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Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 12:49pm By Jessica O'ReillyAs the Irish continue their St. Patrick’s Day celebrations this weekend, the Self, Selves and Sexualities conference opened at Dublin City University yesterday. Though the Irish may have a reputation for sexual repression in connection with...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 12:33pm By Matthew LawrenceThe cast recording for Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart this week. But it's a second debut on the chart that might be setting a record. According to...
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Friday, March 19, 2010 - 8:28am By Dr Martha LeeA British middle-aged couple who claim that sex and TV are their only luxuries are seeing at least one of those luxuries trimmed down by council chiefs. Alan and Fiona Hay said council officials banned them from having sex between 10 p.m. and...
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Friday, March 19, 2010 - 7:56am By Jessica O'ReillyResearch with 1000 women between the ages of 20 and 40 found that 39 percent report having sex with a man by their third date and 11 percent slept with their most recent partner on their first date. One-third reported having sex with a new partner...
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Friday, March 19, 2010 - 7:48am By Dr Martha LeeLondon's tourism board has launched the first gay travel application for smart phones users visiting the city. Visit London's 'Gay London' application currently has 131 listings of bars, restaurants, hotels and attractions for gay visitors. It...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 4:12pm By Tim McElreavyFormer French Minister of Health and past President of the European Parliament, Simone Veil, 82, was inaugurated as only the sixth female member of the Académie française in history. Founded in 1635 by the Cardinal Richelieu, the Académie consists...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 1:36pm By Tim McElreavyA new study from the University of Michigan Medical School suggests that a chemical in bananas may inhibit HIV infection and could lead to new treatments for the prevention of the disease that causes AIDS. BanLec, a lectin or sugar-binding protein...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 9:02am By Matthew LawrenceThe marketing folks at Kotex knew what they were doing with the ad campaign for their new teen-oriented U line. In the brand's first 45-second spot, a young woman makes fun of all other tampon ads by pointing out their biggest flaws:...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 3:13pm By Tim McElreavyMass Resistance, a right-wing extremist group based in Waltham, MA, has released an undercover video that one of its members filmed at a transgender conference held at the Marriott Hotel in Peabody, MA, in January. The poorly edited seven-minute...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 6:35am By Matthew LawrenceDavid Livingston, an MFA student in painting at Pratt, is working on a video series called Big Dick, the latest incarnation of which hit the web this week. Wearing a six-foot long felt penis stuffed with sofa upholstery, Livingstone visits...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 1:21pm By Chris HallAll too often, CarnalNation has to cover stories about people using one god or another as a sock puppet for their own hatred and fear about sexuality. Just recently, for example, Westboro Baptist Church came to San Francisco to protest...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 12:59pm By Jessica O'ReillyWomen’s breasts are getting bigger! According to Selfridges of London, sales of bras with cup sizes D through G have increased by 50 percent annually since 2005. The most common bra size in the UK is now a 36D compared to 34B only a decade...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 12:01pm By Matthew LawrenceFor our bookish readers, here's a homework assignment: The Association for Progressive Communications has teamed up with Sex Work Awareness for the Exploratory Research on Internet & Sexuality Research Project, with research teams based on...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 11:11am By Matthew LawrenceA troubling message yesterday from the head of the UN AIDS agency indicates that new HIV infections are on the rise among homosexuals, drug users and sex workers, many of whom don't seek help for fear of arrest, reports Yahoo. Worldwide, a...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 9:40am By Dr Martha LeeYoung women today are nearly three times more sexually active than those of their grandmothers' generation in the liberal heyday of the "Swinging 60s," according to a survey. Women in the so-called Noughties between 2000 and 2009 had an...
