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Strange sex toy of the year

This was sent in by Mike. Mike, you may thank me for not asking what you were looking for when you stumbled across this...this...thing.

Folks, if you bump into any concubines who look like this...RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!

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Wait a minute. What's that thing on the top that looks like the head of a cock?

Redneck cakes and other titbits

It will be a weird evening Inside Gloria's Mind tonight, as strangeness has been piling up in my picture files and it's time to share the wealth.

First, thanks to Jane, this photograph of a Redneck Wedding Cake. (mmmm! Twinkies!!)

The Zen of shriveling condoms

I think this reporter was dying to write "dicks" instead of "condom sales."

I know. Sometimes a condom is just a condom.

Still there is something evocative about condoms shriveling. Or shriveled condoms. I can see them now, sagging on the distant horizon, endless rows of shriveled condoms, looking sad.

Shriveled Condom Hiaku

Why do you shrivel?
Were you discarded unloved
like day old sushi?

A shriveled condom tells a story. But not this story, which is about declining condom sales in Japan, attributed to *drumroll* cyberporn!

Condom sales shrivel as Japan logs onto cyber porn

Japanese condom sales are sagging as a passion for the Internet leads the Japanese to choose unprotected sex, if any sex at all, the nation's largest condom manufacturer said ahead of World Aids Day.

Domestic shipments have shriveled 43 percent from the peak in 1980 of 737 million to just 419 million condoms in 2003, according to the latest health ministry data.

Industry experts said omnipresent pornography in the hi-tech country meant fewer people were having sex -- and among those who still are, fewer are using condoms.

"Since the advent of the broadband Internet in Japan, people can connect the entire night without having any extra charges," said a spokeswoman for top condom maker Okamoto Industries.

"Those people who cannot break away from their computers are not able to have sex," she said.
Youngsters are also getting the wrong impression from pornography, in which condom use is rare....

Court finds phonesex free for addict

From Australia:

Obsessive let off $1000-a-day bill

A MAN who racked up $1000 a day on phone sex calls has been bailed out by the telecommunications industry watchdog.

The man complained to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman after receiving the massive bill for phone sex and other pay-per-minute calls.

Claiming he was a depressive who was in the middle of a manic episode, the man said he had an "obsessive" personality with no control of his actions at the time....

After four days of repeatedly dialling expensive 190 numbers, the phone company became concerned at the high usage and barred the man from further access.

But the bar was removed when the man called to say he was able to pay the bills. He then spent another six days on the phone for several hours, bringing his total bill to $10,000 over 11 days.

The ombudsman found the phone provider was at fault for removing the bar and arranged for most of the man's bill to be waived....

Heirloom umbilical cords

I can see where this might be an ice-breaker at a family gathering...your very own gold-plated umbilical cord.

You Had WHAT Gold-Plated?

Forget desktop photographs of your children.

Doting South Korean parents can preserve their child's umbilical cord in acrylic resin to make a personal seal or even have it gold plated.

In this Confucian society where family values are highly prized, suppliers also offer services for parents to have traditional Korean calligraphy brushes made from their child's hair....

Oooh! So that's what family values is about! Preserving body parts! Ahhhh!

Gay marriage stays on MA books

This is the first positive news about same-sex marriages that I've seen since the election broke my heart.

Supreme Court declines Massachusetts same-sex marriage fight

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a dispute over same-sex marriages, rejecting a challenge to the nation's only law sanctioning such unions.

Justices had been asked by conservative groups to overturn the year-old decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage. They declined, without comment....

Know thy enemy: the anti-Kinseyans

A scary, sobering close-up on the post-modern anti-Kinsey movement, its leaders and its anti-sex agenda. From the New Yorker.

THE CULTURE WARS

by Daniel Radosh

....Judith Reisman is the founder of the modern anti-Kinsey movement. She spent a week in Washington, D.C., recently, talking to people on Capitol Hill about opening a congressional investigation into Kinsey’s work. The new film, she said, is “deceptive and malevolently misleading, to say the least.” A sixty-nine-year-old independent researcher with a Ph.D. in communications and a former songwriter for Captain Kangaroo, Reisman is the president of the Institute for Media Education and the lead author of “Kinsey, Sex and Fraud” and “Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences.” In one article, Reisman describes Kinsey as “a scientific and moral fraud, a certifiable sexual psychopath as well as a sadomasochistic pornography addict and a sexually harassing bully.” Though largely unknown outside social-conservative circles, Reisman has been influential within them. She has served as a consultant to the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services and was given seven hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars by Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department to study pornography. More recently, she has been active in the rise of abstinence-only education; in June, her colleagues gave her an Abstie Award for lifetime achievement. Last week, Reisman testified at a congressional hearing about the dangers of pornography addiction, saying that police should be required to collect evidence of pornography consumption at any crime scene.

