By Christian Fraser BBC News, Rome

Adulterous Italian women can now protect their honour with impunity

Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that married Italian women who commit adultery are entitled to lie about it to protect their honour.

The court gave its landmark ruling after hearing the case of a 48-year-old woman, convicted of giving false testimony to police by denying she had lent her mobile phone to her lover.

Lohan's dad won't look at nude Monroe pics

He added to Us Weekly magazine: "The fact that the photographer Bert Stern who did Marilyn Monroe's pictures would ask Lindsay to re-create them - that's an amazing thing."

Michael also hopes Lindsay doesn't fully follow in Marilyn's footsteps, because the blonde iconic star died of a drugs overdose aged 36.

Friday Feb 22, 2008 Once-a-day drug means 'spontaneous' sex
Repackaged in lower-dose version. But some critics are uncomfortable with idea of erectile enhancers in perpetuity

Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 Ottawa sex workers plan Montreal-style association
Ottawa's sex trade workers are trying to form an association to represent exotic dancers, escorts, masseuses..

Friday Feb 15, 2008 Most common-law couples don't know their rights
Quebec couples may celebrate love around Valentine's Day but many of those who live in common-law arrangements are unaware...

Friday 15 February 2008 Reinventing Date Night for Long-Married Couples
Rather than visiting the same familiar haunts and dining with the same old friends, couples need to tailor their date nights around new and different activities that they both enjoy, says Arthur Aron, a professor of social psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The goal is to find ways to keep injecting novelty into the relationship. The activity can be as simple as trying a new restaurant or something a little more unusual or thrilling — like taking an art class or going to an amusement park.SOME relationships run aground on the perilous shoals of money, sex or religion.

Monday Feb 11, 2008

• Video: 'What's sex without love? That's dating'

• Canadians — as sexy as possible

• Read more of our Love & Sex issue

Hers may be a little on the high side

Wearing higher heels - although perhaps not stilettos - may improve your pelvic floor muscles and in doing so boost your sex life, a study suggests.

An Italian urologist and self-professed lover of the sexy shoe set out to prove that high heels were not as bad for women's health as some suggest.

The shoe has been linked to a range of problems - from corns to schizophrenia.

But in a letter to European Urology, Dr Maria Cerruto said her research showed it was time to stand up for the heel.

Monday Feb 4, 2008 Sex workers should be able to ply their trade in safety
There was a time when I wouldn't have questioned columnist Janet Bagnall's declaration that 90 per cent of prostitutes have been forced into the work ("Legal brothels for Vancouver Games are a bad idea," Jan. 30).
....Why do women work as prostitutes? For the money. It's a job, and a legal one in Canada, employing tens of thousands nationwide. But our prudish inability to come to grips with that reality is exactly what has made some aspects of the industry so dangerous.
...But it's our laws and attitudes that have created those working conditions. Women are dying and suffering out there because we've chased them into the shadows with our anti-solicitation laws, criminalized their incomes and denied them a legal indoor workplace.
We categorize them as victims, but treat them like lepers. Pushed into places where we don't have to look at them, the shunned women who end up working Canada's outdoor strolls end up as easy pickings for predators.>br>...But for the adults who choose to work in the industry, what could possibly be a valid rationale for continuing to deny them a proper workplace? Like it or not, sex sells, and the real crime is that we'd rather leave women to be beaten and murdered on the streets than acknowledge that.

How do you know when a woman is about to say something smart?
When she starts a sentence with "A man once told me..."

Friday 18 January 2008 Economics focus

Selling sex

Jan 17th 2008
From The Economist print edition

Economists let some light in on the shady market for paid sex

IT IS all too easy to become a lost soul in New Orleans. The annual meeting of the American Economic Association this month was part of a huge gathering of social scientists sprawled across the city. Each venue itself was a warren of meeting rooms. Take a wrong turning and a delegate seeking an earnest symposium on minimum wages might innocently end up in the conference session devoted to the market for paid sex.

The star attraction there was Steven Levitt, an economics professor at the University of Chicago and co-author of “Freakonomics”, a best-selling book. Mr Levitt presented preliminary findings* from a study conducted with Sudhir Venkatesh, a sociologist at Columbia University. Their research on the economics of street prostitution combines official arrest records with data on 2,200 “tricks” (transactions), collected by Mr Venkatesh in co-operation with sex workers in three Chicago districts.

