By ERIC GORSKI – 4 hours ago
Earlier this month, a guest took the pulpit at Open Bible Fellowship in Morrison, Ill., a 350-member church surrounded by cornfields. The speaker was an insurance salesman from Colorado named Ted Haggard.
The former superstar pastor, disgraced two years ago in a sex-and-drugs scandal, had returned — this time as [...]
After meeting for years on anonymous and secret Web sites, pro-anorexia groups are now moving to more public forums like Facebook.
A Web page labeled “Ana Boot Camp” recently offered its members a seemingly irresistible proposition: a 30-day regimen designed to help them drop some serious pounds, no exercise needed. The catch was that the group’s [...]
After making her a reality TV star, Trya Banks is making her a woman — a real woman.
Tyra Banks will pay for “America’s Next Top Model” contestant Isis King to undergo a sex change operation.
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Banks announced Monday she found a doctor to pay for Isis King, the first transgender contestant on “America’s [...]
Because he’s openly gay, Bishop Gene Robinson has been a figure of considerable controversy in the Episcopal Church. He’ll be in Dallas tomorrow night to be honored at the Black Tie Dinner, a popular annual fundraiser for groups supportive of the LGBT community. And tomorrow afternoon he’ll meet with a local transgender advocacy group. Details [...]
PEOPLE of all ages often feel more guilty and embarrassed about masturbation than about any other sexual activity, but it is an instinctive thing for people to do and not at all dirty or unnatural.
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It is enjoyable, it’s the way most boys and many girls first discover what sexual pleasure feels [...]
Lauren Brande
Gender/Sexuality Reporter
The Golden Girls were chronic masturbators.
All right, maybe there’s no definitive evidence, but it’s certainly plausible. Masturbation is a healthy practice, with countless benefits like stress reduction and skin rejuvenation — but female masturbation is still a hush-hush topic.
Ph.D. sexologist Betty Dodson said that the taboo nature of female masturbation, and [...]
A National Pattern of Misconduct and Impunity
In All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons, released today, the Human Rights Watch Women’s Rights Project charges that in state prisons from Georgia to California, male officers are sexually abusing female prisoners with nearly total impunity. State and federal officials in a position to [...]
By ROBBIE BROWN
Published: November 17, 2008
The videotaped beating of a transgender woman in police custody in Memphis last February led to charges against two officers and national condemnation from gay rights groups. The officers were fired, and the Police Department overhauled some of its procedures and began sensitivity training for the entire force.
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A National Pattern of Misconduct and Impunity
In All Too Familiar: Sexual Abuse of Women in U.S. State Prisons, released today, the Human Rights Watch Women’s Rights Project charges that in state prisons from Georgia to California, male officers are sexually abusing female prisoners with nearly total impunity. State and federal officials in a position to [...]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 17 (UPI) — Swedish health officials said transvestism and six other sexual behaviors will no long be listed as diseases.
Lars-Erik Holm said the National Board of Health and Welfare is declassifying the behaviors as illnesses to avoid strengthening prejudice against the behaviors, the Swedish news service Tidningarnas Telegrambyra reported Monday.
“These individuals’ sexual [...]
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