Women's Link members receive a newsletter each month.
As well as details of the social events for the month, there are also articles by members.
Here are a few extracts.
Women's
Linker kindly sent in the following two "MEEJA MORSELS" that appeared
in "The Times"
A survey by Harris International shows that lesbians are more likely
than heterosexual women to think that they are overweight. More than
3/4 of lesbian adults consider themselves overweight, compared with
less than 2/3 of their straight counterparts. It seems that lesbian
women are more realistic when estimating whether they are overweight
- they also take more exercise to tackle it. (from The Times - Health
section)
* * * * * Sexual orientation may be a matter of following your nose:
A study in the Journal "Psychological Science" used samples of underarm
sweat to compare the odour preferences of hetero- and homosexual men
and women. The researchers found that people of different orientation
have different preferences and that the sweat they produce does not
appear to smell the same. Homosexual men showed the strongest preference
for the odour of other gay men. All other groups liked the odour from
gay men the least!! Lesbians also had different preferences from straight
women. Apparently this adds weight to the evidence that sexuality is
biologically determined. (The Times, 10/05/2005)
The Moral from these stories: when you are worried about being overweight,
it may be worth going to the gym and working out - and see whether anyone
is attracted to your smell!
June 2005
Provincetown
After two weeks travelling round New England, we finally got to Provincetown,
which is a small town on the very end of a sand peninsular south of
Boston. The Kennedys, Clintons and many other high socials in US have
based their holidays in this area - it is near New York but is like
Norfolk in its wild, sandy landscapes. So it has severe planning restrictions
(for the US!) to prevent over-development. The consequence is that Provincetown
became a haven for artists in 1900 onwards, a haven for hippies in the
60s and a haven for gay people from the mid-70s. There is no equivalent
in the UK, as the strength of the local population enables gay men to
walk down the street holding hands, amidst 10,000 + straight daytrippers
that come for the beauty of the scenery and the fresh fish food.
We stayed for a few days before the start of Women's Week (lesbians!)
and it is the type of place you can cover in a few hours and then think
what on earth you are going to do for the next few days…then suddenly
it is the last day and you still haven't ….We drank coffee, ate lobsters,
shopped for T-shirts and sex toys, lay on the sandy beach, walked and
cycled in the shoreline forests, went whale-watching, and drank more
coffee, tea and beer while watching the lesbians walking down the street!
Great place to unwind.
December 2003
Diary:
Sunday 8th December 2003
Won first prize in raffle last night. Toy duck.
Hmmm.
Eventually extracted it from packaging with torque wrench and chain
saw.
Thought cat might like it. Pressed duck's back as instructed.
Put it on floor. Promptly started buzzing round backwards in a circle.
Cat looked at duck. I looked at cat expectantly. Cat looked at me.
I smiled encouragingly at cat. Cat's tail started to lash. Uh-oh!
Cat looked at duck. Cat looked at me. Cat shook its head and walked
off in disgust.
That went well then.
Had another look at instructions. 'Duck floats'. Ran bath. Duck certainly
floated but with nasty list to starboard. Switched on the buzzy bit.
Even nastier list to starboard.
Not going well. Had another look at instructions. 'Massage'?
With a duck! Some kind of rhyming slang perhaps?
Better start again, I think……
January 2004