....Ultimately, Reisman and her colleagues hope to discredit not only Kinsey but the entire field of sexology which he created, and what she calls “the sexindustrial complex” that has grown out of it. “One doesn’t measure American sexual habits,” she said. “That’s not a science.”

Alcohol, condoms and thou

This is so sane it's shocking.

I've seen alcohol sold side-by-side with guns in hunting stores in America's heartland.

It would make a hell of a lot more sense if they sold alcohol with condoms.

India offers safe sex cocktail

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - India, home to the world's second-largest HIV population, may have found a perfect cocktail for safe sex -- a free condom with every bottle of alcohol sold at liquor shops.

The southern state of Andhra Pradesh has made it mandatory for liquor shops to hand out a free condom with every bottle of alcohol they sell from December 1, the World AIDS Day....

India has the second biggest HIV population after South Africa, with 5.1 million cases. Experts fear it could soon reach the top slot as knowledge about the illness is scant....

Triumph of the prude: post-Kinsey politics

Great thought piece from the UK on the flap caused by the Kinsey bio-pic and the on-going demonization of Kinsey and human sexuality in general. Had no idea that the Dr. Laura called for a boycott of the film! I'm calling for a boycott of Dr. Laura! Her warped mind and hateful attitudes are without a doubt a danger to children everywhere!

Let's Not Talk About Sex

By KAREN von HAHN

In 1948, when Kinsey's Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male was published, it exploded like a bombshell on an American public deeply divided over questions of faith and science, family values and sexual mores. Sound familiar?

...."I have been in this field for 30 years, and the level of fear and intimidation is higher now than I can ever remember," sex researcher Gilbert Herdt, who runs the National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University, told The New York Times....

Talk-radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger called for a boycott of the film and, according to The New York Times, attempted, along with Reisman and other advocates, to place an advertisement accusing Kinsey of sex crimes against children in Variety (it was rejected). Shockingly, WNET -- New York's public television station -- declined to broadcast ads for the film, citing them as "too provocative."

On the Concerned Women for America website, the like-minded can download a flyer (presumably to distribute on the windshields of SUVs in the church parking lot) that calls Kinsey a "homosexual, sadomasochist, voyeuristic pedophile advocate" whose "agenda was to create a 'sexual utopia' where everyone could have sex with anyone and anything without restraint."

What is most interesting about this outcry is the way that it parallels the hypocrisy of Kinsey's time. Not only are the characters on screen dressed like the fashionable members of the audience, but we seem to have also adopted a retro fondness for doing one thing and saying another.....

SWF seeks SWM, must drive Volvo

The perky Volvo logo says it all, no?

Hilarious article about Germans, their cars and their sex-lives.

Cars and sex go hand-in-tire for many German men By JEFFREY FLEISHMAN

...."Hmm, it says here that women think George Clooney has more sex appeal than a Ferrari. Maybe that's because women don't know how to drive a Ferrari," said Torsten Kadletz, a used-car dealer unafraid of feminists. He was studying a recent German magazine survey that asked men and women how they'd rather spend a weekend: with a fuel-injected sports car or an air-brushed celebrity.

"The Lamborghini versus Britney Spears," Kadletz said. "The Lamborghini is an interesting car and Britney is way too young. What's a 50-year-old man going to do with Britney Spears for two days? Pamela Anderson against the Ferrari? The Ferrari wins. Anderson's past her prime."

Cars and lust

Few things are more invigorating to the German man than a clear windshield, a palm on the gearshift and miles of open autobahn. In 12 pages of statistics peppered with pictures of half-dressed women draped over expensive upholstery, Men's Car magazine sought to find out where cars and lust intersect. The survey of 2,253 German men and women ages 20 to 50 gauged preference and performance, both on the road and in the bedroom.

