Stuff from the After Hours

Who's Your Daddy mobile DNA testing rolls into existence

2012-08-17T20:55:00Z

DNA testing has gone mobile with the creation of the Who’s Your Daddy Truck [insert Maury Povich joke here]! Yes, it’s now possible to find out if “you are not the father!” from a roving — yet court-legal — establishment.

Who’s Your Daddy DNA testing has debuted in New York City, ready to help nearly anyone with $350 prove a biological (or lack thereof) link to someone else. The mobile testing unit, brainchild of Jared Rosenthal and Health Street claims to be born of the saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention.”

”I couldn’t afford to rent an office, so I thought, we can convert the RV to a mobile office,” Rosenthal explained to ABC recently of his mobile paternity-testing vehicle. “DNA really gets at a person’s identity, it gets to the core of their identity, who your parents are, who your children are, how you define yourself ethnically and culturally.”

“People think DNA testing is like what they see on TV,” the Who’s Your Daddy creator also commented during a video interview with a local ABC affiliate. “But what they see on TV is fighting and people who don’t get along. We rarely see that. We see dad’s who want to know if it’s their kid.”

“Something about the RV makes it more intimate and people open up. It makes it easier for them,” he added to theNew York Post. “I get a lot of military requests [to test kids]. I think when they’re away, they want the assurance.”

We’ve talked about the need for paternity testing before here at BabyCenter, and one comment that seems to come up repeatedly is that if a guy has suspicions he needs to “man up” and ask for a test. That, however, is a conversation that rarely goes over smoothly. In reading about Rosenthal’s mobile office I’m pleased by the idea of easier access to testing, but feel mixed about the notion the testing could be going on without the mother of the child’s knowledge.

From what I can tell, a man can legally get a DNA test done on a child without the mother’s permission as long as he is a legal guardian (most likely meaning his name is listed on the birth certificate). A grandparent or other legally appointed guardian could also provide consent.

Therefore, next time kiddo and daddy head to the park there’s a possibility they’ll be doing more than playing on the swings if a certain RV happens to be parked nearby.

Scientists Closer to Birth Control Pill for Men

2012-08-17T20:52:00Z

Scientists may be one step closer to a birth control pill for men.

A drug dubbed JQ1 swiftly stunted sperm production in male mice, a new study found. And like the female birth control pill, its fertility-fighting effects on were completely reversible.

"We have only observed full recovery of fertility in treated males," the researchers from Baylor College of Medicine wrote in their study,published today in the journal Cell. "We envision that our discoveries can be completely translated to men, providing a novel and efficacious strategy for a male contraceptive."

JQ1 blocks a protein essential for sperm production in the testes. If the drug is proven to be safe and effective in humans, it could expand the prophylactic pool -- an exciting prospect at a time when over a third of U.S. pregnancies are unintended.

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But some doctors say the idea of slashing sperm counts, even temporarily, can be scary for guys.

"Sperm-making is a pretty delicate thing, and people do seem to have a concept of that," Dr. Joseph Alukal, director of male reproductive health at New York University's Langone Medical Center, told ABCNews.com in 2011. "How long did it take for women to get comfortable with the reversibility of the birth control pill? I'm not sure."

Nevertheless, Alukal said he thinks some men would welcome the option of a birth control pill.

"If you look at vasectomy, there are plenty of men in committed relationships who choose to take onus of reproductive planning on themselves," Alukal said. "I think the same sorts of people would choose to look into something like this."

But some women are wary, saying they might not count on the male contraceptive pill alone.

"If I were dating around, though, there's no way I would trust someone that I'd been on just a few dates with [to take the pill]," 24-year-old Amy McCarthy told ABCNews.com in 2011. "I think for most men it just wouldn't be a thought that crossed their mind -- they're worried about getting HIV or gonorrhea, not having a screaming baby."

U.S. youths not having more oral sex than intercourse: study

2012-08-17T20:24:00Z

A federal study on the sexual behaviour of young Americans released on Thursday countered a widespread belief that oral sex was increasing and vaginal sex decreasing among teenagers due to fears of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Two in every three young Americans have engaged in oral sex, about the same percentage as those who have engaged in vaginal intercourse, the study by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Vital Statistics found.