Monday 14 January 2008 TORONTO: STUDY RELEASED ON STUDENT SEXUAL ACTIVITY
A new study of university students shows that nearly one-third of women who reported having had only one male sexual partner were infected with human papillomavirus within a year of starting that sexual relationship. Three years into those partnerships, nearly 50 per cent of the women had been infected at least once. Lead author Dr. Rachel Winer of the University of Washington in Seattle says HPV is different from other sexually transmitted diseases in that it's very common among everyone who's sexually active. Dr. Monika Naus, director of the immunization program at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver, says the findings underscore the wisdom of offering HPV vaccine to girls before they have begun to have sex. Dr. Naus, who was not involved in the study, notes that data from BC suggests that by age 12, four per cent of boys and 3.1 per cent of girls have had sexual intercourse. By age 16, the rate rises to 28.3 per cent of males and 33.4 per cent of females. The study will be published this week in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

7 January 2008 nsnbc man goes to brothel sees wife

Heidi Montag bares all

2007

Monday 24 December 2007 Little Love Among Matchmakers
Chemistry.com, an offshoot of Match.com, both of which are owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp, follows eHarmony’s practice of putting users through an in-depth personality test to generate potential matches. Other online dating sites, like Match.com and Yahoo Personals, allow users to post pictures and profiles of themselves to make connections.

Tuesday Dec 18, 2007 Marchers speak up for sex-trade workers
About 100 sex-trade workers and their supporters held red umbrellas last night as they stopped at symbolic locations - here, in front of an east-end strip club - to mark International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.

Saturday Dec 15, 2007 Porn more acceptable for college women
A few decades ago, it would have made their mothers or grandmothers blush, but pornography is now more...

The art of seduction: sex through the ages, from every possible angle
According to co-curator Martin Kemp: "We are not setting out to shock, but it is certainly provoking." Marina Wallace, another of the curators, added: "We want London to be thinking about nothing but sex for three months."

ThursdayNovember 29, 2007

Paris Hilton Inc.
"The public wants entertainment not information." William Randolph Hearst

Tuesday Sep 25, 2007 Canadian doctors back HPV vaccine for young girls
The Canadian Paediatric Society yesterday said all girls between the ages of nine and 13 should receive the controversial vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus...
...Pediatricians administer other childhood vaccines, and so are in a good position to influence parents with regard to the HPV vaccine, said Dr. Lefebvre, adding that children should be given Gardasil along with age-appropriate sex education. Canadian pediatricians and gynecologists are not alone in their enthusiasm for Gardasil, which clinical trials have found to be 98% effective against pre-cancerous lesions caused by the two high-risk strains of HPV responsible for 70% of cases of cervical cancer.
..In a letter to Catholic school boards in Ontario earlier this month, the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops said abstinence is the best protection against sexually transmitted disease.
However, Dr. Samson says "There were no safety concerns that were raised in this age group" during clinical trials. And the vaccine must be given early because, while no one wants children having sex too young, the reality is that about 20% have had intercourse by Grade 9, she said.
There are more than 100 types of the virus but HPV-16 and HPV-18--both covered by Gardasil -- are associated with 70% of cases of cervical cancer.

Friday 21 September 2007

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SEXUAL HARRASSMENT: AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PROBLEM?
The Post goes inside with the results of a study that suggest that men are “almost as likely” as women to be coerced into sexual activity. In a study of 518 students at the University of Guelph, 48 percent of female subjects described having been pressured into sexual activities ranging from kissing to cuddling to intercourse, while 39 percent of male participants also reported having succumbed to carnal bullying. According to Cailey Hartwick, the study’s lead author, the traditional conception of the insatiable male libido makes both men and women more susceptible to sexual pressure—men because they believe refusing sex entails a sort of emasculation and women because they feel, in the creepy words of the study, that “resistance may be somewhat futile against a man’s indomitable desire for sex.” The Post appears both incredulous and excited at the subversive implications of the findings, while MediaScout sympathizes with the former attitude. According to the article, the researchers defined sexual coercion as anything from “mild cajoling to full-blown sexual assault”—a spectrum so broad that one has to question whether it constitutes a unified phenomenon to be studied, and whether a narrower definition might not reveal fundamental differences between the experiences of men and women.

