Simon’s Party

Hannah sat in her living room scrolling through Instagram on her phone. She stared longingly at a picture of her friend Carly in workout clothes showing off her toned stomach. Hannah pinched her own, barely able to grab anything other than a little skin and decided she’d throw away the other half of her sandwich…

A Picture says a Thousand Words: Lupita Nyong’o calls out Grazia Magazine

  So we all know Lupita Nyong’o right? Just incase you don’t she is the incredible actress who starred in 12 years a Slave and won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She is a boss, she is a queen, everyone else pales in comparison.  As well as being an incredible actress…

The Truth Behind Animal Selfies

Most of us have seen pictures across social media platforms with someone posing with a tiger, sat on top of an elephant or holding a cute monkey. But just how ethical are these tourist attractions and experiences? There is surely a a better way to see and interact with wild animals. Tourists are shown in…

A Closet is for Clothes

Warning: if you think being gay is a choice then please watch this video before reading the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJtjqLUHYoY People often ask people who are gay, ‘how could you stay in the closet that long’ and ‘why did you carry on sleeping with girls if you knew you were gay - I just couldn’t do…

64 Square Tiles – A Short Story

When I was a kid I heard my Mum talking to her friend Ruth about another friend’s daughter who wanted to have an abortion. She was fifteen. My Mum and Ruth talked about this girl with shame in their tone and distain in their words. “Silly girl” my Mother said, “that’s too young to be…

Pubes. Just why do we go to such extreme lengths to deny their existence?

I’ve always been against removing my pubic hair but never had the words to explain why, I just thought it was weird. But I did it anyway, because all my friends were doing it and it was apparently what guys preferred. The older I got, the more money I was spending on hair removal cream…

If I wasn’t raped why did I feel like I was?

Recently a friend and I were watching a film. It wasn’t very good and thus we weren’t watching it strictly. It was a heavy film and at one point, whilst we were chatting away and giggling about something, we half-watched a prostitute being raped. She had taken a client to a motel room and started…

Can women have casual sex?

b I read an article recently about an American girl who is abstaining from sex until marriage. An out-dated ideal most would say but for or against it, she had some interesting thoughts on the subject and it got me thinking about how our relationship with casual sex affects us. 26-year old Elllen Burkhardt and…

Technical Flirtations

Plenty of Fish, Tinder, some new thing called Badoo; we’re a generation of technical flirtations. The thing is, whilst people claim that they’d rather meet their better half  ‘out’ as opposed to through a screen, where is out? Work, a club, a party? What if there isn’t anyone that tickles your fancy in these places…

Nymphomaniac 1 & 2

  I often look forward to a sex scene in a film. Porn doesn’t do much for me, the fake stories, the awful acting, the implausible storylines “oh Candy, isn’t it crazy that I just came round to deliver a pizza and suddenly I inserted my huge cock into you and it’s the best sex…