Can 11-year-olds use Plan B safely? Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images The women’s health world has been in an uproar since Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected a recommendation by the FDA on Wednesday to make emergency contraceptives like Plan B available without prescription to teens under the age of 17. According to the New York Times, her reasoning had to do with the extent of the data: J. Follow “After careful consideration of the F.D.A. summary review, I have concluded that the data submitted by Teva do not conclusively establish that Plan B One-Step should be made available over the counter for all girls of reproductive age.” Many have called Sebelius’ decision a political maneuver, a feeling that was strengthened for some when President Obama—who’s no doubt considering the election fallout of controversial issues like this as we approach 2012—endorsed the move. But what of Sebelius’ purported concern that 11-year-old girls would incorrectly use the method?
Two Revolutionary New Sex Toys, Plus 14 Top-Selling Dildos Hello Touch X When it comes to pleasure peripherals, dildos aren’t for everyone. So some companies are thinking outside the (dick in a) box with new sex toys, like Jimmyjane’s powerful fingertip vibrator. Inspired by Sigourney’s cyborg suit in Aliens, it’s meant to be an extension of your body. Two-pronged touch Most ladies want stroking, not just poking, so for its signature model, Jimmyjane took inspiration from the popular Rabbit vibrator, building two flexible vibrating fingerpads—like rabbit ears—to deliver clitoral sensation in stereo. Coin motors Fingertip vibes often use large DC motors, but the X hides a 14,000-rpm coin motor, half the size of a penny, in the sleeve of each pad. More from the WIRED Sex Issue: Charging pack units The disposable AAAs in many buzzies drain quickly, forcing you to choose between your TV remote and your orgasm. E-stimulation Vibratory caresses not intense enough for you? Click to Open Overlay Gallery Eva Plus 14 Top-Selling Dildos
s Top 50 Anime of the Decade: #40 to #31 This week, it will be the end of the first decade of the 21st century. To celebrate this milestone, we here at Japanator picked the best fifty anime of the last ten years (the best of the ’00s!). The only rule of this week-long series is that each title was released between 2000 and today. Now that we've tackled the tail-end of our top 50 list, it's time to start heading towards its midsection, with those titles that have been pretty darn amazing over the last ten years. The way things worked in our list is each member of the staff voted for their top ten titles of the decade. So, that's how things work here. Breathtakingly beautiful and utterly heartbreaking are the words I'd use to describe this film. This may be the penultimate version, with Madhouse's superb animation and Kiyoshi Yoshida's fantastic soundtrack adding to the bittersweet feelings of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. What can I say? You're not going to want to miss out on it. What can I say? Then, we hit a romance.
Lauren Collins: Beyond Plan B Over at Daily Comment, my colleague Michael Specter criticizes the Obama Administration for its decision not to make Plan B, the emergency contraceptive pill, available over the counter to girls under the age of seventeen. Specter makes a dispassionate argument: the Food and Drug Administration has found that Plan B is safe and effective for adolescent girls, so adolescent girls should be able to use Plan B without obstruction. Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, overruled the F.D.A. on the flimsy premise that the Plan B’s manufacturers had neglected to investigate the drug’s effects on eleven-year-olds. But perhaps emotion should complement science in our treatment of fourteen- and fifteen- and sixteen-year-old girls—I can see why many parents would want an adult (whether they or a doctor) to vet any decision about the medical welfare of their underage child. In Mexico, daily contraceptives are available over the counter.
An Expert Critiques the Sex Toys at an Adult Novelty Expo The Adult Novelty Expo is the CES of sex toys: booth after booth of dildos, toys, and equipment of all kinds. It’s part of Adult Video News’ annual porn industry convention in Vegas. We decided to check it out for our 2015 sex issue. It’s a scene. So we went straight to designer Ethan Imboden. Imboden walked from booth to booth, combed through hundreds of products, and chose the most interesting. We had no idea what we’d find. 1000 Most Common French Words - Top French vocabulary Written by Administrator Friday, 19 February 2010 10:29 When starting to learn French, it is always a good idea to memorize the most common words first. de and d' -- translated as of, from, by, than, in, with. Most Used French words 1-50 We are aware of French lists that rank 'de' as the most frequently occurring word. The frequency list is based on original work of Boris New, Christophe Pallier, 2001 L'équipe de Lexique. If you are also learning Russian, get and app to learn Russian Words on iPhone, iPod, iPad and Android. Index of most common French words
Abortion saved my life There’s this lawmaker out of Kansas, Rep. Peter DeGraaf, who has a lot to say about abortion. He’s currently best known for saying that women should plan ahead in case of rape and not expect their regular insurance to cover an abortion after an assault. I’m a mom, and I love my sons more than anything. I was taking an afternoon nap when the hemorrhaging started while my toddler napped in his room when I woke up to find blood gushing upward from my body. Everyone knew the pregnancy wasn’t viable, that it couldn’t be viable given the amount of blood I was losing, but it still took hours for anyone at the hospital to do anything. A very kind nurse risked her job to call a doctor from the Reproductive Health Clinic who was not on call, and asked her to come in to save my life. Later I found out that the doctor had taken my husband aside as they brought me into surgery.
