I recently went to a conference on domestic violence. The presentations were top quality – I learnt a great deal and have much to take back into my own work now. The venue was great, food was delicious and it was very well attended. Of the 170 listed delegates, 26 were men and at least [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Testicles were obvious by their absence at the recent RCN ‘do’ at Cavendish Square. Of about 90 delegates at the sexual health forum annual bash, only 7 on the list were preceded with a ‘MR’. That’s a pretty poor show!!! I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – it’s not that I don’t [...]
Filed under: Op Ed | No Comments »
The astonishing decision by the Department of Health to use Cervarix as the choice for HPV vaccine (Human Papilloma Virus – the virus that causes genital warts and a large proportion of cervical cancer cases) and not Gardasil hasn’t been getting enough airplay. If people really knew the opportunity that has been squandered by that [...]
Filed under: Op Ed | No Comments »
What is it about labia? Vulvas? Why don’t we ever get to SEE any? I don’t mean the milions of trimmed, shaved, surgically enhanced, photo-shopped, spread-eagled, fingered, f#ck#d, gushing examples plastered all over the interent and the top shelf mags..I mean ordinary, usual, lady flaps with a good old minge bush and a bit of [...]
Filed under: Blog, Red Knob | No Comments »
A couple of weeks ago I was perusing a catalogue of resources for primary education. Now, we’re all familiar with those huge tomes of Gratton’s and Argos and the Yellow Pages – well this was all those in SPADES! Bloody huge with more than 1500 pages I’d guess. Fabulous stuff for maths and science and [...]
Filed under: Blog, Op Ed | No Comments »
Nation at the Precipice – No Prescription Needed for the Pill! Here we go again! More knee-jerkers suggesting the government’s new scheme will only lead to more knee-tremblers between under 16s. I find it hard to fathom how the reporting of this subject can be so blatantly unbalanced. In one paragraph we have Office for [...]
Filed under: Blog, News, Op Ed | No Comments »
Earlier this week I listened to the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2 and they were discussing emergency contraception being given to under 16s through pharmacies. What a bloody tirade of misinformed nonsense they were putting out to the nation. There were almost too many triggers for my ranting to even begin to list them [...]
Filed under: Blog, Op Ed | No Comments »