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Can we please put marriage discrimination to bed and sign the petition to urge Congress to pass the Respect for Marriage Act silencing those rabid right wing nut cases once and for all? The reason they are successful is too many reasonable liberals are enjoying life and don't get involved in politics. I know because that's how I lived the better part of my life.

Please sign the online petition to urge Congress to pass the Respect for Marriage Act.

Love The Onion. If only it were true.

This week, Germany is releasing a new ad that may sway viewers to protecting themselves when they engage in highly "risky" sexual activity. The advertisement in question features a man and a woman having very hot sex in a bedroom. As they reach an orgasm, the man is revealed to be Adolf Hitler. At the end of the commercial, the slogan, "AIDS is a mass murderer" appears onscreen.

I don't know about you; but, AIDS was far from my mind. In fact, I was pretty aroused by watching Hitler bump and grind with his sweaty, lustful lover (Who looks Jewish, by the way).

TOP TEN SEX EXCUSES

1. Too tired

2. I'm not in the mood

3. I've got a headache

4. I've got to get up in the morning

5. I'm pre-occupied with work

Seems our genes are too blame for early first sex. It's about our impulsivity, desire for sensation, argumentativeness etc. and not about our absentee father.

Women's bodies have changed quite a bit over the last 60 years: we're taller, heavier in the middle, and our feet are 3 sizes bigger.

An anti-abortion group is busy trying to illegalize abortion and birth control including the pill and the morning after pill in Florida.  They just can't let it go.

An australian woman charged with organizing her own home abortion is to stand trial for "procuring an abortion" which carries a maximum penalty of 7 years in jail.

OMG!  The stampede is going to be worse than a Dolce & Gabanna sample sale.  And I have to admit that as a woman with large "ass"ets I'd love to suck a bit of fat out and pump it into my breasts.  Am I still a feminist?

Women are to be offered "natural breast enlargements" using unwanted fat from other parts of their bodies, it has been announced.  The technique will be made available "early next year", according to the Harley Medical Group.

What about an ice cream flavor for gay women....like double couchie crunch?

One of Ben and Jerry's most popular ice creams 'Chubby Hubby' will be sold under the new name 'Hubby Hubby' for the month of September to celebrate gay marriage in the company's home state of Vermont.

Ben and Jerry's Ice cream thinks the state of Vermont's decision to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples which came into effect Tuesday is a good reason to celebrate.

Ben & Jerry's aims to raise awareness of what it calls the "importance of marriage equality." And to show support for the legislation they will serve "Hubby Hubby" sundaes in Vermont Scoop Shops throughout the month of September.

There's no way I could be staying at the Standard, see a tourist on the Highline, and NOT flash them. Everyone deserves to see a little titty now and again:

The Meatpacking District's newly opened, much-touted urban park along an elevated, former railroad trestle has unwittingly turned into a peep show near The Standard hotel, as randy hotel guests perform sex acts in front of floor-to-ceiling hotel windows.

Disgusted neighbors say they've seen men masturbating, professional porn films being shot and couples engaging in sex in full view of the stunning High Line park path running alongside.

This would be SO my luck: A US man allegedly robbed a woman outside her home - and then returned two hours later to ask her for a date.

Police say Stephen Bennett, 20, was one of three men who robbed Daniel Martinez Batista and Diana Martinez at gunpoint in Columbus, Ohio.

The late night robbery happened in a car park outside Ms Martinez's apartment, reports the Columbus Dispatch.  The three robbers fled with Mr Batista's wallet and Ms Martinez's purse after they were threatened by a neighbour.

But, less than two hours later, one of the three robbers returned to the apartment to ask Ms Martinez out, police said.  "We are not exactly sure what he was thinking at the time," said Columbus police Sgt Shaun Laird.

"She recognized him right away when he returned, and was able to have her cousin call 911."

I didn't hear Obama's speech in full but I read parts. He is ready to push through a public option if we the people get behind him. Again I repeat, change comes from the people not from politicians. Please click this link and sign the petition to send Congress a clear message that we want health care reform. We still have a chance to get this done NOW!

Betty and I have spent a lot of time searching for a low cost battery vibe we could send off to Africa as part of our efforts with Clitoraid.  We thought that we'd have to rely on battery power but this new toy may be our answer:

Environmentally conscious women are getting a buzz out of a new hand-cranked vibrator that makers say could help save the planet.  The eco-sex toy - dubbed the Earth Angel - uses a small wind-up handle to power up rechargeable batteries inside the casing.

It had originally been planned as a sex aid for the Third World where batteries and electricity supplies are unreliable.

Naomi Wolf has signed on to write a new book - The History of the Vagina. I wonder if she's going to include Betty's bodysex groups ;)

Sharing a bed can be bad for your health. I didn't know that sharing a marital bed is a recent practice that started during the Industrial Revolution.

I watched Dateline's piece on Mukhtar Mai last night and I was overwhelmed.  One woman can make a difference. 

Here's the story: she was interceding on her brother's behalf with their village council and they decided that she should pay for his crime so they gang-raped her.  Now it's customary in Pakistan to encourage rape victims to kill themselves to shield their families from such dishonor.

Not only didn't she kill herself but she fought to have the men who raped her prosecuted criminally (they were sentenced to death), sued them civilly for $8,000, and then used the monies to start a school for girls in view of the area where she was raped.  Glamour magazine heard her story and donated $20,000 to her school and the donations are pouring in.  It was so inspiring to see how one woman's tragedy could be turned around and heal so many other women.

While it's entertaining to watch fashion and fluff and essays about new puppy's, Bill Moyers is saying it loud and clear on health care reform:

Bill Moyer on Bill Mahr

Bill Moyer for truthout.org "Uncivil Discourse"

And let's all bless Michael Moore and his blatant honesty. His new film Capitalism: A Love Story debuts tonight at the Venice Film Festival. Will some of our numbed out Americans get the picture now? Otherwise we will have to storm the capitol and physically throw the bums out. Count me in!

Susie Bright and her daughter, Aretha, answer sex questions on jezebel.com - the whole mother/daughter talking about sex thing isn't what's been getting criticism. It seems that their focus on orgasm has outraged users - in Susie's own words:

"What is alarming to me is that there is a certain faction that is OUTRAGED that we should encourage orgasm in the first place. They insist that they are PROUD, MILITANT asexuals, amoebas, people who don't wnat to come very often, who don't worship at the hellhole altar of orgasm. I am NOT kidding you. Instead of thinking I'm being sisterly, they attack as if I was a villain. I am gobsmacked.

This is clearly the new trend. There are also some minor sects of assholes who want to scream at me about how they come vaginally, or by doing nothing at all, just sitting staring into space. But the main group are the ones who say I am oppressing women who don't deify orgasm. It gets my goat so bad!"

You're not alone, WildOrchid, in your rant. It's a challenging time to be a sex educator.