Tuesday 11 September 2007 MARRIAGE UPRATED A poll by the Decima firm shows that Canadians attribute a growing importance to the institution of marriage, although those polled also think that it has lost importance for most of the population. The survey also indicates that a majority thinks that it's necessary to make a bigger personal investment in making a marriage succeed, as well as that it's important for children to belong to a family having two parents.

Aislin archive Aug 17, 2007

timeless

Some Like It Hot (1959) trailer
The launching pad for Billy Wilder's comedy classic was a rusty old German farce, Fanfares of Love, whose two main characters were male musicians so desperate to get a job that they disguise themselves as women and play with an all-girl band in gangster-dominated 1929 Chicago. In this version, musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) lose their jobs when a speakeasy owned by mob boss Spats Columbo (George Raft) is raided by prohibition agent Mulligan (Pat O'Brien). Several weeks later, on February 14th, Joe and Jerry get a job perfroming in Urbana and end up witnessing a gangland massacre in a parking garage. Fearing that they will be next on the mobsters' hit lists, Joe devises an ingenious plan for disguising their identities. Soon they are all dolled up and performing as Josephine and Daphne in Sweet Sue's all-girl orchestra. En route to Florida by train with Sweet Sue's band, the boys (girls?) make the acquaintance of Sue's lead singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe, in what may be her best performance). Joe and Jerry immediately fall in love, though of course their new feminine identities prevent them from acting on their desires. Still, they are determined to woo her, and they enact an elaborate series of gender-bending ruses complicated by the fact that flirtatious millionaire Osgood Fielding (Joe E. Brown) has fallen in love with "Daphne." The plot gets even thicker when Spats Columbo and his boys show up in Florida. Nominated for several Oscars, Some Like It Hot ended up the biggest moneymaking comedy up to 1959. Full of hilarious set pieces and movie in-jokes, it has not tarnished with time and in fact seems to get better with each passing year, as its cross-dressing humor keeps it only more and more up-to-date. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Tuesday 12 June 2007 nyt Day of Split Outcomes in Teenage Sex Case A judge has ordered the release of a man who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17.

Wednesday 23 May 2007

NO MORE MONTHLY VISITOR?
CTV News, the Globe and the Citizen (not available online) go inside with the approval in the United States of a birth control pill that stops women’s monthly periods. Although women have known for some time that traditional birth control pills can be taken each day, rather than three weeks a month, to prevent periods from occurring, this is the first drug approved by the US’s Food and Drug Administration that is specifically designed to eliminate symptoms of the menstrual cycle. Lybrel, as the drug is known, may not be for everyone. According to the FDA, about half of the women involved in testing the drug dropped out because of irregular bleeding that replaced the scheduled monthly menstrual cycle. Though the new drug, manufactured by Wyeth, can be beneficial to women who suffer from particularly acute menstrual symptoms, it has stirred up a debate about the appropriateness of removing a natural bodily function. “I certainly can understand the benefits of taking these kinds of medications, but for most women menstruation is a normal life event—not a medical condition,” CTV’s website quotes Jean Elson of the University of New Hampshire as saying. “Why medicate away a normal life event if we’re not sure of the long-term effects?”

Thursday May 17, 2007 NP Strippers to be stopped at border
OTTAWA - The federal government proposes to ban immigrants who want to come to Canada as exotic dancers, Diane Finley, the Minister of Immigration, said.

Thursday 17 May 2007 MySpace won't give names of sex offenders Social network cites U.S. privacy law saying it can only provide information when proper legal processes are followed

Thursday May 17, 2007 Teen pregnancies at all-time low
The rate of teen pregnancies in Canada has hit an all-time low and has fallen more dramatically than the US...
The falling teen pregnancy rate has been accompanied by a corresponding decrease in the rate of abortions, especially since 1994.
...The decline comes despite studies showing the average age at which Canadian teens have their a first sexual encounter is steady at 16.5 years old for boys and girls. But Statistics Canada data from 2005 suggests 12 per cent of boys and 13 per cent of girls have sex earlier - by age 14 or 15.

Saturday 05 May 2007 Age of consent bill moves to final debate
Canada's age of sexual consent, which has been 14 years old since 1892, is one step closer to being raised to 16 after a bill passed in the House of Commons on Friday and is headed to the Senate for final consideration.

