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Posted by blogs.babycenter.com  on 08/17/2012 at 1:55 PM

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.



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Posted by abcnews.go.com  on 08/17/2012 at 1:52 PM

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."



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Posted by tornontosun.com  on 08/17/2012 at 1:24 PM

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.

LESS SEX

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.

 



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Posted by gawker.com  on 07/06/2012 at 1:55 PM

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.

 



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Posted by bossip.com  on 07/06/2012 at 1:42 PM

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.



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Posted by queerty.com  on 07/06/2012 at 1:06 PM

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!”





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Posted by barstoolsports.com  on 06/22/2012 at 1:48 PM

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.

 



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Posted by msnbc.com  on 06/22/2012 at 1:46 PM

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.)

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.



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Posted by nbc.com  on 06/22/2012 at 1:24 PM

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."

 

Posted Jun 20, 2012

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