Liz Langley

A little over a week ago I posted a  contest to win a signed copy of "Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad,"  my book on some of the neurochemistry and psychology of love and why it makes us do the screwy things it makes us do. My winner really surprised me - I got fun tales of some surprise transgender revelations and stick situations involving poison ivy but my favorite was from someone who didn't want their name used and whom I'm going to call Heathcliff * . ...though his story doesn't end tragically: “I met and fell in love with a girl I met while getting my MBA. We started to date, and a few months after were engaged to be married. We were inseparable and did everything together. We loved to cook together and we traveled exceptionally well together. We were truly very much in love with each other. As graduation got closer, baggage from our previous relationships started to creep into our relationship. We both had recently been divorced. With

The past few days have been busy ones on Sex Feed....we had  Britain allows abortion clinics to advertise on TV  and President Obama vows to protect women's reproductive rights. alongside a goofy story about a School that board doesn't want to use the name "Cougars" in case human cougars get mad .....Friday of course we had some fun with  Newt bringing open marriage to the campaign trail ....and my personal favorite of the week  Ottawa library system allows you to check out a human being for 20 minutes . Well, there's no better way to learn something than just asking someone, is there? Catching up with a few pieces there was a scary story about  outing the homophobia in Scientology  but my all time favorite was  Stephen Hawking deems women a 'complete mystery.'

This is the first week I've managed to totally shed the post-holiday-season blues, largely thanks in part to a  last weekend's full calendar of events , which were great fun and which I'll post about later. In the meantime on  What's Hot in Central Florida  I can't even wait to go to the very first  Florida Key Lime Pie Festival ! And I can't believe what a beautiful weekend we're going to have in January  to make a beach trip sound so appetizing. Pie...of course....is always a draw but they're also going to have tiki carving, key lime margarita and martinis and lots and lots of other stuff. I think it'll be like a little taste of the Keys without having to drive eight hours to get to that atmosphere! Also up this weekend at  Twelve 21 Gallery  in Orlando featuring work by Eric Althin, Scott Donald, Johannah O'Donnel and Steve Parke r-  click the link to see a video trailer for the show which is full of beautiful, whimsical and satisfyingl

Today...well, now yesterday...on Sex Feed we got some terrific advice  terrific advice vis-a-vis sex from French women via The Stir  and even better advice from the tale of some idiot in a North Carolina jail who   hit a gun up his heinie. Meanwhile, back in the early part of the year, we had  Weak breast implants filled with fuel additive .... medical staffs get new recommendations for treating transgender patients .... does Lego need to make a separate set of Legos for girls? .... the Museum of London features an ancient coin depicting sex positions .... will the world's tallest transvestite please stand up?  and my favorite, mostly for the pictures... French kissing dinosaur statues in Mongolia n theme park. Seriously....does this make anyone else want to go on a road trip to see all those roadside attractions that are going to close any minute now that you don't want to miss? Anybody?

Love drives us all a little mad sometimes and my book Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad  from Cleis Press/Viva Editions explains some of the chemical and psychological reasons why, along with stories of people who will help you realize how crazy you aren’t …some people really do go off the deep end. Surely you never have…. So what’s the craziest thing that has ever happened to you in love? Tell me in 250 words or less - the best story will win a signed copy of the book - click the link to check out the reviews on Amazon ! Hopefully this book help you see crazy coming before it happens again and - no hopefully about it, it will definitely keep you entertained. You can send me your story via Facebook or at crazylittlecontest@gmail.com. Contest deadline is a week from launch - Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 3pm and I’ll announce a winner on Friday January 27.  So what constitutes the “best” story? Well, humor helps a lot , degree of insanity is a str

A few weeks ago a story came out about a man who, having been silently rejected by a woman after one date - she simply never replied to any of his texts or calls - wrote her an email of 1615 words. The email went viral, like a bullied girl's diary might be circulated by Mean Girls. It raised a lot of questions in my mind, like what's so difficult about politely declining instead of staying icily silent, what constitutes sending someone too many texts and emails when they are clearly trying to send you a message by not responding and is there no better way than to deal with either one than to turn a global information network into a fourth grade classroom? That was my topic in a recent  SexCult: Dating: Dealing with Crazy , and it was one I'm particularly proud of. Enjoy!

So yes, I've slacked on blogging a bit, mostly since I sliced into my thumb while cooking and want to keep typing, among other things, at a minimum. Cooking is dangerous. I'll never attempt it again. BUT the Sex Feed must go on! In the past few days we've had... Mother-Daughter Lingerie models a French town bans the word  'Madamoiselle' as sexist on it's paperwork ....an  intern at the Trevor project who commited suicide ....a sex toy company finds  new uses for Sonicare motor ...and the dumbbell award to guy who got the  penis tattoo, causing him to have a semi-permanant erection. And then there's my favorite:  Ostriches can become attracted to humans. "Yooooohoooo!" Since I'm still  playing catch-up with posting Sex Feed items from the holidays, check out  ... a very freakish prank by parents and school officials at a pep rally ... gay coffee .... LA residents voting on condom use in porn .... a Quiebecois school clerk who got fired