Disappearing bees threaten agricultural production
The dead bees under a microscope at a Pennsylvania lab last fall had been sicker than sick. All bees catch viruses from time to time, but these carried every infection going: deformed wing virus, sacbrood virus, Kashmir bee virus, blackened queen cell virus, cloudy wing virus and chalkbrood, among others.

Wednesday 02 May 2007 Our final contribution to stimulate your thoughts has to be the delicious scandal coming out of Washington about Deborah Jeane Palfrey's Black Book, reported to include a Bush administration economics official and the head of a conservative research group.

Friday 20 April 2007 Mother donates eggs to infertile daughter
In what is considered a world first, Melanie Boivin has donated her eggs to her daughter who is sterile because of a genetic condition called Turner’s syndrome.

Friday 20 April 2007 Pill That Eliminates the Period Gets Mixed Reviews Rather than loathing their periods, women evidently carry on complex love-hate relationships with them.

Thursday 12 April 2007 nyt Birds Do It. Bees Do It. People Seek the Keys to It. The definitions of sexual desire can be as quirky and personalized as the very chromosomal combinations that sexual reproduction will yield.

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Monday 05 March 2007 nyt A Record of Failure at Center for Sex Offenders
A treatment center for sex offenders is failing to meet its central purpose: preparing them to return to society

nyt Doubts Rise as States Hold Sex Offenders After Prison Terms
Confining sex offenders past their terms has almost never met a stated purpose of treating the worst criminals until they no longer pose a threat.

Friday 12 January 2007 nyt What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage Modern Love

nyt Questions Couples Should Ask (Or Wish They Had) Before Marrying

nyt Happiness 101

2006

Thu. Oct. 26 2006 bbc Pompeii's erotic past revealed
Hundreds of tourists have been queuing in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, Italy, to gain entry to one of the city's most extravagant brothels. The 2,000-year-old building, featuring erotic fresco paintings, has been re-opened after a costly restoration.

Friday 25 August 2006 nyt F.D.A. Approves Broader Access to Next-Day Pill<
The agency's decision did little to dampen what became a central part of the nation's debate on abortion.

August 2, 2006 nyt New Day for Morning-After Pill?
Andrew von Eschenbach, the acting commissioner of the F.D.A., seems ready to approve nonprescription use of the morning-after pill after unconscionable delays by his predecessors.

Video 52 min 5 sec - Mar 1, 2006 teaser American Dream Calendar Girls 35 beautiful models from around the country compete for the coveted American Dream Calendar Crown and a place in next year's

: May 7, 2006 nyt Contra-Contraception
A growing number of conservatives see birth control as part of an ailing culture that overemphasizes sex and devalues human life. Is this the beginning of the next culture war?

Sunday Jun 4, 2006 Sexual consent changes will exclude teen trysts
The federal government's imminent plans to raise the age of sexual consent to 16 from the current 14 will include exceptions to allow young teens to have sex with others who are no more than five years older.

Wednesday Apr 26, 2006 nyt Analyze These Sigmund Freud's drawings chart the evolution of his thinking, from his early devotion to marine anatomy to his psychological theories.

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Wednesday Mar 29, 2006 ts Sex-trade workers give DNA
EDMONTON—More than 400 women linked to Edmonton's sex trade have volunteered their DNA to police in order to spare their families the anguish of uncertainty should they go missing.

Sunday Mar 19, 2006 nyt Wanted: A Few Good Sperm By JENNIFER EGAN
Tired of waiting for the right guy to come along, more and more women are just looking for the right sperm. But for a woman trying to have a child alone, choosing a donor is only the beginning.

