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 Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:34 pm
Inspired by Bondage Zombie's "Sexy News" thread in the Sex Education guild, this thread will consist of news I find on the internet to do with sex and such. Well, sex-related news from around the world. Go Fark! heart
If there's a problem, please let me know and I can remove something, or delete this thread if necessary. sweatdrop heart
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:35 pm
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:36 pm
Taken from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4489967.stmNurses warn over teen group sex School nurses say they deal with teenagers who have been sexually exploited Teenagers are taking part in a group sex activity known as "daisy-chaining", nurses have claimed. School nurses at the Royal College of Nursing's conference in Harrogate said colleagues in parts of London had become aware of the practice. Nurses warn daisy-chaining, where acts are performed with multiple partners, puts teenagers' health at risk. They said the problem showed how school nurses' work had changed from checking for "nits" or giving immunisations. Concerns about binge drinking and drug abuse had also changed their role, school nurses said. 'Exploitation' Judy McRae, a sexual health nurse in London, said: "Colleagues are coming across reports of groups of young people having sex in large groups. Most school nurses at some time in their career will work with children and young people who are subjected to sexual exploitation Liz Allan, RCN School Nurses Forum "It is known as daisy-chaining and is obviously very worrying as far as sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy is concerned. "As we understand it, it involves groups of older teenagers going round to each other's homes and having sex in a similar way as swinging. It is very new and is only just starting to be talked about." Steve Jamieson, an RCN sexual health adviser, highlighted a case involving a 14-year-old boy who was diagnosed with HIV, which he had contracted through sexual activity, though not through daisy-chaining. The boy had been shocked to realise that someone so young could be diagnosed with HIV. Other sexual health nurses said peer pressure was causing young boys to become sexually active earlier. Liz Allan, chairman of the RCN School Nurses Forum, said some children felt under pressure to provide sexual favours because they are part of a gang culture. "Most school nurses at some time in their career will work with children and young people who are subjected to sexual exploitation, that's boys and girls who prostitute themselves. "These are children who are being exploited sexually who prostitute themselves as a result of coercion, violence, trafficking," she said. Ms Allan said children could also sell sexual favours for money. Research involving more than 1,200 school nurses in the UK, conducted by the RCN, found that 90% were dealing with providing sex advice and support. Two thirds said they had also supported youngsters with substance abuse, and 90% had dealt with obesity problems. A spokesperson for Terrence Higgins Trust said: "Risky sexual practices like this are the fastest way to spread sexually transmitted infections like HIV. "It's very worrying that young people are putting themselves at risk in this way. "Sex and relationship education must improve so that young people know how to protect themselves and their sexual partners."
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:39 pm
Diddling darlings left red-faced
over private escapades
By Ryann Connell
Staff writer
April 27, 2005
Emi Masuda traveled into Tokyo on a packed commuter train running through the suburbs. Forced up against a young high school student, the 23-year-old ad agency worker was surprised when his body reacted like most testosterone-packed young men's would.
Rather than be alarmed by the experience, Masuda found it a thrill. In fact, she enjoyed it so much, a trip to the bathroom shortly after arriving at her workplace saw her relieving herself in more ways than one.
"It was the first time I'd ever diddled myself at work," she tells Shukan Taishu (5/9-16). "Our company's toilet is unisex. On the way, a small moan slipped out and it seems like somebody heard it. When I got back to my desk, I found a note there saying, 'What are you doing in the toilet when everybody else is at a meeting?' I think one of the guys in the office wrote it. I couldn't look them in the face. In some ways, that anonymous note was even harder to bear than being talked to directly."
Perhaps the average guy's biggest nightmare while relieving their carnal frustrations is being caught in the act, but the same applies to women, too, according to Shukan Taishu.
Nanami Kuwata, an apparel company employee, knows exactly what the men's weekly is talking about. Given a little time to herself while on a tennis vacation with a couple of girls from work, she found herself in the mood and promptly began parting her Afro, so to speak.
"Just as I was moving into another world, the girl sharing my room burst in, saying, 'Hey, hey. Have you got a spare wristband?'" Kuwata says, adding that she had her dress and panties around her ankles and hands between her legs at the time. "She knew immediately what I'd been doing. I could only look up at her and say, 'Sorry, I haven't got a wristband.' She rushed out of the room. At that moment, I felt like burying myself in a huge hole."
Nurse Miki Mizusawa was in fact burying something into a hole of her own when she was nabbed.