It also showed that the rates of both practices among the U.S. youth have dropped since a decade ago.

The study showed that about equal numbers of young women and men aged between 15-24 have had oral sex, and that about a quarter - 26 percent of women and 24 percent of men - had first had oral sex before engaging in vaginal intercourse.

Around a quarter of youth had likewise had oral sex only after first experiencing vaginal intercourse, the study said.

The belief that oral sex was being practised more and vaginal sex less to avoid pregnancy and STDs has gained traction in recent years.

“Now we know that’s not necessarily true,” Monica Rodriguez, president and chief executive of the nonprofit group, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, told Reuters.

“Now we have some real data,” she said after reviewing the new study based on 6,346 interviews conducted between 2007-2010.

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Teenage oral sex has declined slightly since 2002, as has vaginal sex, the author of the CDC study Casey Copen said. She attributed the drop to a “decreasing trend in sexual experience among teens.”

The study also revealed differences in experiences linked to race, education and income.

White youth and those from more educated, two-parent homes are more likely than others their age to engage in oral sex first, the study showed. It found that 44 percent of white youth had oral sex before vaginal sex, compared to 30 percent of black youth.

“A higher percentage of females and males who had oral sex, but not yet had vaginal intercourse, had mothers who had some college education or higher,” the study found.

Also, females who had oral sex, but had not yet had vaginal intercourse, were more likely than others their age to live with two biological parents, according to the study.

Company Sells 'Anti-Cheating Ring' that Imprints Wearer's Finger with Marriage Reminder

2012-07-06T20:55:00Z

Concerned that your significant other is doing the sidepiece shuffle with some cheap coquette (or coqsieur) behind your back? Then The Cheeky.com's Anti-Cheating Ring may be just the chastity-ensuring device for you.

A seemingly ho-hum wedding band on the outside, the Anti-Cheating Ring contains within it a clandestine engraving of the words "I'm Married," that, when pressed against the wearer's skin, leave an imprint that cannot be as easily removed as the ostensibly sacred ornament that made it.

You can't put a price on fidelity — but The Cheeky can: $550.

It's Showtime!

2012-07-06T20:42:00Z

Police say Phillip Don Oliver, who’s also known as “Showtime” and “Wild Thing,” went to a northside apartment to collect $200,000 he thought the resident owed a man named “Rico.”

How he went about trying to get it is the twisted stuff of a porn maker trying to out-Tarantino Tarantino. Don’t read any more if you’re easily grossed out.

Court documents say Oliver forced the resident inside by threatening him with a gun. Eventually he collected the man’s wife and mother-in-law and forced them all to disrobe in the bathroom. There he made the man kneel down and stick his head in the toilet while he repeatedly flushed it.

And then things really started to get weird.

The victim said “‘Showtime’ inserted the barrel of a firearm (handgun) into his rectum as he knelt on the floor,” court documents say. He then “removed the barrel from the rectum area and inserted it into the mouth of [the victim's] wife.”

He was joking and laughing as he did all this, the victim says.

Oliver then pointed his gun at the head of the couple’s infant daughter. He ordered the victim “to insert his p3nis into the mouth of his mother-in-law. [The victim said] he hesitated and initially refused, but was again ordered to do so and feared ‘Showtime’ would shoot his daughter.”

The victim said he complied and “‘Showtime’ ordered [the mother-in-law] to perform sex on [the victim].”

The victim insisted he had never heard of Rico or any $200,000 debt, and eventually Oliver and his accomplice, who had been guarding the front door, left.

The police eventually tracked Oliver to his home in the Swiss Village apartments near Hempstead Road and arrested him. He faces charges of aggravated sexual assault and aggravated robbery.

FL Man Arrested After Continually Returning Used Enemas To CVS

2012-07-06T20:06:00Z

A man in Jacksonville, Florida, was making it a habit of repeatedly returning used enemas to a local CVS, according to the local sherriff’s office.

Between April and June, the man returned an unknown number of six-pack containers of enemas, which had been doctored to look unopened. Initially employees had simply reshelved the products, not realizing they had been tampered with.

