Explore pop-culture, current events, hot-button topics and all things relationship-related with Pittsburgh native, editor and co-founder of twodaymag, Natalie Bencivenga.
...When Giving Out a Fake Number Bites You in the Ass
So, I was on http://www.shmittenkitten.com looking for some blog inspiration since Charlie Sheen hasn’t attacked anyone lately. Hey, it’s Monday, give me a break! And, while many of the blogs were amusing me, one reminded me of a story that I heard this weekend from a girlfriend who shall remain anonymous! (You know who you are!)
Nurses’ Union: Sex Not Part of Care!
This story made me laugh and cringe at the same time! According to http://www.reuters.com, a Dutch nurses’ union launched a national campaign on Friday against patients’ demands for sexual services who insist that it should be part of their basic care.
According to Two Guys from Georgia....
This video is pretty hilarious, and really disturbing at the same time. Basically, a couple of guys from Georgia have their panties in a bunch because Elton John said recently in an interview in Parade magazine Jesus was a gay man. Here is the exact quote:
Are you in search of Mr. or Mrs. Right and have 200,000 yen? (That’s $2,217). Then, I have a school for you!
Dozens of Japanese are in Tokyo are turning to Infini School to help them land a mate. The school offers lots of different classes for singles looking to mingle, or those who are finding it difficult to meet their match.
...Lawmakers put the brakes on first-cousin wedlock!
I know the question you are thinking. “Isn’t this already illegal?” But, no, for we live in a complex country with many types of people. Some forward thinking...some married to their first cousins, apparently.
According to the Associated Press, a Maryland state legislator believes it is time to pull the plug on first-cousin marriages and stop engaging in what he calls “genetic roulette” with their offspring. The bill would, of course, make exceptions for lovers over 65 and for those who are infertile.
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Yesterday, in Milledgeville, Ga, Pittsburgh Steelers QB, Ben Roethlisberger, 28, found himself at the center of yet another sexual assault case. This time, (that’s right, he has been accused of hurting a woman before) a 20 year old girl, who had been out barhopping with friends, claims that Ben followed her into the women's bathroom at a Georgia nightclub around 2:30 in the morning and assaulted her. She went to the police early Friday morning and stated that Ben had sexually assaulted her. She was taken to the hospital after that, and was released later that morning. The young woman has dropped out of college for this semester, after some found out who she was, and began harassing her.
At the University of Kentucky, Dr. Richard Crosby, and Dr. Bill Yarber of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction in Indiana wrote:
“Men and their female sex partners may benefit from public health efforts designed to promote the improved fit of condoms.”
Condoms that do not fit correctly often times break, slip off, or cause a reduction in sexual pleasure for both partners. Is the ill-fitting condom the real reason men don’t want to wear them? Are there just too many “big boys” out there (Hey, a girl can dream, can’t she?) or is this just an excuse men use to avoid using protection when having intercourse?
Most little girls in the 3rd grade are learning how to add and subtract fractions, not adding and subtracting husbands. Nujood is a little girl from Yemen, a place where child brides and pedophilia, as well as terrorism and extreme religious dogma prevail.
Nujood’s dark journey started when she was the ripe old age of 10. Her family sat her down and informed her that she would be marrying a delivery man who was in his 30s. In her new autobiography recently published in the United States: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307589675 , Nujood writes: “In our country, it’s the men who give the orders, and the women who follow them. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced.”
This is huge! The nation’s capital has pushed legislation through allowing any consenting couple to become legally married! Washington is now the 6th place in the nation where any couple is allowed to be married, following Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Iowa.
Couples in DC have been waiting for hours in line today to apply for marriage licenses on this historic day. When the first couple signed in at the city’s marriage bureau at the Moultrie courthouse, cheering and applauding thunderously broke out from the excited and relieved crowd.
As of now, 100-plus couples are at the bureau, and over 50 have filed for their license. Since there is a mandatory waiting period of three (business) days, these couples will be married on Tuesday. A city councilman was handing out cupcakes who had sponsored the law. How festive! One couple told http://www.msnbc.com that they felt as if it was Christmas morning. A dream come true, in fact!
More Charlie Sheen Gossip!
As if Charlie doesn’t have enough problems! After getting into trouble over the holidays, it seemed as if things were finally starting to simmer down for the Two and A Half Men star. Unfortunately, things have just gotten more chaotic. On top of his estranged wife, Brooke, holed up in their LA home undergoing rehabilitative drug therapy while he is also in rehab at another facility, we have just discovered that the California Department of Children and Families has visited the Sheen home, as well as Sheen facing domestic charges stemming from that ill-fated day in Colorado on Christmas. The chaos doesn’t stop there.