Apparently there is more than one way to be an animal lover. The term usually refers to someone who, plain and simple, loves animals. Each day I do whatever I can to enrich the life of my kitty, whether it means petting, cuddling or playing with him. Like an animal rights activist or someone who ...
Most people have babies, they don’t win them. But some couples need help to have kids and assisted reproductive technology can be costly and, therefore, inaccessible. Recently, an Ottawa radio station gave couples hope with their “Win A Baby!” contest. You may not literally win a baby, but one couple wins a chance at having ...
If you have a problem with MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, it might be even harder to accept the reverse: 61 and pregnant. Although she’s old enough to be a granny, an unnamed 61-year-old Brazilian woman is due with her first child this November. After having “undergone a very thorough medical clearance,” her and her 38-year-old ...
Plastic surgery has always been a little controversial. It started out as a way to actually help people and has become a way to cheat your genes to fit Hollywood’s standards. We have always been asking the same questions: is it okay to make a profit off of someone’s insecurities? Is it okay to tell ...
It’s one thing to agree with the exchange of sex for money and quite another to propose it should be legal for women to be sex slaves. Salwa al Mutairi, a female Kuwaiti politician, has said that men should use women as sex slaves. But there’s more. She adds that prisoners from war-torn countries would ...
Is chemical castration the answer to Russia’s growing pedophile problem? Russian president Dmitry Medvedev believes it is and he has urged lawmakers to consider it. In the past year alone more than 9,500 sex crimes were committed against children in Russia, not including the countless incidents that went unreported. The proposed chemical castration process involves ...
Paternity tests are now sold over-the-counter at one of the UK’s biggest pharmacies, Boots. It will cost about $250 and needs to be sent away to a lab to get the results. The company who makes these kits says it will help the 50,000 children born every year in the UK without a father on the ...
Founded as it is on love, people often get into a snit when they are reminded that marriage is a state that must be recognized by the government to be legal. This doesn’t meant that their vows to love and cherish until death were not true promises, just that they won’t be valid for bureaucratic ...
Soon a woman whose uterus has been damaged or removed due to cancers or other reproductive problems might still be able to carry a child to term using a transplanted womb. This is a controversial issue in the medical community but could soon be a reality for many hopeful mothers. In the UK alone up ...
According to an article in the BBC there is a large black market for sperm donation in the UK. People are meeting online through unregulated sites and arranging either to have sex or receive samples from donors. I can understand the desire for children and the barriers to using regulated sperm donation, but this practice ...
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There has been an upswing in royal fever on both sides of the Atlantic since last April. When Kate...
Dear Madame X, I know you say that it’s not good to fake your orgasms, but what if you...
It is one of the oldest institutions in the world. Most humans are actively engaged in it as I...
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Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