There's so much to do this weekend in CF that your own house should look like unfamiliar territory to you by the time it's all over. One of my personal favorites, the  Scottish Highland Games  opens tonight with a few events like a whisky tasting, but the main events, like the sheep dog demonstrations, the caber toss (burly men flinging telephone poles around like they were pretzel sticks) and folk and highland dancing will be going on for the rest of the weekend (we're told we may have an opportunity to try haggis, and we use the word 'opportunity' generously). Next up the Orlando Science Center presents  Otronicon , it's four-day expo of all kinds of interactive technology including workshops and experiences in medical technology, military tech and Rock Band Experience, with real concert lights and sounds (I'll be squirreled away in the Reboot Lounge myself, playing the video games that were popular when I was a kid, not quite a hundred years ago

In Sex Feed yesterday we had a sex toy company altruistically trying to help military couples out by bringing  teledildonics (that's remote control sex) to military wives , plus, before most states have even legalized gay marriage  D.C. is introducing legilsation to help same-sex couples divorce more easily. Going back into the archives - but just a little ways -  Go Canada! Canadian scientists develop first HIV vaccine approved for human trial,  a lady convicted of having sex for World Series tickets had her  conviction overturned  causing an interesting pause for thought about what exactly counts as prostitution....the  Lesbian sailor who won love's first kiss at homecoming ..... Newt Gingrich telling gays to vote for Obama ..... Colorado Girl Scouts welcome transgender girl  while their counterpart Scout leaders in Louisiana acted like, well, like 7 year-old girls about it. Way to go Colorado GS! You deserve a merit badge for sure.

From Futurama:  Amy: " Aw, come on, Leela. Deep down all girls wanna be Miss Universe. " Leela: " Not me. " Amy: " Really? Maybe it's just cute girls. " Great satire doesn’t just make it’s target look horrifying or ridiculous - by the time something is being satirized it’s been seen that way already. Great satire makes you realize that the target is a dozen times worse than you’d ever imagined it was before you sat down.  Before seeing “Little Miss Parliament House,” Orlando comedian Jeff Jones’ send-up of child beauty pageants ala “Toddlers and Tiaras,” we all knew child pagaents were disturbing. We all know that. But nothing could have underscored the weirdness of sticking little girl kids in Tammy Faye make-up and coaching them to move with all the child-like exhuberance of Abe Lincoln in the Hall of Presidents than having 40-50 something drag queens satirize them doing it.  “Little Miss Parliament House,” will make your fac

Last year when Orlando was voted  the fourth gayest city in America  by The Advocate I swore we'd get the first place tiara....well, I was only off by one place and that ain't bad. Orlando came in 2nd this year but the surprise of the century....was that  the Advocate's choice for the gayest city in America is ...well, you'll just have to click on the link, won'tcha? So that and  an Israeli gynecological conference that won't allow women to speak  were the stories on today's Sex Feed but going back into the archives a bit we have...how  legalizing same-sex marriage improves LGBT health ....a mother-toddler group banned from  making the 'diamond' symbol in Twinkle Twinkle little star  because it's dirty.... coercive group sex on the rise among teens .....and a Mississippi mayor whose  misappropriation of funds helped him get out of the closet  (it helped when it was discovered where he was spending it).

Listen for me on Susan Rich Talks, today at 11 a.m ET...go to  Susan Rich Talks on W4WN.COM  to listen to the broadcast! I'll be on Susan's Love & Lifestyles segment talking about my book  Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad ....and there have been a few things in the new lately that make me feel even more on the money than I thought I was when I wrote it including:       * Stephen Hawking - yeah, that   Stephen Hawking - smartest guy ever - is totally baffled by women  so intelligence has nothing to do with it. And       * Yes,  you can die of a broken heart.  The depression, anger and anxiety associated with the pain of losing a loved one (in the case of this story, to death....heart attacks are 21 times more likely the day after a loved one dies) increases you heart rate and blood pressure. So the emotional and the physical are inextricably linked.        ANYWAY, that's more than enough to start you off with for today! Hope you can tune in!

Jeez. Ever feel like the time train has left the station and there you are on the platform in your bathrobe with your cup of coffee just waking up and thinking "What the F? Are we moving along already?" I started playing catch-up with my Sex Feed posts for SeXis magazine - which I was writing 12 of a week for awhile there - just before New Year's. The holidays very very happily distracted me from the cares of the world and there were a lot of them for women in mid-December, including a report showing that  20% of women have been sexual assault victims  and a f raternity's "who would you rape" survey  (and people wonder why 'frat boy' is a slur). No wonder  Hotels for Women Only  have become a travel trend. There was some comedy, though, including  Paul Rudnick's All-New Kinsey Scale  in which the writer takes the Kinsey sexuality criteria, -  i.e., how straight are you, how gay are you? - and expands it just a smidge to include references to

 I've had the post-holiday blues this week....between Christmas and New Year's but I saw about 100 people I love, ate, drank and slept well and wish all of life could be like the dying days of 2011. That year that brought some spiffy things...  my book  and the events surrounding it, getting to go to work for  WMFE 90.7 FM  and an extended stay in  beautiful Victoria BC .      There were other parts of the year that stunk like a fish market dumpster in August. Watching it slink into oblivion while drinking champagne with people I love was all you could want of comfort and joy.     Plus, there's a long list of things to look forward to in 2012. I'll be talking about them in What's Hot in Central Florida  on WMFE 90.7, aevery Friday at 4:32 PM starting with some spectacular live funk music (and who can be sad when that's on?) at  Plaza Live Orlando  when  Galactic  plays tonight - click the link and listen to "Hey Na Na" and you'll see what I mean.