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Here are the top 20 news stories of 2011 that resulted from unbelievably bad sex, which we define as unhealthy sexual or romantic impulses resulting in toxic activities that cause harm to individuals and communities. The addictive spectrum of bad sex is always secretive or shameful in some way, and abusive or exploitative at its worst. This provocative list was compiled by me and my fellow clinicians, the sexual therapists and sex addiction specialists at Center for Healthy Sex, who provided their professional slant for these hotbed topics.
Why are we inundated with sexual scandals? How can these public figures make the same blatant mistakes over and over and over? One possible factor is that with the explosion of electronic communication, which has usurped previous relational standards, we are experiencing a societal upheaval. In particular, the proliferation of Internet porn has reshaped sexual attitudes and beliefs, distorting the sexual narrative of our society further toward unhealthy objectification and dysmorphia. According to statistics, today's youth -- the future generation that will lead our world -- is already saturated by internet porn, with 80 percent of teenagers ages 15 to 17 reporting "multiple hard-core exposure."
"For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own; since the 1960s pornographic upsurge, the sexuality of children has begun to be shaped in response to cues that are no longer human. Nothing comparable has ever happened in the history of our species; it dislodges Freud. Today's children and young men and women have sexual identities that spiral around paper and celluloid phantoms: from Playboy to music videos to the blank female's torsos in women's magazines, features obscured and eyes extinguished, they are being imprinted with a sexuality that is mass-produced, deliberately dehumanizing and inhuman."
--Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Despite the much-heralded 1960s sexual revolution against previously repressive attitudes, we're still facing many of the same intrinsic problems from earlier eras -- if not the Middle Ages. Sex is often, if not mostly, a manipulative tool for people to use and be used, and such selfish and self-destructive tendencies trickle out into world dysfunction.
"Two things threaten all our lives: high-tech warfare and industrially driven ecological disaster. Both are a kind of madness; borne of emotional injury. Both are the result of arrests in emotional development. Both are problems of relationship."
--Robin Grille, Parenting for a Peaceful World
Sexual dissatisfaction, dysfunction, and misconduct materialize due to ignorance of the truth that ultimately sex is more than just an act, a thing to be had. Sex is a way of being in the world and relating intimately within it. While the sexual revolution was instrumental in liberating healthy, undeveloped sexual urges from repression compared with previous eras, our culture still represses true intimacy. We freely discuss our lives in sexual terms without genuinely revealing or exploring the actual vulnerabilities, feelings, and desires that impel our sexual being. What's really most needed today is a relational revolution.
What does unhealthy or addictive sex mean to you, and which of these stories do you believe to be the worst example of bad sex?
Berlusconi represents the stereotypical Roman of bygone days. Unfortunately, his behaviors took place in modern-day Italy at the height of the debt crisis. Berlusconi risked his reputation, tarnished 17 years of political service to his country, and alienated his constituents due to his alleged exploits with underaged women. His commitment to economic changes had become so compromised that even the Vatican lost faith in his abilities. This coupled with the latest allegations of having had sex with a minor had him resigning in humiliation. All of these behaviors -- the unmanageability, the loss of loyalty and faith of his constituents, and the abuse of power -- are hallmarks of sex addiction. Like many who use sex as a way to exert power and control, Berlusconi's apparent narcissism was a runaway train that could only be stopped by a major force. His poor judgment coupled with the debt crisis combined to create that force. Many females he had promoted to government positions sided with the patriarchal ethos that has been embedded in Italy since the beginning of time. However, a new breed of modern Italian women were no longer interested in fueling Italy's double standard. In February, hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets in an anti-Berlusconi demonstration. The stance Italian women took against the exploitation and objectification of women by men in power telegraphed the beginning of a new era and, quite possibly, the beginning of change in Italian culture. Viva Italia! --By Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., C.S.T., C.S.A.T., Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex (AP Photo/Mauro Scrobogna, LaPresse)
The House of Representatives voted 240 to 185 to strip Planned Parenthood of its federal funding, an ideological move overturned by the Senate. Later in July, Jim Graham, director of the Texas Right to Life group, called Planned Parenthood "the most evil, filthy organization in America" as he gloated over Governor Rick Perry signing a bill that defunded the organization in that state, thereby putting a stop to many women's health services, including elective abortions, STD screenings, and family planning. As we continue to struggle with issues of how to define healthy sexuality at a time where there is little to no sex education in our schools, we need more constructive dialogues and more possibilities for women and men, not fewer. Prohibition never worked in the past, and prohibition is less likely to work in a social and political climate that is rapidly changing due to technological advances. --By Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., C.S.T., C.S.A.T., Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex
Longtime Hollywood "bad boy" Charlie Sheen went from famous to "infamous" this year with his incredibly public meltdown. Sheen's meteoric rise to pop-culture infamy began with his public lashing out at CBS executives, and ended with him being fired from his job as the highest-paid actor on television (on CBS's Two and a Half Men). Sheen's tirades included the revelation that he lived in a three-person relationship with his two porn star "goddesses," bragging about his superhuman consumption of drugs and alcohol, and his nonsensical catchphrases such as, "Duh, winning," "tiger blood," and "warlocks." The sad part about Charlie Sheen's meltdown is that it glamorized his abuse and addiction to drugs, sex, and alcohol. Charlie Sheen was the most reported-on topic for many months this year, his Twitter following skyrocketed during this time period, and his live shows sold out in record time, which showed that America could not get enough of Charlie Sheen. This, unfortunately, showed young people that defying death by abusing drugs and compulsively using women as sex objects is something to admire and aspire to, instead of realistically portraying these behaviors as dangerous, deadly, and unmanageable. --By Greg Woodhill, M.A., Sex Addiction Specialist at Center for Healthy Sex
