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Juno Lied: Pregnancy Tests Aren’t Plan B, People

Amelia McDonell-ParryJuly 11, 2008 //

Storytime! Over at Feministing’s newly relaunched site, a teenage user on their new community board recounts a story of trying to buy a pregnancy test with her best friend at a drug store and being refused because of her age. When the teen presents the fact that she legally has the right to buy a pregnancy test despite being “underage”, the drugstore teller tells her she shouldn’t be having sex in the first place. After much back and forth the teens were finally able to procure the test, but only after a teller in his late-teens allowed them. This is why a person’s personal beliefs on sexual activity shouldn’t be a factor when they’re on the job. Oh and the teen wasn’t pregnant in the end, thank goodness. [Feministing] Keep reading »

The McGreevey’s Divorce Should Be Made Into A Movie

Catherine StrawnMay 15, 2008 //

Former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey and his wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, are going through a messy divorce right now. If you’ve forgotten, Jim resigned after admitting he’d had a gay affair. Now, Dina wants him to pay alimony, but he’s trying to paint the picture that the only reason they lived in luxury was because taxpayers took care of everything — the helicopters, the mansion, the use of beach homes, and the household servants — and they otherwise wouldn’t have had any of it. She says she missed out on at least 13 months of gubernatorial perks since he resigned, and she wants to be compensated for the loss. Keep reading »

The Daily Squeeze: Sexless Turtles, Women’s Viagra, and Obvious Sex Statistics

Catherine StrawnJanuary 2, 2008 //
  • A new Florida law makes it illegal to allow turtles to reproduce. Those poor, sexually repressed Floridian turtles. [CBS 13]
  • The University of Virginia is testing a new drug that could raise the libido of women with little interest in sex. If testing goes well, women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder will be able to rub a dab of LibiGel onto her upper arm, and for 24 hours, she’ll get an energy and libido boost. LibiGel all around! [ABC]
  • New Jersey men have more sex than New Jersey women. And they’re not having sex as often as they’d like — but 68 percent said they had sex in the past year, so at least they have that going for them. [Newsday]

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