In mid-June, he struck again. But this time employee Dustin McDonald realized the guy was returning a fleet of Fleet and investigated. Not only was the box he was attempting to return shoddily re-glued to make it look like it hadn’t been opened, but all the other enemas boxes on the shelf had been tampered with as well.

Despite the potential threat to the public safety, McDonald didn’t call the authorities until the “enema bandit” tried to return another box. When the Sheriff’s Department sent samples to the Department of Health, fecal matter was found—indicating the enemas had been used.

The suspect, whose name is being withheld, was arrested on an unrelated outstanding warrant and the FDA is conducting an ongoing investigation. CVS has contacted nearly two dozen people it thinks may have purchased enemas during the time the suspect was pulling his con.

As the woman in the clip above succinctly put it, “Das sick!”

Chicks Dropping 300 Bucks For "Party Girl Drip" IVs To Cure Their Hangovers

2012-06-22T20:48:00Z

Busy young women are increasing their booze intake after becoming hooked on the latest celebrity health fad – the “party girl drip”, which is a strong concoction of vitamins and minerals that quickly revitalises and rehydrates the body. The controversial treatment hit the headlines last month after Rihanna tweeted a snap of a drip going into her arm after a week of heavy partying and gigs. The 24-year-old had been diagnosed with exhaustion and dehydration and fans began fearing for her health. But their concern turned to curiosity when it was revealed the singer was hooked up to a vitamin drip. The “party girl drip” is made up of C and B as well as minerals selenium, magnesium, zinc and chromium. They are slowly fed into the system through an IV drip, like those used in a hospital. It rehydrates and revitalises the body quickly, leading to it being used as a hangover cure and being dubbed the party girl drip. Air hostess Nicky Bailey had her first party girl drip in December. The 32-year-old, from Battersea, south London, now has the treatment every month. She is about to have her sixth drip after returning from a week’s holiday in Ibiza. “December is a busy month. I was working and going to lots of Christmas parties, which included more drinking than normal. I was completely exhausted from constantly fighting off my hangovers,” the Sun quoted her as saying. “I suffer badly after drinking and normally my hangovers last 24 hours, with headaches, dizziness and heavy eyes often lasting all day. “No matter what I try, I can never shift them so would try anything new that claimed to help rehydrate the body after a heavy night,” she said. However, instead of spurring her into a healthier lifestyle, having access to these hangover cures has encouraged Nicky to continue partying. “I go out in the week after work for dinners and cocktails or vodkas and at weekends go clubbing with friends. I usually have four double vodkas, a cocktail or two and sometimes wine. “Knowing I have a vitamin drip booked in makes me feel like I’m cancelling out the bad stuff I’m putting in when I drin’,” she added. (ANI)

You know in Jurassic Park when Jeff Goldblum’s character is all angry about how John Hammond recreated dinosaurs because it was just unnatural and dangerous? He says “God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man. Man destroys God. Man creates Dinosaurs?” Well that kinda how I feel about these bitches and their party drips. The hangover is part of the natural cycle of life. It’s a necessary evil to keep the world in order. Without the hangover, the human race would spiral out of control and drink themselves into bolivian. Like “God creates booze. God destroys booze with hangover. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man destroys hangover.” Its just one of those things that is there for a reason. Everything in this world has purpose. And skipping out on the vomiting and dry heaving and sweating and headaches and just feels like cheating. It feels like its just the way God intended it to be. He knew the limits and the temptations of man and knew that if there was no consequences to drinking, his grand creation would never do anything else but drink. Dude was like “If I don’t give these motherfuckers beer shits and pounding headaches they ain’t never gonna praise me.”

I guess its no different than condoms and birth control and what not. God created pregnant bitches and STDs to stop everyone from just fucking all day every day and we found a way around that. But circumventing the hangover just feels like cheating. Its like a badge of honor in a way. You wanna hop on the Hangover Bus in Vegas for a one time IV on your bachelor weekend, go for it. But a regularly scheduled “party girl drip” so you can be a drunken whore all month long just ain’t natural. God didn’t intend for it to be that way.

