"I always start with physicality when I’m writing as a woman. So I always have a vagina and think about having periods."

Said Will Self , who has a new novel, "Umbrella," the title of which is based on the Joyce quote "A brother is as easily for...

"I'm amused that right after 'potato, my penis droops' up pops Quayle."

I say, in the laughing-in-bed first-post-of-the-morning.  Quayle is a regular commenter here, but — who knows, on the internet? — it might b...

"The Dirty Etymology of 9 Everyday Words."

"Oops, you just said: Pig’s vagina..."

"Lady Jerks of 2012: A Year in Review."

Today seems to be my day for finding screwy ideas in Slate. This one seems to be a twist on the old feminist bumper sticker "Well-behav...

"Tuesday night’s Hollywood premiere of 'Django Unchained'... has been canceled out of respect for those affected by the Newtown shootings."

A fear grips Hollywood: What if the Christmas crowds don't feel like sitting through 2 hours of violent revenge fantasy? Poor Quentin T...

"Inmate hatched castration plot after Justin Bieber didn't return his love letters..."

We're told Dana Martin, 45, felt like a "nobody" in prison , and now, we're all talking about him. Pretty impressive: A pr...

Why was Superman wearing underpants over his tights in the first place?

Rob Bricken pushes back against those who are outraged at Superman's redesigned outfit. The original outfit (from 1933) was based on wh...

Katie Roiphe tries to fathom the depths of why she's buying really expensive shoes.

She writes about herself in the second person saying things like:  You have read Adorno. You are able to think critically about your desire ...

Cheer up about your genitalia.

Constructing the last post, I ran across this other Planned Parenthood video , which is nicely done (but NSFW). (Teased at PP's Facebook...

"23 songs that use fruit for sexual metaphor."

Before looking , guess which fruit wins: Pick one. Peach Cherry Lemon Banana Kiwi Pineapple    pollcode.com free polls  

"McCartney’s 'Great Wall of Vagina' deemed obscene by Tokyo police."

"The images are exactly that of female genitalia.... The degree of obscenity is high." The description is accurate but fails to me...

"ABC Denver misnames Petraeus book, 'All up in my snatch.'"

Oh, well ... it would actually be an appropriate name for the book.

"Little girls should not be exposed to naked men, period."

On the other hand: "The college cannot discriminate based on the basis of gender identity." And: "This is not 1959 Alabama. ...

Obama's speech is "coming from his loins."

Says Axelrod, apparently noticing how ... odd that sounds and adding, jocosely, "I just wanted to say loins. I wanted to see if I coul...

"If everybody could love Alfred Hitchcock, I think it would be a better world."

Odd intro, by Cat Stevens (in 1976), to "Peace Train." Yesterday, we were talking about Sun Myung Moon's idea for peace: marr...

"The good thing is that this is so insipidly solipsistic that I think she's going to have ruined the Vagina book like Cutthroat Island destroyed the pirate film."

"Might be 15 years before someone gambles with Vaginas of the Caribbean." Also at that link: " My Vagina is Large; It Contain...

"To my astonishment and dismay, while my orgasms were as strong and pleasurable as ever, something very different was happening after sex, to my mind."

Said feminist attention-seeker and erstwhile Al-Gore-adviser Naomi Wolf. "I realised one day, as I gazed out on the treetops outside t...

"Can you imagine protesters in penis costumes?"

Asks Meade after I send him this picture of protesters in vulva costumes (which commenter paul a'barge linked to after I linked to a ...

"People don’t really know what they want when the thing they want doesn’t yet exist."

But wait. Vaginas exist . If you're thinking of searching Amazon for "Tenga," please use the Althouse ahem portal .

"She was adamant that... it was not possible that she mistook the drum sticks for his penis."

"Ayers told deputies that he is a drummer who commutes between Jacksonville to Daytona Beach and he frequently simulates playing the dr...