Time magazine announced "The Protester" as 2011's Person of the Year, proclaiming this a year of political dissent and uprising. The Arab Spring that began last December spread throughout the Middle East. These uprisings resulted in serious changes to several countries' political guard, and to Saudi women gaining their long-withheld right to vote. While the Arab Spring filled the airwaves, a smaller but significant story was coming to light. Some of the female journalists bringing us these stories were being sexually assaulted. There were at least three such assaults reported around Egypt's Tahrir Square this year. In February, while CBS journalist Lara Logan was covering the Egyptian uprising and celebrations in Tahrir Square, she was sexually assaulted and beaten by a mob of 200 to 300 men for approximately 40 minutes, until finally she was saved by some nearby women. Journalists Caroline Sinz and Mona Eltahawy also experienced sexual assaults this past November. Rape has historically been used against war zone reporters and civilians of both genders to silence, to dominate, and, sometimes, just because. What happens to these people is just a microcosm of what happens globally. Perhaps the most harmful aspect of all of this is how the ripple effects of rape, whether experienced directly or indirectly, permeate our collective psyche. As women, we walk through our daily lives just a little more anxious or tense because something could happen to us. And so many men carry the shame of the assaults that other men have carried out, or of their own past assault experiences. Maybe some healing can come as we pull these assaults and rapes out of the darkness and shine some light on what is really happening, just as Lara Logan bravely did by reporting her experience. --By Shereen Hariri, M.F.T., Sex Therapist at Center for Healthy Sex (AP Photo/CBS News)
On March 22, Chris Brown appeared on Good Morning America to promote his newest album, F.A.M.E. With two years passing since his violent assault against then-girlfriend Rihanna, Chris Brown had hoped to have the past behind him, but co-anchor Robin Roberts of Good Morning America wanted to know more about the status of Rihanna's restraining order, and less about Brown's new album. The pointed interview questions left Chris Brown in a rage in which he reportedly stormed offstage, throwing a cooler in the hallway, smashing a window in his dressing room with a folding chair, and then exiting the studio shirtless. Brown issued an apology two days later on BET. It seems that instances such as these always call for "issuing an apology," as if that were the key to metaphorically put his explosive behavior in a box, tie it up with a nice red bow, and place it under the Christmas tree. Perhaps in time he will be able to arrive on a morning show set and publicly declare some useful coping mechanisms he's been able to employ for his impulse control. Unfortunately, his acting out only reveals what little progress he's made toward managing his rage, ultimately hurting his cause, while modeling for young and old a destructive alternative for expressing one's anger. --By Cindy Shadel, M.A., Partners Specialist at Center for Healthy Sex (AP Photo/ABC, Ida Mae Astute)
In April, a new 3D film was unleashed into darkened theaters in Hong Kong. It wasn't an action, horror, sci-fi, or animated kids' film, and in fact it beat out Avatar for opening-day box-office receipts. It was called 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy, a softcore remake that bypassed some of mainland China's extreme censorship laws and filled the 3D porn void for locals and tourists alike. It has all the elements of an erotic fantasy: harem girls in ancient China, true love, the pursuit of ultimate sexual pleasure, light humor, rape, and dismemberment. Wait -- what?! Snuggled cozily within the theme of true love transcending sex, audience members were given the gift of hardcore violence with their softcore ecstasy. Many viewers loved it, while others left the theaters shocked by the sadistic turn taken by the film, likening its imagery to Caligula from decades earlier. Asian culture in general is no stranger to the marriage of sex and violence, as plenty of Japanese films have already paved that path. And we in the States have countless sexually violent films to boast. One could argue that the release of such an erotic film in China's own backyard was a wonderful advancement in the ongoing path to sexual openness in an otherwise firmly controlled environment. But the flip side of that same coin is that the world has yet another film that plants dark and violent erotic imagery in our already bombarded minds. --By Shereen Hariri, M.F.T., Sex Therapist at Center for Healthy Sex (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Secretly watching pornography on the job is never OK, especially for a government official. Parliament member Arifinto, a Muslim and a member of the conservative party who pushed hard for an anti-porn bill, was caught red-handed watching porn on his tablet while Parliament was in session. Like an addict, he then lied about the accusation, stating that the porn "accidentally" appeared on his tablet. He didn't get far with that lie, because a witness confronted him with the fact that he had six windows open on his tablet, all of which had naked women on them. We could speculate that Arifinto may be an addict because he was on the job looking at porn, which is not what he was being paid to do, meaning that he was essentially stealing from his employer. He also lied to cover up his behavior and, worst of all, is a hypocrite: his party aggressively pushed for an anti-porn bill and campaigned for a ban on Internet porn. In Indonesia downloading porn brings a fine of $232,000 and a maximum of four years in prison. Unlike his poor countrymen, Arifinto was not fined or arrested. Instead, he resigned and announced that he would spend more time with the Holy Quran. Good luck with that. If Arifinto is indeed an addict, a flight into religion isn't the answer; it never gets anyone sober from any addiction. He would have to first admit that he has a problem and go from there. Unfortunately, he lives in a society that has a double standard for political figures, insulating him from fully facing the consequences of his behavior. Once again, this is a man in power in a country where class and sexism collude to let him get away with... you name it. --By Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., C.S.T., C.S.A.T., Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex (AP Photo/Media Indonesia, M. Irfan)
