Explore pop-culture, current events, hot-button topics and all things relationship-related with Pittsburgh native, editor and co-founder of twodaymag, Natalie Bencivenga.
Nadja Benaissa, 28, a German pop singer with the popular girl group, “No Angels”, was found guilty of causing bodily harm to her ex-boyfriend by engaging in unprotected sex with him in 2004. He was unaware that she was HIV positive.
Elin Nordergren broke her silence to People magazine this week, in an interview that is said to be the one and only she will do. They sat down over four days and 19 hours’ worth of talks at the rented Windermere Florida home where she lives with their two children. This was going to be good.
...Why Booze and Sex Do Not Mix
Researchers at Roehampton University in London have decoded the mechanism behind beer goggles. Already, this does not sound good. Psychologists have been working hard to get to the bottom of why drunk people seem to “lower their standards” when it comes to finding a suitable bedmate for the night.
What is the obsession with teen girls and abstinence? Not once have I found a news article online that specifically promotes abstinence among adolescent boys. Now, to make things even more biased, there is a new video game being developed in central Florida (which, by the way, uses $434,000 of federal money) to help teach young girls how to “just say no” to abhorrent things such as kissing.
Talk about a niche market. TheUglyBugBall.co.uk (TUBB) is the first online dating site that specifically targets “those who weren’t blessed with great looks”. This site excludes anyone “who is overtly pretty or attractive”. According to the site’s creator Howard James, a multimillionaire entrepreneur from Mayfair, London, this website offers the “aesthetically challenged” a much needed service.
In short, yes it is. In fact, results from a survey of married couples imply that couples who bottle their anger die at an earlier age than those who are more open with their emotions.
Who wants to watch porn on a little computer screen, anyway? That is so 2010. Hong Kong’s ahead of the game with their new approach to porn; popcorn, IMAX, 3-D glasses, and of course, lots of sex. The first ever 3-D soft corn porn film arrives at a perfect time. The industry has been struggling over the last few years with increased internet competition. Something exciting had to be done to draw people back into watching erotic film.
The Glamorization of Domestic Violence?
I’ve been wanting to write a blog on Eminem and Rihanna’s new video for “Love the Way You Lie” for a while now, but I couldn’t figure out how I felt about the song and lyrics. My knee jerk reaction was that this was an exploitation of Rihanna’s recent and very painful encounter with Chris Brown and that Eminem was cashing in on the sensationalism of the situation. I didn’t know if it was healthy or smart for her to tackle a song of this magnitude so soon after going what she went through.
The lovely ladies who dance at the Foxhole strip club in Ohio just won’t take it anymore! For the past four years, these hard working women have had to endure members of a Christian church protesting their existence and condemning them to hell every single weekend.
According to a new multicultural study, men in red were more attractive to women. The researchers conducted seven experiments, including the effect of red and white on a man’s attractiveness. Women who looked at a picture of a man in red or surrounded by red rated them over one point higher on a nine point scale of attractiveness over those in white.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010, was a monumental day for the advancement of human rights in this country. Yesterday, a federal judge ruled that California’s Proposition 8, which was a “voter-approved” ban on same-sex marriage, was unconstitutional.
Here is the clip of me on PCNC's nighttime talk show, “NightTalk”, as we discussed love, relationships and dating...it was a lot of fun! Enjoy!
Remember when making a porno was a bad move for an up and coming actress? The days when a scandal could ruin a career, not make one? Yea, I don’t remember those days, either.
Tantra Fitness, a Canadian company that operates in Langley and Vancouver, has been expanding their pole-dancing classes into several studios and has even decided to teach students as young as nine years old and up in regular classes and as young as five years old in private classes. Adding a mommy and me pole dancing is on their agenda, as well.