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• Minnesota County Doesn't Want Employees To Even Have Option Of Watching Hotel Porn
  The notion of business travelers being forbidden from purchasing X-rated pay-per-view isn't anything new. The erotic offerings are -- so we hear -- more expensive than other titles and very few employers want to foot the bill for them. But Winona County, MN, doesn't just want to tell municipal employees not to order hotel porn; they don't even […]
• Medical Student Won’t Perform Pelvic Exams on Anesthetized Patients | The Unnecesarean
  What's most terrifying about this story is not the fact that medical students are regularly given the opportunity to preform pelvic exams on female patients who are anesthetized and unconscious waiting for another procedure, although that's frightening enough. No, what's most terrifying about this story is that it this invasive, nonconsensual […]
• Apple Hides Prop 8 Tweets from Lady Gaga Promo Page for Ping (Screenshots)
  Apple, Inc. recently launched a new social music service, Ping. Among the features it has is social media integration that lets you view celebrity Twitter streams. In the launch, "Apple's promotional image for the new feature conveniently omits a string of Tweets from Lady Gaga's timeline in which she protests anti-gay marriage legislation Pro […]
• Sex, like fine wine, improves with age, seniors say
  "One of the greatest myths of our society is that when you get to a certain age you are no longer sexual," says Jim Deva, a 60 year old gay man. This is a really heartwarming story from a Canadian GLBT site about elders who enjoy sex. That's awesome. […]
• Mojowijo Lets Users Turn Their Wii Remotes Into Vibrators for Virtual Sex – San Francisco Music – All Shook Down
  With games like "Wii Sports" and other family-friendly titles, the Nintendo Wii isn't the console most people think of when they decry video games for "corrupting the youth." (That's what Sony PlayStation or PC-based first-person shooters do.) Nevertheless, the Wii's controller, the Wiimote, offers exciting possibilities fo […]
• Oh, No, It’s a Girl! South Asians Flock to Sex-Selection Clinics in U.S. – New America Media
  "Last time I checked," geneticist Dr. Mark Hughes says, "your gender wasn't a disease." But that's not stopping Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg and others like him from using techniques originally developed to cure diseases from running "Family Balancing" clinics in the United States that offer "100% sex-selection program […]
• Emotional Skills Help Men Live Longer | Good Vibrations Magazine
  It’s been known for a while that men tend to have a shorter life expectancy than women. While there are a few guesses as to why that is, one factor is having a macho attitude. Time Magazine reports that some new research shows that emotional openness increased boys’ mental health through middle school. Further, it’s known that men who try to tough it out whe […]
• Emotional Openness May Be Good for Males’ Mental Health – TIME
  A recent study by Professor Carlos Santos found that stereotypically "girlish skills" like empathy and the desire for intimate relationships help boys lead mentally and emotionally healthier lives—and may even save young men's lives. His multi-ethnic study also found zero correlation between race and hyper-masculinity, countering media stereot […]
• Police target those who pay for prostitutes with new billboards and a one-year-old county ordinance that levies steep fines - chicagotribune.com
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