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are in the past, the only ones still anyone else.
holding up the glass ceiling and defining raving an opinion
ourselves by our race, our gender and our around with my head up instead
sexuality. Whatis this struggle about? g at the ground. When I can argue
Don't we all ha:ve the rightt9vote?What e assertive without being called a bitch.
is there left to say? en a man can love another man, can emm
race another man, can talk abollt his fears
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for all those whom society ha stop bonding over hating men. When we feel
deaf ear, those who are screa safe enough to be honest about who we really
heard. I can only speak for en are, what we really want, and what we really
Will I have had enough alread en need from each other.
there is equal representation genders,
all races and all classes in vernment. So that's it. That's me. What about you?
When we all feel that w just enough When will you have had enough already?
right as anyone else t ywhere, at
anytime. When we defining and -Melissa M <l1"t"lrlOltr,nm
restricting others bE ed on their gender,
their race, their religion, or their ~exual
orientation. When we start talking about
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am simply tired of seeing f thesl1' proo thinks they're different from th'e r~st of
ductions of women's rightdd fe'u ism thC;cworld? I thought the point ~ft~ese
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places like where I am fromi,To understamf"withinour own borders. Howe
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that a guy who beats his wife erences while not
his life around after watching the an backfire. Men are
Monologues. I constantly hear how men ge ade to feel inferior.
paid more, get special treatment, are wed to bash men,
allowed more freedoms (whether officially soapbox while men
or not), but this is by no means familiar to ted? It seems that
me. The response from women to these an unfair advann
thoughts has pushed men lower and lower regardless of
until they've become accepted as vile, perr any lifestyle preferr
verse creatures. I'm not sure how muc "125Y""C;"'nces, but if we it oing to strive toward
undeserved criticism I can take.MllYbe it's achieving true equality, keep the scalpel
because these productions would happen away from our balls!

-Anonymous male
Drawing By: Caitlin Hildebrandt
 And Now What You've Been Waiting for:

The Sex Questionnaire Results

Fast Facts:
'Questionnaire was filled out by 32 males, 37 females, and 3 people who didn't identify as either gender for a
total of 72
,54% of those surveyed have had "the talk:"
·91 % of those surveyed have had a one night stand and 24% of those surveyed have them often
·61 % of surveyed have had sex under the influence of alchohol and over 44% of those surveyed have had sex
under the influence of drugs
,72% of those surveyed have protected sex
'70% of those surveyed said that sex is important to a relationship
,40% of those surveyed have had sex (of any kind) with someone ofthe same sex and 37.5% of those surveyed
liked it
'Over 81 % of those surveyed masturbate but only 27% have been caught
'Over 55% of those surveyed have been caught having sex however
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Strangest Place You've Had Sex

4th of July Party Glass elevator Rugby pitch
Beach Golf course, chemistry lab School (3)
Barn Graveyard School hallway, lawn, audito
Bed Home base num stage, bathroom, bus,
Homeless persons shopping cart In a Gap dressing room at track and field, library
Park the mall Shower
Room In between front car seats Side of the highway rest stop
Airport Living room Softball field with a girl
Public beach, standing up behind a rock My head while there was a game
Backseat of a Volvo No where unusual Station wagon parked in
Bed None Boston's Logan Airport
Bedroom On a piano Swimming pool
Bedroom at Killington On the roof of city hall Tent (3)
Car (7) Outside Top of rock climb right by
Cemetery Woods trailhead with people walk
Clubhouse Park ingby
Dirty beach Pool Under a bridge
Pool table in Moses Wendy's drive through
Public shower

Favorite Sexual Position What Is Your Fetishil

Don't have one (3) On bottom
Amputees Hips and mouth
69 and doggie On top or spooning
Authority figures Leather
69 and spooning One
Biting Masculine guys
Any Playing Monopoly
Choking Men in tuxedos
Can't choose Reverse cowboy
Cunnilingus Nipples
Cuddling position Reverse cowgirl
Feet (2) Not telling
Depends (2) Scissoring
Pain Priest
Doggie style (11) Sitting facing partner
Food Teeth, claws, and corsets
From the side or standing Spooning (2)
Fuzzy handcuffs
Last dance ofthe whopping Strawberries and cream
Goth
crane The lawn mower
Missionary (8) Up against a door
Not sure Woman on top (7)

