Daily Loaf

In a recent study of 445 Ugandan women whose sexual partners were recently circumcised, 40% reported improvements in their sex lives, 57% claimed no change, and 3% said their sex lives suffered. The reasons these women gave for how sex improved may surprise you: better hygiene, it took longer for men to climax, and their partners wanted more frequent sex. Read the rest of this entry »

Rebecca Tinsley, journalist and director of human rights group Waging Peace, is the first guest in USF Libraries’ Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center 2009 Lecture Series. Tinsley draws on her experiences reporting on war-torn countries and serving as a Waging Peace advocate during her talk, “Genocide in Darfur: Lessons from Rwanda and Uganda.” Tinsley’s visit coincides with Lost Voices of Darfur, an exhibit of enlarged reproductions of drawings by Darfuri child refugees ages six to 18. The drawings came after Waging Peace researcher Anna Schmitt — who was gathering testimonies from Darfuri refugees and displaced Chadians — was encouraged to talk to the refugee camp’s smallest and most impressionable witnesses, who were given paper and pencils and asked to sketch their strongest memory and their dreams for the future. In November of 2007, the children’s graphic drawings were accepted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague as contextual evidence of crimes committed in Darfur, and will be used as a graphic illustration of the atrocities in the trials against the accused. (Pictured: Tinsley with Darfuri children.) Wed., Jan. 28, 4 p.m. (lecture), USF Library Grace Allen Room, fourth floor, with the works on display now through January 31, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, free admission, 813-974-2729. (Leilani Polk)

Other things to do today:

• King Hedley II: August Wilson drama at American Stage, 211 3rd St. S., St. Petersburg, 7:30 p.m., 727-823-PLAY.

• The NFL and Getty Images, football photo exhibition the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, 200 N. Tampa St., Tampa,  timed to coincide with you-know-what. Exhibit hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; dinner event tonight at 8:15 at The Tampa Club.

• “Secret” Fall Out Boy concert at State Theatre, St. Petersburg, around 9 p.m. By invite only, but you may be able to find a way in; see Leilani Polk’s post here.