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Rachel Tompkins
- Jun 7, 2018
- 3 min
Can a feminist ever advocate ‘designer vaginas’?
The world is awash with people having aesthetic work done these days - the likes of Love Island, TOWIE and Made in Chelsea have normalised lunchtime lip-fillers and birthday Botox treatments so that I often look around the tube-carriage and wonder if I’m the only person who hasn’t yet succumbed. But lately it’s gone a step further. I’ve heard of close friends of mine having a Botoxed brow here, a light lip-fill there – cementing my belief that it’s really edging away from sim
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Charlotte Austin
- Nov 28, 2017
- 3 min
Help the feminist movement. Have a real orgasm
Women have become the masters of faking it. We fake being comfortable in heels. We fake being demure when we want to be assertive. We fake being a princess when we want to climb that tree. We fake being full when we actually want three courses. And we fake our orgasms. Around 50-65% of women have faked at some point. Why do we do this? At school age girls are ahead of the boys - partly because they're more confident to put their hands up and ask questions and admit they don't
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Lisa Williams
- Jun 20, 2017
- 2 min
In Defence of the Bikini Wax
I love a Brazilian bikini wax. Not the booking, when I ask for a ‘bikini wax’, praying the receptionist doesn’t ask for a clarification on which exact wax I want, then adding ‘Brazilian’ under my breath when she does. Not the waiting, when you lie naked from the waist down, covered with a towel, wondering whether you should have left on your pants. Not the pain, although I’ve been waxing now for the best part of 20 years so my hair follicles show more weary resignation than r
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