What a Sex Toy Startup Taught a Designer About His Craft This talk is from WIRED by Design, a two-day live magazine event that celebrated all forms of creative problem solving. Many designers leave big-time gigs to found startups. Ethan Imboden might be the only one who’s ever set off on his own to make sex toys. At WIRED by Design, Imboden told the story of his company, JimmyJane, and its mission to bring design-forward vibrators to the masses. In the years that followed, Imboden designed a series of vibrators with a focus on user experience. For more on WIRED by Design, visit live.wired.com. #wired-by-design How to make an external laptop graphics adaptor Laptop graphics have always been something of a joke performance wise. Nvidia and AMD do try, but cramming all those millions of transistors into a low-power, compact package just leads to massive expense and an inability to upgrade. Wouldn't it be perfect if you could simply use a standard external graphics card to power your laptop's 3D graphics? Article continues below The good news is that you can. The suitably technical-sounding PE4H is just that; a passive PCI-e x16 to x1 adaptor, which enables you to plug an external graphics card into a laptop's ExpressCard slot. We'd like to say it's as simple as that, but this project does have a few sticking points. The second is Windows 7, as it handles multiple display drivers far more adeptly than anything else. Also if your laptop has more than 2GB of memory a 64-bit installation is also required, as otherwise you'll hit the 4GB address space limit hard. The walkthrough below details putting together a system. Troubleshooting 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Nerds and Male Privilege Part 2: Deconstructing the Arguments First of all, I want to go ahead and call attention to the irony that I am making this post under the moniker "Gaston," possibly one of the most misogynistic characters of any family feature. I'm just taking that zinger away from you right away, commenters. Now there's a lot of issues in this editorial, as with the first editorial, but I only have time to talk about one that especially peeved me with its sheer hypocrisy. The criticism that it's the antagonists who spout sexist vitriol is NOT a derailment, it's a legitimate point that the author, ironically, derails by making a completely different point: that the inmates of Arkham City should want to rape Batman as much as they want to rape Catwoman. So why isn't it a derailment? So the author would respond, well, maybe the bad guys aren't supposed to be shining beacons of egalitarian morality, but it's telling that they threaten to rape Catwoman, but not Batman. Why don't the prisoners threaten to rape Batman?
The Vibrator of the Future Is Here — And Women Should Be Excited When it comes to sex, female self-pleasure often gets swept under the rug. According to data from the 2009 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior analyzed by FiveThirtyEight, only 7.9% of women ages 25 to 29 masturbate two to three times a week, while 23.4% of men do. Which means women aren't enjoying the countless benefits of self-pleasure as much as they should be. For two entrepreneurs from UC Berkeley, it's time that changed. Liz Klinger and James Wang are the cocreators of SmartBod, a smart vibrator that adapts to a woman's physiological reactions and provides shareable data tracking. "Like many women, I had a lot of anxieties and questions around sexuality and no one to talk about it with," Klinger told Mic. Sharing leads to self-caring: Designed like a wearable fitness device, the SmartBod is a silicone vibrator linked to an app that tracks pleasure using internal sensors. But talking openly about pleasure is crucial. h/t Bustle But talking openly about pleasure is crucial.
A Marxist defence of Page 3 girls « LeftCentral January 25, 2012 by LeftCentral Brendan O’Neill Image © Kip Voytek Proving that the Leveson Inquiry has become a magnet for every campaigner who wants to tame or censor the tabloids, yesterday’s line-up before his lordship included a bevy of feminists angrily railing against Page 3 in The Sun. For some women’s rights activists, Page 3, with its scantily clad ladies making philosophical comments in speech bubbles, represents everything that is wrong with tabloid culture. It is sexist and offensive, they say, and it contributes to a climate in which women are looked upon as fleshy objects to be ogled by goggle-eyed blokes. Harriet Harman has joined this shrill chorus calling either for the outright banning of Page 3 or for The Sun at least to be put on the top shelf in newsagents, next to porno mags. The fact is that shutting down Page 3 would be an assault on press freedom. “You cannot enjoy the advantages of a free press without putting up with its inconveniences,” he said. Like this:
New Sex Toys Sync Up to Virtual Reality Porn You knew this was coming, even if you didn’t want to believe it: A sex-toy company and a VR porn outfit are creating a way to enjoy synced-up virtual reality sex. And while virtual-reality headsets haven’t yet hit the mainstream, Lovense and VirtualRealPorn hope their collaborative stroke of genius can thrust VR into the spotlight. [We should note that most links in this story are varying degrees of NSFW.] The trick involves using a Bluetooth dongle, specially coded VR videos, and Lovense’s Max and Nora sex toys to make the toys’ vibrations and rotations sync with the VR action seen in your headset. According to Lovense, the girthier portion of its rabbit-style Nora toy will vibrate to match the speed of male performers in VirtualRealPorn videos, while the smaller arm will buzz “every time the performers’ bodies collide.” This delicate dance between hardware and video certainly promises a deeper level of immersion. Click to Open Overlay Gallery Go Back to Top.