Humans are sexual dimorphic. Men are bigger than women. Animals are thought to evolve this way to compete over mates (ie, male on male, or male on prey violence), not to beat their mates directly. Still, we live in a time where the Maldives still publicly flogs women for adultery and Sri Lankans often look the other way at domestic abuse.

The Maldives is a Muslim country, but they’re not known for beings dicks about it. The ones I meet in Sri Lanka are generally quite chill. I find this quite shocking though. Apparently extra-marital sex is a crime in the Maldives, punishable by public flogging.

It is commonly said that Ranil Wickremesinghe is gay, but rarely published. Now that’s starting to bubble up. I saw it on W3 Lanka English, and now on Abyss. Oh, I see where it’s coming from. Ranil’s charge sheet (from his own party) includes allegations of sexual harassment, against men.

It’s amazing the power we have under our clothes. Simply by taking of our clothes, we can immediately shock and/or attract everybody. Aliaa Magda Elmahdy posted nude photographs of herself on her blog as a rebellion against Egypt’s conservative culture and “sexual complexes”. That conservative culture bit back in droves, with even liberals distancing themselves from her.

I was looking thru the latest statistics, and Sri Lanka has about 1 million more women than men. Women are the head of 23% of households, meaning there’s a lot of single or working mums. Made this infographic with available data. It’s more of an info layout really, but you get the point. Sri Lanka’s sex ratio is about 0.9, meaning that there are around 897 men for every 1,000 women.

Hans Rosling of Gapminder tweeted this: “Yearly 100 billion intercourses yields 200 million pregnancies resulting in 135 million births of which 127 million kids survive to year 5!”. I found it interesting and made the infographic above. Only additions are to divide everything by 365, giving a daily figure. I somehow find it impossible to comprehend 100 billion intercourses.

This comic from Hollaback Mumbai has been making the rounds in Sri Lanka. I saw it on Mathawada and Radhi De Silva. Street abuse is still common in Sri Lanka and affects everyone from children to grandmothers.

Ah, good science writing. This is a post from the Throckmorton File about a scientific study on stripper, specifically, how their tips are effected by their menstrual cycle. And they are. Very interesting. In scientific terms, this would be a study of the economic effects of female estrus. In common parlance, they’re asking whether ovulating strippers get more tips. Apparently they do.

The word gay used to mean happy or carefree. Around the 19th century it began to lose that meaning and rapidly acquire a new one – homosexual. It then seemed to be going underground, but reemerged in the 70s as a noun, acquiring more and more pride as time went on. I mention this because I’ve been stuff words into Google’s NGrams generator and this is the most striking turnaround I’ve ever seen. If you look through the text in a shitload of books, you can watch the word gay literally change meaning.

I think Scarface put it best when he said, “when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.” Alternately, “then you take the women”. There are enough women that fawn over money or power that some men seem to think that anything else is just playing hard to get. In fact, it’s often not. They’re saying no, and you’re raping them. Like Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK).