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Sex: The Best Way to Work Out [Explicit Video]

Friday, 4 July 2008 8:07 A GMT+01

After a bout of sex the body releases endorphins, which are known as 'happy chemicals' because they improve mood. Purely from a physical point of view it's similar to enjoying a good workout. Fucking burns calories and boosts your immune system.

Teenage Sex Clinics in Schools [Progress, At Last!]

Tuesday, 24 June 2008 8:22 A GMT+01

Twenty-nine per cent of secondary schools in England now have sexual health clinics with one in 20 providing children with prescriptions for a variety of contraceptives - the pill, injections or implants - without their parents being informed.

Legalize Recreational Drugs! Marijuana, Cocaine, Heroin...

Thursday, 19 June 2008 7:37 A GMT+01

I've never understood why we shouldn't enjoy the same right to use verboten drugs as we have to suck on a Marlboro or knock back a scotch and water. Prohibition of alcohol fell flat on its face. The prohibition of other drugs is equally stupid.

Anxiety Attacks!

Sunday, 15 June 2008 8:48 A GMT+01

Turns out that anxiety disorder -- a spectrum that includes panic, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress, phobias and the catch-all, generalized anxiety disorder -- is now the most prevalent mental health problem in the world.

Illness & Celebrities: Pretending to Be Up When You Should Be Down

Wednesday, 4 June 2008 7:56 A GMT+01

As public figures are stricken with harrowing illness, the images of them as upbeat — think of the former White House spokesman Tony Snow, Elizabeth Edwards, and recently Ted Kennedy— accompanied by stirring martial language, have become routine.

Obesity, Class & Capitalism

Monday, 2 June 2008 8:52 A GMT+01

We ignore the economic and social driving forces behind the changes in diet and lifestyle. These include the profits made by the food and entertainment industries and the intense pressures caused by increased working hours and exploitation.

Frankly, Obesity: You Fat Fuck! Lose Some Weight!

Tuesday, 27 May 2008 9:53 A GMT+01

Rarely, cases of obesity may result due to hereditary traits or a predisposition to gain weight. Others place depression, personal loss, anxiety, and boredom at fault. I think it's one way we reward ourselves for the grind of wage slavery.

Oral Gratification: Breastfeeding Is Best!

Tuesday, 29 April 2008 11:20 A GMT+01

Art students aim to challenge the West's 'bottle-feeding culture.' The winning poster shows four pictures of a topless woman and carries slogans including "Tailor-made for him and tailor-made for you" and "Bond with your baby and bond with your man."

Meat-Eating Obscenity [Horrendous Pig-Farming Video]

Thursday, 17 April 2008 8:57 A GMT+01

While 100m tonnes of food will be diverted this year as biofuel to feed cars, 760m tonnes will be snatched from the mouths of humans to feed animals - which could cover the global food deficit 14 times. If you care about hunger, eat less meat.

Can Chronic Insomnia Kill [Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole Smith...]?

Tuesday, 1 April 2008 6:32 P GMT+01

Heath Ledger was described by his ex, Michelle Williams, as having a mind "turning, turning, turning." That might explain the variety of benzodiazepines he took that night -- Valium, Zanax and Restoril. All are effective at quieting a whirring mind.

Why Does No One Talk about McCain's Cancer?

Sunday, 23 March 2008 9:48 A GMT+01

The operation was performed mainly to determine whether the melanoma, a potentially fatal form of skin cancer, had spread from McCain's left temple to a key lymph node in his neck. A preliminary pathology test at the time showed that it had not.

Did You Have a Good Shit Today? [Believe in the Bowel Movement!]

Sunday, 16 March 2008 9:46 A GMT+01

I looked, all right? This morning, I took a long and unflinching gaze. How do I say this without sounding boastful? There in the bowl was a really beautiful stool, my reward for yesterday's hearty oatmeal breakfast and black bean and rice dinner.

