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So illuminating....Glow in the dark underwear!

A company which makes glow in the dark underwear say their luminous lingerie has become a surprise hit. LuminoGlow - led by Jan... more

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PTC Launches Campaign to Keep Sexual Threesome Episode of ‘Gossip Girl’ Off the Air

The Parents Television Council launched a letter campaign to about 120 CW affiliates asking them to preempt the Nov. 9 episode of... more

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Screenwriter of ‘Milk’ deemed too divisive for sexuality roundtable

HOLLAND, Mich. — An Academy Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter has been barred from a Michigan college campus... more

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Naked Pumpkin Run At Risk: Boulder Colorado Police Threaten Crackdown

For nearly a decade, naked pumpkin runners did their thing unmolested, stampeding through the frigid dark past crowds of admirers... more

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Glow-in-the-Dark Lingerie: Less Awkward Than Scratch-and-Sniff Lingerie

Nothing gets my blood pumping like a sexy lady wearing a skimpy outfit that glows in the dark. Well, I guess the glowing in the... more

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South Carolina Deputy AG on lunch break in cemetery with stripper, Viagra and sex toys

From the state that brought us the saga of the Mark Sanford affair comes this unfortunate doozy. A deputy assistant attorney... more

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Condoms Rival The Pill's Popularity Among Women

The condom has now caught up with the pill as women's preferred method of contraception, latest figures suggest.

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The Catholic Church's Next Scandal

At their latest meeting in Rome, African bishops ignored Catholicism’s greatest failing—the AIDS crisis ravaging their... more

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The C-Section Backlash

As the rate of C-sections skyrockets, women are fighting back with angry blogs and public protests. Some are even calling it rape.

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Hotels that Help You Cheat

Today's finest hotels and restaurants work hard to accommodate their guests' dalliances. Sara Reistad-Long investigates... more

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Maryland School Library to Remove Dragon Ball Manga

Maryland's Wicomico County Public Schools plans to remove the first volume of the Dragon Ball manga from Pittsville Elementary and Middle School's library this week after a county council member showed what he described as "sexual" content in the volume. According to council member Joe Holloway, a mother told him that her nine-year-old fourth-grader borrowed the book from the Pittsville Elementary and Middle School's library. During Tuesday's council meeting, Halloway said, "In cartoon format, [the manga volume] depicts nudity, sexual contact between children and sexual innuendo among adults and children."

Wicomico Schools Superintendent John Fredericksen added, "I'd say it's coming off the shelves as soon as I can get a phone call back to the office." He said that graphic novels appeal to children who are not reading traditional books, and that the manga volume was probably purchased with grant funding. A committee will make the final decision on the book.

A similar incident occurred in 1999 when a Dallas parent complained about "borderline soft porn" images of "naked boys and girls" in Dragon Ball Z comics that he bought for his four-year-old son at a Toys R Us store. According to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Toys R Us removed the manga from all stores nationwide in the middle of November of 1999. The Dragon Ball manga volumes that Viz printed in North America after this earlier incident contain edited images and dialogue.

At the time, Daniel Cocanougher of the North American anime distributor Funimation noted that the anime based on the manga contains "innocent behavior that hints at sexuality. This poses no problem for Japanese audiences, whereas in the United States we seem to not want to discuss it at all."

Dr. Susan Napier added, "There is just a wider tolerance for sexuality in Japan. It usually is played out humorously and perhaps titillating in a mild way. It's just a difference in cultural sensibilities." In 1999, Napier was an associate professor of Asian Studies at the University of Texas in Austin, and she is now a professor at Tufts University in Massachusetts.

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Damn us Westerners and our ridiculous ideas about acceptable sexuality. What's a kids willie going to hurt?Maryland's Wicomico County Public Schools plans to remove the first volume of the Dragon Ball manga from Pittsville... more

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9 SIgns your Friend is Toxic

The 9 Signs You’re in a Toxic Friendship

1) Your friend is jealous of you. Jealousy is different than envy and the first can be very toxic for the relationship. Jealousy is: "I want what you have and I want you dead or disappeared." Envy is just: "I want what you have." A jealous friend will want to cut you out of her life because she really wants what you have and can’t stand to be around you anymore. An envious friend will want what you have, but will look to you as her inspiration or role model, and compete with you to get in the lead.

2) Your friend is a "doormat": It’s tiring to always be with someone who is so malleable.

3) Your friend wasn’t there for you. It’s sometimes hard to see if a friend is really a true pal until there is a life-changing moment in your life that requires the person’s support. This eye-opening event is called The Inciting Incident, which is when everything is going along fine, until wham! someone gets sick, or loses their job, or gets married or loses a loved one, and you find that the friend you thought would be by your side isn’t there for you at all. She doesn’t celebrate your good news nor does she help you in times of need. For some women it takes an "inciting incident" to finally notice that a friend is toxic.

4) Your friend is draining you: You feel you’re psychologically and emotionally giving all your energy to her and receiving nothing in return.

5) You don’t share the same values or the same world view: It’s a red flag that this isn’t the right friend for you if you don’t respect her for who she is. I interviewed a woman who wished her friend’s husband ill. It made the married woman realize that her friend’s behavior is nothing like her own.

6) You are using one another: This type of toxic relationship develops among socialites. You want to be friends with your neighbor because your children attend the same private school and you can coordinate a carpool. Will the friendship last? Maybe. Is there really a friendship between the mothers or is it just using? Is it worth turning this friendship into anything more than an agreement?

7) The relationship offers no return on investment: This is similar to a friend who is draining you – but this isn’t just an emotional give and take. If you are the one calling your friend to make plans and going out of your way to be with her, but she makes no attempt to go out of her way for you, then she’s not meeting you halfway.

8) Your friend is harming someone else or doing something illicit. Do you want to be associated with someone who is morally unjust? That’s a judgment call on your part.

9) Your friend burdens you with a secret: Your friend trusts you by sharing the details of her affair, but keeping the secret has weighed on you emotionally. You might want to keep your distance. If you’re too close to this woman and the secret is really impacting your life for the worse, it’s time to disengage yourself.

How to Disengage: If any of these signs describes one of your friendships, it’s likely to be a toxic relationship that’s burdensome to not just your sanity but hers as well. You could deliberately distance yourself and let the relationship fizzle into oblivion. If you would like to renegotiate the relationship and improve the friendship, have an honest conversation to reveal how you feel. You’ll risk losing this person, but the reward could be improving the quality of the friendship. Honesty is the best policy. Say: "I’m really upset you didn’t do this and this. And I needed you there to do this and this."

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