What Is Your Sexual Fantasvil

A good relationship
Getting with an entire family Schoolteacher and naughty student
Guy watching me and another girl
Great sex with a flexible dancer \In zero gravity while on shrooms
Aliens in space
Haven't thought about it Steph Glass
All the women in the world
Having sex with an authority figure Phantom of the Opera
Beach (2)
Having the "perfect day" with the person and To fly a B-52 bomber while getting head
Cheerleaders and nurses
being completely romantic bombing cornfields
Don't have one (12)
Hours on end, a long and cool mountain Someone that is more aggressive
Don't have one wish I did
stream on a cool sunny day Too wild an imagination to pinpoint
Don't really fantasize, oddly enough
Haven't spent time coming up with good one Two girls
Feet
Lesbian threesome Two ladies at once, one being Jessica Alba
Finding an artsy male and traveling with him all
Never ending and the other my lady and some honey and
dirty al over the country. We would make hot
Not telling lots of orgasms
love every morning
Older women
For partner to orgasm first
Summer night in a wild flower bed
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Denial: The Abortion Crisis

P art of the liberties Americans so pride themselves on is the much-lauded choice or a different thought process,
the multitude of life choices any individual can make, from
many people simply do not agree with them on the issue
clothing to political party to location - and yes, even
of souls, life in its beginnings, or when it becomes
religion and morals. So much of the abortion debate, from
'important. '
the, well, pro-choice side, is focused on protecting a
Ultimately, the religious right anti-choicers have
woman's right to choose to either continue or end her
ultimately concluded that they hold the only Truth, and
pregnancy, based on privacy, medicine, social stigmas
that abortion must be criminalized because individual
attached to young unwed mothers, personal trauma, and so
women cannot be trusted to make their own moral dedi
on.
sions. A woman who has an abortion has made a
Those involved in the anti-choice (or pro-life, if you
mistake, because she is wrong, and so future occurrences
will) movement concentrate heavily on the termination of
must be prevented by simply eliminating the idea that
the fetus (or murdering of the unborn child). Life begins at
there is more than one option.
conception, and, South Dakota governor Rounds asserted
There is only one choice.
earlier this month that "In the history of the world, the true
This is not a difficult thing to see; so much of the
test of a civilization is how well people treat the most
anti-abortion rhetoric already focuses on women who
vulnerable and most helpless in their society. The sponsors
have unwanted pregnancies as morally bankrupt in some
and supporters of this bill believe that abortion is wrong
way: I tire of hearing "she should have kept her legs
because unborn children are the most vulnerable and most
shut" and it was her decision to have sex" and "she's a
helpless persons in our society. I agree with ~hen:'" Tu~sday
slut, anyway" and "she was asking to be raped in that
7 March, Rounds signed a law making abortiOn Illegal m
outfIt" and the plethora of women- and victim-blaming
South Dakota.
sentiments that not only absolve men but demonize
At the same time, the Georgia Senate passed three new
women who -gasp!- are sexually active or are proud of
measures aiming to restrict a woman's access to an abortion.
their bodies. The abortion debate becomes less and less
The fIrst measure requires that a woman submits to and
about the "unborn babies" and more about controlling
pays for an ultrasound before she undergoes an abortion.
women's sexuality.
The second act allows pharmacists to refuse to dispense
On Wednesday 15 March in Missouri, the State House
prescribed medication that they feel would cause an aborr
approved a bill that cuts all Medicaid coverage or statee
tion (note: Plan B does not end a pregnancy, it delays
funded contraceptive for low-income women. The
ovulation, preventing pregnancy, just as a birth control pill
measure also prohibits state-funded programs from
does). The third act, under the guise of a domestic violence
referring these women to programs that do offer contraa
measure, allows prosecutors to charge defendants with t:"0 ception.
murders or crimes if a woman who is killed or attacked IS
Logic would state that if a woman does not have access
pregnant at any stage, creating the future possib~lity o~
to contraception, her chance of becoming pregnant would
being able to charge a woman who had an abortiOn WIth
increase, and if she becomes pregnant and is poor, then .
murder. These bills are currently in the House.
she is likely to at least consider an abortion - increasmg
These acts have shaken to the core those committed to
abortion rates, going against what most Republicans
protecting a woman's right to a legal, safe abortion, creating
want.
a fear of a return to nationwide criminalization of the
Denying a woman contraception and denying a ..
procedure, creating a new black market in the United States
woman abortion is what many anti-choicers and Republn
of dangerous, and deadly, back alley "alternatives" for those
cans are aiming for. They've made the choice for
desperate enough.
women: don't have sex or pay the consequences, and the
What so many anti-choicers fail to recognize is that
law will judge you by our standards. .
