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A handy history
Condemned, celebrated, shunned: masturbation has long been an uncomfortable fact of life. Why?
The anonymous author of the pamphlet Onania (1716) was very worried about masturbation. The 'shameful vice', the 'solitary act of pleasure', was something too terrible to even be described. The writer agreed with those 'who are of the opinion, that… it never ought to be spoken of, or hinted at, because the bare mentioning of it may be dangerous to some'. There was, however, little reticence in cataloguing 'the frightful consequences of self-pollution'. Gonorrhoea, fits, epilepsy, consumption, impotence, headaches, weakness of intellect, backache, pimples, blisters, glandular swelling, trembling, dizziness, heart palpitations, urinary discharge, 'wandering pains', and incontinence – were all attributed to the scourge of onanism.
The fear was not confined to men. The full title of the pamphlet was Onania: Or the Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, and all its Frightful Consequences (in Both Sexes). Its author was aware that the sin of Onan referred to the spilling of male seed (and divine retribution for the act) but reiterated that he treated 'of this crime in relation to women as well as men'. '[W]hilst the offence is Self-Pollution in both, I could not think of any other word which would so well put the reader in mind both of the sin and its punishment'. Women who indulged could expect disease of the womb, hysteria, infertility and deflowering (the loss of 'that valuable badge of their chastity and innocence').
Another bestselling pamphlet was published later in the century: L'onanisme (1760) by Samuel Auguste Tissot. He was critical of Onania, 'a real chaos … all the author's reflections are nothing but theological and moral puerilities', but nevertheless listed 'the ills of which the English patients complain'. Tissot was likewise fixated on 'the physical disorders produced by masturbation', and provided his own case study, a watchmaker who had self-pleasured himself into 'insensibility' on a daily basis, sometimes three times a day; 'I found a being that less resembled a living creature than a corpse, lying upon straw, meagre, pale, and filthy, casting forth an infectious stench; almost incapable of motion.' The fear these pamphlets promoted soon spread.
The strange thing is that masturbation was never before the object of such horror. In ancient times, masturbation was either not much mentioned or treated as something a little vulgar, not in good taste, a bad joke. In the Middle Ages and for much of the early modern period too, masturbation, while sinful and unnatural, was not invested with such significance. What changed?
Religion and medicine combined powerfully to create a new and hostile discourse. The idea that the soul was present in semen led to thinking that it was very important to retain the vital fluid. Its spilling became, then, both immoral and dangerous (medicine believed in female semen at the time). 'Sin, vice, and self-destruction' were the 'trinity of ideas' that would dominate from the 18th into the 19th century, as the historians Jean Stengers and Anne Van Neck put it in Masturbation: The Great Terror (2001).
There were exceptions. Sometimes masturbation was opposed for more 'enlightened' reasons. In the 1830s and 1840s, for instance, female moral campaign societies in the United States condemned masturbation, not out of hostility to sex, but as a means to self-control. What would now be termed 'greater sexual agency' – the historian April Haynes refers to 'sexual virtue' and 'virtuous restraint' – was central to their message.
Yet it is difficult to escape the intensity of the fear. J H Kellogg's Plain Facts for Old and Young (1877) contained both exaggerated horror stories and grand claims: 'neither the plague, nor war, nor smallpox, nor similar diseases, have produced results so disastrous to humanity as the pernicious habit of Onanism; it is the destroying element of civilised societies'. Kellogg suggested remedies for the scourge, such as exercise, strict bathing and sleeping regimes, compresses, douching, enemas and electrical treatment. Diet was vital: this rabid anti-masturbator was co-inventor of the breakfast cereal that still bears his name. 'Few of today's eaters of Kellogg's Corn Flakes know that he invented them, almost literally, as anti-masturbation food,' as the psychologist John Money once pointed out.
The traces are still with us in other ways. Male circumcision, for instance, originated in part with the 19th-century obsession with the role of the foreskin in encouraging masturbatory practices. Consciously or not, many US males are faced with this bodily reminder every time they masturbate. And the general disquiet unleashed in the 18th century similarly lingers on today. We seem to have a confusing and conflicting relationship with masturbation. On one hand it is accepted, even celebrated – on the other, there remains an unmistakable element of taboo.
