Vacation Sex

And an article about me in Ms. Magazine!

Hi from vacation where the WiFi is terrible, the lobsters are delicious, and the moon is so bright that 10:30 pm on the beach photographed liked daytime. I am so excited to be featured in Ms. Magazine that I had to share it even before I got home. Thank you, Eleanor Bader for a great interview. Please check it out: https://msmagazine.com/2022/08/15/martha-kempner-sex-on-wednesday/ and pass it on.   

This is the first time I’ve opened my computer in over a week, but I have been checking the news, and there are some good stories for us. There will be a new Sex on Wednesday in its classic form next week. In the meantime, check out the archives, and feast on this amazing that’s not how it f**king works moment (that was too good not to share from the beach). Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina included this warning in his fundraising email to supporters:

If we don’t take back the Senate, Dems will pack the courts, give DC statehood, grant abortions up to 52 weeks, and Republicans will never win again.

This does sound like a Democratic fantasy land except for the part where humans have to be pregnant for a whole year. Elephants, giraffes, camels, manatees, and orcas all carry their fetuses for over 12 months, but we are spared that particular torture. People pregnancies last approximately 40 weeks. It may feel like a year—especially when your pregnancies end during summer heat waves like both of mine did—but it’s not.

Given how much interest the GOP seems to have in uteri these days, you’d think Scott would have the most basic facts down. But no. This is further proof that legislators have no business making medical decisions.