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What I Learned About Sex and Feminism from Hooking Up with a Guy I Didn't Like. Originally published on The Huffington Post and republished here with the author’s permission.

What I Learned About Sex and Feminism from Hooking Up with a Guy I Didn't Like

You don’t have to be in a formal relationship to have sex. After all, it may be a while until you find someone you want to be in a formal relationship with, and chances are you’ll want to have sex sooner than that. What Makes a Woman? The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think  It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned — and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by our governments.

The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think 

This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds that we take it for granted. It seems obvious. It seems manifestly true. A Canadian City Once Eliminated Poverty And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It. On a December afternoon, Frances Amy Richardson took a break from her quilting class to reflect on a groundbreaking experiment she took part in 40 years earlier.

A Canadian City Once Eliminated Poverty And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It

“Well, that was quite a few years ago,” she said. “There was a lot of people that really benefitted from it.” 8 Ancient Rules for Life We Should Still Follow. Interactive: China's Uighur unrest - Interactive. 20 Hard Lessons Everyone Should Learn In Their 20s. Beginner Arm Workout With Weights. These Are the Female Heroines From History That Disney Would Never Touch. Frozen might have been a progressive milestone for Disney, but that princess factory still has a long way to go in terms of representation and diversity of character.

These Are the Female Heroines From History That Disney Would Never Touch

Disney's last princess of color was Tiana from 2009's The Princess and the Frog, who unfortunately spent too much of the film as a frog. While fans have taken to creating their own "racebent" versions of classic Disney characters, the question still remains: Given how many great female characters there are in history and in literature, why is Disney not willing to look outside the box?

That was the question on former DreamWorks animator Jason Porath's mind when he launched his project "Rejected Princesses. " Describing himself as "a guy who likes interesting, lesser-known women and would like for them to get their time in the sun," Porath decided to create Disneyfied versions of female characters who would have a hard time receiving the green light from the studio. Best Running Tips.

Chronology: A History of the Shiite-Sunni Split. A painting depicts the battle of Karbala in 680, in which Imam Hussein engaged a superior Arab army and was killed in battle.

Chronology: A History of the Shiite-Sunni Split

Brooklyn Museum/Corbis hide caption toggle caption Brooklyn Museum/Corbis A painting depicts the battle of Karbala in 680, in which Imam Hussein engaged a superior Arab army and was killed in battle. The division of Islam into Sunni and Shiite branches goes far back in Muslim history to the aftermath of the death of the Prophet Muhammad. 570: The Prophet Muhammad is born. How to Lose Weight Faster. Love Handles Workout. If you're looking to say goodbye to your love handles this Summer, try out this five-minute workout.

Love Handles Workout

Along with a sensible diet and ample cardio, the combination of these exercises that strengthen your glutes, lower back, and abs will help diminish the appearance of the dreaded muffin top. Perform each of the following moves for one minute each, but feel free to repeat this plan two or even three times for a more intense session. Number 1: Seated Russian Twist Sit on the ground with your knees bent and your heels about a foot from your bum.Lean slightly back without rounding your spine at all.

It is really important, and difficult, to keep your back straight, so don't let it curve.Place your arms straight out in front of you with one hand on top of the other. The Truth Elusive: Shell House massacre, 20 years later. (Editing this story was no easy task.

The Truth Elusive: Shell House massacre, 20 years later

Weight Training For Women. Challenge your balance while working the small muscles that support your shoulder, known collectively as the rotator cuff.

Weight Training For Women

This move also makes for shapely upper arms. Stand on your left leg, and lift your right knee up until it is level with your hip. Holding a dumbbell in each hand, raise your arms out to the side until your upper arms are parallel to the ground. Bend your elbows to 90 degrees.Maintaining a strong sense of balance, rotate your upper arms forward to bring your fists to the floor; then rotate the upper arm backward to bring the fists up.

Do not lower or raise your upper arms; keep them parallel to the floor. Total-Body, No-Equipment Workout. Counting Syria's Dead. Molly CrabappleRua Ismael, 11, girl, killed by a terrorist bombing in the town of Salamiyeh on January 25, 2013.

Counting Syria's Dead

Bring back ideology: Fukuyama's 'end of history' 25 years on. In the summer of 1989, the American magazine the National Interest published an essay with the strikingly bold title "The End of History?

Bring back ideology: Fukuyama's 'end of history' 25 years on

". Its author, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama, announced that the great ideological battles between east and west were over, and that western liberal democracy had triumphed. With anti-communist protests sweeping across the former Soviet Union, the essay seemed right on the money. Fukuyama became an unlikely star of political science, dubbed the "court philosopher of global capitalism" by John Gray. When his book The End of History and the Last Man appeared three years later, the qualifying question mark was gone.

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Inner-Thigh Yoga Sequence For Beginners. Zumaville1eb.jpg (1200×904) Russell Brand: we deserve more from our democratic system. The Best Places to Find Emotionally Vulnerable Men. If women like sex just as much as men do, then why is rape so bad? It’s just rougher sex, right. What is “slut-shaming” Short answer: Slut-shaming, also known as slut-bashing, is the idea of shaming and/or attacking a woman or a girl for being sexual, having one or more sexual partners, acknowledging sexual feelings, and/or acting on sexual feelings. Cost of corruption: numbers speak for themselves! Every 26 seconds a woman gets raped, it was my turn last Thursday night. Every 26 seconds in South Africa a woman gets raped, it was my turn last Thursday night. Rape in South Africa. Rape in South Africa Prevalence. South Africa's brutal reality: Rape now, pay later. Up to 3 600 rapes in SA every day - Crime & Courts.

South Africa: Rape - the South African Scourge. South Africa has a reputation for the world's worst sexual violence rates against women, men and children. Rape in South Africa: Desperately seeking a political champion. Www.statssa.gov.za/publications/rape/rape.pdf. The Trouble With Bright Girls.

Successful women know only too well that in any male-dominated profession, we often find ourselves at a distinct disadvantage.