Poised in the French polls to become the Socialist candidate to succeed Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential elections, Dominique Strauss-Kahn lost it all due to his admitted sexual indiscretion with a hotel maid at the Sofitel New York hotel. That the maid accused him of rape, a charge that was later dropped by prosecutors due to unreliable testimony, made his fall from grace all the more shameful -- especially as another woman came forward with similar allegations of an earlier attempted rape. He was forced to resign his position as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Another powerful figure who had it all and lost everything. Secrets, shame, unmanageability, significant loss... all signs of sex addiction. Who would write this script for themselves? Who dreams as a kid that they want to grow up, get married, and become president... oh, yeah, and sexually self-destruct in the pursuit of disconnective sexual conquests? The scandal has triggered a national debate in France about gender roles and sexual power dynamics. Sylvie Kauffman, the first female editor of Le Monde newspaper, referenced the influence of the scandal on French culture as a "D.S.K. moment" that would last well beyond the machismo of the political elite, further stating that, rape or no rape, "he's still a guy who had a sexual encounter with a maid at noon in a luxury suite before having lunch with his daughter and flying back to his wife." --By Caroline Frost, M.F.T., Sex Addiction Specialist at Center for Healthy Sex (AP Photo/Todd Heisler)
This year ex-Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed that he had fathered a child with a member of his household staff 10 years ago. According to Schwarzenegger, he told his wife about this event as soon as he left the office of governor. The admission of this "love child" led to Maria Shriver, his wife of 25 years, filing for divorce from the ex-governor and Hollywood actor. Schwarzenegger's scandal led to a fresh round of media discussions about whether or not he is a "sex addict." Unfortunately, this term being applied to another celebrity who was caught behaving badly brings mockery and punchlines to a very serious addiction. Whether or not Arnold is an actual sex addict is unknown, but in many celebrity cases the term "sex addict" has become a sort of "the dog ate my homework" excuse. This scandal became one of the most popular jokes of the year and continued to paint a picture to society that men with power, money, and fame will always cheat on their wives. --By Greg Woodhill, M.A., Sex Addiction Specialist at Center for Healthy Sex (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
A promising career ahead of him as an outspoken, politically conscionable member of Congress, Anthony Weiner accidentally posted a link to a lewd photo of himself on Twitter, intending the post as a private communication. At first, Weiner dismissed the photo as a prank, but the extent of the scandal revealed itself over the course of 10 days in a pathetic pattern of new evidence followed by admission and eventual resignation from the House. In the months leading up to the scandal, a secret conservative group created false underage accounts on Twitter to entrap Weiner, who compulsively continued this illicit activity even after being tipped off to one of the false accounts. Another unthinkable self-destruction on the public stage, mirroring countless private collapses by less famous folk who seek stimulation through volatile means and suffer for it. How is it possible for the pursuit of sensation to be so senseless? Is there a difference between liberals and conservatives who engage in sexual impropriety? These are public servants who recklessly tempt fate at every turn, doing irreparable harm to their reputations, their families, their political parties, their constituents and their causes. --By Caroline Frost, M.F.T., Sex Addiction Specialist at Center for Healthy Sex (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
The wedding announcements were delivered through billboards and press releases. The actual wedding was an intimate affair -- family, close friends, and 4.4 million viewers. Seventy-two days later it was over, the entire debacle declared a sham. Even the media reaction to the Kardashian hitch-and-ditch is a manufactured drama about a manufactured drama. Reality TV is to reality what the Greek myths were to Greek history; that is to say, there actually are certain factual relationships and truthful information concealed in an entertaining, fictional, and highly symbolic ritual. At best, reality TV captures the invisible underbelly of what life feels like -- delusions, vulnerability, hysteria, envy, pressure, conflict. At worst, reality TV feeds our very worst impulses -- the kind of escapist, unregulated impulses that ultimately feed on our souls. Why do these trashy TV shows have such a hold on our culture and the slapdash magazines that encompass our supermarket check-out lines? Why is it so much easier to experience passion, arousal, and perceptive recognition for the private lives of posturing strangers than for... our own private lives? --By Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., C.S.T., C.S.A.T., Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex
The suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer was a travesty and a statement of gross intolerance and ignorance in our country. Sadly, suicides like these could be prevented if bullying were prohibited by schools and social networking sites, and if parents who have kids who bully would intervene. Hindsight is 20/20, but maybe if the adults at Jamey's school had paid closer attention to how fragile he really was, then he would have been better protected. That's not to say it was anyone's fault, but he was a child, and he needed a lot of support and protection. We all have a way of dulling our intuition and not listening to what we know to be true. In fact, both his guidance counselor at school and his mother thought he was doing better and handling the attacks on his sexual orientation. He was also seeing a therapist and social worker, but obviously, he wasn't doing well. Gay teens must be protected and need forums to talk about their differences, concerns, and have the right to safety just like everyone else. Gay-straight coalitions should be required on all school campuses, and schools should have a zero-tolerance for bullying, just like they do with drugs and weapons. Bullying usually comes in the form of verbal abuse, which is just as much an act of violence as physical abuse. All kids are vulnerable during adolescence, because their brains are rapidly changing and hormonal processes are in action. LGBT kids are especially vulnerable because of these changes, and because of the profound homophobia in our culture. Lady Gaga said it best in her tweet the morning after Jamey's death: "Bullying must become illegal. It is a hate crime." --By Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., C.S.T., C.S.A.T., Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex
