One thing that excited me about having daughters rather than sons is the variety of clothes and clothing accessories I could buy for them. Ang babaw, I know. But, really, shopping for them excited me endlessly — and my husband often complained that they would outgrow all the clothes in no time. But I felt [...]
A few years ago, I posted an entry about how my husband got upset when he heard me discussing sex and rape with our daughter Sam, then 12, while watching an episode of C.S.I.
Last year, when we watched Memoirs of a Geisha and he heard me discussing the virginity-for-sale part with Sam, he said nothing [...]
When I found the URL in Ananova, I thought it was a joke. It isn’t. A couple think they can achieve world peace through synchronized orgasm.
The proponents’ goal is to add so much concentrated and high energy positive input on the world’s energy field to reduce aggression and violence. The site says that the [...]
They had been married for 25 years when Roy Applewood announced his intention to undergo a sex change operation. He shocks his wife Irma, his church and his community. He is ridiculed by his co-workers and shunned by his pastor. His wife is revolted and tells him to leave the family home. But after witnessing [...]
My daughters, 12 and 10, and I were watching C.S.I. last night and my husband who could overhear their questions and my answers, irritatingly commented: “Do they have to watch that show? Do you have to talk to them about sex and rape?”
I did not get defensive. I understood. He is very protective of the [...]
Gloria Arroyo, in deference to the will of the Catholic Church, has adopted a government policy that encourages natural, not artificial, birth control. This is a sore issue with me, really. But, perhaps, not sore enough to prevent me from mulling over the subject still.
Just what is the big objection to artificial birth control [...]
There was this story once that a doctor in a remote rural area in the Philippines who demonstrated the use of a condom by inserting his finger in it was shocked when, months later, one of the husbands complained that despite the use of condoms his wife was pregnant again. When asked how exactly he [...]