women

one for the men and the skinny women too

June 28, 2010

Here at Medicinal Marzipan I heavily promote learning to love your body regardless of the size, no matter where on the fitness/weight spectrum you fall, and no matter what your age/gender/income/location – I want you to love yourself. Period. Last week, a wonderful and thought provoking post appeared on Make Me A Tree [a totally [...]

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how to have “fat”/phat sex

February 10, 2010

I’m not a big fan of using quotation marks excessively, but as I’ve been thinking about this post all day, several thought have occured to me. I meant this to be a post geared towards women who fall outside of the increasingly small sociocultural window of acceptable body weight. I was thinking of girls who [...]

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self prescribing celibacy

February 3, 2010

When I was fourteen I became sexually active. Then, my desire for sexual intimacy spawned out of my perpetual need for personal validation. I was fat. I was scared. And the role models that I most aspired to be were those who were charismatic and provacative, with anyone and everyone falling at their feet. I [...]

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marzipan’s been getting some mail. and likes it.

January 7, 2010

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee! Mail!! Now, I get very little feedback on this blog, so usually I feel like a body-image-improving lone ranger sending messages of love and patience into the abyss of the internets. BUT. I do have this awesome little site stats calculator, so I do know that you’re out there. I also have a google [...]

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On being “gay”, looking straight, and a new generation of queer

August 13, 2009

Lately this has been happening to me with stunning regularity: an older gay person around town looks at me, kind of cocks her head to the side, and says (please note condescension), “Thats so sweet that you are in love, is this your first serious relationship with a girl?” Or something of the like. And [...]

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