When Christopher Chaney hacked Scarlett Johannson's cell phone and posted nude photos of her online, she wasn't the only celeb he exposed in the buff. Chaney is facing a life sentence for his obsession, which he clearly stated became an "addiction" for him. Like many Internet porn addicts who start out curious, can't stop, and eventually get caught, he admitted to even being a little relieved at his arrest, stating that his behavior was "the worst invasion of privacy someone could experience." Chaney's behavior is considered sexually offending behavior, due to the high-level of invasion of others' privacy. Sex offenders of this nature are highly treatable and have a good shot at stopping their behaviors if they're willing to give up Internet privileges for some time and take a hard look at what's driving their obsession. They will also go through a withdrawal period due to the high levels of adrenaline and dopamine that their systems create when engaging in behaviors that they know are against the law and, therefore, dangerous. --By Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., C.S.T., C.S.A.T., Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex
The Occupy Wall Street protests spawned a movement, which attracted protesters young and old, political ideologues, and, sadly, some sex offenders. Tonye Iketubosin, 26, was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two women, both inside tents in New York City's Zuccotti Park. Convicted sex offender Richard Wayne Armstrong, 24, was arrested in the Occupy Dallas camp for having sex with a 14-year-old runaway and failing to register as a sex offender. Other rumored sexual assaults prompted various Occupy camps to implement security measures, including night security watches and well-lit, female-only sleeping areas. The OWS General Assembly released a statement reading: OWS exists within a broader culture where sexual assault is egregiously common: someone in the US is sexually assaulted every 2 minutes, most assaults are never reported, and most rapists are never held to account. ... We are creating and sharing strategies that educate and transform our community into a culture of consent, safety, and well-being. At OWS, these strategies currently include support circles, counseling, consent trainings, safer sleeping spaces, self-defense trainings, community watch, awareness campaigns, and other evolving community-based processes to address harm.Sexual disorders and dysfunction have no ideology. Sexual dysfunction commonly manifests as ignorance, confusion, and avoidance, or, in this case, at its worst, as criminal sexually offending behavior. Traditionally, repressive attitudes have been a dominant factor in sexual dysfunction, but there is ample evidence that sexual misbehavior affects liberals and conservatives alike. This is how a sexually dysfunctional but politically conscientious individual protesting oppression might blindly commit an act of oppression such as rape. --By Shereen Hariri, M.F.T., Sex Therapist at Center for Healthy Sex
In what felt like an all-too-familiar blend of humiliation masked by arrogance, Herman Cain officially suspended his bid as a GOP candidate after being accused of sexually harassing several women and carrying on a 13-year affair with at least one woman. With his wife by his side, he blamed the media for spinning the accusations into something they were not, leaving us all to believe that where there is smoke, there is fire. Founded or unfounded, the allegations bring to light once again the idea that power and sex often converge in Washington. It wouldn't be unusual to hear rationalizations such as, "I work so hard [or I am so powerful] that I deserve this," which only perpetuates the addictive cycle. In cases such as these, sex (or sexual impropriety) is used as a means to control and seduce, rather than to be relational and celebrate intimacy. --By Cindy Shadel, M.A., Partners Specialist at Center for Healthy Sex (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Ugh. Another clusterf**k of child sexual abuse. The Penn State scandal broke, within weeks awakening similar pedophilia accusations in its wake: assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky charged with sexually abusing boys for decades; Citadel counselor Louis ReVille charged with three counts of child sex abuse; an assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University accused of molesting two boys; University of Oklahoma professor Dwain Pellebon accused of two counts of rape and one count of lewd acts with a minor; and recently ousted director of the Amateur Athletic Union Robert "Bobby" Dodd accused of molesting boys as a YMCA coach in the 1980s. The climate of complicity that allowed these abuses to flourish, for decades in some cases, is markedly disturbing. As we see, fame often feeds the disease. Sex addicts do reprehensible things, and they're also capable of great things. I think these polarized qualities are so difficult for us to accept and assimilate, because we're processing our own repressed trauma of early role models who let us down, who likewise had good qualities and bad qualities. Every one of us has a shadow, and our collective culture has its own shadow on a larger, sometimes intimidating scale, such as these abuse horrors. Sex scandals are lightning rods for social issues that many people find perplexing, if not utterly crushing -- qualitative issues that tremendously affect our everyday experience, such as denial, manipulation, exploitation, deception, and objectification. Quite possibly, these scandalous personalities come into being and are elevated by our culture as a means for us to process our own issues surrounding personal and vicarious traumas that are habitually repressed and unexamined within our own lives. --By Caroline Frost, M.F.T., Sex Addiction Specialist at Center for Healthy Sex