The study found that people are sometimes like the cars they drive. Take the Volvo. Reliable and stuffed with air bags, the Volvo is marketed as an achievement in perseverance that will always get you there. And so will the Volvo owner. Men with Volvos have longer sex — 7.3 minutes a session — than any other driver, especially those Casanovas with Italian cars who clock a mere 4.9 minutes for each off-road diversion....

Beware the Intrinsia hype

As I've said a few times on this blog, don't believe everything you're reading about Intrinsia, which is being hyped as a Viagra for women.

Before your hopes get too high on what Intrinsia may or may not do for you, read this article in full.

'Female Viagra' is flawed, says study

The makers of a new sex drug for women - branded the "female Viagra" - have been accused of over-hyping the treatment and misleading patients about its effectiveness.

The British Medical Journal claims that many sex experts are worried that the developers of the so-called "sex patch", Procter & Gamble, have exaggerated the value and safety of the new treatment.

The controversy comes as the United States Food and Drug Administration considers permitting sales of the drug, Intrinsa, which would trigger a bid for licensing in Britain and the rest of Europe.

Intrinsa works by slowly leaking testosterone into the body, through a patch placed on the stomach, to help stimulate women's natural sex drives.

The makers insist it is intended for women who have had their ovaries removed or are post-menopausal, not as a lifestyle drug for all ages.

However, the BMJ cites the marketing campaign's claims that Intrinsa leads to a "74 per cent increase" in sex. Most women in its trial experienced one extra sexual "episode" a month, at most, after wearing the patch for at least six months. This makes the drug "look much less impressive", the journal said....

Indian IT workers too stressed for sex

Well, this is one effect of American out-sourcing that no one probably anticipated. India's geeks are losing their sex drive.

Stressed techies losing sex drive

....Young-age professionals in the city may have been enjoying their work at business process outsourcing (BPO) offices, call centres or other information technology (IT) companies, but medical consultants in the city say that these people are facing a problem of a different kind: difficulty in performing sex.

According to doctors, erratic working hours, sedentary lifestyles, psychological stress and strict target deadlines are responsible for this situation. Senior sex consultant R.S. Sathe, who is also director of Marito-sexual and reproductive research institute (Marri), told TNN that the number of youngsters in IT firms and call centres who are visiting his clinic is on the rise.

Sanjay Ahuja, another sex consultant in the city, vouches for Sathe. "Young IT employees coming for consultation have gone up by at least 35 per cent in the last two years," he says....

Chinese art shows HIV in human light

China art exhibition to dispel discrimination against HIV/AIDS women

BEIJING (AFP) - An art exhibition depicting how women living with HIV are viewed in China has opened here in a bid to dispel strong public discrimination against AIDS patients, state media said.

Twenty-nine works are on show at the "Her Beauty" exhibition with each exhibit created by Chinese women living with HIV.

"Though the artists are not professional, their paintings will show the public how sad and lonely the people with HIV feel," said 22-year-old Song Pengfei, chief organizer of the exhibition who is also HIV positive.

A survey released by the Ministry of Health Friday found 58.9 percent of Chinese shun people with HIV/AIDS, the Xinhua news agency reported....

According to a recent United Nations (news - web sites) report, at least 190,000 women between the ages of 15 and 49 in China have HIV/AIDS, an increase of 60,000 in the past three years.....

Image from HIV/AIDS Workshop

Painted Lady

This is a runway model in body paint. She looks so gorgeous, I had to blog her.

Calling all hookers (to Aussie nursing homes)

This is the best argument for retiring overseas that I've ever seen.

Sex visits for aged homes

Some Victorian nursing homes have become "grey light zones" with prostitutes visiting elderly clients for sex.

Aged care and sex industry figures said it was a common practice in public and private nursing homes to sneak "escorts" in.

Some homes set aside special sex rooms.

Anna Priamo, a nursing supervisor at an inner-city nursing home, said frisky patients who harassed nurses were referred to a doctor who might arrange for a prostitute to visit them.

"It's not something we put in our brochure," Ms Priamo said....

Men: an endangered species?

Quick, ladies. Better hunt them down now before they set limits on how many you can bag!

The Cult of Masculinity

....Speaking of Maxim, the magazine took a radical step this week on behalf of its readers. Richard Leiby of the Washington Post reports that Maxim filed a petition with the Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton and the Fish and Wildlife Service requesting that man be declared an endangered species.

