Derivation of “dildo”
Oxford Press offers up an etymological history of the dildo (and mentions an old OED listing for "fuckwind").
Oxford Press offers up an etymological history of the dildo (and mentions an old OED listing for "fuckwind").
Tennessee legislation “would require death certificates for aborted fetuses, which likely would create public records identifying women who have abortions.”
For The High Hat’s “First Loves” issue, Chris Lanier interviews Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf, Leonard Pierce revisits Pynchon, and David Nordstrom considers Wodehouse, “the old unreliable.”
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As Turkey debates its speech crime laws, Orhan Pamuk flees to the U.S. in fear for his life (or, as some would have it, Pamuk runs away).