In the very-Catholic Philippines, the government’s health department set up booths bearing the slogan ”Are You Sexually Active?” at a wholesale flower market in Manila.
Then when men bought their Valentine’s Day flowers, they were handed “Be Safe Always, Valentine” packs of condoms.
Wary of a Catholic backlash, however, due to the church’s opposition to birth control, President Gloria [...]

Oh, the field day social conservatives would have with this:
Fredrick Federley is a well-respected representative of the small Center Party in Sweden’s Parliament. But the Associated Press reports that a few times a year he becomes Ursula, a “grandiose diva” with curved eyelashes, pouting lips and skimpy dresses.
And nobody cares.
Federley’s actions aren’t being questioned because he [...]

Hundreds of Chinese men have convinced themselves they have an HIV-like disease and no matter how many times their test come back negative they refuse to believe they’re clean.
Chinese doctors suggest the men have “HIV phobia” caused by guilt from having sex with prostitutes.
The problem is Chinese men don’t trust Chinese doctors and suspect a [...]

In Georgia, Republican State Senator Rene Unterman is at odds with her state’s Christian Conservatives.
Unterman is pushing a bill which would get child prostitutes to be treated and rehabbed as victims and not charged with a crime.
The Christian Right, however, is seeing the change as a tacit legalization of child prostitution.
“Who will benefit from the [...]

Talk about a law that discriminates against people who work the night shift:
The Italian government is backing new media rules that forbid pay-per-view pornography and other adult programming during daylight hours.
Business Week reported the story because the move could hurt Rupert Murdoch’s bottom line. News Corp.’s Sky Italia satellite unit is the country’s largest pay-television service and [...]

Scott Brown appears in Cosmopolitan magazine back in 1982.

If you’re heading to Amsterdam hoping to meet an 18-year-old hooker, you better make your travel plans soon.
The city’s deputy mayor,  Lodewijk Asscher, who’s facing re-election, wants to raise the minimum age for prostitutes from 18 to 23.
He also wants to close down the brothels from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m.
“Only the biggest creeps and [...]

“If you had to pick the least likely political figure to be caught in a sex scandal, then Iris Robinson, the gay-bashing, Bible-quoting wife of Northern Ireland’s First Minister, would be right up there at the top of the list. Or maybe not. The sanctimonious are often hoist by their own petard, it’s practically a cliche by [...]

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