medically, no one has been able to pinpoint the moment
-Kasey Benthin
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We all know that story of Rapunn
zel, and how she was promised to
the wicked witch to repay the debts
of her parents. At age twelve, we
also know that the witch, due to
Rapunzel's over whelming beauty
was locked in the tallest tower in
the middle of the woods. This
tower had no doors or stairs, only a
window and Rapunzel's long
golden hair.
For the first twelve years Rapunn
zellived with the 'witch' in town.
The 'witch' that Rapunzellived with
was not a witch; she was nothing
more than a lesbian who got a bad
rap in the story books. Furthermore
she did not trick Rapunzel parents
into giving her over; she made a deal
with her neighbors, for Rapunzel
well-being. Rapunzel's biological
father was a drunk, and her mother
was a smack addict, they had eight
children that they already couldn't
take care of and they lived in a trailer
next door. Rapunzel's adoptive
mother, Nancy was always jealous
because her and her partner (untold
about in the story books) were unable
to have children of there own, and
with state regulations there were not
able to adopt.
During Rapunzel's childhood,
Rapunzel spent her days outside with
her mothers. She learned about
gardening; even tending to her own
plot of land where she grew tomatoes
and basil. Nancy read her books in
the backyard. They rolled in the
grass, and sang songs; for Rapunzellife
was splendid.
As Rapunzel grew older, she went to
school, where she learned to read and
write. She did well in school. She was
always at the head of her class. She
had found interests in the environment,
the goddess religions, and politics with
a focus on womyns issues. She even
had become friends with some of the
town's children including four of her
eight of her biological brother and
sisters.
Things were working out well for
Rapunzel until she was in the seventh
grade, and was asked to do poster
presentation on her family tree. This
was the first time that Rapunzel had
questioned her family situation. She
realized that she was different. During
Rapunzel's presentation a fellow
classmate called out, calling Rapunzel a
"fag". After school she found that her
locker had been vandalized and threatt
ening notes had to left on the door. On
Rapunzel's walk home, she was chased
by a car full of boys, who threw rocks,
and yelled at her. When she got home
she fell to the floor and sobbed. She
swore she would not return to school,
and swore off all humans, for the evil
and hurtful things they had said.
Rapunzel's moms were very concerned
for their daughter, they wanted her to
be safe but they also insisted that she
receive an education. The investigated
options of home schooling, found that
Rapunzel could take classes online.
During which time Rapunzellived at
home with her moms, but soon after the
close-minded hicks around the town
started again harass Rapunzel and her
family. The last straw was a rape
threat that had been tied to a brick
that came crashing threw the living
room window.
Nancy and her partner made the
decision that it was no longer safe to
for them to live in town, so they
purchased a Subaru Outback, and
headed for the country side. The
three spent the next year building two
houses, one for Nancy and her
partner and the other for Rapunzel;
they felt that it was good for her to
assume an independent lifestyle at an
early age.
Rapunzel designed an amazing
house; it stood two stories high, with
only a rock wall leading up the
door. She designed a pulley system
bring in the produce she grew in her
garden, and wood she cut for her
small fire. The only technology she
kept from the outside world was
wireless internet and her laptop
computer so that she could keep up
with her classes.
While living in the wilderness,
Rapunzel became a peace with the
earth. She felt that her cycles were
intoned with the moons, and the
stars. She began to think of herself
as a part of nature. She slowly forgot
about the expectation of the outside
world; she was often naked, fmding
clothes too restricting, she stopped
shaving her armpits and legs, and she
stopped cutting her hair. In fact her
hair grew so long, that when she sat
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in the window in hung down in long
flowing locks.
The only connection she kept was
through the Internet. She became quite
suave at maneuvering through the
pages of the World Wide Web. She
frequented feminist written blogs, and
even helped to run the current web
address for NOW and Riot Grrl USA.
She also dabbled in some long distant
online dating. She found both men
and womyn appealing, but was still
overall scared of how people in the
outside Finally, after years living by
herself, she decided that it was time to
venture into the world to give it another
try. She made new clothes,
and packed her bags. She locked up her
house, and gave the rest of her
vegetables to her mothers. The last step
before leaving, was an over all change,
she cut her long golden hair (to which
she donated to locks of love), and went
on her way.
The last time I talked to her, she was
doing well. She had found a small
town in Vermont, were she worked for
small grass roots womyns organizations
and was currently dating a handd
some transgender boi named
Frankie. She even said she was
working on a book entitled, "Rapunn
zel, Rapunzel, Let down Your Hair:
A Commentary on America's
Uptight Society, from The Girl in
The Tower".
-Amanda L. Fernandes

