Description: The skin covering the penis (a.k.a. the foreskin) has been removed, generally in the infancy phase of life (thank g). Real talk: This is the most common kind of penis in the United States: About 90 percent of men over 20 are circumcised, says Joseph Alukal , MD, an associate professor of urology at Columbia University Medical Center. ADVERTISEMENT
Your move: Previous research has found that circumcised penises can be less sensitive than circumcised ones (since they don't have the nerve-covered foreskin). Read More...
Tell Them You Love Me, a documentary now streaming on Netflix from director Nick August-Perna, does not include a single interview with its main subject. The film is about the white, abled former professor Anna Stubblefield, who was accused of sexually assaulting Derrick Johnson, a nonspeaking Black man with cerebral palsy whom she says she taught to communicate via a method called facilitated communication (FC).
Johnson isn’t interviewed in the film, because his family has always understood that his diagnosed intellectual disability and lack of motor control meant he would never be able to communicate. Read More...
Author: Marisa Acocella Marchetto
Year Released: 2009
Get This BookArtist: Marisa Acocella Marchetto
There are several deeply affecting graphic memoirs that deal with cancer head-on (Our Cancer Year, Mom’s Cancer just to name a few). Cancer Vixen’s strength is in the vibrant, energetic art that perfectly captures New Yorker cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto’s unsinkable spirit, humor and courage during her 11-month battle with breast cancer. A self-described “lipstick-obsessed” New York City fashionista, Marchetto’s life was flourishing, both personally and professionally, when she received her life-changing diagnosis. Read More...