"This is no joke," a mag rep insists, and Interior officials told us yesterday that the petition was validly filed. The 12-page document argues that without a listing under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, "Man will surely succumb to the ravages of an effeminate, feng shui world-gone-mad." The feds promise to take the petition seriously because, this being Washington, there's legal precedent to follow....

(Thanks to eaglesshadow for the link!)

Image from Wildman Steve Brill

Gloria's Mind a little slow

It must be the digestive torpor from all the turkey we've consumed (turkey, turkey left-overs au naturel, turkey sandwiches, turkey casserole and, today, turkey again in some new mutation). Good thing I like turkey. Bad thing, after eating so much of it, I feel like one. Nonetheless, thank you, Lord, for giving us this day our daily turkey. Could be worse. Could be tofu.

So my blogging behavior has been off-schedule the last few days. We had holiday houseguests (love you, Beth!), lots of champagne (thanks, Andy!), amazing food (you are the Kitchen God, Will), and fabulous treats served with an impish smile (you are my love-button, Jen). As usual, food-time was Wildlife Adventure time, with two fat, shameless dogs begging for (nay insisting on) scraps, and a kitten trying to compete with the poodle for literally everything.

(The kitten and the poodle have been arguing over a chewy strip for days: neither wants to eat it but both long to possess it. The poodle hides it; the kitten finds it; the poodle races to thwart her; the kitten bats the poodle's nose; the poodle growls softly, displaying her tiny teeth; the kitten ignores her and claws the strip; the poodle snatches it; the kitten chews her ass...and so on and so forth until they get bored of the game or someone plays too hard and the other silently departs, offended.)

In other unbelievably exciting news (you all knew that the life of a writer is just bursting with excitement, didn't you?), I've been having metaphysical conversations with the gods of weather, but no amount of logic will prevail upon them to release accurate forecasts to their local appointees. The meteorologists forecast a spell of sunny warmth starting Thursday, after days of chill and rain. They were wrong. Which, given my extreme sensitivity to all gardening-related issues, means they lied to me personally just to fuck with me, the bastards!

Will voices a dissenting opinion on my obsessive patterns of garden thought (see photo).

Other news: we're having a bonfire. We're burning our future strawberry patch! Mmmm. We already have blueberry and fig trees that started producing summer '04, plus pawpaws, peaches, and other fruit trees which may bear in '05. One day we'll be able to munch and browse as we walk through the garden. Mmmm. Strawberries. Outdoor burning is permitted in this county as long as you dial 911 first to alert them so they don't send firemen to your house. Yeah, it would be simply awful if they accidentally sent a bunch of young, hung fireman out to our secluded woods. Bring the long hoses, boys. We got a fire for you to put out. Anyway, fantasies aside, we don't know when we'll be burning, but it'll be very soon. Can't wait.

Other news: as blogged yesterday, I'm in this week's Sunday NY Times, quoted in an article about a hip magazine called Found and its sexed-up offspring, Dirty Found. Does this make me respectable? Or just old? Anyway, already received email from a language Nazi informing me that my use of "begs the question" in the piece was incorrect. I appreciate knowing that--especially since the reporter made it up because it's a phrase I've never used (probably because I would use it incorrectly). Authors can't get too upset over misquotes because it happens almost every time. By the time fact-checkers get back to me (if they do--the Times did not) what the reporter wrote and what I actually said share but a nodding acquaintance. As long as they got the gist, I leave it be. Life is too short. Spell it B-R-A-M-E. That's all I ask.

More news: was just listed as a Harbinger on American Samizdat. Too cool. I don't know what I'm ... harbinging ...er ... harbingering ...supposed to be a harbinger of, but thanks, Dr. Menlo, I love you too.

Last news: I've been fiddling with my sidebars, added a bunch of new kinky blogs to my links and also set up links to some online adult shops. CafePress t-shirts/accessories are something I set up years ago for gloriabrame.com but had forgotten about until they emailed me a few days ago saying I had a whole $19 waiting to be collected. Wooo! Who says you can't get rich on the Internet? In addition to t-shirts (including one for your dog) and mugs, I stuck my face on the belly of a teddy-bear. Always wanted to sleep with me? Now you can. Better still, if you stain my face, you can wash me and I'll never even know it happened. We'd both prefer it that way, wouldn't we?