"Do you remember the story of Cinderella? She is sitting at home rather pissed off, waiting to go
to the ball, and not having a thing to wear, when the fairy godmother whizzes in and puts it all
right. One of the most important things about the fairy godmother is that she transforms all the
old stuff around Cinderella into new and useful equipnient: the rags, the pumpkin, the rats, and so
forth. This little girl's fairy godmother turned out to be called Feminism. As well as cheering
the little girl up no end, Feminism also transformed all the old things around her."
Sara Maitland 1983
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Drawing By: AmandaL. Fernandes
 The Bigger Princess Fairy Tale
~Once upon a time, a kingdom far, far away found itself in the midst of a crisis. The late King Stinjybutocks had
iaied suddenly, and quite inconsiderately leaving no heir to the illustrious throne of Chauvinistia . Ordinarily the
.,,::Udngdom would go to his eldest son. Unfortunately King Stinjybutocks was seriously lacking in the eldest son
\'!department, in fact he had no sons at all. What he did have, in great abundance, were daughters. (Insert gasp
here.) Yes, the poor king had been cursed with daughters and not blessed with sons. Now usually this was only a
matter of slight inconvenience when deciding upon the next ruler of the Chauvinistia, had good ole' Stinjybutocks
not also been lacking in the eldest daughter department. If this had not been the case then, according to tradition,
the kingdom would have gone to whomsoever the eldest daughter decided to marry. But King Stinjybutocks had
been cursed with triplets. The triplets were, in no particular order, Princess Sweetbutstoopid, Princess Prittybatt
petulant, and Princess Ann.

Princess Sweetbutstoopid was very nice but incredibly devoid of both personality and brains. However she had
flowing blond hair and deep blue eyes and this is really all that matters when one is a princess. Princess Prittybatt
petulant had probably the worst temper in the whole of Chauvinistia. She had many rather strange tendencies.
One of the more gruesome happened to involve her drinking herself into a stupor, after which she would verbally
bash the kitchen maids, play wild, passionate, games of Botchy Ball with members of the kings war counsel, and
then wake up several hours later, horribly hung over in a chicken coup with the heads of several of the more
unfortunate stable boys, which she would have lopped off in a rage after noticing the sky was blue. But none of
that mattered because she was ever more beautiful than her sister Sweetbutstoopid. She had the darkest raven
hued hair that fell to her waist, and her eyes were just as blue as her sisters. (if slightly less vacant and rather
more insane.) And really that's all that matters if you're a princess. What are a few stable boys and a stained glass
window if you can make every eligible prince in your immediate vicinity fall to his knees and propose marriage?

That brings me to Princess Ann, the hugest failure of a princess ever recorded in history. Intelligent and kind,
with contemporary views on politics and the criminally insane, she treated everyone in the kingdom as her equal.
She was rumored to do her own laundry with the peasant women in the town pond and, horror upon horrors,
read books. Princess Sweetbutstoopid could not read a single word, but would be very nice about it and Princess
Prittybatpetulant had eaten a book once. The late King Stinjybutocks's advisors had decided that each princess
should be given the chance to marry a prince and then the richest (and hopefully stupidest) would be chosen to
"rule" Chauvinistia, and the others could laze around not reading books.

