Kink.com Worries San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO - It takes a lot to make San Franciscans blush, but even a city famous for sexual permissiveness apparently has limits.

A studio that makes pornographic S&M-themed movies for the Internet recently took over a historic landmark that once housed the National Guard, unleashing a rare public debate about when - and where - propriety trumps tolerance.

Kink.com, which distributes its videos on X-rated Web sites with names such as Hogtied and Men in Pain, bought the old State Armory in the Mission District for $14.5 million, saying the vacant building's dark Moorish architecture would make a perfect backdrop for fetish films.

"The basements in particular have a creepy, dungeony feel that is quite appropriate," said Kink.com founder Peter Acworth. "We have spent a considerable amount of money on sets to get that dungeony feel."

Acworth, 36, who planned Wednesday to oversee the first leather-clad shoot where guard troops trained for six decades, spent over a year negotiating with the previous owner, keeping the deal private to avoid a backlash until the deal was done earlier this year.

Although city planners said the studio meets zoning requirements, residents and city leaders have reservations about allowing people to be tied up, spanked and poked with mechanical implements in a working class neighborhood.

"While not wanting to be prudish, the fact that kink.com will be located in the proximity to a number of schools give us pause," Mayor Gavin Newsom said in a statement this week. He planned to organize a public hearing on Kink's plans even thought city leaders acknowledge there's little they can do to stop pornography production at the Armory.

Adding to the outrage is the fact that the building - erected in 1912, empty since 1970 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 - was sold after low-income housing advocates successfully killed proposals to develop the Armory into offices or apartments.

The Mission Merchants Association is in a bind over how vigorously to fight the porn studio, with some arguing it would provide an economic boost and others worried it would attract perverts, said Jean Feilmoser, president of the group.

"The mayor's office is weighing in because they are perhaps buckling to pressure, but that place has stood empty for over 30 years and all the different entities in the Mission District tried to get something going there and ended up fighting each other," Feilmoser said.

Acworth is a tad surprised by the squeamishness his vision for the Armory, which includes renting space to mainstream movie producers, has provoked. When he was a finance Ph.D student at Columbia University, he specifically chose San Francisco as the place to build his bondage empire because "it's a fetish capital."

"What are they saying, it's OK to shoot movies there but as soon as there is nudity it's not OK?" mused Acworth, who has hired a lobbyist, met with labor unions and used his own British charm to try to disarm critics.

Unlike a nearby sex toy shop and a club where people have sex, Acworth said his company and its 70 employees typically attract little attention and would be an improvement for a property where people made war, not love.

Until he started hosting "sex positive" parties several times a month at Kink.com's current location near a luxury mall and across the street from the San Francisco Chronicle, few people knew porn was made there, he said.

"Under no circumstances would they know more about what goes on in the armory than they do about their neighbors' sex lives," he said. "The walls of the armory are so thick, the idea that anyone would have any idea what's going on inside is ridiculous."

Extra hot: Russian beauty contest for nuke power workers -

Extra hot: Russian beauty contest for nuke power workers - Yahoo! News

MOSCOW (AFP) - The nuclear power sector in Russia and across the former Soviet Union is inviting female employees to compete in Miss Atom-2007, a contest to discover the industry's most radiant beauty.

sector," said Ilya Platonov, who runs the www.nuclear.ru site and is organising the contest.

The number of applicants for the Miss Atom title has trebled since the first competition in 2004, Platonov told AFP, reaching 220 last year.

Competitors must be aged 18-35 and work in the nuclear sector in Russia or other ex-Soviet states, or at least be studying nuclear science at university, Rosenergoatom, which runs Russia's nuclear power stations, said.

They have until February 20 to send in photos and CVs to www.nuclear.ru.

Voting will take place online and the winner and runners-up will later be given awards at a ceremony at Russia's atomic energy agency, Rosatom, in Moscow.

Blonde Brea

100-year-old dancer fetes the art of darkness - Yahoo! News UK

100-year-old dancer fetes the art of darkness - Yahoo! News UK

YOKOHAMA, Japan, Jan 29 (Reuters Life!) - No chickens were strangled at the gala performance for Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno's 100th birthday, a sign of just how much Japan's most provocative dance has changed since its debut after World War Two.

Fans of Ankoku Butoh, the "Dance of Utter Darkness", flew in from around the world for the weekend to honour Ohno, one of the founders of the dance that shocked audiences in the 1960s with stark performances reflecting the horrors of the war and the


In one of the first Butoh performances, Ohno's son Yoshito simulated sex with a chicken, smothering the bird in the process. Other Butoh dancers sometimes performed in loincloths -- or in the nude -- with wild hair and white body makeup.

