Take it, bitch!

Dev posted an interesting picture, cribbed from Male Submission Art that depicted an angel sodomizing Satan (or possibly another demon). That led to a discussion about the cultural perception that whoever is penetrated is somehow identified with submission. The flip side of that perception, of course, is that whoever is doing the penetrating is in [...]

Maturation

Somebody found my blog through the interesting phrase “Mature Spandex.” I’ve long since given up trying to figure out why certain phrases lead people here (and yes, Marina Sirtis is still in the top 10), but this one caught my eye. I searched on it, just to see what came up, and as I scrolled [...]

No Surprise

So, Mrs. Edge is in the kitchen, baking some apple crisp and banana bread. I wander in foraging for some food, and eat a few potato chips from the bag on the fridge. After a few mouthfuls I get irritated for going off my diet, so I decide to look for something healthier. Spotting the [...]

Real Lifeguards Gain Weight

Okay, at some point in the last couple of months, The Edge of Vanilla has gone from Tom Allen’s Chastity Blog (which seems to be how half the searchers find this) to Tom Allen’s Size Acceptance Blog. I really don’t know why this has been on my mind lately, but I find that for some [...]

Alternative Barbie

Sometimes I don’t feel like a heavy discussion about size acceptance, power exchange, relationship dynamics, political/religious stupidity, or even about chastity devices. Sometimes things just strike me as funny, and I feel like mentioning it because I know that quite a few of my readers have a warped sense of humor. From the website Altered [...]

Spurting Fountain of Youth

I’ve really been enjoying some of the interesting science and health news lately. Chemical in sperm ‘may slow ageing process’ Researchers in Austria say that human sperm might be the next weapon in the fight against ageing. By Tom Chivers Published: 9:26AM BST 07 Oct 2009 A new study by scientists at Graz University found [...]

FS: Jewelry, versatile, slightly used

Found while perusing Fail Blog. I’ll leave the rest up to your imagination.

Aesthetically pleasing is not normal

It seems like once a week I run across something interesting with regard to fashion and culture. From The Guardian (UK) Brigitte, Germany’s most popular women’s mag, bans professional models • Will only use ‘real women’ in photoshoots • Editor sick of ‘fattening girls up with Photoshop’ Brigitte, which is Germany’s best-selling women’s title with [...]

New survey proves that we love stereotypes

Ah yes, nothing promotes international harmony like poorly designed polls that support cultural stereotypes. From The Guardian (UK) comes this bit of fluff: German men are ‘world’s worst lovers’ with English men in second place German men have been voted the world’s worst lovers, narrowly beating English men to the unwanted title. Published: 7:00AM BST [...]

More to love

Glamour Magazine, apparently emboldened by the huge number of positive responses to their September 2009 issue, featuring a normal-sized woman plus-sized model sporting some belly fat, rounded up some other attractive, normal-sized women plus-sized models for their November issue. Kudos to Glamour Magazine, and to the designers with an eye for the average woman. But [...]