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Monday, August 8, 2011
Ask Dream Momma: Transvestite midget clowns ... stealing underwear?
Posted by Dream Momma on Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:14 PM
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Glazer Children's Museum in Tampa makes the Top 10
Woman's Day magazine names it one of the 10 best children's museums.
Posted by Melissa Beck on Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:46 PM
Summer vacation — we've all tasted it at some point in our lives. Many of us now have love/hate relationships with the break. Those fond memories of hot days spent at the beach, salt on your lips and sand between your toes can be haunting when you think of how much you took them for granted as a youngster. The reality of it all is this cruel thing known as "life" that sets in just when you've acquired the freedom (and responsibility) that usually comes with age.
For most, three-month vacations have became an untouchable thing of the past — that is, until it all comes back full circle and now it's your own kids home full-time making you batshit crazy.
So what can you do to keep them entertained, and in essence, avoid becoming certifiable?
Monday, May 23, 2011
The lost drawings of M. Leo Elliott
Posted by Grant Rimbey CNU on Mon, May 23, 2011 at 6:00 PM
“The Built, The Lost, The Dream: The Architecture of M. Leo Elliott” is a special upcoming exhibit of the architectural drawings of M. Leo Elliott (1886-1967), arguably Tampa’s finest architect to date. This will be the first time that drawings from this extensive recently discovered archive, now housed in the Tampa Bay History Center, will be on display for viewing by the public.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Busch Gardens to open a guest-friendly Animal Care & Nutrition Center
Posted by Melissa Beck on Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:04 PM
- Photo provided by Busch Gardens.
- Interior image of guest view toward surgery procedures.
This winter, the Busch Gardens park in Tampa will be opening a new Animal Care & Nutrition Center that will welcome guests to closely observe and even participate in the animal care experience. Much of the park’s animal care, including nutrition, treatments, X-rays and surgeries will be conducted in this facility accessible to guests. The new building, approximately 16,000 square feet, will be located where the rhino exhibit currently resides.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Study: Trials for promising HIV prevention drug, Truvada, halted
Posted by Sex and Love editor on Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:43 AM
Researches stopped a study on the daily antiretroviral pill, Truvada, after early data showed that just as many women on the pill as those on the placebo had become infected with HIV.
An independent panel analyzed the blood tests from nearly 1,900 women scattered about South Africa, Kenya, and Tanzania---about half of the women researchers had hoped to enlist. Of the women taking Truvada and those on a placebo pill, 28 in each group become infected.
The results surprised researchers as a study that came out last November found that gay men who took Truvada pills faithfully had more than 90% protection against HIV infection. Also, a study published in the summer out of South Africa found that women who used a vaginal gel form of the antiretroviral drug, tenofovir---one of two antiretrovirals in Truvada---reduced infection rates by
Monday, April 18, 2011
11 signs your lover is lying
Posted by Shawn Alff on Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Some evolutionary psychologists believe that our capacity for speech was developed as a tool of persuasion as opposed to a mechanism for relaying the truth. That is, we learned to talk as a way to convince others to do and think what we want. If we merely needed to communicate facts, a rudimentary system of grunts and gestures would suffice as it does for nearly every other animal.
As a result, much of the communication in a relationship involves deceit. The majority of these untruths are
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Study: religious women use Planned Parenthood more than the GOP thinks
Posted by Sex and Love editor on Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 1:31 PM
A new Guttmacher report based on a national survey by the U.S. government found that despite the opposition to contraceptive use by many religious communities, in practice the majority of American women rely on contraceptives no matter what their religious beliefs are.
“In real-life America, contraceptive use and strong religious beliefs are highly compatible,” said the report's lead author, Rachel K. Jones. “Most sexually active women who do not want to become pregnant practice contraception, and most use highly effective methods like sterilization, the pill, or the IUD. This is true for Evangelicals and Mainline Protestants, and it is true for Catholics, despite the Catholic hierarchy’s strenuous opposition to contraception.”
Below are some of the report's key findings:
-99% of all sexually active women have
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Study: the first sexually transmitted insect-borne disease
Posted by Sex and Love editor on Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:56 AM
A new study out of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claims to have documented the first human case of a sexually transmitted insect-borne disease: the Zika virus.
Brian Foy, a biologist at Colorado State University, coauthored the study about three anonymous patients who he later admitted included himself; Kevin Kobylinski,a PH.D. student who accompanied him on a mosquito collecting trip; and Foy's wife, Chilson Foy, who coauthored the study.
Foy and Kobylinski developed the Zika virus 5 days after
Friday, April 8, 2011
Autism & parenting for the kinky-minded
Posted by Mistress Erisiana Cherie on Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:57 AM
April is autism awareness month. In recognition of this I want to say a few words about what it's like to live with autism.
You see, I'm not just a dominatrix, I'm also a soccer mom. (Literally - I wrote parts of this while sitting on the sidelines at my daughter's soccer practice.) And one of my children has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism.
My son (aka aspie boy) will be eleven in a few months but once upon a time he was a wee lad of three or four years old. And at that tender age he was a dedicated artist, decorating any surface he could reach with any sort of writing or coloring implement he could find. With his determination (and monkey-like climbing skills) he even managed to extend his artworks all the way up to the ceiling in his bedroom.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
How condoms are tested (video)
Posted by Sex and Love editor on Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:40 AM
As the beginning of spring and a month that fuses the Christian concept of rebirth with pagan fertility holidays, April is perfect for STD Awareness Month. Having grown up with a deathly fear of STDs and unplanned pregnancies, I've always been somewhat skeptical about just how rigorously condoms are tested before they are deployed into life and death situations. The below video of how LifeStyle condoms are tested provides some comfort --- assuming the condoms being inflated to three feet long or made into giant water balloons are not then repackaged and sold.
Still, I must confess that I'm a bit disappointed that
