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Lies I’ve Told to Get Sex

I agree. Avril Lavigne is a genius. There’s nothing I like better than a weekend of white-water rafting. You did your Master’s thesis on Jane Eyre? How interesting! If anything, those jeans make your butt look smaller. My chief concern is that I will fall in love with you. Why would I want to listen […]

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Medicine Eighty Years Ago

Alcoholism: The doctor would take the patient aside, put out his cigarette and scream at the patient, “STOP DRINKING, you homo!  Or, are you too much of a homo to stop drinking?”.  Note that, since homosexuality was considered a disease, the term “homo” was clinical.  Note also that emasculation and homophobia were usually taught concurrently […]

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