But Butoh has moved on, and the new generation uses techno beats and strobe lights rather than blood and nakedness to express the confusion and insecurity of Japan's youth.

"Butoh emerged in the years after the war, so it carried all those associations with it," Yoshito Ohno said after the show, which ended with him pushing his wheelchair-bound centenarian father across the stage in a tender, slow dance.

"But now the world is totally different. Butoh was shaped by the difficult wartime experience, and we've passed it on to the next generation so that it will never happen again."

While Butoh is often associated with distorted faces and tortured movements, its admirers say the dance is less about violence and more about life, death and the human soul.

G-STRINGS AND GERSHWIN

"The young generation of Butoh dancers is more flexible, with techno music, multimedia, reference to urban culture and otaku (geek) culture," Tokyo-based producer Naoto Iina told Reuters.

"The common point for the old and new generation is the spirit, the closeness of the body and the mind," he added.

On Saturday, veteran Butoh dancers performed for an audience ranging from elderly women in traditional kimonos and wooden sandals to arty young types in miniskirts and boots.

Even in its more mellow form, Butoh can be puzzling.

An old man in a brown coat, a golden crown perched atop his mop of grey hair, paced back and forth in slow motion, exploded in violent spasms to a crescendo of roaring turbines, froze for a second, then pulled up his coat to reveal a white G-string.

A male dancer dressed in a torn black dress and huge frizzy wig, trailed by clouds of dust -- part high priest, part mad widow -- slid over the stage to the jazzy strains of George Gershwin's "Summertime".

But the true Butoh moment was Kazuo Ohno's own appearance.

Yoshito Ohno and a Korean dancer in a billowing white dress were swaying to Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love with You" when Ohno, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, was gently rolled in from the sidelines.

Young Butoh students placed flowers in his lap as a tearful, moved audience erupted in applause.

"Kazuo Ohno always said, when I stand before the dead and communicate with the dead, technique is of no use to me. It's a matter of the soul," said Anna Barth, a Berlin-based dancer who studied under Ohno.

Angelina

Your crappy sex life

The News-Press: South Fort Myers

Next Level Church is using an eye-catching and provocative method of garnering attention for a relationship-focused series of sermons that begins next month.

Perched above the motorized mayhem of U.S. 41, near Six Mile Cypress Parkway, is a billboard containing simply drawn male and female figures and this text: www.mycrappysexlife.com.

"We're trying to capture the attention of a community out there that's struggling and let them know that there's somebody out there that's willing to sit down and talk straight-forward and common sense to them," explained Next Level's the Rev. Matt Keller, 31.

He said the series is targeted on demonstrating to 20-and 30-somethings how a Christian approach can enrich both sex and relationships and make them more fulfilling.

"The idea is to do a six-week series on relationships and talk about the issue that everybody's talking about, but apparently, not too many people in church are talking about, and see if we can't appeal to that generation, speak their language and let them know that all that the culture's telling them is not all that there is," Keller said.

Popular culture's message regarding sex, he said, preaches quantity without consideration of consequences.

"There's more than one option on the table in how we live our lives in the sexual arena," he said. "There is an amazing, amazing option here that comes from our Creator, that sex is not something that was invented in a dark alley behind a porn shop. Sex is something that was created by God, the God of the universe who loves us and desires a relationship with us. So, if we can look into His word, the Bible, what we begin to discover is there is a whole other opportunity out here for us to discover as individuals, to experience something in the sexual context that will blow people's minds."

The series begins Feb. 25 and includes sermons titled "The Best Sex You'll Ever Have;" "The Single Life;" "The Truth about Men and Women," which Keller and his wife, Sarah, will lead, and "Pornography."

Keller said Next Level, a four-year-old church that meets at South Fort Myers High School, is not the first church to use the attention- grabbing advertising approach.

He said a church in Granger, Ind., originated the concept and used it for a relationship focused series it did last year, but its Web address was mylamesexlife.com.

The approach, which Keller said received the approval of the church's marketing team and congregation, is designed to pique the interest of people who do not normally attend church.

Marketing team member Nicki Caleca of south Fort Myers said the church was initially taken back when Keller suggested the approach, but got on board after after he explained his rationale.

Caleca, 27, said she supports it, "Because I think it's awesome to get the community involved in relationships. It's a shock-and-awe factor. We can put this out in the community and they're going to think, 'what are you guys trying to do' and it's for a good cause and it's a good thing that we're doing."

Next Level also plans to get the word out with invitation cards, bumper stickers and yard signs bearing the Web address printed and also run advertisements in local magazines, he said.

He said the church took the fact some people might be turned off by the advertisements into consideration, but decided to forge ahead.

The advertisement had been up since Jan. 15 and the Web site had received roughly 450 hits at that point, Keller said, Monday.

