July 13, 2011
If you’re visiting Moscow, you can now find sex in not-so-obvious places. Tochka G (“G-Spot”), Moscow’s first museum to showcase sex in all its glory, may be the first place to check out for frisky tourists who aren’t ready to visit the Russian capital’s many strip clubs and brothels. Though the museum comes equipped with ...
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June 7, 2011
Many of my friends and acquaintances have divorced parents but somehow, I had never quite understood just how common divorce was or how far it until I got on the home page of The Huffington Post one day and noticed there was an entire section of the paper dedicated only to that particular issue. Although ...
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December 20, 2010
Tony Porter, an educator and activist against violence against women, has called for men to stop “acting like a man” and to break out of the “man box.” This “man box” is what he calls the “collective socialization of men”. It perpetuates the idea that men are not allowed to have feelings, that they are ...
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