Men desperate for coitus but sans any relationship with women could soon be trembling in their Grasshoppers/ veldskoens/ama-All-Stars. That’s if an enterprising local manufacturer has its way. The nondescript entrance into the market of a new product could have these so-called ”date rapists” thinking twice before putting their flagitious and diabolical intentions into practice.
‘To floss, or not to floss?” That is the question doing the rounds in the lingerie world. The tabloids are having a field day splashing pert posteriors across their pages. And women’s glossies are devoting space to the gospel according to Kylie Minogue, High Priestess of the Order of Pop and Panty. We’re being told the G-string is out — that the underwear of the moment is a nice pair of ”full” knickers.
”It’s wonderful that we have such a fabulously celebrated, all-embracing Constitution, but sometimes it can work against us women. Like the Recognition of African Customary Marriages Act four years ago, Muslim marriages could soon become legal in South Africa”. A young Muslim woman gives her perspective on life in a modern South Arica.
The problem with The Vagina Monologues is that a show about the worship of a sexual organ is easily lost on those of us who want to understand the deeper meaning behind men’s, and indeed women’s, attitudes to sexual violence.
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/ 23 January 2003
The silly season is over… Thank God. Now it will take a whole calendar year before again being subjected to corny Boney M and mince-pie jollity. And I, finding myself newly ”single”, will have a measure of respite from the kind looks, soft comments and unspoken words.
I have never been much of a fan of euphemism — it always conjures up images of a cucumber-sandwich society. More so in a multicultural environment like ours, where not everyone may know what you mean by ”the WC”.
Instead of being admitted to a clinic for a surgical abortion, women may soon have the option of a ”take-home” pill to end a pregnancy. The drug will be piloted at five designated sites countrywide from the end of September by the Women’s Health Project.
Foreigners from non-African countries have been living harassment-free in South Africa for years, reports Khadija Magardie
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/ 26 January 2001
A medium-sized, flesh-coloured pair of pantyhose, valued at R7,99, is wreaking havoc on the lives of a Gauteng family.
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/ 12 January 2001
Barriers to obtaining abortions in government hospitals are forcing women into the arms of the private health care sector and backstreet abortionists.