Only a small amount of negative feedback had been received, thus far, he said.

"Of course, our aim is not to offend anyone, but rather to channel the currents of the culture in such a way that it gives us an opportunity to share with people who wouldn't normally attend church," Keller said. "That if we would be able to have an opportunity for those un-churched or de-churched people who aren't in a relationship with God, to speak to their lives because of a culturally relevant issue like sex, which everybody's talking about and thinking about anyway, then that's worth the criticism to us."

Caleca said she believes the series has universal appeal.

"I honestly think that it's for anyone who is in a relationship of any kind," she said. "I think anyone should come, even if your relationship is good, because it will strengthen your relationship. It will give you ideas. If your relationship is bad, this will give you ideas to strengthen that as well."

Naked Greasy Guy Tasered

The Columbus Dispatch - Local/State

A Westerville North High School student who stripped naked, lubed his body in oil and ran amok through the school commons during lunch yesterday was arrested after police twice zapped him with a Taser.

"It just seemed like a good idea at the time," Taylor C. Killian, 18, told police later, said Westerville Lt. John Petrozzi.

It was right about noon when a clothed Killian, who made his school's honor roll in each of three grading periods during the 2005-06 school year, strolled into a bathroom near the crowded commons.

He removed his clothes, smeared grapeseed oil on himself and ran into the lunch crowd, police said.

His appearance caused pandemonium in the school, as students unsure of what was happening ran and screamed, police said. When a school administrator confronted him, Killian made sexual gestures and ran, continuing to chase students.

By then, school resource Officer Doug Staysniak was pursuing Killian, ordering him to stop and trying unsuccessfully to grab the slippery student, police said.

When Killian ran toward a group of students huddled in a corner, Staysniak fired his Taser. Killian was zapped once, tried to get up, and was given a second jolt of electricity, Petrozzi said.

He then complied, and teachers moved partitions around him to hide him from the other students.

"His exposure, no pun intended, was very limited once he was gotten under control," Petrozzi said.

The entire incident lasted three or four minutes, police said.

Killian was taken to the hospital to have the Taser prongs removed, then booked and taken to the Delaware County jail.

He is charged with inducing panic, public indecency, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

Greg Viebranz, a school district spokesman, said Killian will be disciplined. He said school for the 1,600 students continued as usual after the disruption.

Petrozzi said police don't think that drugs or alcohol were involved. He credited police and school staff with keeping a lid on the incident.

"This had the potential to get very much out of control," Petrozzi said. "He certainly created quite a bit of emotional trauma and stress.

"He's not offered any apology. He said he was looking to create some excitement and get an adrenaline rush.

"Hindsight being 20/20," Petrozzi said, Killian "should have ate a burger instead. Put a jalapenojavascript:void(0)
Publish on it. I don't know."

Polite Nude Jogger Shocks Hikers, Bikers

My Way News - Polite Nude Jogger Shocks Hikers, Bikers: "SARATOGA, Calif. (AP) - Who was that undressed man? That's the question startled hikers, bikers and horseback riders are asking about a jogger seen streaking through an open space preserve wearing nothing but sneakers, glasses and a black tam hat.

'He passed me and said 'Good evening,'' said equestrian Sue Bowdoin, who spotted the naked man, middle-aged and sporting a pale paunch, while riding her horse, Randy, on a trail in Fremont Older Open Space Preserve last summer. 'I thought: Ugh!'

Although numerous park users have reported seeing the exhibitionist over the last year-and-a-half, rangers have been unable to identify and arrest him for exposing himself, said Gordon Baillie of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.

By most accounts, the man is polite and does nothing other than run in the buff.

A woman who saw him said he looked scared and backed away after she cornered him with her horse and told him he was offending people.

People who use the park regularly have not reported recent sightings in the cold weather, but they theorize he may be incognito because he is clothed. With dark hair, sweaty red skin and lack of body hair, he is easily recognizable, Bowdoin said.

'He's frumpy. Plain. Not in good physical shape,' Bowdoin said. 'It's not a pretty sight.'"

U.S. town to pay for policeman's topless stunt

U.S. town to pay for policeman's topless stunt | Oddly Enough | Reuters.co.uk: "MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida city has agreed to pay $35,000 (17,900 pounds) to a teenage girl who was forced by a policeman to perform jumping exercises while topless in order to avoid arrest on an indecency charge.

The Pensacola City Council approved the payment on Thursday night to settle a lawsuit the girl filed against the city police department.

Officer Shawn Patrick Shields approached a parked car and found two partially dressed teenagers inside in April 2003, according to a police report. The officer put the 16-year-old girl and 19-year-old man into his police car and threatened to arrest them for lewd and lascivious behaviour.

