In this Alert Me: the U.K. Border Agency make me embarrassed to be British, women assess flaccid penises, and what sounds like a fascinating documentary about sex and disability.

 

“Have you ever read Oscar Wilde?” asks UK immigration judge
Source: 429 Magazine

This is absolutely appalling. Apparently, U.K. judges, working in conjunction immigration officials, have actually been asking those seeking to escape persecution in their home countries for being LGBT if they’ve ‘ever read Oscar Wilde’ to determine whether their asylum claims are legitimate. And it doesn’t stop there; it appears they’ve been quizzing people on their use of sex toys and judging them on the way they look, too. Stereotyping at its worst. Read this and get cross. I certainly did.

*The Independent have also covered this debacle and you can read their take on it here.

 

Sorry lads, size really does matter
Source: Stuff.co.nz

A large penis makes you more attractive.

Yeah, I don’t actually agree with that. Or particularly like what the headline of this article implies. That’s like saying that because I have a (very) modest bust I have no hope of being attractive to the opposite sex. Frankly, I’d like to think that I have at least one or two other attributes to recommend me! I’m not saying I’m averse to ample length and girth but it seems that this size-ist conclusion was reached under very clinical conditions (as it should have been) and, whilst I’m very much a science girl, I feel that something as complex and personal as attraction will inevitably play out very differently outside of a lab. What did catch my attention, however, was the following observation about what women saw as the ‘ideal’ flaccid penis length:

 

‘And how big was too big? One of the most surprising aspects of the study was it could not accommodate an end point at which women found any penis too large. “Our curve wasn’t going down at 13 centimetres so we did not reach the most attractiveness in terms of size. The concept of a penis that was ‘too big’ was outside the range that we tested and we simply didn’t find an absolute maximum size, even though it strikes me that it is going to start to look ridiculous and actually quite painful.”

 

Bloody hell. Thirteen centimetres when not erect? I’d be kind of scared to let an engine of that size near me in its full glory. Because, you know, I’d like to be able to walk after the fact. Methinks this is a case of eyes being bigger than the stomach. Or maybe that should be the vagina.

 

The sex workers giving disabled people a chance to live out their dreams
Source: The Guardian

I can’t wait to watch this documentary, Can Have Sex Will Have Sex, which has been put together by the folks over at Channel 4 and Firecracker Films. It sounds both moving and fascinating, following the lives of four disabled people and their experiences with sexual intimacy.

Says article author, Tuppy Owens:

 

‘I really love the idea of sex workers giving disabled people the chance to be touched in a non-medical way, perhaps for the first time in their lives, to be held in a warm pair of arms and have their sexual dreams respected and lived out.’

 

I have a definite date with the T.V.

 

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