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TORONTO — A woman calling herself Canada’s most famous dominatrix says the best years of her life were spent spanking and tying up clients in her north Toronto bondage hotel.

Terri-Jean Bedford, whose infamous “bondage bungalow” in Thornhill was raided in 1994, laid out her life story for federal and provincial Crown attorneys Friday as an example of why prostitution should be decriminalized.

“The safest and happiest period in my life was when I was up in Thornhill, running the (bondage) service from my house,” she said.

“I just want them to know that indoors is much safe from outdoors, from my own experiences.”

Source: Canadian Press

Fri May 23, 2008 12:50pm EDT

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadians should avoid unlicensed drugs that claim to improve sexual performance because they could cause problems such as loss of consciousness, prolonged erections and chest pain, the health ministry said on Friday.

Health Canada issued the warning in a release about a product called Desire, which was found to contain the prescription drug phentolamine — something not indicated on the label.

“Health Canada advises consumers not to use Desire or any other unauthorized products promoted to increase sexual performance that are advertised as ‘all natural’, as such products may contain undeclared prescription drugs that may pose serious risks to health,” it said in a statement.

Phentolamine is used in the prevention and control of high blood pressure in patients with adrenal tumors.

Source: Reuters

April 18, 2008

Frequent masturbation may help men cut their risk of contracting prostate cancer, Australian researchers have found. It is believed that carcinogens may build up in the prostate if men do not ejaculate regularly, BBC News reported on Wednesday. The researchers surveyed more than 1,000 men who had developed prostate cancer, and 1,250 men who had not. They found that men who had ejaculated the most between the ages of 20 and 50 were the least likely to get cancer. Men who ejaculated more than five times each week were a third less likely to develop prostate cancer.

Source: Advocate

From The Times
April 14, 2008

Whenever I read one of those ‘We made love all night long!’ kiss’n'tell scoops, the logistics of it terrify me

Caitlin Moran

Big news from what we could refer to as “the sexual realm”. Despite decades of insistence that all the best sex lasts 15 hours, spans a minimum of nine positions and has both parties hammering dementedly away at each other’s nether regions like a pair of autistic woodpeckers, it seems the truth is a little different. Well, totally different. According to a poll of 50 sex therapists, the most desirable sex lasts, in actual fact, mere minutes. Between 3 and 13, optimally. Or, to break it down another way, a span somewhere between Penny Lane and the second half of an episode of My Family. The time it takes to get from Finchley Road to Wembley Park. Barely enough time to toast a muffin.

It should be made clear that, apparently, this paradigmatic shag snack does not include foreplay. Nor does it include the enigmatically named “afterplay” - something that, presumably, in some manner of sexual paradise, would consist of snuggling, reverential caressing and pleasingly stupefied recitation of love poetry, but which, in actuality, comprises three minutes of lying flat on your back, going “Arrrr, that was smashing”, then a sleepy exchange vis-à-vis the location of the cat, and whether the central heating has been left on or not.

No, it doesn’t include any of that. None of it. This 3-to-13-minutes statistic is devoted purely to the central, core, essential, elemental, no-frills act of jiggy-jiggy. And, I for one, am greatly cheered by the whole thing. I am hugely in favour of the “capsule poke”, as we could perhaps start referring to it. I dislike shilly-shallying in all matters, and see no reason to make an exception when it comes to extreme rudeness. From a health and safety standpoint alone, there are huge problems with a lengthy rut. We are, after all, dealing with fairly fragile areas of the human body here. Frankly, I find the concept of these night-long marathons baffling. Whenever I read one of those News of the World “We made love all night long” kiss’n'tell scoops, the logistics of it terrify me. Loving all night long would, surely, be equivalent to rubbing the tip of your nose between two pork chops for 19 hours. Essentially, it’s an abrasive act. I can’t see how you wouldn’t injure yourself terribly.

Source: Times Online

By: Brie Cadman

If you want to enliven your next dinner party, bring out this question: what was the subject of your last sexual fantasy?

Forks and jaws might drop, but only because almost everyone in attendance will be recreating the scene last played in their head, or claiming that they don’t fantasize, or claiming to only fantasize about their partner. However, chances are everyone at the table (assuming you’re not dining at a senior center) has erotic and illicit fantasies, and does so on a normal basis. But rarely, if ever, do we want to talk about it.

Source: DivineCaroline

Link: AFP: Scientists’ row over G spot nears a climax

Feb 20, 2008

PARIS (AFP) — After more than half a century of debate and bedroom exploration, a row about the location of the fabled G spot may be settled at last, the British weekly New Scientist says.

The G spot, named after a German gynaecologist called Ernst Graefenberg who first mooted its existence in 1950, is said to be a highly sensitive area in the vagina that, when stimulated, gives a woman a powerful orgasm.

But where the G spot is located has been clouded by evidence that is subjective or downright contradictory, and some experts have even concluded that it does not exist.

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Link: Overwhelming popularity for Dutch online safer sex training - Yahoo! Canada News

Fri Feb 1, 1:55 PM

THE HAGUE (AFP) - A Dutch online training in safer sex is so popular that the website featuring short instruction videos was overloaded Friday, the Amsterdam health authorities told the ANP news agency.

The website called www.vrijlekker.nl (have nice sex) went online on Wednesday and just hours after opening already had nearly half a million hits.

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Link: New H.I.V. Cases Drop, but Rise in Young Gay Men | Serving Henderson, Transylvania and Polk Counties | North Carolina | BlueRidgeNow.com

Published Wednesday, January 2, 2008
SARAH KERSHAW

For years he had numbed his pain and fear with drugs, alcohol and anonymous sex. But in a flash of clarity one day, when the crystal meth was wearing off, Javier Arriola dragged himself to a clinic to get an H.I.V. test, years after he stopped using condoms.

He knew the answer before he received the results, but it was far worse than he thought: At age 29, he had full-blown AIDS.

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Link: The Associated Press: British Growing More Liberal on Sex

By JILL LAWLESS – 9 hours ago

LONDON (AP) — The buttoned-up Brit may be a myth.

British people’s attitudes to sex and marriage have grown increasingly liberal over the last two decades, according to a study released Wednesday. But behavior has changed less than opinions.

The annual British Social Attitudes Survey said 70 percent of people think premarital sex is acceptable, while less than a third believe homosexuality is wrong.

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Link: Dirty air mutates sperm, study confirms

Margaret Munro, Canwest News Service

A Health Canada-led study of mice has confirmed that pollution wafting off highways and out of steel mills triggers sperm mutations that can be passed to the next generation.

Polluted air near Hamilton Harbour lead to a significant increase in sperm mutations in the mice that breathed the dirty air for 10 weeks, according to the study published Monday in the U.S. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.

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