The girl said Shields suggested she instead perform topless exercises as a punishment and shined his flashlight on her while she did five jumping jacks.

Shields resigned under pressure, pleaded no contest to a criminal charge of extortion and was ordered to serve two years on probation, police Lt. Randy Stull said."

Courtney

Porn and Pancakes

ONTARIO, N.Y. - It's not your typical church breakfast. An event billed as "Porn and Pancakes" is being hosted by a church in rural upstate New York.

The breakfast discussion on the pornography industry in America is planned next month at the Living Word Assembly of God Church in the town of Ontario, about ten miles east of Rochester.

A billboard advertisement near the church shows the words "Porn and Pancakes" written in syrup on a stack of flapjacks.

Organizers told a Rochester TV station that the event on February 10th will be an honest discussion about pornography and its impact on society. The discussion will be led by Triple-X Church, a group of youth ministers who travel the country talking about porn and the porn industry.

The pastor of the Wayne County church and churches from Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse have asked about hosting "Porn and Pancakes" events.

Man hot for mannequins

Ronald Dotson has had impulses so strong that he'd break into stores to satisfy an attraction.

His subjects? Mannequins.

And now Dotson, 39, of Detroit will spend the next 18 months -- and as many as 30 years -- in prison after pleading no contest to attempting to break into a storefront to steal a female-shaped mannequin. It was his seventh attempt in 13 years.

"I thought I was getting my life together," he told Oakland County Circuit Judge Denise Langford Morris on Thursday, before she sent him to prison for attempted breaking and entering. "I've never been able to take care of myself."

Dotson, who is unemployed and lives with his parents in Detroit, was arrested in October by Ferndale police outside a shattered store window, just days after being paroled for his sixth offense. Inside the storefront stood a mannequin dressed in a black and white French maid's uniform.

He pleaded no contest earlier this month to attempted breaking and entering. A no contest plea is not a guilty plea but is treated as such for sentencing.

Langford Morris, in sentencing Dotson, noted that recent psychiatric exams show Dotson to be suffering from statuephilia, a relatively rare sexual fetish. Dotson, in prior incidences, has managed to steal the mannequins. In a 1993 case, Ferndale police discovered him in an alley behind a women's clothing store with three mannequins dressed in lingerie.

He has told police and doctors that he finds the mannequins erotic and sometimes can't control his impulses, court records show.

The judge said Dotson has never physically assaulted anybody, but that his activity, "strikes fear into the community." The condition requires "long-term treatment," she said, and ordered that he undergo treatment in prison.

A Department of Corrections spokesperson said Dotson could be eligible for individual therapy or be sent to a prison with a psychological ward.

Dotson's attorney, Edward Cohn, said his client "hasn't learned to behave in society." He added, "He wouldn't hurt anybody."

A sexual obsession with statues or mannequins is rare, experts say. "Usually the person is under-socialized, and has a very difficult time developing relationships with the opposite sex," said Dr. Robert Filewich, a clinical psychologist who treats sexual disorders at the Center for Behavioral Therapy in White Plains, N.Y.

Kosher Porn

TMZ.com: "ASSRAELISThe producer of an all-Israeli porn flick is under attack from rabbis who say his use of a food-certification symbol ain't kosher.

Yesterday, Tight Fit Productions of Van Nuys, Calif., the purveyors of 'Assraelis,' which was shot entirely in Israel with all-local talent, and in Hebrew (with, uh, English subtitles), received a cease-and-desist order letter from a lawyer representing Rabbi Yehuda Rosenbaum of KOF-K Kosher Certification, a New Jersey company that puts its stamp of approval on Kosher goods. Tight Fit's DVD-cover claim of Israeli authenticity is accompanied by a Hebrew letter normally reserved for rabbi-ordained meats, grains, and other foodstuffs.

KOF-K's lawyer says that Tight Fit is using the symbol 'illegally' in violation of State and Federal Law, and plans to sue 'if the situation is not rectified as quickly as possible.' Oren Cohen, the owner of Tight Fit, finds the action 'funny,' but will modify the cover art before the film's release next week -- to satisfy what he calls the 'very nice' rabbis.

No word from Cohen, who himself does not observe the Kashrut, on whether, despite their Kosher claims, meat and milk products were mixed during the making of 'Assraelis.'"

Taylor

Men arrested for murdering "ghost" brides

Men arrested for murdering "ghost" brides - Yahoo! News: BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have arrested three men for killing two young women to sell their corpses as "ghost brides" for dead single men, a Chinese newspaper reported, warning the dark custom might have claimed many other victims.


Yang Donghai, a 35-year-old farmer in western China's Shaanxi province, confessed to killing a woman bought from a poor family for 12,000 yuan ($1,545) last year.