Perhaps for the first time, Hollywood is facing one of its dirty little secrets: the casting couch is alive and well. Martin Weiss, noted child manager, was arrested for alleged child molestation. Some Hollywood sources considered this an exception to the rule, while others, like former child stars Corey Feldman and Alison Ingram, have come out stating that child molestation in the industry has been a long-time secret and one that needed exposing. Parents must pay closer attention to the situations they put their children in today. Long gone is the era of blind obedience or trust of authority figures like talent managers and agents, coaches, priests, and teachers. As a society we can't look the other way and hope that the adults in our community will be responsible caretakers to our children, unless we're sure we know them very well. With the amount of child abuse in our country, trauma is rampant, and if left untreated, it will be reenacted on our children. In this case, if Mr. Weiss had gotten help for his alleged attraction to children, then he may have prevented himself from passing on his own childhood trauma and made one small dent in changing the world. Because he didn't get help, he's forced his own legacy onto another, who may or may not be able to stop the cycle of abuse. Change yourself, change the world. --By Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., C.S.T., C.S.A.T., Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex
After one unsuccessful date, an investment manager wrote a lengthy, love-addicted letter that was posted on Reddit. He certainly didn't expect his private email to go viral, which goes to show we're living in a new age of instant communication with new rules. Lately there exists a revenge website where resentful ex-lovers rudely post nude photos of their exes for all to see. Sexts and nude cellphone pics are casually swapped and secretly circulated. Fake online accounts are created to entrap acquaintances. Yet many still expect an unrealistic degree of etiquette with personal interactions that can no longer be taken for granted, often to the shock and humiliation of the unprepared victim. The letter in question clearly exhibited love-addicted behavior, as he loops several times through a psychological pattern of "I hate you, don't leave me." The woman "touched her hair" thoughout the date, to him clearly a sign of attraction. How could she lead him on? Why hasn't she called? Can't they make this relationship work? Experts think love addiction stems from early attachment disorders, and this letter reeks of a childhood insecure-ambivalent attachment -- the kind of "too much" parenting that is really more of an enmeshment to serve the caregivers' needs at the expense of the psychological autonomy of the child that typically consists of "come here, go away" conditioning. Unimpeded, this creates anxious-preoccupied attachment in adulthood, clearly on display here. And what about the woman who shared this private email for the world to see, exhibiting typical avoidant behavior with indirect passive-aggression? These two types join together in this addictive dance in predictably cataclysmic yet complementary fashion. When we feel self-satisfied in our comparative sanity, remember that the story of Jekyll is not possible without a Hyde -- and these are two sides of the same person. --By Alexandra Katehakis, M.F.T., C.S.T., C.S.A.T., Clinical Director of Center for Healthy Sex
Yankees superstar shortstop Derek Jeter was exposed in the media for repeatedly sending his bevy of beautiful one-night stands home in a private car with a gift basket filled with autographed memorabilia. This fact came to light when Jeter accidentally presented the exact same gift basket twice to a woman whom he had forgotten that he had already slept with once before. This exposed the fact that he has had a revolving door of one-night stands with women, and that he has sent them packing with a parting gift each time. This revelation that Derek Jeter (who tries to lead a very private social life) is a player with a long string of one-night stands has crushed his desired portrayal of himself as an all-American good guy. This is a good thing, because it shows us the actuality of the superstar's lifestyle, instead of allowing him to compartmentalize himself and only show the public the side of himself that he deems "acceptable." Along with Jeter being another in a long list of rich and famous men who take advantage of their fame to have sex with as many women as possible, it brings our focus to these random, participating women who are sent packing with an insulting "goody bag" absurdly underscoring the impersonal, transactional reality of one-night stands. --By Greg Woodhill, M.A., Sex Addiction Specialist at Center for Healthy Sex
Kobe and Vanessa Bryant are the latest celebs to file for divorce as 2011 comes to a close. They join the ranks of Ashton and Demi, J.Lo and Marc, and Maria and Arnold, and although they weren't legally married, Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange, together almost 30 years, deserve honorable mention. Although the case could be made that many of these divorces will actually lead to healthy sex in the long run as people get in touch with their true needs, it also underscores the notion of "moving on" rather than "working through." The idea that moving on to another partner will provide total fulfillment is false; rather, it can provide different fulfillment. I often wonder if the divorce comes just as the opportunity for true intimacy presents itself, thus ending the relationship is a way to avoid knowing oneself and one's partner in a truly deeper and more vulnerable way. --By Cindy Shadel, M.A., Partners Specialist at Center for Healthy Sex Check out The Year in Good Sex!
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- Add stir-fry vegetables and water chestnuts, stirring and cooking until pork is fully cooked and vegetables are warmed, another 2 to 3 minutes. Take off heat. Remove pork and vegetables from pan into a medium bowl.
- Spray the large nonstick pan with cooking spray again. Warm over high heat and add cole slaw, including all of its liquid. Stir and cook until wilted, about 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Add the vegetables and pork back into the pan. Stir and serve stir-fry with rice.
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Cooking Tips: The longer the Asian Cole Slaw sits in the fridge, the more liquid that's released from the slaw. Make sure to add all this delicious liquid into the stir-fry because it becomes the sauce for it.
Keep it Healthy: Stir-fry recipes are a quick and easy dinner that can use up any meat or vegetables leftovers in the fridge.
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- Nutritional Analysis
- Per serving
- Calories Per Serving
- 250
- Total Fat
- 5.5 g
- Saturated Fat
- 1.5 g
- Trans Fat
- 0.0 g
- Polyunsaturated Fat
- 0.5 g
- Monounsaturated Fat
- 2.0 g
- Cholesterol
- 40 mg
- Sodium
- 163 mg
- Carbohydrates
- 31 g
- Fiber
- 6 g
- Sugars
- 7 g
- Added Sugars
- 0 g
- Protein
- 20 g
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Earth-friendly crafts don't have to look like, well, trash. Instead, find out how to make Paper Towel Handmade Paper from Heidi Borchers and use it to create your own cards, scrapbook pages and more. You'll never need to purchase paper again once you've tried out this craft.