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Saturday Mar 4, 2006 globe Short-message sex It's no longer the telephone companies' dirty little secret:

Thursday Feb 23, 2006 de maisonneuve.org LONGING FOR INFORMATION
The National and the Star go inside with, while la Presse and the Citizen (not available online) brief, the results of a recent survey of Canadian teens and their attitudes toward sex. The study showed many adolescents are ignorant about the risks of sexually transmitted infections, particularly as they relate to oral sex. While the majority were aware of such risks, researchers were concerned about the sizable minority (approximately one in five) that weren’t. A somewhat surprising result which emerged from the study was that teens—though uncomfortable with the idea of talking to their parents about sex—dOWN to get information on sexual activity from their parents. The study was conducted by Ipsos-Reid on behalf of the Canadian Association for Adolescent Health and was funded by Merck—a pharmaceutical company currently developing a vaccine against the commonly transmitted human papilloma virus. The Star notes that Merck’s funding took the form of an unrestricted educational grant, but MediaScout is troubled that la Presse and the Citizen cut the funding detail from their briefs. While there’s no reason to doubt the sincerity of Merck’s grant, or the veracity of the survey, due diligence on such stories should require full disclosure of the study’s potential for bias. The Canadian Association for Adolescent Health recognized that—the Citizen and la Presse should have as well.

Wednesday Feb 15, 2006 cc Short-message sex( 2)

Cellphone makers have embraced what they call the 'textual revolution,' selling their short-message service (SMS) as a sex aid, Jack Kapica writes

Wednesday Feb 1, 2006 nyt Trial Opens in Challenge to Law Over Teenage Sex
By JODI RUDOREN
In debate: Whether a Kansas law prohibiting virtually all sexual activity by people under age 16 means health care professionals must report such behavior to state authorities.

nyt Rethinking Hormones, Again
By RONI RABIN
Despite the wealth of information about the risks and benefits of hormone therapy, women face difficult choices when contemplating treatment.

Friday Jan 27, 2006 SEX.com fetches $12 million The new Sex.com offers the hottest adult entertainment, the most extensive adult dating opportunities, professional sex and relationship advice, erotica, toys, multimedia, adult e-commerce, communities of like minded interests and the most beautiful LIVE girls from all over the world for FREE hot personal video chat - 24 hours a day. All in a safe, professional environment.

Saturday Jan 14, 2006 ts Scrap polygamy ban: Study
A new study for the federal justice department says Canada should get rid of its law banning polygamy, and change other legislation to help women and children living in such relationships.

Vintage French Nude Postcards
Set One contains 70 different reproductions. These are only sold as a complete set, priced at $65.00 CDN.

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Tuesday Jan 3, 2006 ts Windsor super for sin, U.S. fans told
Windsor's mayor is upset at a Detroit newspaper that gives Super Bowl fans the impression his city is great for Cuban cigars and sex for money. Nicolaas van Rijn reports.

2005

Saturday Dec 24, 2005 globe Swingers' clubs hope ruling will help to stimulate their business

Ramifications of Supreme Court decision will take time to emerge

Friday Dec 23, 2005 ts Sex club ruling redefines 'indecency'
It might not transform Canada into a top sex tourism destination, but a Supreme Court ruling yesterday to legalize swingers clubs has broad implications for sexual culture and rights. Jessica Leeder reports.

A truce in war over $30 M jackpot
Lottery winner Raymond Sobeski and his ex-wife reached a deal yesterday in which she will receive an undisclosed amount from his $30 million lottery winnings, reports Dale Brazao.

Friday Dec 2, 2005 ts Morning-after pill privacy concerns raised
Canadian pharmacists are being advised to collect sensitive details about a woman's sexual activity before dispensing the so-called morning-after pill, reports Elaine Carey.

Friday Nov 25, 2005 nyt A Party Girl Leads China's Online Revolution
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Chinese Web logs are giving flesh to the kind of free-spoken civil society the government is determined to prevent.

Tuesday Nov 15, 2005 nyt Report Details F.D.A. Rejection of Next-Day Pill
By GARDINER HARRIS
Congressional investigators found irregularities in the decision against over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill.

Sunday Oct 30, 2005 nyt What's a Modern Girl to Do?
Burning your bra or padding it. Demanding "Ms." or flaunting "Mrs." Splitting the check or letting him pay. Playing it straight or playing hard to get.

Tuesday Oct 25, 2005 nyt The Lap of Luxury
By ELISABETH EAVES
There's no such thing as "overcharging" in the strip club industry.

Sunday Oct 23, 2005 ts A Picture and A Thousand Words Kenneth Kidd on why Einstein was

such a babe magnet
The tongue is out there, but it's not pointing directly at us, telling us where we all can go. This is not a tongue wagged in anger. It's playful, almost joyous, a little exclamation mark on a man celebrating his 72nd birthday in 1951. \

Monday Aug 29, 2005 nyt Morning-After Pill: Politics and the F.D.A.
By GARDINER HARRIS
Federal drug officials have insisted that repeated delays in deciding whether to approve over-the-counter sales of Plan B have nothing to do with abortion politics.

