I love telling people I'm from Colwyn Bay, invariably to be met with a wonderfully condescending look of pity buried beneath feigned interest. They then usually tell me how they have a cousin in Cardiff.

So people were actually laughing at this? I am not for abortion but women who have abortions certainly would not think this is funny or make jokes about getting an abortion. Wow, a baby means nothing in this world, just another inconvenience...
- Penny, Canada, 14/4/2012 17:27
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SeekingArrangement was started in 2006 by American internet entrepreneur Brandon Wade.

He said: … 'Obviously the new tuition fees in the UK have made it really tough for students who are struggling with debts. What better way to sort out your financial problems than by dating a gorgeous sugar daddy?

It is prostitution, and this is what the majority of women want - a sugar daddy.

- peter, brighton, 14/4/2012 23:04 Rating 15

Isn't this what most women do anyways? the ones that don't have careers?

- mick, Reading, 14/4/2012 22:12 Rating 11

Ladies (I use the term loosely here)...when are you ever going to learn you are more than just a body, and life is more than one big party? Probably, when you're an old dried up prune and it's too late to start over; then you'll have realized you wasted it.

- anon, mercredi, 13/4/2012 18:04 Rating 342

Good one DM commenters. Don't blame the dirty old men, don't blame society for being obsessed with female youth and beauty, and certainly don't blame yourselves or the government for making prostitution a more lucrative and fulfilling career than nursing. Nope, blame the woman. It's always the woman's fault.

- Bertie Wooster, London, UK, 15/4/2012 9:56 Rating 34

Rifling through my wardrobe for the perfect ensemble to wear for a romantic dinner with my husband, a low-cut dress and strappy sandals catch my eye.

The outfit is sexy with a hint of old-school Hollywood glamour — very Scarlett Johansson. Unfortunately, my face is just plain scarlet and, while it destroys any seductive effect, there's nothing I can do to disguise it.

Because I have resolved to forgo make-up entirely — for a whole month.

Actually, it is not just make-up. I am undergoing a challenge that bans all forms of female grooming. It means no complexion-altering products (anti-wrinkle creams, eye creams, the lot), perfumes, dyeing, depilation, blow-drying, hair-straightening or conditioning. If it's not necessary for hygiene reasons, then it's not allowed.

So why have I — a self-confessed beauty addict — agreed to such a draconian, and humiliating, assignment?

Because a recent survey found two-thirds of women believe facing the world without full make-up is more stressful than a first date or a job interview. Many of these women were also unable to contemplate even the most mundane tasks (sitting on a train, for example, or answering the door) without selected areas having first been dyed, tinted or plucked.

This anti-grooming mission has made me appreciate that my reliance on beauty treatments was a little excessive, but it's also shown me that in some respects the beautician's salon is a haven for a busy working mother. It's rare time to take a mental and physical break and do nothing more than collect your thoughts.

On a more serious note, it's also made me realise that women are highly disingenuous about the importance of looks.

We'll merrily tell our daughters that their naked faces are beautiful, while applying layers of make-up to our own skin. We have no problem taking a high moral stand along the 'no woman should be judged on her looks' lines, while simultaneously lampooning any famous female who appears in public looking unkempt.

With our constant judging of each other, we women are our own worst enemies.

The pursuit of beauty is both a joy and a curse. It is an expression of feminine sexuality and of individual taste. Yet it makes us self-conscious and competitive, eating up our time and money. It is, in many ways, an addiction — one I'll be enthusiastically resuming the moment this experiment is over.

Politicians and pro-life campaigners are warning that Radio 5 Live’s abortion broadcast could effectively end up ‘promoting the practice’.

Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, who has previously tried to change the law on counselling offered to women having terminations, questioned the BBC’s impartiality on the issue.

She said: ‘It is not unlike the BBC to take a biased view on such issues. My view is that the licence-fee payer funds this so the BBC need to make sure that this programme is fair and balanced.

‘The alternative options need to be properly represented otherwise this will simply become promotion'

On the one hand the Mail has published this excellent article in which the wonderful Mary Beard savages the omnitwat that is AA 'Baboonkiller' Gill.
She makes a superb case for the natural, intelligent, forceful woman. I love her.

Ms Beard appears to write for the Mail regularly.

It saddens me.

Imagine if "fair and balanced" meant that every programme had to give airtime to opponents of the very existence of its subject. I'd look forward to 'Star on a reasonably-priced folding bicycle' and 'Ross Kemp embedded with Campaign against the arms trade'.