Gloria's Oversexed Mind

Don't forget, girls and boys, you've got 11 days left to tell me.

March 8, 2008

This month, I'm running a contest for readers. I post so many different things here on the blog. But one thing I've never done is just flat out ask...

If I was doing this blog JUST FOR YOU, what would I be writing?

Send me email telling me what you think I should write about and why. Be creative. Be bold. Be honest. Aim high. Aim low! Just play the game.

The grand prize: Me. What more could anyone ask for? If you're the lucky winner, for one full day in April, I will write as if I was your bitch working for you.

Think of all the perverts you will impress in years to come when you breezily say, "Gloria Brame? Of course I know her. She was my verbiage-slave."

Send me email and control my mind for a day. Or, if that's just too scary to contemplate, just send me email, you subbie thing, you.

Contest Rules:

Who needs rules? Just remember that if you ask me to do the redonkulous, you lose.

March 20, 2008 in Caption Contest | Permalink | Comments (2)

By Mithras Invicti

Hallelujah:

Other things being equal, ... youngsters who have consensual sex in their early-teen or even preteen years are, if anything, less likely to engage in delinquent behavior later on.

That new analysis ... is one of several recent instances in which a more precise parsing of data has begun to turn long-standing societal presumptions on their head. By bringing evidence to bear on complex social issues, these studies are forcing individuals and policymakers to rethink such hot-button topics as the benefits of breast-feeding, the risks of teen child-bearing and, in the latest example, the harms long presumed to result from teen sex.

Not for the first time, repressive, religiously-motivated anti-sex attitudes led scientists to misinterpret the data they were seeing. It took more precise techniques and an unbiased approach to find the truth:

[Another study, from Virginia,] found that identical twins, who have the same DNA, were more similar to one another in the ages at which they lost their virginity than were fraternal twins, whose DNA patterns are 50 percent the same -- an indication that genes influence the age at which a person will first have sex. Other twin studies have found the same pattern for delinquency.

Together, those findings suggest that some genes -- perhaps, for example, those that increase impulsivity and risk-taking -- may underlie both behaviors.

"You need to have some appetite for risk-taking to be a delinquent. And the same if you're 13 and going to have sex for the first time," Harden said.

This is significant because the government has focused its efforts on delaying early sexual behavior - including such extremely problematic tools such as abstinence-only education - as a means to prevent other, bad outcomes. If there is no causal link between early sex and delinquency, that approach is useless.

Efforts to prevent delinquency can hardly take aim at people's genes. But the Virginia study also indicates that social factors, as yet unidentified but perhaps involving relationships with family and friends, have an even bigger impact than genes on whether a child will become delinquent. Those are the things that should be identified and targeted by delinquency-prevention programs, said Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, co-director of Columbia University's National Center for Children and Families.

"I wouldn't be focusing on early sexuality . . . to alter rates of delinquency," she said.

That sound you hear is the gnashing of teeth by millions of anti-sex activists.

Perhaps most surprising, the Virginia study found that adolescents who had sex at younger ages were less likely to end up delinquent than those who lost their virginity later. Many factors play into a person's readiness for sex, but in at least some cases sexual relationships may offer an alternative to trouble, the researchers say.

I can see the slogans for that public service campaign now: "Do positions, not drugs."

Of course, there is still the obligatory stern warning:

Even then, there are emotional and physical risks. Young adolescents, in particular, are less likely to use condoms and so are vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies.

Yes, well, that's a public health problem that stems from a lack of knowledge. The answer to that, of course, is sex education for pre-teens.

-Mithras

November 16, 2007 in Caption Contest, Sex and Culture, Sexual Science and Medicine | Permalink | Comments (0)

Don't forget folks, we're fast running out of time for you to enter the May caption contest.

I'm going to extend the deadline one more day because of the long holiday weekend in the US last week - but come midnight tomorrow, this contest will be closed. As in bu-bu-bu-bye-bye!

Just look at that puppy!

We're all panting to find out who wins!

May 31, 2007 in Caption Contest | Permalink | Comments (0)

It's time once again for the monthly mayhem that is this blog's caption contest. (Yeah, I know, there's really no mayhem involved, it just sounded good.) But first another thank you to April's winner, Phil G., who has requested (and shall soon receive) an autographed copy of Come Hither.

