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Tag Archive | "SUNfiltered"

5 Better Ways to Express Your Intimacy

Friday, February 3, 2012

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photo via flickr A recent survey by Pew Internet and the American Life Project found that one in three teens had shared a password (email, Facebook, etc.) with a friend or boyfriend or girlfriend. Apparently sharing your password is the new way to express intimacy, to prove to your partner that you have nothing to [...]

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It’s You, Perfected! The Power of Photoshop

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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There are many reasons not to read women’s magazines. One of the biggies? All the retouched photos. The genetic mutants we call models and celebrities can beat the shit out your average Jane’s self image, but Photoshop can chop it up with chainsaw. This before and after cover of Red Book from a few years ago thanks to Jezebel.com [...]

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Naked News: Cynthia Nixon Says Gay Is a Choice – If You’re Bi

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

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photo via flickr   Cynthia Nixon clarifies her controversial quote, explaining that she is gay “by choice” only because she is bisexual by nature. Heart patients get the go-ahead for sex… so long as it’s with their spouse. Study shows love makes people act out (no shit), judging other people of their own sex — [...]

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Want to Go to Palm Springs?

Friday, January 27, 2012

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One of our favorite toy creators, Jimmyjane, along with Ace Hotels, is giving you until EOD PST this Tuesday, January 31st to enter to win a two-night stay this year at the Palm Springs Ace Hotel that includes $500 for travel, a complete set of Jimmyjane’s award-winning FORM vibrators ($620 value) and a ton of sexified in-room amenities: a blindfold and cuffs, an erotic [...]

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Republican Candidates Are to the Right of Mississippi on Birth Control & Abortion

Friday, January 20, 2012

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photo via Flickr The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data yesterday showing that the US still has the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world. And the new global abortion study from the U.S.-based Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization (that’s published in the Jan. 19 issue of The Lancet) found that abortion [...]

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Valentine’s Day Cards That Don’t Suck

Thursday, January 19, 2012

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Instead of waiting til the last minute like usual, why not get a jump start on some Valentine’s Day card ideas, you know, before Monday, February 13th sneaks up and cupid-arrows you in the ass? From Someecards, the king of irreverent greetings: e.g. “Sorry the only ring you’re wearing this Valentine’s Day is a contraceptive in [...]

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Naked News: Girl Scouts Stand By Transgender Members

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

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  The Girl Scouts are standing by their transgender-inclusive policy despite a threatened boycott of Girl Scout cookies. Which sounds as good an excuse as any we’ve heard to over-indulge in Thin Mints this winter. Woman with two vaginas says the condition is not, actually, that rare — and also that it makes a great [...]

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The Slow But (Hopefully) Steady Erosion of Gender Stereotypes

Friday, January 13, 2012

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Stop the presses! A detergent commercial with just a normal dad doing laundry. For our book club, we’re reading the 2003 novel “We Need to Talk About Kevin” by Lionel Shriver.* I, Lo, knowing nothing about the book or its author, began reading and was amazed that a male author could create a female narrator that [...]

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The Obvious Player vs. the Faux-Sensitive Guy

Thursday, January 12, 2012

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photo via flickr Sexuality educator Charlie Glickman, who runs the education programs at Good Vibrations (in other words, he’s got serious Sensitive Guy chops), recently published an article on his blog called “Confessions of a Former Sensitive New Age Guy.” He consciously chose to become a S.N.A.G. back in college, and his motives were initially [...]

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Stuff You Should Know About Orgasms

Monday, January 9, 2012

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photo via flickr We’re always on the look-out for free podcasts to fill the interminable gaps between new episodes of This American Life and RadioLab, and one of our new favorites is the Stuff You Should Know podcast from HowStuffWorks.com. The hosts, Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant, are funny and smart and just the right amount [...]

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