]

Me and the sex life of oysters

How the hell do oysters procreate?  To my limited imagination the whole event seemed fraught with risk, something akin to making love in a suit of armour while clinging to a rock under water.  Not that I have ever tried this.
 You will be pleased to hear that the sex life of oysters is much, much [...]