On the morning before the grand ball where the princesses would choose their suitors, Princess Ann decided to
take an early morning dip in the town swimming pool. (Also known as the town pond, the town reservoir and the
town waste treatment plant.) As she walked back to the castle after a refreshing swim, Princess Ann met an old
woman. "Hello," said Ann politely, "How are you on this exceptionally fine morning?" The old woman regarded
Aim with a critical eye. Ann's frizzy brown hair was still dripping with water and her sharp brown eyes looked
out of her frank freckled face kindly and with no small amount of intelligence. This was highly unusual for a
princess. Not to mention, Princess Ann was fat. Not fat by the standards of anyone in the village, but fat comm
pared to the waifish Sweetbutstoopid and the frantically anorexic Prittybatpetulant. And yet it was quite obvious
that she was a princess. Although her hair was cropped close to her head and she was lacking in all the necessary
princess "attributes" of docile mindlessness and beauty, she held her head high and walked in a firm confident
way. There was something about the set of her mouth and the way she looked at a person the identified her as
undoubtedly royal.

The old woman made a decision. "Well my dear, I am horribly fatigued and not a little bit hungry, but if you help
me on my way I will give you three things." The old woman, who was by the way, wrinkled and warty and reekk
ing of cheap rum, pulled out of her voluminous robes a stone, a seed, and a rather shell shocked wombat. Princess
Ann certainly didn't need her biting intellect to see this woman was crazy, and quite probably drunk.
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However she was also more than likely hungry and tired so Princess Ann decided to humor her and then see that
she got a good warm meal an a place to sleep afterwards. "You needent bestow gifts upon me for simply doing
what any decent individual would," said Ann. "Why don't you just come with me and we'll get you fixed up in no
time" she offered hopefully. "But you are kind," said the old woman, "and I want to help you" "Very well" said
Ann with some measure of veiled resignation.

"This stone will turn into an enormous library with all the knowledge in the world if only you will bury it in the
ground when you get home and give away all your books" the old woman tossed the stone in Ann's direction and
she deftly caught it. This seed will grow a tree the sheds leaves of pure gold if you will plant it under the midday
sun and give away all your money" the seed was pressed firmly into Ann's slightly sweaty hand. This, albeit
rumpled, wombat will turn into the most beautiful prince when the sun goes down if you will carry it with you
tonight and refuse every suitor at the ball."

Ann regarded the old woman steadily. She was not a cynic by any means but obviously this woman was at least
some lettuce, two slices of tomato, and maybe a pickle short of a sandwich. But as Princess Ann thought about the
books she regarded almost as friends she realized that the peasants would really benefit form learning to read.
Princess Ann Thought about the huge fortune she'd amassed with her various money making schemes and her
invention of the stock market, and realized the town roads could use some repair, the well was going dry, and there
was a poor harvest this year so many of the peasants would go hungry. But Ann Certainly did not care for a
prince, or a wombat for that matter however, she looked into its pleading, fear crazed, eyes and took pity on it. She
decided in that moment to do as the woman said, just to be nice. Besides, she liked to make statements and decided
a wombat would be just the thing for the ball that night. So Princess Ann took the old woman to the castle, gave
her some clean clothing, a warm meal, a place to sleep, and a cold compress for her head. She then went out and
buried the stone and distributed the books among the villagers with promises of reading lessons in the town hall 2
nights a week. She then made herself a nice healthy snack and set about working out the kingdoms finances.

Meanwhile the old woman thought it was only fair to offer the other two princesses her services. Princess Swett
butstoopid listened very politely to the old woman and then replied "Thank you for your concern, I will have
Frank scrub it immediately" which of course was total nonsense. So back into the old woman's robes went the
stone, the seed, and the despairing wombat. Princess Prittybatpetulant received the gifts but did not fallow
instructions. She chucked the stone at a passing duck, stuck the seed to her forehead, and forcibly inserted the
wombat into a teakettle. "That's what I thought" said the old woman to herself, and went and took a nap.

Meanwhile it was midday and Princess Ann, planted the seed, still toting the wombat, and distributed her fortune
accordingly. Then she had lunch and started to clean her room. Meanwhile her sisters who were respectively
wilting and mad with hunger after not having eaten in three days were getting ready for the ball. Hours later, and
a few minutes before the ball was to begin, Princess Ann threw on a pretty frock and, wombat in tow, went down
to the dance. She caused quite a stir but seemed to be enjoying it all and, ignoring her foppish suitors, went and
talked business with the late King Stinjybutocks's financial advisor.

