BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

I had the good fortune to stumble on Ms. Lefave's blog a while back. Her writing on psychology & psychiatry is insightful and laser-like in cutting through the b.s. My kinda girl. She absolutely nails the "get over it" crowd -- those pathology sympathizers who think victims of emotional, psychological trauma and emotional rape are just being 'overly dramatic.' She also nails the perpetrators of the trauma who want you to A CT LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED and smear you for being angry and demanding accountability. Especially the CLUELESS therapists, life coaches and snake oil salespeople who try to treat sufferers and end up revictimizing them all over again. You Go, Ms. Lefave! By Patricia Lefave, Labeled, D.D.(P) What is L.O.A.D.? Well, it is described by many of the family members as a frightening altered state much like the hypnotic trance or brainwashed state of cult members. It tends to strike the upper classes just as much, if not more than a...

ORAL SEX AND CANCER Confession: I haven't engaged in sex in over 10 years. Full monty, oral or anything else. I haven't been truly intimate with anyone in longer than that. And, I have no intention of changing my born again virginity. But I have straight men friends who (for some reason I will never understand) confide in me and tell me how much they love giving oral sex to... um... WHOever their girl of the next-five minutes is. So this is for them. I warned three of them about this months ago and they told me I was nuts and a prude. O.K. guys, so don't listen to me... HPV Causing More Oral Cancer in Men The sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer in women is poised to become one of the leading causes of oral cancer in men, according to a new study. The HPV virus now causes as many cancers of the upper throat as tobacco and alcohol, probably due both to an increase in oral sex and the decline in smoking, researchers say. The only available vaccine agains...