Thursday Aug 18, 2005 ec Gory and erotic images can affect your vision

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Saturday Jul 30, 2005 rci Health Canada is advising men who take drugs for impotence and erectile dysfunction to seek immediate medical attention if they experience vision problems. Users of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra are at risk of a rare side effect when blood flow to the optic nerve is blocked. Symptoms include sudden and painless loss of vision in one or both eyes. Those who experience one episode are at greater risk of experiencing a second episode affecting the other eye. Men older than 50 or those suffering from heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes or certain pre-existing eye problems, and smokers, are most at risk. Health Canada says it's monitoring the drugs and has requested additional safety information from all three manufacturers.

Monday Jun 13, 2005 ecInternet governance Pornographic
The .xxx web domain raises questions about internet rules

Monday Jun 13, 2005 ecTop tip for a better sex life: better genes

Friday Jun 10, 2005 ts
.xxx marks the spot for porn surfers
A Toronto entrepreneur has been given the go-ahead to create a red-light district on the Internet by selling the domain .xxx to porn-driven sites.

Wednesday Jun 8, 2005 globe
Teens weaving a wicked Web
The rules of the Safe Sex Club were simple: Everything happens behind closed doors. Anything goes. Don't let your parents find out.

Wednesday Jun 8, 2005 ts
Oh gawd! What`s that in your genes?
LONDON—A woman`s ability to have an orgasm is at least partly determined by her genes and can`t be blamed entirely on cultural influences, new research suggests.

Wednesday Apr 20, 2005 rci TORONTO: 'MORNING AFTER' PILL GETS APPROVAL WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION Health Canada has given its permission to pharmacies to sell a "morning after" pill over the counter without prescription from a physician. The department says that levonorgestrel can be sold directly but from behind the counter. The women acquiring it will nonetheless have to have a conservation with their pharmacists to ensure they won't suffer after effects. The pill, marketed as "Plan B," has to be taken within three days of intercourse to prevent pregnancy.

Saturday Apr 9, 2005 ts HIV incidents spur renewed focus on safe sex Don`t guess. Always ask.That should be the rule of thumb for anyone who`s thinking about having sex with a new partner, public health experts say. And that`s especially important, they add, in the wake of several Ontario incidents in which HIV-positive partners have been accused of keeping their status secret.

Monday Mar 28, 2005 rci OTTAWA: MPS SEEK FINANCE OF RED LIGHT DISTRICT STUDY
Some members of parliament are asking the federal government to finance a trip to Europe to study legalized prostitution.
The Toronto Sun reported Sunday the five-member justice subcommittee is asking for $200,000 to visit cities with red light districts and legal brothels. The five MP's -- two Liberals and one each from the three other parties -- want to visit Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Reno, Nevada. They plan to meet with police, counsellors and brothel owners to investigate the impact the legalized sex trade is having on those involved and their communities. Justice Committee chairman Liberal Paul DeVillers says the goal is to improve safety for sex trade workers. He says that can be done without actually legalizing prostitution. The Commons Justice Committee has approved the trip, but another Commons budgetary committee has the final say. [Hope they have fun and come home to change our laws to make sec legal!]

Feb 11, 2005 Au A little spritz and away you go: An Australian university has developed an aerosol testosterone spray that appears to increase the sex drive in women with low libido. Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne found that while the spray didn't increase the frequency of sexual encounters, it "increased significantly the number of episodes reported as satisfactory." The average increase was "two extra satisfactory events per month," according to women's health professor Susan Davis. Although usually associated with men, testosterone is present in both men and women and affects the part of the brain responsible for sexual motivation. The only drawback of the spray was that some patients reported an increase in body hair. And a sudden desire to watch football on the weekend? Just curious.

Victoriassecret.com

Saturday Feb 5, 2005 gaz
George Sand earned a handsome living with her writing in 19th-century france - after adopting a male nom de plume

Friday Feb 4, 2005 ts
Male contraceptive pill may be at hand
WORCESTER, MASS.—University of Massachusetts researchers will announce today that they have discovered a strategy for immobilizing sperm and have reached an agreement with a Norwegian company to develop a male contraceptive pill.