Today I decided, good weather or bad, I'm going to do some gardening. The meteorologists must have felt the threat of my wrath. It's sunny and it's going to be in the 60s. All is forgiven.

Expect some erratic posts here and there today. I'll be back to blogging as usual tomorrow.

Awkward moment fetish

Funny and strange animation, spoofing Net porn.

Awkward
This is a flash video, so if you'll need a fast connection to enjoy it.

Thanks to Ig for sending the link!

Buggary book on Sotheby's block

17th Century British Porn to Be Auctioned

The world's first known piece of printed pornography, described as the "quintessence of debauchery," is expected to reach up to 35,000 pounds ($65,040) when it is auctioned next month.

"Sodom," penned in the mid-1670s, has been attributed to John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester....

"We believe this is the first printed pornography in English literature, a unique copy of the quintessence of debauchery," Peter Beal, Sotheby's book specialist said....

The book centers on the decision made by a lustful King to "set the nation free" by allowing "buggary" to be "used thro' all the land" and then details the dire consequences....

Me in the Sunday Times

I was interviewed a couple of weeks ago by a reporter for the New York Times (Pamela O'Connell). The story appears in the Style section of this week's Sunday Times. Here's a link to the piece on-line.

Passionate Peeping Into Others' Depths

....Mr. Bitner is a creator of Found Magazine, an annual publication that showcases personal detritus (mostly lost photographs and notes) in a style that has been described by critics as "punk-collagist." In the last four years, hundreds of people have sent Mr. Bitner and Davy Rothbart, the magazine's other founder, items that they have found on park benches, in abandoned houses, under Coke machines — wherever things are left behind. Some of the items were inappropriate for Found — namely the prurient Polaroids, smutty journals and raunchy drawings that Mr. Bitner secreted in his drawer. Now more than 125 of them, including the excerpt from that young woman's diary, have been collected in a new 80-page volume, Dirty Found No. 1, which went on sale last week at independent bookstores, Tower Records and www.foundmagazine.com.

The appeal of Dirty Found is hard to define. Like much found culture, the publication offers readers an appealing mix of voyeurism and sociology — or possibly just voyeurism masked as sociology....

"The sophisticated sex browser will not be turned on by this," said Dr. Gloria G. Brame, an author, sex therapist and blogger based in Athens, Ga. "As a sexologist, I see its value as anthropological...."

Insecticide spermicide: the amazing neem tree

I did a double take when I first saw this because I've only encountered neem oil in garden shops, where it is marketed as an effective, organic insecticide with beneficial properties. Neem has also been exploited for its healing properties (in humans and agriculture). Now comes this interesting scientific research into an all-new way of exploiting the amazing neem tree.

India developing neem-based spermicide against AIDS

Indian scientists are developing a herbal spermicide from neem in an effort to control the spread of AIDS. The drug, developed by G.P. Talwar, former director of the National Institute of Immunology, is made from the leaves and bark of the neem tree and is undergoing clinical tests in Pune.

"So far, India's AIDS prevention has been condom-based. But if this new drug comes about, it will help women take their own measures to protect themselves," said R.R. Gangakhedkar, who is part of the team testing the new drug. "It might take years to come about, but if it does, it would definitely be worth it," Gangakhedkar told IANS.

The tablet, which resembles a small soap, when inserted into the vagina 10-15 minutes before intercourse, would kill all the sperm cells entering the body, and the AIDS virus coming with them....

Abortions common in Russia

Abortion in Russia: No Big Deal

There may be no sex in Russia, so goes a Soviet urban legend. And somehow, with abortions outnumbering live births nearly 2 to 1, if you’re a Russian woman and never had one, you’re a statistical non-entity.

The women I spoke to — stoic, intelligent matrons obviously with other things on their minds besides talking their husbands into using condoms — took it for granted that they had friends who’d chide them with “I’ve had thirty abortions already, what’s the big deal?” when they had to make that trip to the clinic.

And, according to one gynecologist who has been practicing for 45 years, there was certainly no reason to blanche when a girl told you that “I’d rather just have abortions than not have satisfying sex.”