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Extreme Animal Cruelty: You'll Never Eat Beef Again [Shocking Videos]

Friday, 22 February 2008 2:29 P GMT+01

When the cow wouldn't stand, the worker applied a "hot shot" cattle prod to jolt the cow to its feet. When that failed, another worker jumped into the chute and shot the cow in the head with a bolt gun, designed to stun the cow into unconsciousness.

Sex Drive: How to Keep It Up

Thursday, 14 February 2008 9:40 A GMT+01

It may be St Valentine's Day this week. But 14 February is also National Impotence Day – highlighting "la différence" in the way men and women can't do it. For men, it's the failure to get an erection. For women, it's mostly in their heads.

Teenage Rebels "Cured" by the Pharmaceutical Industry

Tuesday, 5 February 2008 9:28 A GMT+01

Disruptive teenagers who are medicated with Ritalin, Adderall and other amphetamines routinely report that these drugs make them "care less" about their boredom, resentments and other negative emotions, thus making them more compliant and manageable.

Hollywood Runs Scared of Abortion

Sunday, 3 February 2008 10:21 A GMT+01

Procreation is salvation; parenthood is maturity; abortion is taboo. Familiar themes in Hollywood during the last two decades of privatization, the erosion of the welfare state, the evisceration of health care, and the ideology of the family.

Women Adrift in "Hyperculture"

Thursday, 31 January 2008 9:17 A GMT+01

Women are drinking themselves to death. Twice as many do, compared to 15 years ago. They vomit alone in their bathrooms, throwing up their self-disgust. In 1991, 7.2 women aged 35-54 per 100,000 died of alcohol-related diseases; today it is 14.8.

Designer Vagina [Stunning Cunt?]

Sunday, 13 January 2008 9:46 A GMT+01

You've had your breasts enhanced, thighs sucked thin, skin stretched taught over your cheekbones, and lips pumped full of cow's tissue. What better way to finish off that perfect Barbie doll look than to have your vagina surgically redesigned.

US Military: Women Constantly Face Rape Threat

Wednesday, 9 January 2008 10:06 A GMT+01

If one out of every five women in the National Guard is sexually assaulted weren't appalling enough, keep in mind what Defense Department spokesperson Cynthia Smith said in response: "Sexual assault is the nation's most underreported crime."

Materialism Is Driving Us Mad

Monday, 7 January 2008 10:21 A GMT+01

It's a fact that citizens of Selfish Capitalist, English-speaking nations (which tend to be one and the same) are twice as likely to suffer mental illness as those from mainland western Europe, which argely run Unselfish Capitalist economies.

Women, "Hysteria" & Sexual Satisfaction

Thursday, 27 December 2007 9:28 A GMT+01

We need to clarify what women?s satisfaction is and redefine it. The vibrator is not a competitor, but a member of the team. Repressing women?s sexual being is a political issue. It's about women?s image and independence and loving who they are.

Sex & Booze

Thursday, 20 December 2007 10:13 A GMT+01

Researchers have linked the clinical diagnosis of alcohol dependence and conduct disorder among 18 - 25 year olds with having a high number of sex partners. No surprise there. We drink to lose our inhibitions. Is the consequence is sex, so be it.

Capitalism & Health Care: The Perfect Oxymoron

Sunday, 9 December 2007 11:11 A GMT+01

Politicians and businessmen have convinced people that profit seeking medical conglomerates care about the people they sell medicine to. Why on Earth would they care about the health of their customers? If their customers are healthy, they go broke.

American Psyche: Fear & Conditioning

Friday, 7 December 2007 10:07 A GMT+01

We’re afraid of one another, we’re afraid of the rest of the world, we’re afraid of getting sick, we’re afraid of dying. Maybe if we study our insecurities and confront them, we’ll learn to keep them in check. Before the whole nation turns psychotic.

The Pharmaceutical Industry: We're Medically Conditioned to Conform

Friday, 7 December 2007 10:06 A GMT+01

Big Pharma uses advertising to transform what may once have been considered character traits into pathologies that one should treat with medication, promoting the sense that individual idiosyncrasy is a kind of disability that needs to be corrected.

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