Almost thirty years ago, equality of the sexes had a different flavor than it does today. Somehow this doesn’t seem like the sort of think my mother’s Ms. magazines would have gotten, er, behind. From the January 7, 1976 Newcastle/Tyne Evening Chronical:

School Girls Get Equal Chance To Be Caned

The schoolgirls really felt liberated when the headmaster asked the boys to leave the assembly hall. The teenagers listened proudly as the he told them that from now on they would be treated exactly the same as the boys. But the girls of Heaton School, Newcastle, were stunned when he added: “And that means you will also get the cane!”

The girls have never been caned before and today there was growing apprehension behind the scenes. A 16-year-old girl said: “We nearly died when the headmaster said that we will now get the cane. I know it’s women’s lib year but we think this is taking it too far.”

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Headmaster Mr. Henry Askew was adamant that what’s good for the boys is good for the girls. He said at the school today: “We simply told the girls that from now on they will be punished the same as the boys.” He said that the decision had been taken as the result of pressure from the school’s women teaching staff who had had enough of the behaviour of some girls.

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It is understood that girls will be caned if they are put in detention twice in a week.

Thanks to reader Randi for passing along the Caned Girls porn site link where she found this, and to Google for confirming, at least, that Caned Girls didn’t fabricate the newspaper story from whole cloth as a work of salacious fiction.

I am so not making this up. I’ll give it to you in the exact words I found it on Boing Boing:

The British Office of Communications cleared Channel Five of any wrongdoing for airing an episode of reality TV show TheFarm in which David Beckham’s ex-girlfriend gave a handjob to a pig.

Who says government bureaucrats don’t have enough to do?

Home again, tired but happy. Definitely worth putting up with the “when are you going to settle down and get married?” and other nosy questions the relatives toss out, to have an unexpectedly sex-filled weekend with a highschool flame. :D

I’m still digging through email, but found an interesting one from a friend (who doesn’t know I contribute to this blog, making his question even more amusing). He’s wondering about shaving himself. He’s noticed that alot of the porn pix have bare or nearly-bare girls, and that some of the guys shave their balls. So, he’s thinking of doing it to himself (or maybe asking his wife to help), and wondering if he does, how far should he go? Just the testicles, or off with all the pubes? What about maintenance? Does it make oral sex more interesting or fun, as Vikki at Her Desires says it does for the girls? Would it be better for both partners?

I just don’t know about all this shaving stuff. I’m seriously squicked at the idea of bringing something so sharp so close to such sensitive places. When I had the money to spend on such things, I was a wax girl. But the woman who did it never would take off as much as I’d request on my labia, I guess because she thought it would hurt. And I liked the way it looked, and felt, just fine anyway. So I’m asking y’all to pipe up with your experiences if you want to, and I’ll point my friend this way. It’ll be a nice surprise for him in lots of ways. :laugh:

And, just because it’s nice to feature a change of pace from the nearly-bare girlies, here’s a totally hot photo of Hiromi from Brett and Hiromi’s blog at Indecent Blogging:

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There’s nothing like splashing around in a fountain on a hot summer night, they say:

Thanks to Attu Sees All for the picture.

Maybe it’s because R has made me feel more like a woman than I have in years…..I spent alot of time last night looking at lingerie sites. We aren’t going to be a couple, he lives too far away from me and his life is too hectic. But for the first time in years, I feel pretty. I feel appreciated for my mind and my body, and since I almost never show off my body, I’m thinking maybe that’s part of what I was doing wrong. My legs are nice, but I’m not really curvy enough higher up.

With something like this, though, I’d be really curvy in all the right ways:

From a gorgeous blog I found, called Corset Dreams. This one is my favorite of the many pictures currently posted, for two reasons. One is the retro look, the other is that huge choker around her neck.

No, not R and me … although I am on my way out to share some sunrise sex with him (at least, I hope that’s part of his diabolical plan). The SWAT team over in Austria must have noticed the traffic from here, because they provided some comments on my post about their products.

The drinks all sound good to me, and the “Dark Glide” lube has tickled my fancy. I’d love to play with that stuff! One question that the nice Austrians didn’t answer is whether they’ll ship to other countries…..

Hey everyone — Unlike Aphrodite, I don’t have any good tales of Thanksgiving nookie to share. The Nymph has been fighting off a cold while gearing up to cook dinner for some of her relatives, so spare moments have been spent sleeping. But fear not — even sick, she always snuggles up to me in a most delightful way, like a promise of things to come.

Right now she’s snoring softly next to me, there’s a turkey thawing in the kitchen, the house is full of food and drink, and family is coming by later. How could life be better?