"My boyfriend suddenly popped out of the closet in my room," she tells Shukan Taishu. He was really embarrassed and apologized, saying he had been planning to give me a surprise. "I was furious. I started screaming at him before finally dragging him over to my bed and hurling him onto it. My potential was pretty high considering I'd done half the work myself, and I was ashamed that I'd been spotted, so I went at it with an intensity my boyfriend had probably never experienced in a woman before."
Perhaps prying parents are the most likely to make women red-faced if they catch them red-handed. Junko Ishida certainly felt that way when her mom spotted her playing with the little man in the boat while soaking in an outdoor hot springs while on a family trip with her parents who had traveled from their home in Fukuoka to stay with her near Tokyo.
"Mom couldn't sleep because dad's snoring was too loud, so she decided to have a bath, too. She knew exactly what I was doing, but stood there looking at me and said, 'Hey, what are you doing?' I didn't know what to say, but stuttered out, 'Um, um, I was just enjoying the beautiful moon,' and hurried out of the bath," the 25-year-old government official tells Shukan Taishu, adding that when her parents headed for home, her mother grabbed her around the shoulders and said, "You'd better hurry up and find yourself somebody nice." "Now, whenever I remember my mom's parting words, it still makes my face turn bright red."
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:47 pm
Taken from: http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/4412288/detail.htmlStudy: Teens Who Make Public Virginity Pledges Just As Likely To Have SexPOSTED: 7:31 am PDT April 25, 2005 UPDATED: 7:20 am PDT April 26, 2005 BERKELEY, Calif. -- Adolescents who take public virginity pledges are just as likely to engage in sexual activity as those who do not, according to a study of Los Angeles and San Francisco teens. The study, conducted by the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Berkeley and released on Monday, found that teens who had made private virginity pledges or promises that they would wait to have sexual intercourse until they were older or married were less likely to begin having oral sex or intercourse. But the adolescents who had made formal, public virginity pledges were just as likely to start engaging in sexual behaviors as those who did not take such a pledge. The study was based on a survey of 870 12- to 16-year-olds in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, with follow-up surveys six months and one year later. Seventeen percent of the young people surveyed reported they had made formal, public virginity pledges to wait, while 74 percent had made private virginity pledges. "Programs that attempt to promote abstinence among teens should focus on personal beliefs of the young people and help them to understand and believe that they will benefit from delaying sex," said Melina Bersamin, the study's author. "This can increase the likelihood that they will make a personal commitment -- which seems to be more important than making a public pledge," she said. She suggested that formal pledges may fail if adolescents are simply responding to external pressures from parents or teachers, while private pledges usually result from their personal beliefs and are more likely to withstand external pressures from peers. The study will be released in the May issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health. In March, the journal released a Yale and Columbia University report that teens who make virginity pledges are just as likely to be infected with sexually transmitted diseases as those who did not.
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 6:52 am
Wyoming Men Cited for Making Snow Phallus
Saturday April 30, 2005 5:24pm
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - Two men have pleaded not guilty to promoting obscenity for allegedly building a snow phallus in their front yard. Brandon Arp, 20, and Aric Davenport, 19, were arraigned Friday in circuit court.
Police say Arp and Davenport built the sculpture April 21. Neighbors found the sculpture offensive and, although someone destroyed it, the two were cited.
Davenport's attorney, Michael Vang, said it's not clear how the sculpture was obscene. He accused police of selective enforcement.