Breast cancer survivor can now swim topless in Seattle's public pools

2012-06-22T20:46:00Z

Jodi Jaecks, the 47-year-old breast cancer survivor who made local headlines this week for wanting to swim topless at a Seattle-area pool, had tried many things to soothe the nerve pain she suffered following a double mastectomy and chemotherapy last year.

Drugs, physical therapy and specific pain treatments all failed to ease the burning caused by chest-wall nerves that are over-stimulated by the trauma of surgery. So when the facilitator of a breast cancer support group suggested she try swimming, Jaecks jumped on the idea.

"Water sounded soothing," she says. (Full disclosure: Writer Diane Mapes is a breast cancer survivor in Seattle who met Jaecks in a support group.)

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But the waters of the Medgar Evers Pool in Seattle's Central District were declared off-limits to Jaecks after she informed pool personnel of her plan: to swim without a bathing suit top. Officials said her appearance might disrupt the pool's family-friendly atmosphere and they insisted that Jaecks follow existing policy and wear "gender-appropriate swimwear."

Jaecks, who has neither breasts nor nipples, says she wasn't looking for a fight, simply a way to be active and perhaps get some temporary relief for her chest pain.

"At first, it was just a personal fitness issue," she says. "I wanted to get into shape and once the idea of swimming was presented to me, I was excited about it."

She went searching for a bathing suit, but found they irritated her chest. She came away disheartened.

"I tried one-pieces and two-pieces and looked at swimwear for women who'd had double mastectomies but they were all swimsuits with prostheses," she says. "I'm never going to fake it. I'm not ashamed of my body."

It took pool officials weeks even to respond to Jaecks' request. When they did, Jaecks felt slighted and decided to tell her story to the Seattle alternative weekly, The Stranger, which went public with it this week.

"It started as a personal fitness issue but once they said no to me, it became a far greater overarching political issue," she says. "I'm hoping this will change their policy," she told the paper. "Ultimately, I want to remove the stigma that women with breast cancer have to endure. We should be so far beyond that at this point."

The parks department did try to find alternative solutions before banning Jaecks from swimming topless in the pool, said Dewey Potter, the agency's communications director.

"Then The Stranger ran a full frontal photo of her wearing [only] swimming trunks," Potter says. "Christopher took one look at it and said she should be able to swim without a top. He saw nothing that would alarm or cause affront to parents or children."

Initially, city officials said while Jaecks would be allowed to swim topless, other breast cancer survivors, would have to be reviewed on a "case-by-case" basis. Late Thursday afternoon, however, Seattle Parks and Recreation superintendent Christopher Williams told The Stranger that he was considering that decision, and that he may need to make a "wholesale policy change."

How do other cities handle a hot potato issue like this?

"It wouldn't be an issue for us because any woman can swim topless here," says Jodi Jay, the aquatics division program manager for the Austin, Tex., Parks and Recreation Department. "There's no city ordinance that doesn't allow it, so it falls under the state penal code. And the state penal code does allow it."

Victor Ovalle, public information officer for the Austin Parks and Recreation Department, says breast cancer survivors wouldn't have to go through any vetting.

"It's up to the individual," he says. "We don't make a distinction. Any woman can go topless, regardless."

Jaecks says she doesn't believe breast cancer is anything to be ashamed of and isn't planning on undergoing breast reconstruction. She's hoping her situation will bring more awareness to the disease and its effects on women's bodies.

"By the time I was done with chemo, I felt so strongly about cancer in general," she says. "My own personal awareness has been expanded by this experience. I've realized how prevalent cancer is in our society. It's part of the human experience and it doesn't have to be negative."

Diane Mapes is a frequent contributor at msnbc.com and TODAY.com. She's also the author of "How to Date in a Post-Dating World" and writes the breast cancer blog, doublewhammied.com.

Hypnotism Show Gone Wrong Leaves Girls Stuck in Trance for Hours

2012-06-22T20:24:00Z

Snap out of it! No, really — snap out of it!

A fledgling hypnotist's demonstration at a Québécois school wound up embarrassing when he proved unable to bring several girls out of a trance — and had to call in reinforcements.