Western media — like the Washington Post — put Russia at number three for its abortion rate, just after Cuba and Romania. Conservative think tanks like the Rand Corporation are more blatant: Russia has the highest abortion rate in the world....

Sex for narcissists

From The London News Report

The Family Porn: how to have sex with yourself and mean it

The traditional family unit, as seen through the lens of internet pornography, is a troubled beast. Fathers are generally distant, violent or horny. Moms can be drunk, horny, or (quite often) dead. Grandfathers are frisky. Grandmothers never look their age. Uncles are firm and horny. Sons are curious and horny. Daughters are just plain horny.

"I'm so horny today, Daddy."
"Gee Mom, you look horny!"
"Hey, Grandpa, are you feelin' horny?"

Oh, and don't forget about the dog.
The dog is *always* horny.

The various inter-generational (and intra-generational) couplings answer the various fantasy requirements of the incest-hungry reader. And the mode of incest stretches from bathroom voyeurism through to full-on, Sunday afternoon, shift-the-furniture orgies.

The stories about families in which everyone is constantly doing it with everyone else are hilarious, but exhausting. When the whole clan is on heat, it's well-nigh impossible to do a simple task like turn the TV on, or wash up a cup, without someone being bent over the back of the sofa and bum-stuffed. The tone in these tales is one of 'total' sexuality, there is a potential orgasm in every room....But the most total form of sexual introversion, and perhaps the purest form of incest, is sex with oneself. Not masturbation, but real sex with an imagined / cloned / magically produced second self.

Such fantasies do exist....

"The First Spanksgiving"

from Fleshbot:

Video: "The First Spanksgiving"

Everyone knows the story about the Pilgrims sitting down to that first big holiday meal, but few people are aware of the origins of Spanksgiving, a celebration of good food, dysfunctional friends, and ... spanking....

Cuddly infectious terminal diseases

Here's a novel new toy for the holiday season. Give someone you love cute and cuddly Ebola. Or any of several other horrible diseases, all interpreted into plushie cuteness. No yiffing, please.

GIANTmicrobes | Ebola

But honey, it's not my fault. I was genetically programmed to screw around

Okay, women, here's a new, scientific way to explain your cheating heart...

Genetic Factors Influence Female Infidelity -Study

LONDON (Reuters) - Genetic factors influence female infidelity and the number of sexual partners women have, British scientists said on Wednesday.

They studied the responses of 1,600 pairs of identical and non-identical twins in a confidential survey to look at the impact of genes on behavior.

"We found that around 40 percent of the influence on the number of sexual partners and infidelity were due to genetic factors," Professor Tim Spector, director of the Twin Research Unit at St Thomas' Hospital in London, told a news conference.

But he added that environment and upbringing also play a part in explaining the variation in infidelity between women.

"The fact that psychosocial traits such as number of sexual partners and infidelity appear to behave as other common complex genetic traits in humans ... lends support to evolutionary psychologists' theories on the origin of human behavior," Spector said....

Fundamentalist chic

Oy vey.

Religious fanaticism is really becoming the rage.

Sex and the City star gets cover-up in Israel

Jerusalem, November 24: Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker's fashion sense raised the ire of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel who demanded that billboards featuring the actress in a skimpy dress be covered up.

Photos of Parker lying in a skin-revealing, spaghetti strap gown were pasted on billboards across Israel promoting Lux soap.

But ultra-Orthodox Jews took offence at the sight of Parker's arms, back, shoulders and even a little thigh....

Happy Thanksgiving, y'all

It'll be blogging as usual here today.

Beer for baby Jesus

There's something just so wrong about this...

Six cases of beer offered for safe return of stolen baby Jesus

That's the deal an Australian brewing company is offering. Someone swiped the infant Christ figure from a nativity scene this week. Now, the South Australian Brewing Company in Adelaide is offering a reward in brewskis for the return of the baby Jesus.

The nativity display is an annual tradition at the brewery.

Officials say security footage shows a man climbing a fence and lifting the baby Jesus from his manger.

Why STDs keep spreading and spreading

Study says one in five single adults never uses STD protection

A new survey finds that more than one in five single adults never uses STD protection.

Just 32 percent of single men and 28 percent of single women reported using protection every time they have sex. Women were less likely to protect themselves than men, even with the added possibility of pregnancy.

But they also were more likely to report not having sex at all (37 percent) than men (19 percent)....