Now that a second winner has opted for a discreet prize, I can't help wondering if anyone's exhibitionistic enough to take me up on my offer of a whole day where you can shamelessly parade yourself around the blog. But, hey, voyeurs, please don't let that stop you from entering this month's contest and sending me the funniest caption you can come up with for this puppy.

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Rules/Prizes

To enter the contest, email me your caption by midnight (Pacific time) May 31, 2007.

The winner will be announced at the beginning of June.

The winner may choose ONE of two prizes: an autographed copy of one of Gloria's books, personalized just for you; or the AMAZING opportunity to dominate this blog for a day! Whoo! Promote your own blog, website, art, writing, business or any good cause you support on this blog for a whole day.*

JUDGES: The three Brames (Gloria, Will and Kittypet)

* (Subject to my final approval of course. Illegal/hateful content not allowed.)

May 6, 2007 in Caption Contest | Permalink | Comments (2)

And the witty winner this month is....Martin G. of Rhode Island!

Does this room make my ass look fat?

Honorable Mention to CAuman for:
With the music to "Days of Our Lives "playing in the background, the voiceover announcer says, "Like sands through the hourglass, this is the shape of my behind.

Thanks to all the folks who sent in entries. You had us laughing out loud.

I'll announce Martin's prize choice when I post the caption contest for May (probably this weekend).

May 3, 2007 in Caption Contest | Permalink | Comments (1)

Don't foget! You have until April 30th to give this your bet shot, so please rev up your fingers, and write a caption for this!

(Rules/prizes below)

Rules/Prizes

To enter the contest, email me your caption by midnight (Pacific time) April 30, 2007.

The winner will be announced at the beginning of next month, as will choices for "honorable mention."

The winner may choose ONE of two prizes: an autographed copy of one of Gloria's books, personalized just for you; or the AMAZING opportunity to dominate this blog for a day! Whoo! Promote your own blog, website, art, writing, business or any good cause you support on this blog for a whole day.*

JUDGES: The three Brames (Gloria, Will and Kittypet)

* (Subject to my final approval of course. Illegal/hateful content not allowed.)

April 10, 2007 in Caption Contest | Permalink | Comments (0)

And the winner is....!

"Diplododick", who has requested and will receive an autographed copy of...Domina! Ooh. What a perv! Maybe I'll throw in a lipstick kiss too. :)

It's raining men. Hallelujah!

Honorable Mentions:

Second in the photo-finish, to Nightheron for :
"What happens in the Vatican, stays in the Vatican."

For sheer number of words, to Jagreisser for:
The boys of St. Stephan's Catholic Boy's School, while attending their 20-year class reunion, learn from their old teacher Sister Anne that God is angry at them, and that He has not forgotten about, nor forgiven them for their 20 year-old schoolboy prank with Sister Anne's umbrella and the statue of Jesus. Dutifully the boys line-up to receive their punishment from Sister Anne and to accept God's absolution.

For creative absurdity, to artist537 for:
Nunspeak

And for topicality, to IMMature for:
Ok, which one of you posed for Chocolate Jesus?"

Thank you to ALL the folks who sent in captions. The judges had a blast reading them!

Coming up next: the April caption contest.

April 5, 2007 in Caption Contest | Permalink | Comments (1)

Have you entered the March caption contest for your choice of a groovy prize?

March 9, 2007 in Caption Contest | Permalink | Comments (0)

It's the merry month of March in the glorious northeast Georgia woods, where songbirds are warbling and daffodils blooming, and buds are plumping on branches everywhere you look, and I've decided to add a couple of features to the blog. I always like switching things up a little, as readers who've been with me since the beginning have probably noticed. I've always had a restless nature.

The first and best of these two features is going to be a monthly review of best-selling sex books, compiled by my frisky assistant and now guest blogger, Mayim. On the first Monday of each month, Mayim will give us her pick of four sexy books selling at Amazon.com.

We'll be kicking it off this Monday - and you'll always be able to find her recommendations by category. Just look for "My Oh Mayim! Hot Books"

The second feature is a monthly caption contest. I always find strange things as I rove - things I can't quite explain. So maybe you can. Now I just have to think of a prize to inspire the caption-writer in you. An autographed copy of a book? An autographed photo of yours truly? An opportunity to blog on my blog, promoting your own blog or ga ood cause, for a day? (Subject to my final editorial approval, of course.) Maybe I'll just let the winner pick.

March 3, 2007 in Caption Contest | Permalink | Comments (0)