When Maxime Nadeau staged a hypnotism show for a group of 12- and 13-year-olds at girls' school Collège du Sacré-Coeur in Sherbrooke, Que., his subjects should have come out of the trance by the end of the demonstration, the CBC reported.

But some of them didn't.

Nadeau had to call his mentor Richard Whitbread, who rushed over from his home an hour away snap the girls out of it.

Whitbread blamed his protégé's good looks for the eerie snafu. He said the smitten young girls might have been particularly eager to follow his directions.

All told, one of them reportedly remained hypnotized for five hours, according to the CBC.

Nadeau downplayed the significance of the hypnotic limbo in an interview with the Canadian news agency.

"Being in a trance is a state of well-being," he said. "I wasn't stressed. I knew they would get out of it."

"There were a couple of students who had their heads lying on the table and there were [others] who, you could tell, were in trance," he said. "The eyes were open, and there was nobody home."

The show reportedly affected even the girls in the audience.

"I don't know how to explain it. It's like you're no longer there," one student said. "You're spaced out."

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Ikea furniture names in Thailand suffer from missing in translation - some bed name means sex in Thai.

2012-06-22T20:11:00Z

Ikea's Swedish name given to their furniture is causing problems when the furniture giant tries to reach new markets. The missing in translation means that some of the names given make customers in places such as Thailand to misconstrue the multiple names as slang for sex.

Last year, an Ikea store was opened in Thalinad, one of the largest in the world. But anyone who reads aloud from the catalogue of 9000 different Scandinavian word on the store's floor was at risk of getting strange looks, writes Swedish business daily, Dagens industri quoting the Wall Street Journal.

"Great pot" sounds as slang for having sex, bed brand Redalen sounds like the Thai word for rough neck.

Ikea has now commissioned a group of Thais to modify product names so that they can not be misinterpreted. It's about changing a letter or vocal sounds to avoid misunderstandings.
"We must be cautious. Some names may be a bit rude, "said Natthita Opaspipat who spoke to the Wall Street Journal, report Dagens Industri.

The launch of local brands globally can often cause problems. Microsoft 's search engine Bing sounds like "Disease" or "pancake" in some local Chinese dialects. According to the Wall Street Journal the IT giant, resolved solved the problem by changing its name to "biying" which alludes to the Chinese expression "Search and you shall find."

The 20 Craziest Bathrooms Worldwide

2012-06-15T20:53:00Z

Location: Freiburg, Germany

http://www.complex.com/art-design/2012/06/the-20-craziest-bathrooms-worldwide#10

This Is By Far The Grossest Fetish Discovered This Week

2012-06-15T20:43:00Z

Vice published a story today that they are referring to as the "chain pub piss dungeon." It is not for the faint of heart. You would think with all of the weird Internet fetishes out there, we would be used to them by now but for some reason this one seems to have struck a chord. This perhaps trumps even the eel sex documentary they did in Japan.

In short, a guy works at a big chain pub in England. Customer comes out of the bathroom and claims he saw an eyeball under the urinal drain. They investigate. They enter a back room. A man hurries past, screaming that he is innocent. Both men regain their composure. They soon discover:

The plumbing for the urinal had been carefully removed and put to one side, leaving a hole in the masonry big enough for a head and shoulders to squeeze in. Tissue paper had been laid on the exposed brickwork to provide a comfortable head rest for what seemed to be a lengthy session of being pissed on. By men. In secret. In a toilet belonging to pretty much the biggest pub chain in Britain. Oh, and did I mention the snorkel?

It does sound like an urban legend, but there are photos at Vice. Supposedly the police were called in to investigate. If you need me, I'll be retching in my bathroom.

PAM, Sex Led To This Woman's Arrest

2012-06-15T20:24:00Z

She was lubed up, then locked up.

A Florida woman was fine with bringing olive oil, and even PAM cooking spray, into the bedroom. But when her boyfriend brought up his former fling named Pam, she wasn't having it.

When Barbara Hall, 60, asked her 45-year-old boyfriend to go to the kitchen for some "sexual lubricant," he obliged, according topolice reports obtained by TC Palm.

Then things got slippery.

