My new sexual partner is too big for me what can I do?
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I am a 66-year-old woman 11 years out of a 30-year marriage. My husband left to live with the woman he had been having an affair with, but the marriage hadn’t been right for some years and our sexual activity had diminished drastically. I have a male friend who is the same age as me and we are friends with benefits – only the benefits don’t work.
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Broadside 2019: how a feminist festival took on feminism and forced us to think harder
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There are writers’ festivals that make you want to buy and read more books – and then there are the rare gems that shift every idea you’ve had about everything and leave you wanting to remake the world.
The inaugural Broadside festival, held in Melbourne this past weekend, wasbilled as a feminist festival – but it was so much more than just one “ism”.
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London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew
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Madame Bovary: the Everest of translation
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