Thank you for your auction bid...I promised some spoiling...here are some obscure fun facts...
In Hong Kong, adulterous husbands get more than a steep monthly alimony payment – a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her husband if he cheats on her – but she may only do so with her bare hands.
According to the Museum of Sex, the vibrator was originally used as a medicinal treatment for female "hysteria" during the 19th century. The vibrator-induced orgasms helped doctors dissipate hysteria's anxiety-related symptoms.
I know you probably appreciate gelato as much as I do. Until I was ten years old we lived in Toronto, across from an Italian bakery. All summer, could be found sitting on the pavement outside that bakery, a chocolate gelato melting onto my white running shoes and summer dress, which would later infuriate my mother who would then complain loudly that no other daughter was such a mess. I'd buy grape pop and that would end up on my runners, always, too. In retrospect, I might have enjoyed driving my mother out of her mind :)
