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Catherine Townsend
A sex and dating columnist, Catherine Townsend published her first novel Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress in 2007, and followed up with Breaking The Rules: Confessions of a Bad Girl in 2008. She also appeared in How To Have Sex After Marriage on Five, and is now writing a third book. Born in Arkansas, Catherine was a gossip columnist for New York Magazine before moving to London in 2003, since when she has had a very interesting - and pretty public - private life...
The word 'clitoris' is on list of words banned from Google's safe search option, according to The F-Word. A search for 'clitoris' with the safe option switched on brings up zero hits, while a search for 'penis' turns up 33 million. This seems incredibly sexist: The word isn't slang, it's the proper name of a sexual organ. If 'penis' and 'scrotum' are deemed safe for work, then Google should get its act together. Why make it even harder for people to locate?
'Clitoris' should not be a dirty word for children, either. I'm all for protecting them from pornography, but they need to be able to access scientific information. Kids in Amsterdam have certainly benefited from an open, honest sex education policy - they know all about masturbation, anal sex and prostitution...and they have the lowest teenage pregnancy and abortion rate in Europe.
'Clitoris' should not be a dirty word for children, either. I'm all for protecting them from pornography, but they need to be able to access scientific information. Kids in Amsterdam have certainly benefited from an open, honest sex education policy - they know all about masturbation, anal sex and prostitution...and they have the lowest teenage pregnancy and abortion rate in Europe.