She thought she was being sold into an arranged marriage, but Yang killed her in a gully and sold her corpse for 16,000 yuan, the Legal Daily reported Thursday. He and two accomplices then killed a prostitute and sold her for 8,000 yuan before police caught them.

"I did it for the money; it was a quick buck," Yang said, according to the paper. "If I hadn't slipped up early, I planned to do a few more."

The women were victims of an old belief, still alive in the yellow-earth highlands of western China, that young men who die unmarried should go to their graves accompanied by deceased women who will be their wives in the afterlife. Often these women die natural deaths.

Police in Yanan, the poor and dusty corner of Shaanxi where Chairman Mao Zedong nurtured his Communist revolution, said the dark trade went beyond these cases.

"The actual number is far from just these," the paper said.

Yang and two helpers sold the bodies to Li Longsheng, an undertaker who police said specialized in buying and selling the dead women for "ghost weddings." It was unclear what happened to Li.

Skydiver charged with murder after love rival fell 13,000ft to her death

Skydiver charged with murder after love rival fell 13,000ft to her death - World - Times Online

A married woman who was having an affair with a fellow skydiver plunged 13,000ft (4,000m) to her death after her love rival and best friend tampered with her parachute, police say.

Els Van Doren, 37, fell to earth in a garden in front of a group of onlookers. Els Clottemans, 22, has been charged with her murder.

Minutes earlier the pair had joined hands in a star formation with two other skydivers including Ms Clottemans’s boyfriend, a Dutchman named only as Marcel, who police say was having an affair with Mrs Van Doren.While he and Ms Clottemans broke away at 4,000ft when their parachutes inflated, Mrs Van Doren, a mother of two, was unable to open either her main parachute or the reserve and crashed to her death in the town of Opglabbeek, Belgium.

Her final moments were filmed by her own head-mounted camera.

Wally Elters, a witness at the aerodrome from which the fatal flight departed, told Le Soir: “I was working on my plane when I heard someone on the ground screaming and pointing to the sky.

“I looked up and saw a black spot falling quickly to the ground. It was wriggling about and it was pretty obvious it was a person.

“Above it were three people in parachutes coming down slowly. Then it hit the ground. It was an appalling moment.”

Police say that video footage taken by Mrs Van Doren as she tried to open her parachute provided evidence that led them to suspect that a fellow club member had sabotaged the equipment. A spokesman said: “A close inspection of the parachutes leads us to believe they had been meddled with.”

An employee at the airfield in Zwarteberg added: “It is very rare for one parachute not to open, but for two to fail is virtually unheard of.”

At Mrs Van Doren’s funeral, about 1,000 people heard her sister deliver a bitter eulogy. “You did all you could during that final jump to save yourself,” she was quoted as saying in the Belgian press. “But someone did not want you to live.”

Ms Clottemans was arrested and charged after a two-month investigation. She denies the allegations but is being held in custody before a court appearance later this month.

Police became increasingly suspicious of Miss Clottemans after discovering the affair between Mrs Van Doren and Marcel. All three had skydived togther for several years.

Ms Clottemans, a secretary, is understood to have attempted suicide hours before being brought in for questioning by detectives for a second time last month. She is said to be suffering from a personality disorder and is receiving treatment.

Police have also disclosed that Ms Clottemans had previously been arrested for attempting to run over an American boyfriend. He escaped injury and she was released without charge.

According to the Belgian media, Marcel tried to arrange his liaisons so that neither woman found out about the other. His affair with Ms Clottemans began a year ago and he would spend Friday evening through to Saturday morning with her.

In the afternoon, he would meet Mrs Van Doren after she had spent the morning working in her husband’s jewellery shop. Their relationship had begun some years earlier and the two would spend the night in nearby Eindhoven, before returning to the skydiving club the next day.

Despite Marcel’s precautions, Ms Clottemans appears to have found out about her rival, although Mrs Van Doren was unaware that he was also involved with her close friend.

A statement from the public prosecutor said: “A thorough investigation of the available evidence and analysis of the motive provide sufficient reason for arresting the suspect. The investigating magistrate charged her with murder, issued an arrest warrant and had her locked up in Hasselt prison.

“In order not to jeopardise the smooth running of the investigation, no further information will be supplied. As has already been suggested in the media, the motive for the crime is most probably in the passionate area. The accused denies the charges.”

Spider Sex

Ultraviolet light key to spider mating - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON - What puts that sexy twinkle in a spider's eye? A mate aglow. Take away the ultraviolet portion of light, and what seemed like the arachnid version of Scarlett Johansson or Matthew McConaughey attracts no more lust than plain Jane or dumpy Dan.

While people can't see ultraviolet light, spiders can, and it turns out to be important to their mating, researchers report in this week's online edition of the journal Science.