"Barbara asked if he had also brought the PAM cooking spray," the report states. "Barbara believed [the victim] misunderstood what she had said, and commented on a girl named Pam. ... [He] admitted to having sex with Pam recently on her boat."

Hall then allegedly flew into a violent rage, punching her boyfriend repeatedly and then chucking the olive oil bottle, a keg cup and a flashlight at his head. She told cops that she had no recollection of the assault.

She was arrested on a domestic battery charge and taken to jail. Her boyfriend went home.

Swedish squat: politician wants men to pee sitting down

2012-06-15T20:19:00Z

Critics suggest it may be difficult to enforce the rule, which the council has one year to study before reaching a decision, according to the head of the Left Party group, Maud Ekman.

STOCKHOLM - A local Swedish politician wants to require all men to sit down whenever they use the toilets in a county council building, to keep them clean and promote good health, a councillor said Thursday.

Viggo Hansen, a member of the Left Party, submitted the proposal to the Soermland County Council in central Sweden earlier this week.

In Sweden, where daycare centres encourage little boys to "be a sweetie and take a seatie", the issue is not being taken lightly.

In an interview with a local television channel, Hansen pointed out that according to some experts sitting down to urinate is not only more hygienic but also reduces the risk of prostate trouble.

His proposal also claims that relieving oneself while seated "contributes to a better and longer sex life."

Critics suggest it may be difficult to enforce the rule, which the council has one year to study before reaching a decision, according to the head of the Left Party group, Maud Ekman.

Barnstable man accused of wasabi sauce assault

2012-06-15T20:07:00Z

A Barnstable man has been charged with assault for allegedly hitting his girlfriend in the face with a pair of designer jeans he had doused in wasabi sauce.

John McGuinness was arraigned in Barnstable District Court last week on charges including domestic assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for allegedly attacking his girlfriend because she had received a text message from another man as they drove home from a bar.

Police tell the Cape Cod Times ( http://bit.ly/KpQG4b) the 22-year-old McGuinness doused the woman's $200 jeans in the pungent Japanese sauce and threw them outside.

When she went to his home to recover the jeans, he allegedly struck her in the face with them, getting sauce in her eyes, then poured more sauce in her car.

Woman steals wig, assaults officers during arrest

2012-06-08T20:50:00Z

A woman was arrested in New Haven on Tuesday after she was accused of stealing a wig from a beauty shop and then assaulting officers during her arrest.

Officers were called to the area in front of the Giaimo Federal Building on Court Street around 3:30 p.m., and when they arrived, they said they found officers that were already at the scene struggling with the crazed woman.

Lowpel Davis, 38, of New Haven, was uncontrollable, and began to kick the officers and scream at them. Police said additional officers were needed to control Davis.

After an investigation, police said they learned Davis stole a wig from the Sassy Beauty Supply Shop, which is located on Chapel Street.

The shop owner, identified as Jongyol Lee, told police Davis entered the store with another woman, and a short time later noticed one of his wigs was missing from a mannequin.

He said he reviewed surveillance video and saw Davis take the wig and conceal it and several other items in her bag.

Lee said he alerted his staff to prevent Davis from leaving the store, but that didn't work.

Davis then fled the store with a juvenile female she was with and she was chased by Lee and his 70-year-old father.

Lee told police Davis punched him and his father in the face, and also bit Lee's right biceps.

He said she bit him so hard that she ripped flesh from his body and spit it back in to his face.

Once handcuffed by police, Davis would not calm down and continued to thrash around on the cement.

Police said she also tried to kick out one of the windows inside a police car and was eventually taken to a windowless prisoner transportation van.

The officers at the scene were also taken to a local hospital to be treated for injuries they sustained during the wild ordeal.

Davis was charged with:

Larceny
Breach of Peace
Criminal Mischief
Assault
Assault on police (2 counts)

Lee was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital to be treated for the bite and facial wound.

Growling Man Acts Like Animal, Tries to Bite Officer: Cops

2012-06-08T20:43:00Z

A homeless North Miami Beach man under the influence of drugs was arrested after police say he became disorderly and then growled and tried to bite an officer.

