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Friday, November 20, 2009 - 3:00pm By Chris HallToday is the Eleventh International Transgender Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the deaths of the people who were killed because they were transgender or perceived as such. What do you say about a day devoted to remembering the people who...
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Friday, November 20, 2009 - 9:19am By Matthew LawrenceScientific American columnist Jesse Bering focuses today on a new hypothesis about the design of male testicles. Evolutionary psychologists Gordon Gallup, Mary Finn and Becky Sammis have their "activation hypothesis" published in the...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 7:43pm By Martha LeeWhen Time Out’s 2009 sex survey results came in, the editors of the British entertainment tabloid seemed astounded to discover their countrymen evidently are as randy as the most perverted American. Both women and men rated their kinkiness...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 5:52pm By Tim McElreavyHIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is probably the most feared sexually transmitted disease and with good reason. With infection rates in the U.S. on the rise, awareness and prevention programs are seeking new ways to reach those at risk. Some would...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 3:53pm By Chris HallRepresentative Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) was only four years old when H.L. Mencken died in 1956, but since then, he seems to have taken Mencken's famous definition of puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere might be happy" as...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 2:57pm By Jessica O'ReillyA new spray, known as PSD502, may be the first pharmaceutical product to help men maintain erections for prolonged periods of time during sexual activity. A study of 256 men in the United States, Canada and Poland found that those who used the...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 12:54pm By Tim McElreavyEverything you need for a hot night is in the palm of your hand. Your iPhone can find you a date, help you choose a restaurant, and let your friends know how the evening is going in various formats. With the launch of two new iPhone apps, you can...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 12:13pm By Jessica O'ReillyStudent chefs in Columbia have created a love dessert using a range of aphrodisiac-style ingredients including the little blue pill, Viagra. The pudding-like sweetness includes chocolate, whipped cream and passion fruit and was showcased at the...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 5:28pm By Tim McElreavyIt probably goes without saying that if people spent half as much time on their own, actual marriages as they do pontificating on who should or should not marry, there'd be a lot less divorce in this country. But as history has shown, such stinging...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 4:21pm By Tim McElreavyYou might have thought that complex tales of love, lust, betrayal, and espionnage died out when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down 20 years ago, thereby ending the Cold War and the glamorized and shadowy world of undercover spies. However, a court...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 3:21pm By Chris HallAnti-abortion rights group American Right to Life has promised that when Sarah Palin reaches the state of Indiana to promote her new ghost-written autobiography, Going Rogue, she can expect to face demonstrations against her pro-choice politics. Yes...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 11:37am By John PettittThe Washington Post recently ran an article on new technology enabling porn watching on public transport. The article opens with a poll: Watching porn while on public transportation is: A. Acceptable. B. Not acceptable. The Post chickened out on...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 9:27am By Matthew Lawrence"Hoyt began moving his lips as if he were trying to suck the ice cream off the top of a cone without using his teeth. She tried to make her lips move in sync with his." That's a quote from Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons, which in...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 7:50am By Martha LeeA prostitute who says she was raped by a US Navy serviceman at a Sydney brothel has described him as an "animal" in court. Petty officer Timothy Davis, 25, has pleaded not guilty to having sexual intercourse without consent, aggravated by...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 7:31am By Martha LeeAs part of the Communist party’s efforts to clamp down on the corruption that is threatening its rule and sullying its reputation, Chinese officials are being told to dump their mistresses, avoid hostess bars, and shun extravagances. The bold...