Saturday Jan 29, 2005 ec
The oldest trade rebranded
Sex, souvenirs and non-smear lipstick
TIRED of Disney World? Bored with the Smithsonian and the Guggenheim? Then why not take the wife and kids to the Mustang Ranch Museum and celebrate Nevada's “gift to the world”? That (minus the bit about the wife and kids) is the dream of one brothel-owner.
Can a bordello really be sold as a resort destination? Nevada is the only state in the union where brothels are legal, but prostitution is by no means a hallowed trade. Brothels are usually seedy affairs, tucked discreetly away from churches, town halls and the like (or so somebody we met in a bar once told us). But Lance Gilman, who owns both the Wild Horse bordello and the trademark for the Mustang Ranch, is building a sex village—complete with museum and souvenir shop.

Thursday Jan 13, 2005 cbc
NEWLY APPROVED BIRTH CONTROL PILL CLAIMS FEWER SIDE-EFFECTS A new form of contraceptive pill, called Yasmin, has been approved in Canada and its maker claims it has fewer side-effects. [have fun]

Dec 29, 2004 globe
Sex, sex, sex. Have we got your attention yet? Digital TV is luring viewers with bawdy (and brainy) shows -- all free in January

Friday Dec 10, 2004 globe
A low blow from the laptop Doctors warn young men that prolonged use of portable computers on one's thighs could lead to infertility

Dec 7, 2004 ts Hundreds of foreign women, girls forced into Canadian sex trade: RCMP report
At least 600 foreign women and girls are coerced into joining the Canadian sex trade each year by human traffickers, says a newly declassified RCMP report. Most of the illicit activity occurs in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg, according to the document. see sex on wn

Nov 17, 2004 gaz
Crown wants Cloutier to get five years in sex case he was heard telling the victim last March, "I owe you more than this. I owe you a life.'' ...In her statement to police, she described the painful experience of her first act of sexual intercourse in which she felt she was receiving electric shocks.
"I was like his object,'' said the 34-year-old woman, who has undergone nearly two years of therapy to deal with the abuse. ...to remain quiet and even offered her $300,000 to do so. [Ove making not a crime!]

Tuesday Nov 16, 2004
Marilyn Monroe forever
She loved the camera and died young, enshrining her status as the iconic blonde
NEW YORK—She was Playboy's first centrefold, and Joe DiMaggio's second wife. Marilyn Monroe possessed a knack for the big splash, particularly if there was a camera nearby — and it seemed there was always a camera nearby.
The actress turned enduring American icon was intoxicated by the pop of flashbulbs; during her too-short lifetime, she was photographed drinking and dining, smiling and sleeping, dressed and undressed.

Friday Oct 8, 2004 ec Face value Well endowed Phil Harvey sells sexual excitement to the rich, then helps the poor
STROLL down the dusty streets of Awasa, a town in southern Ethiopia, and you might find a billboard advertising condoms with the catchy slogan: “Value your life! Superior protection.” Were you driving along a highway in Toronto, Canada, you might have seen another poster, this one showing a middle-aged woman peering down into her husband's glowing boxer shorts with the cheery message: “Put a party in your pants!” The sexual pleasures of the rich may seem a far cry from the family-planning and AIDS-prevention problems of the African poor. But both the ads and the products they promote are intimately connected through Phil Harvey.

Thursday Sep 23, 2004 ec
Human evolution A history of sex Evidence that people have been promiscuous for a long time [why not]

Wednesday Sep 22, 2004 ts
CBS SLAPPED WITH RECORD FINE OVER JACKSON'S BREAST The Federal Communications Commission has voted to fine CBS a record $550,000 US over this year's Super Bowl halftime show, during which singer Janet Jackson's right breast was briefly exposed to television viewers.

Wednesday Sep 15, 2004 Same-sex divorce rules still hazy
Now that an Ontario couple has been given Canada`s first same-sex divorce, experts are divided over just how easy it will be for gays and lesbians in other provinces to end their marriages.