It seems that both male and female jumping spiders _ Cosmophasis umbratica _ have markings on their faces and legs that glow in ultraviolet light, researchers led by Daiqin Li at the National University of Singapore reported.

Many animals possess UV vision and use it for foraging, navigation and sexual selection, Li explained.

Jumping spiders are known to have good eyesight, he said, adding that many of these spiders are colorful, with the males generally more colorful than females.

That suggests a possible role of UV vision in jumping spiders, he said, so the researchers decided to explore the possibility.

"But we discovered UV-induced fluorescence communication in jumping spiders by chance," Li said.

"We were hoping to find out whether jumping spiders could really detect UV and respond to it, as well as whether jumping spiders use UV signals in their communications," Li explained.

The team placed pairs of spiders in a variety of light conditions to determine their reactions to each other.

The results:

_Under full-spectrum light, including UV, males and females began courtship rituals such as bent legs and hunched or flexed abdomens.

_Without UV light, females turned away and males ignored the girls or reduced their actions.

_When males were placed in UV light and females were not, the females could see the reflection from the males and performed their normal courting behavior. But 16 of 20 males ignored the females, who were not reflecting UV light.

_And when females were in UV light and males were not, the males responded to the glowing females and began courting behavior, but 10 of the 12 females failed to respond.

"We conclude that sexual coloration is a crucial prerequisite for courtship," Li and his co-authors wrote.

The research was funded by the National University of Singapore Academic Research Fund.

: Muscular women ease muscle pain drinking coffee

: Muscular women ease muscle pain drinking coffee: "Muscular women can use coffee as an effective antidote to ease post-exercise muscle pain, according to new research. Paradoxically, coffee seems to be better in this case, as moderate doses of caffeine, as found in two cups of coffee, greatly reduce post-gym muscle pain.

Muscular women ease muscle pain drinking coffeeThis research is more relevant for people new to exercise, since they are more prone to experience the most soreness.

“If you can use caffeine to reduce the pain, it may make it easier to transition from that first week into a much longer exercise program,” said lead researcher Victor Maridakis of the University of Georgia.

The team investigated nine muscular women who were not regular coffee drinkers and didn't go to the gym on a regular basis.

The women were put to ingest either caffeine or a placebo liquid one and two days after an exercise session that caused moderate muscle soreness, after which they carried on two thigh exercises, one of maximum muscle effort, and the other sub-maximal effort.
Caffeine consumed one-hour before the maximum force test induced a 48 % decrease in pain; those who took caffeine before the near-maximum force test presented a 26 % drop in soreness.

Caffeine is usually taken to increase alertness, but it’s also proven to boost endurance,"

: Pubic hair determines women’s sexual character

: Pubic hair determines women’s sexual character: "Pubic hair affects women’s sexuality, claims Japanese professor Asaki Geino. He classifies women into five types, the most likely of which to be unfaithful being the type whose hair resembles the mouth of a river.

Pubic hair determines women’s sexual character'Usually female pubic hair grows in the form of an upside down triangle, but some women's is oblong or elliptical in shape,' the professor explained.

'It's not that rare for women with oblong-shaped pubic hair to fall in love at first sight or fall head-over-heels with passion. They also don't like sitting at home on their own. The combination of these characteristics causes men to go wild over them.'

The majority of eastern women have pubic hair that looks like an inverted triangle: 'This type is characterized by faithfulness and fitness for family life. Women of this type are good mothers, faithful wives and caring daughters. I don't think I'm wrong when I say that precisely this type of woman helped Japan become the glorious country it is,' Geino said triumphantly, Rol.ru reports.

There's no doubt the professor's findings are very interesting, but nevertheless they're impossible to apply in practice: the majority of women today wax their bikini line clean. Having said this, if a man has serious intentions, it might be worth his while askin"

Kirk Douglas - Kirk Douglas' Nazi sex

Kirk Douglas - Kirk Douglas' Nazi sex: "Kirk Douglas has written a new memoir about his colourful sex life.

The 90-year-old Oscar winner has recalled how he lost his virginity with his teacher and enjoyed bizarre bedroom sessions with a German airline stewardess.

In 'Let's Face It - 90 Years of Living, Loving and Learning' Kirk reveals: 'I had been a ragamuffin kid of 15 coping with a neighbourhood filled with gangs. Under my teacher's guidance I became a different person. I am eternally grateful.

'By today's standards she would have gone to jail. I had no idea we were doing something wrong. Did she?'

The 'Spartacus' actor also romanced a 'big, tall blonde' airline stewardess who loved being 'disciplined' in bed.

In the height of passion, she would scream 'I'm a Nazi!' which was Kirk's cue to slap her."