When the time came, Sweetbutstoopid had chosen a prince who owned half of Madagascar but spoke no English.
Prittybatpetulant had kicked the buhjeezus out of all the suitors with a champagne bottle but had slung one of the
richer ones over her shoulder so everyone was happy. Princess Ann turned to the assembled nobles, finished
chewing, and said, "I'm Happy with the wombat, thanks." The obligatory gasp of the upper class Chauvinistians
was drowned out by the cheering of the villagers from the courtyard. In the middle of the courtyard was a beautii
ful new library, a tree with gently rustling golden leaves and turning to the wombat everyone beheld the most
regal prince ever seen. "Hi," said Ann politely, as she passed him to help the abused suitors of Prittybatpetulant t
slOWly recover and or find all their limbs. Suddenly a golden glow of enlightenment filled the great hall and it wa
then decided that this whole sexist suitors business was a total crock and, clearly, Princess Ann should officially
run the kingdom.
The End

Fairy Tale By: Emma Howland-Bolton

You don't know where to go. You don't know what to do, or how to find out.
Trapped, helpless. You fill in the time, the hours and days, with other
stuff to wait until you find out. When you know, you're willing to devote
yourself to it... But you've tried to go seeking out the answer, and every
attempt has failed. Now you wait, wait, wait for it to oome. Other people
have expectations for you, so you work on those expectations, on I filling ,
them. But this is not what you're supposed to be doing, it seems, or if
it is you don't know it---and it doesn't fit. And, so, you cannot put your
all into others' expectations. You don't know why you should be doing what
others think. It I s what ~. you do. You tl doni t want to be a failure, you
want to have accomplished.~ something, to bi1 at peace with yourself. And,
so, husy work. It's not :~ busy like ~; others are busy, no, and you
~robably ~eat yourself up~over howbii~tle act~vity ~ou take part
1n. But 1t'S the same I ~ m1ndset, 1sn't 1t? AS when a
teacher gives you an assif.nment for,.f.• the sake of filling up a class
or fulfilling a school- ~ goal,.~there is no proper purpose to
the work you're doing.~ It's . just .•• work. Class work, work
around your house. Oh,!/l you
"-.1
"should" be doing better,
should ll be doing more." But you donlt know how to, don't
know what to do. Don't know what this feeling is, this
empty, inactive feeling; Don't know don't know donlt
know ... So you follow directions and fulfill assign-
ments, you try to decid you want to do after school,
what job you'd like, what maJoF ,~(you want to go with. You con-
vince yourself that these . d~&isions, these aotions and these
ehoices, will be the ones thati~, fill that empty feeling; these
choices will be the things to~· i,~k, empower you. And it's still just
filling what others think you· should do. 1 1 m getting to the
point of saying fuck delusion;, I'm sick and tired of nothingness.
I donlt just want to survive.. )
1 How long before that survival, that
waiting, becomes normal? Bow 'long until they're no longer being
used for their intended purpos How long do I just survive for,
slowly striving for more, unti I've forgotten what I was waiting
for? until I no longer think about what I want to do in life ... I am nei-
ther a docile female nor a headstrong child, I am a woman, I am a person, I
am me ... and I'm tired of this. I keep drawing this pioture ... Of a human
figure, a girl, dressed in a green vest, off-white button shirt underneath
and a skirt---a schoolgirl uniform .... And she's a doll, a realistic one,
of cloth instead of plastic, and she's a puppet ••• Strings are tied to her
wrists and she's hanging limply ... And the third one is tied around her
neok. Gibbeted ••• puppet.
Following the roles others give her instead of acting for herself. Inno-
cent and young, and gray, and trapped ... And there is no puppet master
holding her strings, there'S no one else she can blame • • • • I'm tired of
dangling. I will stand up, I will not lie down, I will not wait forever.
1 1 m done with this.