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 12:00 am
Taken from: http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1115130628112_110539828?hub=topstories~ More than 1 in 10 report early sexual activity CTV.ca News Staff Girls with low self-esteem and boys who have a troubled relationship with their parents are more likely to have sexual intercourse at an early age, according to data from a national survey. The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) found that more than one in 10 adolescents -- 12 per cent of boys and 13 per cent of girls -- reported having sex by the time they reached 14 or 15. While risky behaviours, such as drinking and smoking at an early age, were linked to early sexual intercourse for both genders, there were several differences in behaviour. Low self-esteem at age 12 or 13 was a key factor in determining whether girls would have sexual intercourse at 14 or 15. However the opposite was true for boys. Other factors exclusively linked to girls was the onset of puberty at 12 or 13, as well as weight. The study suggests that the odds of having intercourse by age 14 or 15 were twice as high for girls who were not overweight at ages 12 or 13. For boys, their relationship with their parents at age 12 or 13, and whether they came from a low-income family, were key factors in determining their sexual behaviour a few years later. For both boys and girls, smoking was linked to early intercourse. However, drinking was associated with early sexual activity in girls only. The NLSCY study on early sexual intercourse is based on data from the 1996/97, 1998/99 and 2000/01. It surveyed 3,212 youths aged 14 or 15 in 1998/99 or 2000/01. The findings of the data were released Tuesday by Statistics Canada, which also revealed the findings of a related study from the 2003 Canadian Community Health Survey. The data from the CCHS suggest that the younger someone is when they have sex, the more likely they are to get a sexually transmitted disease (STD). The survey found that four per cent of 15 to 24-year-olds who had sex at least once reported having an STD. However, those who had had sexual intercourse by the age of 13 were more than twice as likely to report an STD than those who had waited until they were older, the report said. The CCHS also looked at sexual activity, number of partners and condom use among 15- to 24-year-olds. It found that an estimated 28 per cent of 15- to 17-year-olds reported having sexual intercourse at least once in their lives. "By ages 20 to 24, the proportion was 80 per cent," StatsCan said. As well, about one-third of sexually active 15- to 24-year-olds reported that they had had more than one sexual partner in the previous year. As for condom use, the survey suggests that the older age groups were less likely to use latex during sex. The survey says that the differences might be explained by the fact that the older age group are more likely to be in a long-term relationship, and may not perceive condom use as a concern. Statistics Canada notes that in these self-reported surveys, the term "sexual intercourse" was not defined in the survey questions.
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 12:14 am
Important - Postal Security
03/05/2005
Colleagues are reminded that they should not arrange for personal items to be delivered to any **** location.
At many **** sites, incoming parcels are screened in an x-ray chamber before being delivered to the colleague it is addressed to. The screening has exposed some astonishing contents. Among the non-business items received recently have been small trees and plants, TV and hi-fi equipment, bicycles, electrical items and even a vibrating sex toy.
More worryingly, group security has had to intercept packages containing replica guns and knives (not the culinary ones).
"We appreciate that it's convenient to have items delivered to work, especially when there's no-one at home during the day, but colleagues must find an alternative to their work address," says head of security, **** ********.
"As well as slowing down the progress of business-related post, it places an additional strain on security resources thereby increasing the risk that a genuine 'business threat' might be missed."
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:35 am
Taken from: http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/43222004.htmEva Longoria has been bombarded with hundreds of vibrators by obsessed fans. The 'Desperate Housewives' star confessed that ever since she mentioned sex toys were fun, her post box has been flooded with parcels of X-rated aids. The striking brunette, who says starring in the TV show has changed her life, revealed: "I get boxes and boxes of vibrators sent to me just because I happened to mention I thought they were fun. " The actress also confessed she would love to date George Clooney and Johnny Depp, both unfortunately spoken for. Eva, who plays cheating Gabrielle Solis in the show, has already been linked to a number of men, including singer JC Chasez and basketball player Tony Parker, added in an interview with Britain's Night and Day magazine: "What can I say? I love men and I love romance. I'm never going to be one of those girls who says they don't have time for romance.
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:36 am
Fark Headline: "Rod Stewart to be father again at 60. In other news, someone keeps sleeping with Rod Stewart." xd (www.fark.com) Taken from: http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/01/rod.stewart.child/index.html~ LONDON, England -- Rod Stewart is to become a father, for the seventh time, at the age of 60. The rock star -- best known for songs like "Do You Think I'm Sexy?" -- has confirmed that he and his fiancee Penny Lancaster are expecting a child in early December. Stewart said he felt "blessed" and planned to marry Lancaster in spring 2006. However, the singer still needs to divorce his second wife, Rachel Hunter, who is seeking a share of his fortune. Rumors of the pregnancy circulated last week but the couple was reluctant to confirm it until Lancaster had safely passed her 12th week. "I am overjoyed and extremely proud to be able to confirm that my fiancee Penny is carrying our baby," Stewart said in a statement. "I count myself blessed to have bestowed upon me the honor of fatherhood again with Penny, whom I love and cherish so much." Stewart and Lancaster have been together for nearly six years. This will be Lancaster's first child. Stewart has six children -- Kimberley, 25, and Sean, 24, by first wife Alana Stewart; Ruby, 17, by former girlfriend Kelly Emberg; and Renee, 13, and Liam, 10, by Hunter. His sixth child, Sarah Thubron, 41, was born before he was famous following a teenage romance with art student Susannah Boffey. Stewart proposed to Lancaster on a romantic trip to Paris in March. After asking her father Graham's permission, he reportedly got down on bended knee at the top of the Eiffel Tower and presented her with a diamond engagement ring.