This project may seem complicated but it's so easy. Begin by tearing the plies apart, ripping them up and and placing the pieces in a blender. Use paint, food coloring or even construction paper scraps to create the appropriate color for your handmade paper. Pour the mixture into a water-filled container, Create your own mold by stapling a screen to an old wooden frame. Place your mold into the water and when you take it out, place the piece on a towel. Remove any excess water using a sponge and let the piece dry for at least a couple of hours. Create your own greetings, journals and more using your own handmade paper! No one will believe it was made out of scraps and paper towels.
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This is a great project. I used to teach children and one of my favorite lessons was on paper, where it came from (oh and where you could go from there-saving the planet) and how to recycle it. We made cards, stationary, posters, etc. & added dried flowers or whatever. The ecological lesson as well of the creative aspect really opened there eyes to all possabilities.
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Thank you, Heidi! It's brilliant for small-scale use. Obviously, you'll use cheaper materials like unprinted newspaper-type paper on a roll for large-scale purposes. Then colour it and add interesting bits left over from, say, quilling projects. I'm going to use up my old bought handmade paper for this. It's too crumpled and faded to use for anything else.
Sep 23, 2012
I think it is interesting but dont see where it is eco friendly to buy and then use paper towels for making paper
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thanks for just using one frame. so far all the directions i have seen required 2, but it's completely unnecessary, as you show. if you want a specific size, just use the frame upside down so the pulp is inside the frame. fold up a towel and put it inside so it's easy to sponge off the water. nice work.
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So, our 6 year old daughter has recently had several breakouts. I haven't changed soaps or anything like that. I do know that she puts her hands on her face a lot & I've tried to address that with her. I've also made a better effort making sure she washes her face every night (she usually takes a bath/shower every other night). Anyone else having this problem & if so, have you found anything that works well?
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We don't have this problem, but...
Is it only on her face? Or does she break out anywhere else? Any medications or anything like that?
I ask because I've had a few issues myself that look a lot like breakouts but are not. One was an allergic reaction to an antibiotic-- it looked like my face was *covered* in zits (which was horribly embarrassing-- i was 12) but it was really a rash caused by the allergic reaction. The other is psoriasis. I haven't had it on my face though. I get it on my hands & feet mostly, and recently had it break out on my armpits (which really sucked!) but when I get it it is a rash that looks a lot like acne.
So... I might talk to her pediatrician and see if he/she has any ideas for you, or whether a visit to a dermatologist might be in order.
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I was just going to say, I think 6 is too young to start getting pimples, better yet breakouts.
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The Phoenix Engine is under development by Wolfire Games, it's being used to power their upcoming game Overgrowth. The Phoenix Engine aims to be easily modable and user friendly, it has built in support for rigging, animating and scripting.
Here is the latest in our new Overgrowth alpha format! David himself took some time to illustrate the traditional changelog in video form.
Don't forget that you can help support us, try out our alphas (such as the one in the video), and chat with other preorderers in the Secret Preorder Forum by preordering Overgrowth.
The features highlighted in the above video are as follows (among some extra ones thrown in for good measure):
- Self-documenting script registration
- Attached objects can be manipulated with editor
- Can attach groups to characters
- Can save characters with attached objects
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- Fixed a problem with sky rendering when there is no terrain
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is this engine support C# ? what language is support ?
this engine would be great for platformers.
This engine would be great for a naruto game!
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I totally agree with what you said!
HEllo, you said your engine is very friendly for modding, so, will it be possible to modify terrain by using some brushes or terrain tool? Also you can modify your level in real time or off line only?
thank you!
The terrain is edited using heightmaps, which at the moment you can't edit in engine. It's probably codeable, but for now they have to be edited externally. Wolfire are using a third party terrain generator, terragen or geosculpt or something, to make their maps.
i've preordered it and u really can modify terrain colour and other things///even add or remove elements like rocks, wood and other things like weapons and AI controled ragdolls :) it's actually verry good and i can't wait for it to be finnished :)
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Taking over at Wisconsin was a unique opportunity for Gary Andersen.
Unlike many first-year head coaches, he will walk into a good situation at Wisconsin. The program is not on a downward trend -- the Badgers have played in the Rose Bowl each of the last three seasons, they have just updated their facilities, and the school has a good academic reputation. The team is not depleted of talent, and theoretically Andersen should be able to win with the current players as he shapes the team in his own mold.
Even as he prepares to recruit the next group of players to Madison, he barely had to spend time selling the current group on what the program needs to succeed.
Andersen said it was almost too good to be true.
"We have to adjust to the kids -- just like they have to adjust to us -- but even that has been smooth," he said. "What I think has been very impressive is that not one kid told me that they were a great team last year. They went to the Rose Bowl, but it was still a season that wasn't what any of them expected and they want to get better.
"That was what was most impressive so far was that everyone wants to get back to work and get better."
Andersen said he believes it was important to set aside time to meet with the current roster even as he started to reshape it through recruiting.
He took three days and blocked out time to meet with every player, allowing them to voice positives, negatives, excitement and concerns about the direction of the football team. He similarly called all of his former players at Utah State individually when he took the job at Wisconsin.
Andersen said he gets a better feel for each player in those brief sessions than in a group setting. Since he took over for Bret Bielema on Dec. 18, he has been working hard to know everyone.
Bielema left for Arkansas on Dec.4 after seven seasons and a 68-24 record. Andersen said he had to explain the process to some of his players.
"There are kids here who are on their third or fourth position coach," Andersen said. "That is hard. Now we are here asking them to trust us, but really our belief is that trust is earned and we will have to go about doing that.
