Cascading downwards

My favorite response to the Times article about the anti-contraception movement:

For all the talk about the "culture of life" and poetic pontifications on matrimonial sex, this looks like thinly veiled misogyny to me. Now, if the same parties who put forth such a strong rationale for limiting (women's) access to contraceptives started to clamor for legislative protection for pharmacists who refused to fill Viagra prescriptions for male clients who will not certify that they will use the drug only in the context of connubial, procreative sex, one might begin to take their philosophical/moral/ethical concerns seriously.

Kyle Brown, M.D.
Iowa City

What a brilliant idea. All the sane pharmacists who work with the ones who refuse to dispense contraception should try it.

So I had a friend and her friend visit this weekend, and we did some of the touristy stuff in NYC. Unfortunately, it was mega-hazy all weekend, so we did not do the Statue of the Empire State Building. But the day I joined them (Friday, I had to work Saturday), we spent several hours at the natural history museum.

For some reason, it surprised us that the people in the human evolution section were quite obviously anatomically correct. I guess we're just too used to being "shielded" from the unpleasant fact that MEN HAVE PENISES! and WOMEN HAVE NIPPLES! (No one seems to feel the need to shield from the full breast, just the nipples). It's a sad world where people are shielded from knowing about their own bodies. I mean, in sex ed I remember being taught all the internal anatomy, but we never saw an external picture of anything - what kind of sex ed is that? Sorry, pet peeve.