-Xylia Pellegrino
 The Details
of it All
Walking in on misery
never trusting
nhoyouare
Hating
the complicated details of it all

Who has this much power

that they can
break
down
all your walls?
Climbing in your head
dhaunting
ou under the sheets

isery, and pain that

oying little game
taclesthat
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eface

owing
ouare
ting the changes
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at the nonexistent

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saway
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seless

-Rebecca Kazimer

Drawj.ng By: Melissa Markstrom

• .
 From the Lips of Luck
Carried from birth
From the womb to the amorous lips
Of luck and all her well-
dressed mistresses
shared,
and the taste of their mouths
remembered like the disapproving stares from
everyone, everyone, everyone else.
(trust, still the womb preferred,
and in breasts I indulged,
after all, hadn't you two?
One for your lovers, and one to lose.)
And from luck, I was likened
to you: defined by my chest, deilled
by the rest, designed undressed.
Women lay and women leave
marks of their weight, proportionate
to the volume of their shampoos,
on my bones still,
like lilacs who compensate
for fifty wasted weeks waiting
Their re-birth, or forgetting they'd
Ever bloomed.
And Cinderella, I have met,
in a parking lot, worshipping cancer
and chocolate;
and again in her bed, before head
somewhere between open mouths
and opened legs-
and she said,
"words are better than people
and tongues more saintly than sweet.
You're not very likely to remember
but I'll like you better from underneath."
Luck had rendered me speechless
With its language a relic--
borne from Felt-tip pens,
various cancers, and clever gestures,
conceived from a tongue inside of a smile
that removed a pair panties, and a set of
eyes that swallowed her mother's mouth,
and all the hope to ever be without.
all the while, luck, my love,
Stands smiling, quietly aware
That her outsides are my insides
And these insides are empty.
-Ben Atkinson
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 N ewton, Descartes,
And the Art of SelF-Pleasure
When asked to write a paper comparing a daily activity to the laws of Newton and the opinion of
Descartes,' my mind grazed through many possibilities. None of these ideas could be deemed
appropriate, which led me to ask a second question: when have I ever been concerned with such
things? So, here I present you with my "master" piece.

