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Kristin Davis, the so-called Manhattan Madam who went to jail for sleeping with New York governor Elliot Spitzer, may make her own run for the state's highest office this year, reports the New York Daily News. Davis, calling herself "the first candidate in New York history to run while on probation," wants to legalize marijuana, prostitution, and gay marriage, and she wants to relax gun laws. She's running as a Libertarian, in other words. [Read more]
Sexting, which involves sending sexy texts or photos with a cell phone, has become all the rage for both teens and adults. A recent survey by MTV revealed that 30 percent of youth have either sent or received nude photos on their cell phones or the web indicating one way in which technology has impacted communication, dating and sexual exploration.In response to this new form of sexual expression, legislators have used child pornography laws to prosecute both offenders and victims. In Pennsylvania, House Bill 2189 would make it a crime for teens 13-17 to sext. The legislation’s proponents argue that they are protecting children, while critics and experts suggest that the new bill would criminalize victims. [Read more]
Malaysia non-governmental organisation, the Secretariat Against Social Ills Penang (Urusetia Menangani Gejala Sosial Pulau Pinang or Unggas), is up in arms against Valentine's Day and a plan to get a group of students to go without panties on that day.It said a random survey conducted at several Penang schools showed that some students were aware of the matter. Now they fear that the "no panties" promotion going on at higher learning institutions in Shah Alam, may soon find its way into secondary schools if not checked. [Read more]
Rather than spending Valentine's Day with their partner, one fifth of adults would prefer to be with their pet, according to a joint global poll by Reuters/ Ipsos.The survey of 24,000 people in 23 countries found 21 percent of adults would rather spend February 14 with their pet than their spouse, although the French were least likely to choose a furry friend over a human with only 10 percent taking that option. [Read more]
Sometimes, as an underemployed and commitment-phobic gay man, self-esteem issues occasionally spring up. Luckily, when they do, there's a solution: Watch the Super Bowl. Not the part where the men in the gold spandex tights bend over a lot. (Although that's a nice distraction, too.) I'm talking about the ads, which serve as bleak, bleak reminders about how dreary heteronormative behavior can actually be.I'm not talking about the nonsensically horny GoDaddy spots, or the eerie Focus On The Family ad which, maybe strategically, was placed right before one featuring Betty White. (I can hear the CBS meetings now: "The feminists and the gays might get mad at us, but how mad will the gays stay if we distract them with one of the Golden Girls?")
Most Super Bowl ads are targeted at guys that really, really want to be simultaneously very independent and also exactly the same as every other man. Doritos and Budweiser and Coke know this. But a couple of ads were so completely dreary in their emphasis on the crisis of mundane masculinity that they warrant special mention.
Here are the three worst offenders: [Read more]
I really hate to bring up the subject of Hitler's sex life on this perfectly lovely weekend, but a new book entitled Was Hitler Ill? talks in great detail about that very thing, reports Spiegel.The book, written by Professors Henrik Eberle and Hans-Joachim Neumann, claims that the dictator took 82 different medications as he led Germany, including an extract of testosterone that worked as a "primitive Viagra." Theodor Morrell, the so-called "Reich syringe master," served as Hitler's doctor during World War II, and according to his letter in 1944 he began giving Hitler shots of testosterone along with the semen and prostate glands of young bulls. (Hitler was 32 years older than his lover, Eva Braun; they married just one day before committing double-suicide in April of 1945.) [Read more]
A Florida city Commissioner is using sex to urge her constituents to take part in the 2010 census. Aventura Commissioner Luz Weinberg is promoting the census, which “counts every resident in the United States, and is required by the Constitution to take place every 10 years” as sexy.``It's about two things -- it's about power and it's about money and that's pretty much what defines the word sexy,'' Weinberg said. [Read more]
We all know how well gay rehabilitation programs work--they don't--but that doesn't stop ex-gay ministries from aggressively pursuing young people dealing with their identities. Website teachthefacts.org reports that an ex-gay group calling itself PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays) recently took advantage of a Maryland public school district, disseminating information about ex-gay outreach programs along with high school students' report cards.Montgomery County, just to the north of Washington, is one of the most affluent counties in the country, with just over a million residents. But the County lost a 2006 lawsuit filed by PFOX for violation of First Amendment rights. A judge ruled that the school must distribute any literature distributed by non-profit groups, as long as the literature wasn't considered hate speech. [Read more]
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