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Angela Mollard 1 year ago On normalising the sexuality of ageing women Share

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 Angela Mollard 1 year ago On normalising the sexuality of ageing women Share  Fit, strong, self-sufficient and emboldened, ageing women are finally gaining sovereignty over their sexuality. Naked but for a strand of pearls and a slash of red lipstick, Miriam Margolyes poses naked for British Vogue with only a couple of artfully placed cherry buns protecting her modesty. Even a decade ago such an image would have been considered transgressive but in these gender-fluid, politically-progressive times only a dinosaur would tut at the 82-year-old Harry Potter actress getting her kit off. “I can’t resist naughtiness,” she tells Vogue while pointing out that in later life she’s learned to be kinder to herself about her body. She doesn’t, for instance, love her boobs or her droopy belly but “you just make the best of it.” Margolyes is just the latest woman of a certain age to step into her sexuality. Gone are the days when slackening skin and wrinkles were a sign that women had to tuck their
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Boy tortured to 'death' and buried crawls out alivePolice in Sheema District in Western

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Boy tortured to 'death' and buried crawls out alivePolice in Sheema District in Western  Uganda are investigating the circumstances under which a teenage boy crawled out of a grave in which he was buried after being tortured by his coworkers. Charles Amanya, 16, refused to die in one of the most shocking tales of torture and burial. According to authorities, two men identified as Evans Kamuhanda and Apollo Kamukama, both from Kaliba Cell in Bubaare Sub-county, allegedly tortured and attempted to murder Amanya on May 28 after accusing him of stealing their phones. It is said that Komuhanda and Komukama tied Amanya on a tree, where they tortured him and later in the night, they buried him. The suspects dug a shallow grave where they buried their victim. "However, the victim managed to crawl out of the shallow grave, to a nearby shack," said police. Reports indicate that the victim spent two days in the shack until May 30 at around 6pm, when he was discovered and taken t
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One man from Idaho is a tough-in-the-buff legend, Jeff Zausch, a seven-time “Naked”

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One man from Idaho is a tough-in-the-buff legend, Jeff Zausch, a seven-time “Naked”  player. “There’s no trust. I went into this challenge fully committed to winning this thing for myself, to win this thing for my fellow Idahoans, and to prove that I am the greatest survivalist ever to take on ‘Naked and Afraid,’” said Jeff Zausch in an exclusive interview with The Idaho Press. He walks the talk. Pocatello native Zausch is a seven-time contestant on the “Naked and Afraid,” “Naked and Afraid: Savage” and “Naked and Afraid XL,” and even NBC/USA’s “Snake in the Grass” reality competition. He’s even produced a survival show for Discovery called “Dual Survival.” But, according to him, he was born (naked, of course) to do it. He said: “Growing up in Idaho? My number one love in life was the outdoors, above all else. When most kids run around with their friends, they think about everything social. I didn’t care about friends growing up, or birthdays or Christmas presents. Every year my parent
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Nigerian Women Fight Dirty, Tear Their Clothes Publicly In London

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Nigerian Women Fight Dirty, Tear Their Clothes Publicly In London  (Photos)There was drama yesterday at Stratford, London, following the clash between the fans of two Nigerian bloggers identified as Tolulope Bashirat Adeoye aka Abike Jagaban and Tokunbo AboderinA Facebook user identified as Opeyemi Olugbodi, has taken to the social networking platform to post some videos of Nigerian women in the Stratford area of London, who threw caution to the wind and engaged in a free for all fight.    It was gathered the ladies who are fans of two Nigerian Facebook personalities, Tolulope Bashirat Adeoye aka Abike Jagaban (Omo Aye) and Tokunbo Aboderin (Omo Ewe), fought as a result of the contents from each of the Facebook personalities post on their walls.    The women were seen the viral video fighting and ripping their clothes off themselves. The police later came in to maintain law and order. The tension between them started on Facebook before they finally took it to the streets. One of the fa
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Maintaining and understanding your duality of being his woman and fantasy

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Maintaining and understanding your duality of being his woman and fantasy.  But the true essence of sexy and confidence is self care and maintenance of mind, body and soul. Maintaining your sexy, should be part of your self love, self-worth and relationship maintenance. Just because you are working woman, business woman, mother, and daughter doesn't mean you have let yourself go. You shouldn't let heartbreak or comfortablity let your looks go from Queen to a slave.  A man or woman should never get too comfortable in a relationship, unless they are comfortable of losing them. I truly understand this... women are emotionally based beings. No one should ever give anyone, that much power over their mental  and emotional health with heart break or tolerance of toxic mistreatment. Heartbreak and depression changes people mentally and physically, because of the lack of self-care and developing self medicating addictions. Emotional eating and drinking doesn't solve your problems. Y
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Theorising only gets you so far in bed Two books — Is It Ever Sex?