Paris and Jenna

Sports Betting at Eye On Gambling - Discuss Online Sportsbooks; Handicapping; and Free Picks: "Paris Hilton and porn superstar Jenna Jameson have been invited to take part in a new reality TV show called 'Virgin Territory'.

The series will feature real life virgins and follow their quest to have sex for the first time. Paris and Jenna will help to educate the uninitiated contestants.

Producer Kevin Blatt said: 'Paris and Jenna have been contacted about participating in the show. We will be unveiling giant billboards in Time Square and Los Angeles advertising for virgins to take part in the show. Finding virgins in New York or Los Angeles is no easy task.'

Blatt is the man who turned Paris' homemade sex tape with ex-boyfriend Rick Solomon, which was originally leaked onto the internet, into the best selling porn DVD 'One Night in Paris'.

He predicts 'Virgin Territory' will be a smash hit and be watched by even more people than the millions who saw 'One Night In Paris'."

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Paris exposed

Veronica Saint Movie Gallery

Vendula

Natasha

Mena Suvari Topless

Evolution of the mammalian vagina

Pharyngula: Evolution of the mammalian vagina: "Q: What unique organ is found only in mammals, but not in fish, amphibians, reptiles, or birds?

The title and that little picture to the left ought to be hint enough, but if not, read on.

A: The vagina. Aren't we lucky?

There's an old joke going around about poor design: what kind of designer would route the sewer pipes right through the center of the entertainment center? It's a good point. It doesn't make sense from a design standpoint to have our reproductive and excretory systems so intimately intermingled, but it does make a heck of a lot of sense from a purely historical point of view. In a sense, reproduction is an excretory function—we are shedding gametes produced internally, and we already have a perfectly good set of pipes running from our insides to the outside, so why not use them? It's just that in our lineage, which has specialized in giving great care to our gametes and zygotes, that plumbing has become increasingly elaborate, and that part of the system that was once just a convenient throughway has become a destination and a long-term residence in its own right."

Porn links on Alliance website

Porn links on Alliance website - Local & National - News - Belfast Telegraph: "Porn merchants have invaded the Alliance Party's website.

Suppliers of internet pornography embarrassed the party by using an online forum to advertise sex videos.

Within the past week, several sellers - believed to be foreign - have taken advantage of the party's discussion forum to advertise.

Beneath the website photo of leader David Ford, last night the website carried links to 'porn sex video' and 'video sex picture' .

The material is not endorsed by the Alliance Party.

Websites that provide discussion forums - which allow outsiders to write material on the site - are often raided by porn merchants.

An Alliance Party spokesman said the material had been removed from the website once the party become aware of it.

He said that the party's web service provider had told them that attempts to hijack forums were not uncommon."

'Gone Wild' figure is fined $500,000

A federal judge on Monday sentenced the founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" empire to 200 hours of community service for failing to adequately document the ages of performers in his videos.

The heavier-than-expected punishment handed down to Joe Francis in Los Angeles was similar to a sentence his Santa Monica-based production company, Mantra Films Inc., received in Florida last month.

Monday's sanctions on the 33-year old entrepreneur included two years' probation — twice what his lawyers requested — and a $500,000 fine, which Francis had agreed to pay under a plea deal with prosecutors.

Under that agreement, reached with the Justice Department in September, Francis admitted to filming underage women — who were often nude and intoxicated — for his videos. Francis pleaded guilty to two felony counts of violating federal record-keeping laws.

Monday's sentence marked the second time that a federal judge had surprised Francis with a community service obligation.

Last month, Judge Richard Smoak in Florida ordered Mantra to serve 32 hours a month for 30 months, eight hours of which Francis must personally serve each month. Smoak told Francis he could reduce the total number of hours required by doing more of the service himself. His attorney, Aaron Dyer, has said Francis would appeal the Florida sentence, which included a $1.6-million fine to be paid by Mantra.

Francis built a $40-million-a-year business filming spring-break revelers and selling soft-porn videos using late-night infomercials. The felony violations involved a failure to document the ages of women who performed in videos filmed during 2002 and part of 2003.

Federal law requires producers of sexually explicit materials to file documents proving that performers in sexually explicit videos are adults. The laws are aimed at preventing the sexual exploitation of children.

Francis' attorney argued Monday for leniency in the sentencing, calling his client an "exemplary citizen" and his crime "just a record-keeping violation."

But U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Morrow told Francis she considered the charges serious and indicative of an "endemic" problem at his company.

The judge dismissed Francis' request to be able to travel without restriction to his Mexican villa. According to Morrow's sentence, Francis must seek permission before traveling outside the country on business or to travel anywhere for pleasure.