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:29 pm
Taken from: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050622/D8ASB47G0.htmlKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - Four decades after the birth control pill became available to women, researchers at the University of Kansas and the University of Kansas Medical Center are working to develop a similar contraceptive for men. The researchers plan to test about a half-million chemical compounds to find a pill that does not involve hormones that men could take weekly or monthly. They also hope to find something that is close to 100 percent effective and has no risky side effects. The research is being conducted with a $7.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Scientists will test compounds at a high-tech laboratory on the university's Lawrence campus. It will be at least five years before clinical trials could be conducted on men. While women have been using the pill since the 1960s, men generally have had two contraception choices: condoms or sterilization. "Half of the population has been ignored," said Joseph Tash, a reproductive biologist at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Only 27 percent of women who practice contraception rely on their partners to use condoms or have vasectomies, according to data from the Alan Guttmacher Institute. "I think some couples would like to have that option," said Gunda Georg, lead researcher on the project. "There's been a shift in attitude. Some men would like to share more in that responsibility." The new, five-year contract will build on work begun four years ago. Under another NIH grant, Kansas researchers identified a chemical compound that caused temporary infertility in male rats. The university has filed a patent application for that compound. The team now hopes to discover a half-dozen more compounds. Male contraceptives being tested in China and Europe are hormone-based, involving either large injections of a male hormone similar to testosterone or a combination of testosterone and a female hormone. Preliminary studies have shown hormonal contraception to be effective and that men regain their fertility after several months, said Douglas Colvard, associate director of Conrad, a nonprofit organization at Eastern Virginia Medical School that promotes research on reproductive health. But testosterone injections raise concerns about side effects, such as elevated cholesterol levels and promoting cancer growth, Colvard said. The Kansas researchers are looking for a male pill that does not affect hormones. Instead, they are looking for chemicals that can disable a handful of enzymes that scientists have identified as critical to male fertility. The researchers have selected more than 100,000 compounds that might work, Georg said, and will test about 400,000 compounds from the NIH. After the number of compounds are reduced, the researchers will study them at the molecular level to see how they bind to the enzymes. The best compounds then will go to the Kansas School of Medicine, where Tash will test them on mice or rats to see if they are effective and safe, and whether the rodents regain fertility after they stop receiving them. "Obviously, the goal is 100 percent effectiveness," Tash said. "The female pill is 95 to 99 percent effective. We hope to at least meet that level."
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:18 pm
This thread was found on msn.com Taken from: http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1121738359779_8?hub=topstoriesResearchers find a key cause of miscarriages CTV.ca News Staff Canadian researchers say they have identified a defective enzyme that can lead to miscarriages, one of the leading causes of infant deaths in North America. "This complication represents the second most important reason why babies die, and why babies get admitted to our neo-natal intensive care unit," Dr. Andree Gruslin of the Ottawa Health Research Institute told CTV News. "So this represents a huge problem in the Canadian population." The institute discovered an enzyme that promotes growth during pregnancy, allowing blood to flow to the fetus through the placenta. When the enzyme is defective, blood is not carried through the placenta, causing the fetus to starve from a lack of nutrients. This can result in stunted growth, leading to miscarriage. The condition affects about three per cent of women, and is called Fetal Growth Restriction, or Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR). Now doctors hope they can create a test to find out which women are susceptible to the condition. The institute's findings will be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "If you ask me, 'Could this help you in your future pregnancies?' I'd say yes, it possibly could," Dr. John Kingdom, of Mount Sinai Hospital, told CTV News. "Because what it's going to do is pick out the women at risk next time around much earlier in their pregnancy." Carole Alwyn went through a miscarriage 10 months ago due to IUGR. "They saw the baby was smaller. At that time they already suspected that there was something wrong," Alwyn told CTV News. She feels that a test indicating IUGR would have been a great relief to her, even if it wouldn't have saved her unborn child. "It would have helped me because I would have known why. I think the worst thing is to be in the unknown," she said. Now that a cause for IUGR is known, researchers can begin to look for a treatment. Doctors are currently experimenting with medication that thins the blood, like low-dose Aspirin, to see if it allows more nutrients to pass through the placenta.
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:26 am
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