Archive for the 'Adult Sexuality News' Category

Harry Potter Fans Continue to Debate Rowling’s Outing of Dumbledore (The Book Standard)

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

It’s been a little more than a week since J.K. Rowling outed her famous character Albus Dumbledore at an appearance in New York. But “Harry Potter” fans worldwide have been dissecting the news, looking closer at the books to find evidence of Dumbledore’s sexuality and debating Rowling’s assertion.
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PENN Medicine News: Healthy Sexuality: Adaptive Skills for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (University of Pennsylvania Health System)

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Moderator: Craig B. Thompson, MD, Director of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Robert Vonderheide, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology from Penn’s School of Medicine and Karin Sorenmo, DVM, Chief, Oncology Section, Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital’s and Associate Professor of Oncology at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine, will present data [...]

Substitute resigns after blog inquiry (The Columbus Dispatch)

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

A substitute teacher who was under investigation for blogging about a student’s sexuality has resigned from the Columbus school district.
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Alison Schouten ‘08: Halloween: the good, the bad and the smutty (Brown Daily Herald)

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Autumn is my favorite season. The leaves, the air, the apples and the sex. Or, rather, the blatant expression of sexuality that accompanies my favorite holiday: Halloween.
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Worm Study Points to Sexuality’s Origins (iVillage Total Health)

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Sexual attraction is hard-wired into the brains of small worms called nematodes, say scientists who genetically manipulated some of the creatures to make them attracted to the same sex. The finding might give some insight into sexual attraction generally, the researchers said.
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Lance Bass Thought Justin Timberlake & Chris Kirkpatrick Were Gay (AccessHollywood)

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (October 29, 2007) – Lance Bass first thought the majority of *NSYNC of was gay. The former boy band member was asked, by GQ in their November issue, about the sexuality of his band mates. “When we were in the group, we thought Justin was gay,…
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Worms offer clues to human sexuality (Casper Star-Tribune)

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

SALT LAKE CITY — Biologists at the University of Utah have engineered worms that are attracted to worms of the same sex, bolstering evidence that sexual orientation may be hard-wired in the brain.
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Dumbledore’s sexuality unimportant (University of South Florida Oracle)

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling took the time, while speaking at Carnegie Hall in New York, to bring wizard Albus Dumbledore out of the closet. Dumbledore, for the half-dozen of you who don’t know him, is to Harry Potter what Yoda is to Luke Skywalker: a mentor and friend.
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Rowling’s assertion determines truth (The Reflector)

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

We have all heard of J.K. Rowling’s announcement of Dumbledore’s sexuality. This much-needed announcement came during a pivotal time - after Rowling had already written the series.
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Body and Object: A Philadelphia Judge Forgets the Difference (Blogcritics.org)

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

A judge eases her conscience by dehumanizing a victim Bad news for rape victims: a prostitute is forced to have sex at gunpoint, and her judge doesn’t even consider a rape charge. This shows how confused our culture is about sexuality, power, and commodification. Feminism, justice, rape victims, sex workers… for how many people [...]