Dyer told Morrow that Francis had a meeting planned in China. The judge said Francis would have to file court papers before taking the trip.

Outside the courthouse, Francis said he believed he had been persecuted by the Justice Department.

"Of course I've been unfairly targeted by the government," Francis said. "What better target than Joe Francis?"

Pregnant girls flee maternity home

Salt Lake Tribune - Pregnant girls flee maternity home

AMERICAN FORK - After three pregnant teenagers hit their group home director over the head with a frying pan and tied her up, one of them reportedly told the woman, "You're a good person. We just need to do what we need to do."
The teens stole her keys and her van.
That was Tuesday morning - the last time anyone reported seeing the girls.
Police are trying to arrest them for aggravated assault and kidnapping. Spencer Moody, the owner of the group home, whose wife was assaulted by the teens, said Thursday he's worried about the girls' well-being.
"We're just hoping they're found OK," Moody said.
The girls - ages 15 and 16 and from Illinois, Texas and California - are "not real far along" in their pregnancy, Moody said. He and American Fork police on Thursday released few other details about the three and would not disclose their names or photographs.
The teens ran away from the New Hope Maternity Home, a large red brick house at the end of a winding private lane on the north side of American Fork. Moody, 53, and his wife, Jana Moody, have operated the home for about three years, he said, and host pregnant teenagers whose parents want to remove them from friends and other influences. The girls are not locked inside the home.
The home is licensed by the state and provides the teens with a high school curriculum, srcmedical care, parenting lessons and counsels them on adoption, according to its Web site.
Spencer Moody said teens usually arrive after a few weeks of pregnancy and remain at the home until they have given birth at a hospital in Utah Valley.
Choking up, Spencer Moody told reporters Thursday, "We've had a lot of parents call us and thank us for giving their girls back the way they used to be. We haven't had one negative experience with a girl."
The Moodys, who operate the home together, do not accept teens who they think might pose behavior problems, Spencer Moody said, but most girls are not happy to be at the home when they first arrive.
On Tuesday, while Spencer Moody was at his teaching job in Spanish Fork, one of the teens hit Jana Moody over the head with a frying pan, then used electrical cords and duct tape to tie her up, Spencer Moody and police said. They also put a sock in her mouth and wrapped her mouth in duct tape, said American Fork police Sgt. Shauna Greening
The teenagers stole Jana Moody's purse, credit cards, cell phone, video camera and car keys, Greening said.
Spencer Moody said one of the girls told his wife she was a good person before the three left in the van.
Jana Moody was able to free herself. She went upstairs and found another girl, a 17-year-old, who also was tied up, Greening said. Jana Moody freed that teen and began walking to find a telephone.
The group home owner walked to the end of her drive to a trailer that serves as offices for a residential construction business.
"She was pretty emotional," said Brent Wilkinson, who runs the business with his father and brother and was in the trailer when Jana Moody arrived. "She had a lot of adrenaline pumping, but I thought she was very composed, given the circumstances."
Spencer Moody said he and his wife had no indication the teens were planning the attack and escape nor were there any prior confrontations with the girls. He said he believe the teens wanted the van so they could return home.
Greening said the teens might have fled to one of their home states. Police in American Fork have placed alerts with other agencies.
The teens are described as:
* One girl is 15 years old, 5-foot-2, 103 pounds, brown hair, blue-green eyes and a pierced belly button.
* The second girl is also 15 years old, 5-foot-5, 152 pounds, brown hair and eyes, a piercing in each ear, a scar between her eyes and moles on her left leg and back.
* The third girl is 16, about 5 foot 7, 153 pounds, brown hair, green eyes, a piercing in each ear and a scar on her forehead.
Spencer Moody said his wife was not seriously injured. But the couple likely will quit operating their group home.
"After this, we've decided it's the end of it," he said.
Wilkinson's brother, Richard Wilkinson, said he hopes the Moodys continue the home.
"They have a lot to contribute to these young ladies," he said.

'Artist' creates global circle jerk (shake well before use)

'Artist' creates global circle jerk (shake well before use): "spermcube.jpgWanting women to regurgitate the contents of their stomachs, a France-based artist has created the Spermcube. No beating around the proverbial bush, the artist Philippe Meste aims to produce a cube filled with 264 gallons (literally, 1 ton) of human sperm. Meste asks for men around the world to donate to his grotesque vision by providing donor kits online. While there's more than enough sperm in the world, usually the name of the game for most men is to keep it outside of 'the box'. While this box may not be as warm and velvety, at least it doesn't get knocked up."

Pussy posses and porn, pennies away (shake well before use)

Pussy posses and porn, pennies away (shake well before use): "Just like the celebs, entourages are now available for hire at a much lower price (if you don't count your soul). A new German site allows