Head to Head chat excerpts
Pia Lopez and Ben Boychuk squared off in a live chat Thursday after President Barack Obama declared his support for gay marriage. Here are excerpts from the chat.
Ken Livingstone: 'This isn't a race to elect a chat-show host'
He is a lifelong champion of London's poor and dispossessed. So, with a week to go before the mayoral election, why is he still struggling to get his message across against a millionaire old Etonian? The last time I met Ken Livingstone we had a bit of a row about electoral strategy. He told me that voters respect him because he speaks his mind and refuses to play the media game of placating the ...
Ukrainin' Men: How American Men Are Using the Russian Facebook to Find Brides [The Internet]
# theinternet A few weeks ago, I created a profile and logged onto VKontakte , the most popular Russian-language social network. I entered some personal information, uploaded an especially flattering picture of myself, then used the search function to find all single women between 25 and 35 in Ukraine who were online at the moment — around 7:30 p.m. Ukraine time. There were more than 10,000 ...
Dataran Merdeka off-limits solely
KUALA LUMPUR-ONLY national-level activities like Merdeka Day, Federal Territories Day and New Year's celebrations were allowed to be held at Dataran Merdeka, said City Hall mayor Tan Sri Ahmad Fuad Ismail.
Mother-daughter sexperts
Susie Bright and her daughter, Aretha, make parental talks about sex look easy -- and fun
'My mum's going to see this': Actors and actresses reveal secrets of the sex scenes
The British tabloid press had one of its regular clammy spasms of outrage in November 1986, aroused by a shot of actor Patrick Malahide's pale, naked buttocks bobbing up and down amid the bracken of the Forest of Dean. In many ways, the furore over the sex scenes in Dennis Potter's BBC masterpiece The Singing Detective marked the full extent of the Aids-panicked, neo-puritan backlash against ...
On the rack: A cultural history of breasts
It's hard to be boobs. Sure, breasts are cherished as givers of milk and the pinnacle of sex appeal, but the modern world hasn't been good to mammaries. As Florence Williams writes in "Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History," they're the most tumor-prone organ in the human body. They "soak up pollution like a pair of soft sponges," and transmit environmental toxins to babies through breast ...
DJ Louie XIV: '856 Feet Away...': My Grindr Experiment
It goes without saying that this was one of the most awkward experiences in my already-pretty-awkward life, but I knew right away that I was happy I did it. Mainly, I had achieved one of my main goals with the experience, which was to get a sense of my own sexual boundaries.
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R, 2012, 110 minutes