The Great Texas Dildo Wars
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on 2008-03-11 18:35:44
Topic :Sex
Yes, the Lone Star State entered the post-Ice Age period by legalising the possession and sale of sex toys for the purposes of pleasure on (how quaint) Valentine's Day. But now the state's Attorney General is asking an appeals court to rehear the case in question. It really does beg a few questions Anita liked to ask: Why are these men so afraid of female sexuality, and don't they have anything better to do?
After the jump: A fantastic video about the absurd Texas law, featuring Anita's friend, the also much-missed Molly Ivins.
Nicked Knickers
Posted By Brooke Shelby Biggs on 2008-01-16 15:26:35
Topic :Sex
Victoria's Secret, which we have tracked for any number of human rights abuses in their manufacturing (including most recently the beating, imprisonment and deportation of its factory workers in Jordan) has now added a rather personal insult to those injuries. Their "creative" team appears to have run out of its own ideas, and so instead swiped the design of a bra-and-knickers set originated by Sam and Justine Roddick's Coco de Mer erotic boutiques.
HIV Awareness Raising Concert – Get Your Tickets Fast!
Posted By Anita Roddick on 2007-01-25 01:44:55
Topic :Sex
In my world of social entrepreneurship and business, I share the stage with a number of influential philanthropists and activists. Some adopt more traditional approaches to activism, while others fight their causes using pop culture, disco, spandex and lace! One such woman is Ana Matronic, lead singer of the Scissor Sisters and fellow patron of HIV charity Body & Soul.
Sexual Health
Posted By Anita Roddick on 2006-10-26 23:43:52
Topic :Sex
Sex and teenagers - an incendiary subject this one. But amazing help is now at hand for parents, social workers, teachers and anyone in the informal education sector.
HIV – A Medical, Political, Social & Economic Disease
Posted By Anita Roddick on 2006-10-17 01:21:24
Topic :Sex
When I last wrote reflecting on the last 20 years of the HIV epidemic, I said: ‘AIDS is the dominant health issue of our day, yet familiarity with it has not necessarily bred greater understanding of it. In fact, if anything, there is a dangerous cloud of ignorance and complacency settling back over the entire issue’. Today, years later, that cloud has only thickened.
What's Going On?
Posted By Anita Roddick on 2006-09-28 01:38:23
Topic :Sex
What a remarkable woman was Josephine Butler. Over 150 years ago she generated intense debate across Europe about prostitution. I personally find her affinity and understanding of women who sell sex and at the same time questioning the institution of prostitution quite extraordinary when you consider the time she was living in.
Pimp and Ho Chic
Posted By Anita Roddick on 2006-02-08 07:35:02
Topic :Sex
I’ve recently met with Professor Liz Kelly of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University and she was talking to me about the current use of pornography in everyday marketing and advertising. I was stunned by what Liz was telling and I felt that this was an issue that needed to be highlighted.
Sex and the American City
Posted By Anita Roddick on 2005-02-23 09:35:57
Topic :Sex
Attention Americans! You no longer have to secret your glass dildos and leather harnesses away in your luggage only to get peculiar looks from the gents at Heathrow. Now there's a Coco-de-Mer for you in the United States!
Enough with the Politics, Already!
Posted By Anita Roddick on 2004-11-12 13:53:09
Topic :Sex
Let's talk about sex, instead! I'm very excited about my daughter Sam's new website for her upscale erotic boutique, Coco-de-Mer. Now you can shop naughty from the privacy of your own home - how nice!
Sex Sells, Sexism Sells Out
Posted By Anita on 2004-07-20 03:39:33
Topic :Sex
A U.K.-based travel agency is using crass sexism to sell its services. Lastminute.com has unveiled a game called Bikini Bounce which requires the player (in the form of a Lilliputian surfer) to gain points by bouncing wildly upon a disembodied, sand-covered pair of womens breasts in order to win a Greek holiday. It isnt even so much that its tacky and tasteless (nothing wrong with a little sex now and then), but that it appeals to the very worst in its audience. It assumes that Neanderthal men are the target audience, as though women dont also like to go on holiday. Worst, it dehumanizes women by denying that the model is anything but a faceless, nameless, legless pair of breasts to be used for male entertainment.
