A female dominant is sometimes called a domme, femdomme, domina, or dominatrix. In the English speaking world, "Mistress" is by far the most common dominatrix title.

Femdom activities may draw on all areas of BDSM. Feminization and strap-on dildo play are common activities, as well as panty fetishism and boot worship.Cuckold is also a area of female Dominance

Erotic humiliation can focus on the inadequacy of a male's penis, demoting it to a plaything for the dominatrix, over which the male has no real control.

Related femdom activities include ballbusting, cock and ball torture (CBT), verbal humiliation, forced chastity, orgasm denial or orgasm control, and forced homosexuality.   more »

"Historically, conceptions of female sexuality vacillate between it being very dangerous and something that must be controlled to the idea dating back to the Victorian age that most women don't have sexual feelings at all," Kapinus said.

Some sexual health education programs in high schools only ever cover risk factors and basic anatomy, she said.

"Even in modern education, not a lot of attention is put on female desire," she said. "Women are to be sexual only under certain circumstances."

Health science professor Jeffrey Clark has taught a sexual health course on campus for 14 years, and said the main problem with sexual health education today is the taboo that often surrounds it.

"The fear is that if we teach young people about sex, they're going to want to do it," Clark said. "We've not taught people about sex for a long time and they still want to do it. Education won't tip them over."   more »

The fundamental problem remains the lopsided distribution of power in the international system.

Any country in the same position as the US, even a democracy, would be tempted to exercise its hegemonic power with less and less restraint.

America's founding fathers were motivated by a similar belief that unchecked power, even when democratically legitimated, could be dangerous, which is why they created a constitutional system of internally separated powers to limit the executive.

Such a system does not exist on a global scale today, which may explain how America got into such trouble.

A smoother international distribution of power, even in a global system that is less than fully democratic, would pose fewer temptations to abandon the prudent exercise of power.   more »

Missing is any mention about the purported connection between breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy.

Also absent is information on parabens, phthalates and other carcinogenic chemicals, which are disturbingly common in consumer goods from lipstick to lotion.

The silence on these subjects mirrors the focus that both the American Cancer Society and Susan G. Komen for the Cure place on the profitable business of curing cancer rather than preventing it.

That would likely would hurt the bottom line of many of their biggest donors. Consumers are told that shopping will help find a cure -- a message that is not lost on advertisers.

Vogue sings the praises of one prolific advertiser, Ralph Lauren, who this year is selling polo shirts with bullseyes above the breast to target breast cancer.   more »

Hi-Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off to War We Go

Bush is bored. He has a year and a half left in his presidency, and he only has two wars going at the same time.

The American economy is on the verge of a recession. Just to make sure he still has the magic, the president just vetoed a bill that would have given millions more children health insurance.

But for this President, these challenges are old hat. He's been there, destroyed that.   more »