The Temperance Reform was too serious a matter for trifling jokes and buffooneries.

the Gulf of Mexico    the Persian Gulf

Cybergirls intersect with riot grrls as a mode of do-it-yourself girl expression […]

As Jeffrey Kripal explains, in Indian culture ‘feet are the sacred meeting point of the human and the divine’, and ‘for the sake of liberation, the yogi ponders in his heart the lotus feet of Kali’, the vulvic goddess.