Brandon De Leon, 21, was arrested Saturday and faces charges including disorderly conduct and resisting an officer with violence, according to online arrest records. He remains in jail and is being held on $5,500 bond.

North Miami Beach Police said De Leon slammed his head repeatedly against the plexiglass of a police car and told the officer “I’m going to eat you.” While being treated for his self-inflicted abrasions, De Leon began to act like an animal and “launched to bite” an officer closest to him, an incident report said.

“Brandon growled and opened and closed his jaw, slamming his teeth like an animal would,” the report said. He also barked and growled inside of a cell.

In bond court De Leon told the judge he did not remember the incident.

"If I can say something your honor, I have no recollection of anything that happened that night," he said.

To read a story about a man killed by police after he growled and ate the face of a homeless man, click here.

De Leon and 33-year-old Brian Yerdon, also of North Miami Beach, were arrested at a Boston Market after the two began disturbing customers. De Leon then proceeded to tell officers “F--- you,” and showed them his middle finger, according to the incident report.

While De Leon and Yerdon were being placed under arrest, De Leon began resisting, and “tensed his body and clenched his fists,” the report said.

De Leon was transported to Aventura Hospital for treatment where his blood test revealed the presence of cannabis and Xanax, and an alcohol level of .29. It was later discovered he was also under the influence of Mephedrone, or Cloud 9, a psychoactive drug that produces emotional and social effects similar to ecstasy, according to authorities.

Police warn the narcotic has a stimulant effect on the central nervous system that can be addicting. Symptoms include excessive sweating, headaches, heart palpitations, nausea, hallucinations, paranoia and erratic behavior.

It was not immediately known if De Leon has an attorney.

40% of Americans Don't Know Their Friends Are Gay

2012-06-08T20:08:00Z

According to a new CNN/ORC International poll, 60 percent of Americans say they have a family member or close friend who is gay or lesbian.

This is the first time in CNN polling history that a majority of Americans have claimed this. It's an eleven-point bump from the 49 percent who reported a close relationship with a gay person in 2010, and a huge leap up from the 32 percent who said they had a gay friend or family member in 1994, the first year for which CNN has data.

On a related note, The Atlantic reports that a recent Gallup poll revealed that Americans grossly overestimate the number of their fellow Americans who are gay or lesbian.

On average, U.S. adults said they believe 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian. Though data regarding sexual orientation is notoriously difficult to verify, the actual figure is probably closer to 3.5 percent lesbian, gay, or bisexual, plus a further 0.3 percent transgender,according to a recent review of population-based surveys by demographer Gary Gates.

Gates notes that, in numerical terms, this implies that the LGBT population of America consists of roughly 9 million individuals—about the same amount of people as make up New Jersey. (For quick reference, just start telling people that every single person who lives in New Jersey is gay.)

A oft-cited (and criticized) statistic sourced from Alfred Kinsey's 1948 report "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" states that one in ten American men are "predominantly homosexual between the ages of 16 and 55," though a recent poll of my gay male friends revealed the actual figure is closer to ten in ten for any male in the vicinity they and I both find attractive.

Gay people: They're everywhere, but not as everywhere as you think, and we're friends with them.

Is the Internet Driving Pornography Addiction Among School-Aged Kids?

2012-05-25T20:46:00Z

Nathan Haug is an upstanding high school student, on his way to becoming an Eagle Scout. He has a high GPA, serves on the student council and swims competitively, but Haug had a secret he kept hidden from his family and friends during his early teen years -- he suffered from an addiction to online pornography.

This 17-year-old from Alpine, Utah, is one of eight children, and one of the oldest still living at home. He said his habit of looking at pornography on the Internet started when he was around 12 or 13 years old.

"It was kind of there, uninterrupted," he said. "I became almost numb to it. It became such a part of, pretty much my daily routine. It was automatic."

And Haug is far from alone. There is still little research on how many U.S. kids are addicted to online pornography, but a University of New Hampshire study reports exposure begins young, for some, as young as 8 years old.

Of course, pornography isn't new. But it's a quantum leap from a world where pornography came in magazines and on tape, to where it's available on our smartphones and tablets -- or at the click of a mouse.