Fri Sep 3, 2004 ec
Prostitution Sex is their business
Attitudes to commercial sex are hardening. But tougher laws are wrong in both principle and practice
TWO adults enter a room, agree a price, and have sex. Has either committed a crime? Common sense suggests not: sex is not illegal in itself, and the fact that money has changed hands does not turn a private act into a social menace. If both parties consent, it is hard to see how either is a victim. But prostitution has rarely been treated as just another transaction, or even as a run-of-the-mill crime: the oldest profession is also the oldest pretext for outraged moralising and unrealistic lawmaking devised by man.

Wednesday Sep 8, 2004 UNIONIZE PROSTITUTES, NFLD. LABOUR LEADER URGES Prostitutes should belong to unions and enjoy the same benefits as any other workers, says a major Newfoundland labour leader.

Monday Aug 16, 2004 LAWYERS RETAIN RIGHT TO HAVE SEX WITH CLIENTS
Members of the Canadian Bar Association on Sunday voted against forbidding lawyers to have sex with clients. [we too sex is good]

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MARRIED N.J. GOVERNOR RESIGNS, ADMITS TO HOMOSEXUAL AFFAIR
New Jersey's governor, who is married with two children, announced his resignation, admitting that he had an extramarital affair with another man. [the dumb part is he quit. The afair was a non event. What a waist!]

Wednesday Jun 23, 2004 cbc
TOP U.S. COURT SAYS PORN LAW TOO BROAD The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a law designed to protect children from internet pornography is probably a violation of the right to free speech.

Tuesday Jun 22, 2004

Sex workers united
Prostitutes converge in Canada to demand their workplace rights

Monday, June 14, 2004 Sue Johanson,,
sex educator author, and host, Sunday Night Sex Show, and Talk Sex
Duration:27m 47s please us IE Firefox wont work for us

Wednesday May 19, 2004 cbc MORNING-AFTER PILL TO BE SOLD BEHIND THE COUNTER: HEALTH CANADA Canada is moving to make the morning-after birth control pill available without a prescription across the country.

Monday May 17, 2004 cbc
Porn actor Lara Roxx recalls fast road to ruin She's always been in a hurry to grow up, prove herself, get rich and become famous.

Thursday May 6, 2004 ts
Hookers provide DNA samples Police are receiving voluntary DNA samples from prostitutes who say they want to be easily identified if they are found dead.

Thursday May 6, 2004 ts
FEWER CANADIAN MARRIAGES END IN DIVORCE
Newfoundlanders are the least likely to head for divorce court, while Quebecers get divorced more readily than all other Canadians, according to data released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday.

Thursday May 6, 2004 ts
WRONGFULLY CONVICTED MAN SUES FOR $8.7 MILLION IN DAMAGES
A man from Quebec wrongfully convicted of rape wants $8.7 million to compensate for his family's "nightmare."

Wednesday 18 Feb 2004 ts
MAN WHO DIDN'T TELL PARTNERS HE WAS HIV POSITIVE SENTENCED A man who had unprotected intercourse with three women without telling them that he was HIV positive was sentenced on Friday to 11 years in prison by a court in Quebec. [..in many cases jail is a waist of OUR money but this one should be lockedup until he nolonger has AIDs DTN]

Wednesday 18 Feb 2004 ts
Sophia Loren, left, is obviously not thrilled at Jayne Mansfield's appearance in 1958. A study shows that, during their fertile periods, women can be less charitible to other women's appearance. A Great Pair"
Women aren't so nice, after all?
Fertile subjects put others down
Researchers look at female instincts
"Since men vary in their abilities to protect offspring and to provide resources, women need to compete for men who display developed abilities," the study says. But not everyone agrees that putting down other women is a good way to attract men.

Monday Jan 19, 2004 ts
Land of the rising divorce
As stigma fades in Japan, rates climb
Couples splitting after 20-plus years

Thursday Jan 15, 2004 ts
Bush to push couples to altar
Major initiative to boost marriage 'A way to solidify conservative base'

2003

4 December 1993

Sexual reproduction, human style

A variety of theories have been proposed over the years to explain why sexual reproduction may be more advantageous than asexual reproduction, and, for that matter, why sexual reproduction even exists at all. For years everyone accepted the general proposition that sex is good for evolution because it creates genetic variety, which, in turn, is useful in adapting to constantly changing and challenging environments. But it may give organisms a very different kind of edge. By the late 1980s, in the contest to explain sex, only two hypotheses remained in contention.

Lili St. Cyr

The real (old) Montréal

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