The laws of Newton and the opinion
of Descartes can be concretely linked
with the art of self-pleasure and the
human sexual response. This may be
done by presenting each of Newton's
laws and establishing the avenue of
self-pleasure contextually around the
law. Later, Descartes' opinions on
man versus machine will be comm
pared to natural manual stimulation
versus the use of mechanical, sexual
aids. The link between Newton and
Descartes and the use of self-pleaa
sure will become exceedingly clear
Newton
Law I
"Every body continues in its state of
rest, or of uniform motion in a right
lin,e, unless it is compelled to change
that state by forces impressed upon
it" (Newton 73).
The human body will remain at a
state of rest unless it is compelled to
move. This motion can be involunn
tary, such as an outside force
impressed upon it. For example, a
truck hits someone. However, this
movement can also be voluntary.
Humans may intentionally impress
force upon their bodies, such as the
act of masturbation.
The genitals of the person will
stay at rest, until it is compelled to
change its state, due to the stage of
arousal or stimulation. A woman for
example, will impress force upon her
breasts, clitoris, or vaginal opening.
This motion will continue, until the
desire for force ceases.
Newton describes the "greater
bodies," such as planets and comets,
meeting ''with less resistance in the freer the genitals accompanied with an
spaces, preserving their motion both outside force such as a second hand
progressive and circular for a much directly meeting that motion with
longer time" (Newton 73). This is much force, the genitals would be set into a
like the genitals of the female. The path oblique to the first motion. For
labium creates a freer space, when arousal example, if a male was to apply a
increases. Also, the vaginal walls create a forward motion ascending up the
lubricant that allows "both progressive genital, and he bumped his hand, the
and circular [motion, for] a much longer force of the bump would send his
time". For this, the vagina is directly hand and genitals in an oblique angle
compared to the mystery ofthe outer to the side where the force contacted.
space. The human sexual response cycle Law III
is compared to the axis which the planets "To every action there is always
follow. During the act of self-pleasure, opposed an equal reaction: or, the
the human body follows a cycle of excitee mutual actions oftwo bodies upon
ment resulting in the act of lubrication each other are always equal, and
and "tenting," plateau resulting in an directed to the contrary parts"
increase in heart rate and flushness on (Newton 73).
face and chest, orgasm the climax of During the state of arousal, the
cycle lasting approximately 3-5 seconds, genitals ofboth male, and females
and fmally resolution where bodily will swell, and fill with blood. This
functions return to normal entering a causes the penis and clitoris to
period of relaxation (Gore 1). In the end enlarge and stand at attention. When
the body returns to its normal state, and force is applied to this erect object,
begins rotation again when force is again pressure is placed upon not only the
impress upon it. hand, or chosen route of stimulation,
Law II but by the genitals themselves. The
"The change of motion is proportional to pressure of the hand is directly equal
the motive force impressed; and is made to the pressure of the genital. "The
in the direction of the right line in which changes made by these actions are
that force is impressed" (Newton 73). equal, not in the velocities but in the
The motion used during solo pleasure motions of the bodies" (Newton 73).
differs from person to person. What This can also be perceived when
remains constant is that the force the force imposed on the body
impressed on the genitals is equal to the warrants a reaction equal to the effort
motion it creates. If one were to prefer a put in. During stimulation, both men
slow, gentle touch the force needed would and womyn will enter an orgasmic
be less than that of one who desired hard state, the end resulting in orgasm, and
and fast stimulation. release fluid. The force impressed on
If one were to employ stimulation in the genitals, is rewarded with a
an up-and-down force applied to reaction equal to
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thee effort in the initial stimulation. options: the first being natural manual without a hmnan to direct it, the
,~timulation .. i.e. the use ofthe hand and vibrator is useless.
De.~carte.~
Nature vs. Technology digits, and the second being the use of
In the opinion o:fDescartes~ ~i.mil~ate sex de:rices, i.-e. dildos, After stating the fact~ comparing
machme.s will neliler achieve equal ...It 18 morally ImpOSSIble to have enough sexllillll re]e&~e to Newton'g la\\'S
wine to that ofhmn.1ll.'S. This" he diff~Tent organs in a machine to ,make it and DeK:artes' opinion, it is cle;r
state;:.;, i~ for two re.aSm]$: first, act mall the occw:re,ncesof1ife in the that the, laws ofmotion and theones
ma.chi'J:le-s, although capable of samee way &"!l our re.aron makes 'Us ace" of scientific truths can be
res.pol.lSe, me, incapable of eJ.uotional (Descarte.<; 69) adequately applied within thee
reactions,and second, machines Wl!ll In the field of self-ple~<;ure there ~re, oontextofthe mt of self-pleasure.
nev'er .have the ability to "act throug,b for \~romYll: at least, two differe~ optI~: Ne\vton's law ofmoticmdirectly
knowledge,," meaning that though the. first being natuIal mallual stl!l1UUanOn, related to the action'S needed in
they.may Slup3JSS the ability of i.e. the usc ofthe hmd. and digits,andthe achieving sexual s:ati~faction. The
hmm,ms they .,,\·ill never lliave thee seo~dh~,ing ~e USe of ~m1imate~e.... opinion of Descarte.s, comparing:
ability to make conscience de:c:isions devIces." I.e~ dildo.s" phallic shaped Items, ftmctional abilities of human versus
and.actious (Descartes. 69). and ~ib:ato1's. Manual stimulation cmtl. be a machines in the capacity ofthe
",...It ismomlly impossible to have very .I!IltLmate,. and pe!'s:oll:3i1 experie,nce. human hand versus the modern
enough different organs in a machine Thehan~ is kno\l~le~gea~l~ ofthe body sexual aid, can also be. applied to
to make it act in all the occurrences of and g:eJ]lltal.s,iIll.:Blk~ng dec:1SloUS ofpre-ssure the art ,ofself-pleasure.
life in. the sam,e, way as ourre:(lls:on and :speed. The Vibrator, on the. other
make$ mad." (Descartes 69) hand, is less illtimate. 'l'h.is: is not say.ing
In the; field ofself-pl;easure there that is: does: not get the. job done, 'on. the
aFe., fur wornyu at least, tVl'O diffe,rent contrary, it owns the job. Yet, on.it<; own,

Ne\vton~ bailliC.Axiom'S, or Laws or Motion.. 16&7

De.scmes, Rene' . Di~oomsed on tbe Method ofProperty Conduction One~s Re:a:son and of Seeking the. Tmth in
the Science.. (1596- 1650)
Gore Ph.D, Paul The Hmnan Se..xuaI Response Cycle. 3f15l05 http://,,,vww.l.unkc.edu/siteslhsw/Se~responsel

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