"The whole process has been hectic and fast-paced, but we have had the support of the administration and Barry Alvarez's staff."
The juxtaposition of the recruiting approach of Andersen and the philosophy of Alvarez, the legendary Wisconsin coach and current athletic director, was one of the most commonly discussed topics surrounding the program.
Andersen ran a spread-style offense at Utah State. Alvarez has been a proponent of a power, pro-style offense.
The new head coach said the shadow cast by Alvarez will not block out what he wants to do but fit right into his fundamental beliefs.
"We ran spread at Utah State because that is the personnel we had," Andersen said. "A lot of people probably only saw us when we played Wisconsin anyways, so they really didn't take time to find out what we do."
In 2010, Utah State nearly defeated Oklahoma -- losing 31-24 -- and beat BYU for the first time in 17 years. The next season, USU was an onside kick away from knocking off Auburn and made its first bowl appearance in 14 years. Last season, the Aggies went 11-2, won the WAC, defeated Utah and came within a missed field goal of defeating Wisconsin.
"We ran spread against Wisconsin because it would have been foolish to try and pound them in the middle, but our offense has been very sound in the running game," Andersen said. "We want to be a threat in all aspects of the offense, and we want our rushing game to be 53 yards wide and 100 yards long."
In his last two seasons at Utah State, the program finished No. 6 and No. 25 nationally in rushing. His defense finished in the top 15 as well.
Rivals.com national recruiting analyst Mike Farrell said keeping the program at Wisconsin going will be the next step.
"As a recruiter, he's a bit unproven because he's spent most of his career in Utah, but in talking to kids he's recruited in recent years, they rave about the way he works with kids and parents, so I think he will fit in fine," Farrell said. "At Wisconsin, it's more about finding kids and developing them than loading up on four- and five-stars, and he has proven he can do that."
When Andersen took over, the class had 17 commitments. It ended with 17, but it had a four-player turnover.
The class of 2014 already has four players committed. All four are in-state prospects who play in the trenches.
Defensive tackle Craig Evans of Sun Prairie (Wis.) High is the highest-ranked at No. 190 in the Rivals250; offensive lineman Jaden Gault of Monona Grove (Wis.) High is a four-star just outside of the Rivals250.
Mixing in in-state lineman with out-of-state talent figures to be the formula for Andersen in recruiting.
"We are going to wake up in the morning being physical," he said. "Wisconsin breeds big, powerful young men, and they take pride in coming to this university and playing in this front seven. Our in-state recruiting will continue to harness that.
"We are going to recruit skill guys in our state, as well, but we may have to go into a larger range to get them onto campus and we feel very good about our ability to do that."
Selling the program -- not just the promise of a product -- has been another blessing for Andersen. He thinks that will ensure the success of one of the nation's best.
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My 35 weeker was born with very low blood sugar. Since my water broke and I didn't go into labor on my own, it took about a 5 days for my milk to come in. During the time shortly after his birth all heck broke loose because in addition to having blood sugar issues, he had feeding problems, trouble maintaining his temp, and jaundice.
So...he couldnt' keep down any of the formula options they were giving him (we tried them all), so his blood sugar was going berzerk, he lost a lot of weight (he was born at 6 lbs to begin with so he was a big 35 weeker but lost more than a pound before my milk came in so it was crazy). his jaundice got really bad since he wasn't eating and of course since he was skinny for his length (19.5 inches) he couldn't maintain his temp.
Long story short...the latest post about a baby being fed formula instead of breastmilk for a feeding got me thinking...in a situation where a baby is born with major blood sugar issues....CAN you wait until the milk comes in??
Once my milk came in it was a Godsend since it was the only thing he could eat and keep down, but in those 5 days until my milk came he wasn't necessarily stable. I can't imagine having not fed him anything for 5 days especially with the blood sugar problems.
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Look at this stuff!!!!! I can't even imagine how one develops such a unique style! Originality definitely still exists and you sir, are proof!
Look at this stuff!!!!! I can't even imagine how one develops such a unique style! Originality definitely still exists and you sir, are proof!
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Such consciousness in stylization! A very delicate treat.
Great fluid style.
Occasionally, not digging the lower legs, but overall great dynamic poses and flowing lines.
Very cool post.
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These are fantastic. Cool factor at its best I especially like samurai ant robot comic concepts.
i really love the shapes you use in your designs, very dynamic and gives a truly visceral appeal to your work. Would really love to see more of this style hit the mainstream.
Love them, very stylish. Be careful about repeating shapes though, like that forward extended leg which is so prominent in many of your pieces. use it too much and it starts looking gimmicky, or like a crutch.
Can't wait to see more!
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This is really refreshing, I love your style. Very original stuff. When is the comic coming?
Completely stylish, your work on shapes is very interesting.
very nice and such beautiful style, as mentioned above when dose the comic relese? i'm a huge samurai fan
Ohh I really like yer work a lot!!! Luv the swinging, stylish lines.
I read a comment about being careful of repeating shapes but I actually like that. It gives the style consistency. Especially if yer gonna be drawing a comic. I also like yer sense of color it's mature but still fresh.
love it completely awsome i would love to buy the comic
thank you guys, your words of appreciation mean a lot to me!
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Great! love the style here. I love specially the twisted legs.
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Here is some new stuff i've done in my free time. The first characters are from a gang series i want to make, then there's this mean robot monkey and of course Raphael which has seen better days.
