Sex, Gender, Sexuality, Discussion Options

[Innocent]

Yahoo People on the Web: Hooter Heaven

Is Jason Grunstra’s MyFreeImplants.com the answer to some women’s dreams -- or just to those who want to see them naked?

Thus the concept of "MyFreeImplants.com" was born, [....] The idea was simple: Set up a Web site to raise money for women who want breast implants. The women pose for photographs on the site, and so-called benefactors pay for the right to look — and to "interact," as Grunstra puts it, via email and blog posts.

With a title like "Hooter Heaven," I gotta figure this post will be popular with "the guys."

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Greenpeace Nude

Hundreds pose nude on Swiss glacier

BETTMERALP, Switzerland - Hundreds of naked people formed a "living sculpture" on Switzerland's Aletsch glacier Saturday, hoping to raise awareness about climate change.

The photo shoot by Spencer Tunick, the New York artist famous for his pictures of nude gatherings in public settings worldwide, was designed to draw attention to the effects of global warming on Switzerland's shrinking glaciers.

"The melting of the glaciers is an indisputable sign of global climate change," said the environmental group Greenpeace, which co-organized the event.

It said most Swiss glaciers will disappear by 2080 if global warming continues at its current pace.

The event, which followed Tunick's previous shoots in London, Mexico City and Amsterdam, was designed to minimize any impact on the environment, Greenpeace said.

Temperatures during the shoot hovered around 50 degrees.

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[Innocent]

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Renew Vows

[Arturo_Vandelay]

Funny, I don't think that was part of my vows. A loophole perhaps.

[Innocent]

Funny, I don't think that was part of my vows. A loophole perhaps.

Consider yourself lucky to be alive.

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[Nomarchy]

Given the enormous amount of both similarities and differences between bodies of all kinds, any categorization based on anatomical differences, be it sexual or racial or other, dimorphic or polymorphic, must always choose to invest certain facts with essential meanings and regard other facts (actually, most facts) as insignificant.

[Nomarchy]

Culture always addresses and acts back upon, even physically reshapes, reproductive differences but the processes of how this happens are never predetermined by anatomy or biology.

[Nomarchy]

By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A survey examining sexual practices of U.S. teens has undercut the notion that many engage in oral sex rather than intercourse to stay "technically" virgins, researchers said on Tuesday.

The findings, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, were based on answers by 2,271 females and males age 15 to 19 in 2002 in response to a government survey.

The researchers found about 55 percent of the teens said they had engaged in oral sex but that this practice was far more common among those who also had engaged in vaginal sex.

Teens said they began vaginal and oral sex at roughly the same time -- by six months after first vaginal intercourse, 82 percent had also engaged in oral sex, according to the study.

"There is a widespread belief that teens engage in nonvaginal forms of sex, especially oral sex, as a way to be sexually active while still claiming that, technically, they are virgins," Laura Lindberg of the Guttmacher Institute in New York, who led the study, said in a statement.

"However, our research shows that this supposed substitution of oral sex for vaginal sex is largely a myth. There is no good evidence that teens who have not had intercourse engage in oral sex with a series of partners."

The Guttmacher Institute studies sexual and reproductive health issues.

About one in 10 of the teens said they had engaged in anal sex. These teens were far more likely to have also engaged in vaginal sex.



"Teens of white ethnicity and higher socioeconomic status were more likely than their peers to have ever had oral or anal sex," the researchers wrote.

Lindberg said the new findings illustrate that the Bush administration's emphasis on school programs teaching sexual abstinence until marriage "does not give teens the skills and information they need to be safe."

Statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in March showed that more than one in four U.S. teen girls was infected with at least one sexually transmitted disease. The CDC said in December the birth rate for U.S. teens rose in 2006 for the first time since 1991.

Lindberg said the Guttmacher Institute's findings have health policy implications.

"While oral and anal sex carry no risk of pregnancy, engaging in these behaviors can nevertheless put teens at risk of sexually transmitted infections," she said.

"Counseling and education should take into account total STI risk by addressing the full range of behaviors that teens engage in, including oral and anal sex."

(Editing by John O'Callaghan)

Teen sex study doubts 'technical virginity'

[SpaceCowboy]

I had my doubts as well. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[John Chrichton]

....Log Cabin Republicans....

If you guys are gonna post about them, I'm gonna have to leave. Not old enough to know/see that kind of stuff.

[Arturo_Vandelay]

If you guys are gonna post about them, I'm gonna have to leave. Not old enough to know/see that kind of stuff.

I am. Got the senior discount at the grocery store just today. I'd complain but 5 bucks is five bucks.

[SpaceCowboy]

I am. Got the senior discount at the grocery store just today. I'd complain but 5 bucks is five bucks.

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[Nomarchy]

As I suggested earlier, to understand both the motivation and the results of this research, we have to bear in mind that most Western scien-tists come to sex differences research imbued with the binary male/female model. If this binary model is their theoretical starting point, the scientists must begin their investigations by identifying the significant attributes that distinguish the two groups. When they find (as they must) that women and men overlap so widely as to be virtually indistinguishable on a specific criterion, they must go on to look for other criteria and to con- centrate on whatever differences they unearth. Small wonder they come to highlight characteristics that fit in with their difference-paradigm while ignoring the overlaps that contradict it. And so, the dichotomization into two and only two sexes or genders gets superimposed on a heterogeneous mix of bodies, feelings, and minds.

The time is ripe for physicians and scientists also to remove their binary spectacles and, rather than explore what it means to be "male" or "female," look into what it means to be neither or both, which is what most of us are. All of us, female or male, are very much alike and also very different from each other. Major scientific distortions have resulted from ignoring similarities and overlaps in the effort to group differences by sex or gender. A paradigm that stresses fluidity will generate quite different questions and hence come up with different descriptions and analyses [b]than those derived from the binary view. Social and natural scientists need to move on and explore the implications of the emerging paradigm of a continuum, or rainbow, for the study of sex and gender.

I would strongly urge that the same applies to all those scientific (i.e. 'proper' sciences, with laboratories, and stuff) studies seeking and purportedly finding 'sexuality' (heterosex, homosex, bisex)-typed or -morphic characteristics, abilities, preferences, etc. in human beings.

[helicop]

You sure would be going all night with that one. I wouldnt use that everyday but only on those occasions, you know.

[SRX]

But I don't want any triamterene.

[Innocent]

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Born Robert Hardy Craig-Wood, she knew from an early age she should have been a woman but fear of the unknown meant she did not address the issue until her marriage began to fail Photo: MALCOLM CASE-GREEN

Award-winning female manager was born a man

Of all those named in a new list of young female business leaders, Kate Craig-Wood has perhaps the most unusual success story. She was born male, and was able to afford a £50,000 sex change operation after developing a career in technology.

Now the managing director of her own server hosting firm, Memset.com, the 32-year-old has been ranked one of Management Today's 35 Women Under 35.

She turned out pretty good.

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[Human Ills]

I guess she did.

[GuitarCrazyo]

My relationship is fine.

This has been happening to me gradually over the past 3 years.

So is there anything that you can get off of the shelf?