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Theorising only gets you so far in bed Two books — Is It Ever Sex?  and The Joy of Consent — explore love, lust and the body politic “Everything in the world is about sex, except sex,” Oscar Wilde never said. In Is it Ever Just Sex?, the Lacanian analyst Darian Leader explores the origins of desire and the meaning we ascribe to sexual encounters. It is never “just sex”, he  argues, but an expression of love and fantasy; guilt and anxiety; violence and revenge. Sex is an analgesic: porn usage peaks on Sunday night, to allay the anxiety of the impending workweek. People are not ruled by an animalistic sex drive “desperate for release yet restrained by social forces” Leader says; rather, it is social forces that shape desire. We pick up sexual scripts from our families and the culture at large, which is not immune to trends. Male nipples were championed as an erogenous zone in the 1970s, he notes as example, before disappearing from popular culture.  melancholy and art, Leader prides hims
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Edo 2024: IGP deploys 35,000 police officers for guber poll,

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Edo 2024: IGP deploys 35,000 police officers for guber poll , suspends local security outfitThe Inspector General of Police, IGP Kayode Egbetokun, has announced that 35,000 police personnel will be deployed to ensure the smooth conduct of the Edo State governorship election on September 21, 2024. During a stakeholders’ meeting organized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Benin City, Egbetokun also confirmed that the Edo Security Network (ESN), a local security group, remains suspended until further notice. Egbetokun emphasized that the Nigeria Police Force, with support from over 80,000 members of the armed forces and other security agencies, will maintain law and order during the election. According to him, they will secure all entry and exit points to Edo State, and movement restrictions will be strictly enforced on election day. The IGP issued a stern warning against criminal activities, including thuggery, ballot box snatching, and other forms of election-re
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1480s The Portuguese populate their island colonies off the coast of western Africa

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1480s The Portuguese populate their island colonies off the coast of western Africa  largely with enslaved Black Africans. The Portuguese also take many African captives back to Portugal. c. 1500 Spain and Portugal begin establishing colonies in the New World. Large parts of the Caribbean will be depopulated during the European conquest. Increasingly, captives will be shipped from Africa to replace the enslaved Indians. 1600s transatlantic slave tradeSlave traders transfer captives to a ship along the western coast of Africa. The Africans will be transported across the Atlantic Ocean and enslaved in the Americas. The Dutch, English, and French also establish colonies in the New World and become major participants in the transatlantic slave trade. A large percentage of their human cargo is taken from the region of West Africa between the Sénégal and Niger rivers. Demand for slave labor rises sharply with the growth of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and tobacco plantations in the Che
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The Civil War in the United States began in 1861

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The Civil War in the United States began in 1861,  after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America; four more states soon joined them. The War Between the States, as the Civil War was also known, ended in Confederate surrender in 1865. The conflict was the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions more injured and much of the South left in ruin. Causes of the Civil War In the mid-19th century, while the United States was experiencing an era of tremendous growth, a fundamental economic difference existed between the country’s northern and southern regions. In the North, manufacturing and industry was well established, and agriculture was mostly limited to small-scale farms, while the South’s economy was based on a sy
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slavery, condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons.

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slavery, condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons. There is no consensus on what a slave was or on how the institution of slavery should be defined. Nevertheless, there is general agreement among historians, anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and others who study slavery that most of the following characteristics should be present in order to term a person a slave. The slave was a species of property; thus, he belonged to someone else. In some societies slaves were considered movable property, in others immovable property, like real estate. They were objects of the law, not its subjects. Thus, like an ox or an ax, the slave was not ordinarily held responsible for what he did. He was not personally liable for torts or contracts. The slave usually had few rights and always fewer than his owner, but there were not many societies in which he
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