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completely crazy style man, quite original and very dynamic,
your digitals painting are nice too, would love to see more of those, keep on sharing!
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Really amazing work on the dynamics. Enjoyed it very much! =)
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Awesome style and I love your colour choices. Keep up the great work
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This is insane. You are a bad ass.
Great stuff! Your characters have a real sense of action. Thanks for sharing! Are these all for the comic project?
christ this is amazing!
Great dynamics
Thank you guys for your comments, your interest in my art means a lot to me!
le capitan: the last ones are personal work, they are not from a project, just wanted to draw
Some of my personal work done lately. Hope you like it!
Nice! Reminds me a bit art of Vagrant Story, but in a some sort wacky-odd way -)
crazy cool
Thank you all for your comments and your kind words.
This is some stunning and inspirational stuff. I love how gestural everything is. I probably use about five or six standard "dynamic" base poses over and over again, but you have opened my eyes that there are hundreds! This is definitely a bookmark page for me, whenever I'm stumped on a character that seems static.
Lovely work, really interesting styling.
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It's been quite some time since my last post here . Here some new pieces
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June 21-27, 2015 at Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA.
This year's theme: "Fertile Ground—Lutheran Music from Michael Praetorius to J. S. Bach"
Lutheran music composition during the Baroque period embraced the Italian influences introduced by composers such as Claudio Monteverdi and Alessandro Grandi. It blended the Italianate style with German texts and the structure inherent in the language and saw the creation of a plethora of stunning works. The sacred concertos of Johann Hermann Schein and Heinrich Schütz are choice examples of music that provides fertile ground for later Lutheran composers, for example, G. P. Telemann and J. S. Bach. Sacred concertos and cantatas, as well as instrumental works for small chamber ensemble, will figure prominently throughout the week of music–making.
This year's workshop traces a path through these musical pastures, exploring well-known and lesser-known gems of the Baroque period by composers such as Michael Praetorius, Johann Hermann Schein, Samuel Scheidt, Heinrich Schütz, Georg Philipp Telemann, and J.S. Bach.
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Breakfast is bright and early, affording time for a bit of sight reading or personal practice before morning master classes begin.
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When I was in college, the war on drugs had just launched. I remember the PSA with an egg frying in a pan, and the message, "This is your brain on drugs." (The commercial did nothing to stop people from ingesting all forms of illegal substances, but I'm sure it was a big boon to the egg industry from the onslaught of people who found themselves suddenly craving an omelette.)
In my college years, I "experimented" with a "stimulant" or two one semester, and ended up getting the highest grade point average I would ever receive. I wanted to forward it to my parents and tell them, "This is MY brain on drugs."
In 2007, I was diagnosed with ADHD. I wish I could tell you what made me seek help in the first place, but I don't remember. As it turns out, an inability to remember things is a classic symptom of ADHD. My psychiatrist decided I should first try Ritalin. If it didn't do the trick, we would continue on down the line of meds and see if any of them "stuck."
Two days later, on a sunny Saturday morning, I got dressed, assisted my three-year-old daughter with her clothes, and headed off to meet friends at a local park.
Right before I left, I took the Ritalin.
When we arrived, I jumped out of the car and unstrapped my daughter from her car seat, and we were off. I galloped into the park like I was late for a board meeting. No sooner did I spot my friends did I start talking and talking and talking and talking. Had you held a radar gun to my mouth, I'm pretty sure you'd have clocked me spewing out ridiculous information at about 100 mph.
Inside my brain, it was like the grand finale of the Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular. My energy level was through the roof. When my kid said she wanted me to help "catch some leaves," I suggested we build the foundation for a skyscraper -- not that I really needed her help -- and with the time we had left over, we should consider drawing up the plans for an office park.
Two hours later, I found myself sitting on a bench, utterly depleted. I just wanted to go home and sleep. I figured all I needed was a year or two of some solid shuteye, and all would be well again.
But eventually, my psychiatrist and I came upon the right drug -- and suddenly, for the first time in my life, I felt like actually had a measurable attention span. However, although (thankfully) I've never again felt like I did before medication, I am still struggling, mightily. This is what it's like to be an adult with ADHD.
Whenever I get into an argument with someone or disagree with what they are saying, I rarely come out the winner. This has happened my entire adult life. Having ADHD often means that you are very disorganized, and, if you're like me, you have a tough time remembering things that were done or said to you -- or by you, for that matter. People with ADHD will often be told they said something, or did something, and they will have no memory of it, or at best a vague notion that what that person is saying might actually be true. Many times, I have believed something in my hearts of hearts, have sworn on my kid's soul that what I was saying was correct, and then I'd get a forward of the email in which I said no such thing (or worse, the opposite).
Over time, people with ADHD can come to doubt themselves to the point where they will back down from an argument, because they start to think that everything they believe or think they know is just their imagination. On the flip side, there are some of us who will never back down, just because they are tired of being wrong all the time -- or because, by the time they realize the other person is right, it's too late to back down without appearing foolish, and they feel incredible shame.
Adults with ADHD don't get a lot of sympathy or understanding. In the minds of many, you are basically an adult who has chosen to act like a child. It's hard for people, because they can't see the thoughts running back and forth through your mind, non-stop, all day long. They can't feel the tug-of-war between that urge in your body that tells you must go on to The Next Thing and your often-futile efforts to will yourself to stay put and finish the task at hand. They don't see how hard you try to quiet your mind and listen to what someone is saying, only to end up unable to recall the important details.