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The Houston Chronicle
By Alexis Grant

Contraceptive in stores this week eliminates them, but not everyone is ready to let go

Call it a curse, a friend, even Aunt Flo — but don’t call it obligatory.

As the new birth control pill that eliminates women’s periods hits pharmacies this week, some will say goodbye to menstruation. More though, it seems, are wary of eliminating the monthly bleeding that’s symbolic of womanhood.

“That scares me,” said Melinda Perez, 35, of League City. “It plays too much with the way your body naturally needs to work.”

Lybrel, a low-dose oral contraceptive manufactured by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, uses the same hormones as birth control pills that have been available for decades to prevent ovulation and pregnancy. But unlike traditional pills, this package includes no placebos at the end of a cycle. And that means no menstruation.

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The Coloradoan
By Kelli Lackett

It started at age 7 or 8 when she found her father’s girlie magazines and sexually explicit novels.

It ended more than 25 years later when she joined the 12-step program Sex Addicts Anonymous.

The 37-year-old Fort Collins woman, who asked that her name not be published, has had a pornography addiction for most of her adult life.

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David Whitley
Orlando Sentinel

Greg Pingston was a star linebacker for Merritt Island High School’s unbeaten state championship team in 1972.

Gina Duncan, at her College Park home in Orlando recently, will undergo the final step to becoming a woman by having sexual-reassignment surgery next spring.

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Yahoo News
UK & Ireland
AFP
By Ines Bel Aiba

CAIRO (AFP) - The Egyptian government announced plans on Thursday to ban all female circumcision, the widely-practised removal of the clitoris which just days ago cost the life of a 12-year-old girl.

Officially the practice, which affects both Muslim and Christian women in Egypt and goes back to the time of the pharaohs, was banned in 1997 but doctors were allowed to operate “in exceptional cases”.

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This guy will end up doing more time in the pen than this mom who “accidentally killed her son.

The Boston Globe
Associated Press

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. –A retired schoolteacher is arrested for allegedly videotaping up women’s skirts.

State Police say it happened last weekend at the National Guard Air Show at Quonset State Airport.

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askmen.com
By David Strovny
Sex Education Correspondent

Although it’s a well-known fact that the clitoris is a source of pleasure for women, sometimes guys have a hard time figuring out what do with it or even finding where it is for that matter.

Here’s a guide that’ll help you better understand and master this ever-important spot. Next time you’re in bed, she’ll be blown away by your new techniques.

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From Gigglesugar.com

Tired of having to be sexy all the time? Some women pull it off effortlessly (damn you, Angelina!) but for the rest of us mortals it takes work.

Too much work, if you asked me. So why not take a breather now and then and let it all go? Don’t wash your hair. Let your lips get chapped and flaky. Don’t moisturize. And if you really want to kill sexy time, put on these wonky fallopian tubes panties I got from Rock Paper Scissors art collective in Oakland, California.

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…that a lesbian organization has finally gotten the balls to put together a “hottest chicks” list. And they did a much, much better job than Maxim did. Bravo, kudos and two thumbs up (way up) for AfterEllen.com.

The AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List
by scribegrrrl, Sr. Editor

Let’s face it: Maxim doesn’t cater to lesbians. In fact, you could say it flies in the face of all that we hold dear, especially when it declares Lindsay Lohan the hottest of them all, as it did when it published The Maxim Hot 100 List last month. So we asked you, our readers, to create your own list of hotties, and you came out in droves to nominate the women you think deserve to be on the AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List. Thousands of votes later, we have the results.

How is our list different from Maxim’s? Eight of the top 10 women on our list aren’t mentioned anywhere on the Maxim list (Angelina Jolie and Lena Headey are the exceptions), and only four of the women who made Maxim’s top 10 (Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel and Lindsay Lohan) appear somewhere on the AfterEllen.com list.

Clearly, what straight men and lesbians find sexy in a woman is a little bit different.

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javno.com
Reuters

Demand for Designer Vagina Surgery Rising in UK

Rising numbers of women in Britain are seeking state-funded cosmetic surgery on their genitals.

Rising numbers of women in Britain are seeking state-funded cosmetic surgery on their genitals, doctors said on Friday.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, they said the number of “labial reductions” carried out in National Health Service hospitals had doubled to 800 a year over five years.

“More and more women are said to be troubled by the shape, size or proportions of their vulvas”, wrote Lih Mei Liao and Sarah Creighton from London’s UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women’s Health.

Articles in women’s magazines about “designer vaginas”, the rising popularity of cosmetic surgery and Internet promotion by private health clinics were all fuelling demand.

-Link to a similar story.

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