Haug said he would view pornography late at night on his family's computer, when everyone else was asleep; he became good at covering his tracks.

"It got to deleting specific searches and cleaning up my messes afterwards to the point where I timed it masterfully," he said. "I'd give myself time to look at it or watch it and then I'd plan ahead of time the... time it took to completely clean the history. Sometimes I'd even search things afterwards just to make it look like someone didn't just clean it."

His private habit didn't fit into the rest of his lifestyle. Aside from being a lifeguard at the local pool and on the local club team, Haug was also active in the Mormon church, and he said the addiction hurt him.

"I felt like every day I was just incomplete, like there was just a whole chunk of me missing, like a hole in my gut," he said. "It just represented the part-- the things I was going to do and wanted to do that, because of my addiction, I wasn't able to."

Haug said he held himself back -- not fully participating in church activities or getting to know other people honestly -- because he was "trapped" by his addiction and silently suffering alone.

"Instead of lying about the actual act, it was putting on a front, putting on a mask," he said. "I convinced myself that I had to take care of the problem on my own, and I didn't think I could approach someone and get help."

The warning signs for those who become addicted may include depression, poor school performance, self-isolation and lying, which is what Haug's parents noticed, even if they didn't realize why.

"We couldn't quite figure out why because as far as we could see there wasn't anything amiss in his life," Judy Haug said. "It seemed silly to me. I would catch him in a lie. ... It just, it seemed unnecessary, but I could tell it had become a habit."

While the American Psychological Association has not yet classified pornography as a listed addiction, some professionals working in the field are treating it as such. Psychotherapist Matt Bulkley in Saint George, Utah, treats teenagers exclusively, some of whom have committed sexual offenses and some who are just hooked.

"A lot of times the pornography becomes a coping style," Bulkley said. "It becomes a way that they deal with negative emotions in their life, pornography provides a euphoria. It provides a high, of sorts."

Bulkley estimated that in the next five to 10 years, as the next generation moves into adolescence, online pornography addiction will become an epidemic.

Some studies show that seven out of 10 teens have been accidentally exposed to pornography online. Boys are more likely to view it, but more girls are getting hooked too. Breanne Saldivar, a 22-year-old from Austin, Texas, said she was addicted to looking at pornography on the Internet during all of her high school years.

"It tore me up on the inside that I could be talking to someone one moment and know this thing that's going on in my life," she said. "I started to isolate myself, because I hated what I was doing. I hated that I couldn't stop."

Like Haug, Saldivar said she first looked at pornography online around age 12 or 13, but within a few years, she was hooked and didn't understand why.

"I had no idea it was addictive," she said. "I would say that this is something that was not just me. I knew tons of students who were in my grade, my peers, who were struggling with the same thing."

Saldivar and Haug now work with a group called "Fight the New Drug," which is formulating a new kind of message on pornography. The group travels to schools across the country to teach students that finding images of sex a turn-on is not bad or weird, but normal, which is how it gets dangerous.

It's a discussion of brain chemistry: Viewing pornography is like pushing a button in the brain that releases four pleasure-inducing chemicals -- so you feel good. But here's the catch. The more chemicals released -- the more you want. It's a cycle, and it can get beyond your control. Your brain starts needing even-raunchier images to achieve the same high and it's hard to stop.

Clay Olson, one of the founders of Fight the New Drug, said he experienced pornography addiction in his own family. His message is to try to de-stigmatize the habit enough so that kids who are hooked will still seek help.

"After, pretty much, every assembly we do, I have probably two or three, sometimes four, different teenagers coming up to me and telling me their story of how they are currently addicted," Olson said.

Saldivar added, "All it takes is for someone to be vocal about a situation and that person who knows they're struggling and see it and say 'I am addicted, this is an addiction.'"

After finding the courage to talk with his father and a church leader, Nathan Haug got help and began a program the church designed. Almost a year later, Haug said he no longer feels trapped and is now putting himself out there to help other kids not feel so alone.

"I know there will be someone out there in my life, maybe I'll run into them, maybe I won't, and they'll have this attitude -- they'll maybe tease me," Haug said. "But it's not up to me to care, because, for all I know, they're suffering from the same problem."