Author: The Guardian

I am a heterosexual woman who just turned 70. I have never been able to give myself pleasure or masturbate to achieve orgasm. I am perplexed as to why this is. I have always been able to climax through penetration during intercourse and often experience multiple orgasms that are very intense and satisfying, but never through oral or digital stimulation by a partner. I have had dreams – but very rarely – where I wake up having extremely intense multiple orgasms that can go on for a very long time. I know I was not touching myself – it was…

Government officials have buried analysis of the financial prospects of some of Britain’s most vulnerable farmers after realizing it was almost entirely bad news, The Guardian can reveal.The analysis was meant to be part of an upbeat view on the financial well-being of Highland farmers, some of the poorest in the country, but minutes of meetings about the scheme, obtained through a freedom of information request, show concerns about the negative findings.Farming groups said it was “irresponsible” not to publish the analysis because ministers didn’t like it, after Freedom of Information documents revealed officials refused to publish it.According to the…

Greece’s minister for culture has criticised a Netflix drama-documentary about Alexander the Great as “extremely poor-quality fiction” and “low content, rife with historical inaccuracies.”Lina Mendoni’s comments about Alexander: The Making of a God come amid a furore over the show’s depiction of a romantic relationship between Alexander the Great and his confidant and friend Hephaestion. In Greece, an opinion piece in Eleftheros Typos called the show “a distortion of the truth” and blamed Oliver Stone’s 2004 film Alexander for starting “a propaganda campaign about Alexander’s homosexuality”.Dimitris Natsiou, the president of the Christian Orthodox, far-right political party Niki, called the series…

A New Zealand house that spins like a carousel has been put up for sale for the first time since its owners designed and built it 35 years ago.Nicknamed “The Lighthouse”, the building sits on the Maraetai hillside off Auckland’s coast and is topped by a two-metre-wide cylindrical steel base and is believed to be the only building of its kind in the country. A complete revolution takes 33 minutes.When its owner, engineer Don Dunick, was considering what kind of house he wanted to build on a coastal plot, his engineering colleagues came up with a novel idea—a rotating house…

Sorrel grew up during the 1970s, in a big Caribbean household in the north of England. One of two girls in a family with four boys, she learned early that not only was her vulva not to be looked at – it wasn’t even something she could name. “It was called a ‘munchie’,” she says. “We weren’t allowed to touch the munchie, we weren’t allowed to see the munchie, and we definitely weren’t allowed to speak about the munchie.”In this, Sorrel and her munchie still aren’t alone. No matter what we call it, many women grow up with the sense…

Australian tennis player Matt Ebden says he has achieved a lifelong dream after replacing 43-year-old partner Rohan Bopanna at No. 1 in the doubles rankings for the first time.The pair will swap top spots when the rankings are updated on Monday, although the Australian Open champion has not scored since his heroics at Melbourne Park last month.The 36-year-old West Australian said he was “extremely happy” to have reached the pinnacle of his sport and was delighted to share the moment with his family in Perth on Tuesday morning.”You have a dream life goal for your entire career,” he said. “It’s…

Authorities in Cape Town have launched an investigation after a foul stench swept over the South African city.Officials inspected sewage facilities for leaks and an environmental health team was activated before the source of the smell was discovered: a ship docked in the harbour carrying 19,000 live cattle from Brazil to Iraq.Zahid Badroodien, the official in the mayor’s office in charge of water and sanitation, wrote on social media that investigators had confirmed the source of the “sewage smell blanketing parts of the city” was the cattle ship.Animal welfare groups said the “unimaginable” stench indicated the conditions the animals faced…

Joe Biden’s White House is preparing to launch long-range tactical missiles into Ukraine if Congress approves a new funding package, U.S. media reported on Monday.NBC News cited two unnamed officials as saying the administration is willing to send a variant of the missile, known as Atacms (Army Tactical Missile System), if the Senate approves a new $60 billion aid package currently stalled by Congress. ). Republican, became law.The report came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia was taking advantage of delays in aid to Ukraine.Reuters reported that he made the remarks after inspecting the Kupyansk front line on Monday.…

For Akiko Saikawa, the administrative nightmare began soon after she married.The office worker from Tokyo had to go through dozens of procedures to change her name on her passport and other documents, as well updating her social media accounts. All because she had been required, by law, to change her surname as a married woman.Couples in Japan are free to choose which surname to take when they marry, but in 95% of cases, it is the woman who changes her name, often with reluctance.“It was very time consuming and inconvenient,” Saikawa says. “But the most troublesome part was that my…

Australian equestrian Shane Rose, who caused a stir by wearing a mankini during competition, apologized for the eye-opening stunt while warning others of the pitfalls of wearing thongs and was allowed to continue preparing for Paris Olympic Games. On horseback.Three-time Olympic showjumping medalist Rose was suspended this week by Equestrian Australia after complaints were received at an event in New South Wales’s Southern Highlands this month.The costume puts his Paris plans in jeopardy and any ongoing investigation could prevent him from competing at the Olympics, which starts in August.But Equestrian Australia confirmed Rose had not breached its code of conduct,…