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Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 8:44am By Dr Martha LeeMalaysian actress Ida Nerina Hussain, 45, has denied that her husband Sha'arin Mohd Razali, 40, uttered a divorce proclamation, or ‘talaq’, against her last September. The triple talaq is a mechanism for divorce which exists in some...
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Thursday, December 3, 2009 - 10:44pm By Dr Martha LeeWhen Ian Young married 36-year-old Fatine, who is a pre-op transsexual, in a British civil partnership ceremony in May last year, he probably never thought his marriage would be making news headlines in Malaysia and Britain. Fatine, who was born...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 12:30pm By Margaret WadeThanksgiving coming up gives me the perfect opportunity to talk about one of the things that I like best about life and being in a body—the fact that the better things feel, the better they are for you. The heart is where Shiva dances the...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 1:44pm By Tim McElreavyWhat was supposed to be a friendly but competitive match between two teams in an amateur soccer league in Paris has turned into a national debate over religious beliefs and homophobia. Paris Foot Gay, a diverse soccer team comprising both straights...
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Friday, September 11, 2009 - 11:32am By Tim McElreavyIran has the reputation for being one of the most restrictive cultures in the world when it comes to sex and morality; however, the stage has been set for what may be the Islamic nation's first legally sanctioned transgender marriage. A woman named...
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Monday, August 10, 2009 - 3:24pm By Chris HallThe Saudi Arabian goverment has shut down the local offices of the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation in Jeddah and Riyadh after they broadcast an interview with a 32-year-old Saudi man about his sexual escapades. Mazen Abdul Jawad caused a sensation...
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Friday, May 29, 2009 - 2:05pm By Chris HallSpeaking to a seminar of clerics, tribal leaders, and police in Baghdad on Thursday, radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr said that the "depravity" of homosexuality must be eradicated. However, one of his spokesmen, Sheikh Wadea al-Atabi,...
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Monday, May 25, 2009 - 6:06pm By Tim McElreavyThe topic of pedophilia and molestation is much discussed in the United States, sometimes to the point of hysteria. Conventional wisdom would suggest that the problem is rampant in every society, but more conservative cultures have been slow to...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 11:11am By Chris HallThere is no religious proscription so harsh or inflexible that people can't figure out a way around it with some creative interpretation of the rules. Take Islam, for example. The whole sex outside of marriage thing is supposed to be taboo, right?...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 11:06am By Margaret Wade"Sex is like Super Glue. It's a spiritual thing, an emotional thing," says Rev. Ed Young, pastor of a Christian mega-church with five locations across Texas and a television ministry. He is one of many who, during the last year, have had...
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Monday, March 2, 2009 - 6:00pm By Margaret WadeThe connection between sexuality and spirituality is so strong and so ancient that the first “coin” ever minted granted access to sacred sex rites. The shekel in ancient Sumeria represented a bushel of wheat donated to the Temple of...
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