When the sociologist Anthony Giddens in The Transformation of Intimacy (1992) attempted to identify what made modern sex modern, one of the characteristics he identified was the acceptance of masturbation. It was, as he said, masturbation's 'coming out'. Now it was 'widely recommended as a major source of sexual pleasure, and actively encouraged as a mode of improving sexual responsiveness on the part of both sexes'. It had indeed come to signify female sexual freedom with Betty Dodson's Liberating Masturbation (1974) (renamed and republished as Sex for One in 1996), which has sold more than a million copies, and her Bodysex Workshops in Manhattan with their 'all-women masturbation circles'. The Boston Women's Health Collective's classic feminist text Our Bodies, Ourselves (1973) included a section called 'Learning to Masturbate'.
Alfred Kinsey and his team are mainly remembered for the sex surveys that publicised the pervasiveness of same-sex desires and experiences in the US, but they also recognised the prevalence of masturbation. It was, for both men and women, one of the nation's principal sexual outlets. In the US National Survey (2009–10), 94 per cent of men aged 25-29 and 85 per cent of women in the same age group said that they had masturbated alone in the course of their lifetime. (All surveys indicate lower reported rates for women.) In the just-published results of the 2012 US National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, 92 per cent of straight men and a full 100 per cent of gay men recorded lifetime masturbation.
There has certainly been little silence about the activity. Several generations of German university students were questioned by a Hamburg research team about their masturbatory habits to chart changing attitudes and practices from 1966 to 1996; their results were published in 2003. Did they reach orgasm? Were they sexually satisfied? Was it fun? In another study, US women were contacted on Craigslist and asked about their masturbatory experiences, including clitoral stimulation and vaginal penetration. An older, somewhat self-referential study from 1977 of sexual arousal to films of masturbation asked psychology students at the University of Connecticut to report their 'genital sensations' while watching those films. Erection? Ejaculation? Breast sensations? Vaginal lubrication? Orgasm? And doctors have written up studies of the failed experiments of unfortunate patients: 'Masturbation Injury Resulting from Intraurethral Introduction of Spaghetti' (1986); 'Penile Incarceration Secondary to Masturbation with A Steel Pipe' (2013), with illustrations.
'We are a profoundly self-pleasuring society at both a metaphorical and material level'
Self-stimulation has been employed in sexual research, though not always to great import. Kinsey and his team wanted to measure how far, if at all, semen was projected during ejaculation: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Kinsey's biographer, refers to queues of men in Greenwich Village waiting to be filmed at $3 an ejaculation. William Masters and Virginia Johnson recorded and measured the physiological response during sexual arousal, using new technology, including a miniature camera inside a plastic phallus. Their book Human Sexual Response (1966) was based on data from more than 10,000 orgasms from nearly 700 volunteers: laboratory research involving sexual intercourse, stimulation, and masturbation by hand and with that transparent phallus. Learned journals have produced findings such as 'Orgasm in Women in the Laboratory – Quantitative Studies on Duration, Intensity, Latency, and Vaginal Blood Flow' (1985).
In therapy, too, masturbation has found its place 'as a means of achieving sexual health', as an article by Eli Coleman, the director of the programme in human sexuality at the University of Minnesota Medical School, once put it. A published study in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology in 1977 outlined therapist-supervised female masturbation (with dildo, vibrator and 'organic vegetables') as a way of encouraging vaginal orgasm. Then there is The Big Book of Masturbation (2003) and the hundreds of (pun intended) self-help books, Masturbation for Weight Loss, a Woman's Guide only among the latest (and more opportunistic).
Self-pleasure has featured in literature, most famously in Philip Roth's novel Portnoy's Complaint (1969). But it is there in more recent writing too, including Chuck Palahniuk's disturbing short story 'Guts' (2004). Autoeroticism (and its traces) have been showcased in artistic expression: in Jordan MacKenzie's sperm and charcoal canvases (2007), for example, or in Marina Abramović's reprise of Vito Acconci's Seedbed at the Guggenheim in 2005, or her video art Balkan Erotic Epic of the same year.
On film and television, masturbation is similarly pervasive: Lauren Rosewarne's Masturbation in Pop Culture (2014) was able to draw on more than 600 such scenes. My favourites are in the film Spanking the Monkey (1994), in which the main character is trying to masturbate in the bathroom, while the family dog, seemingly alert to such behaviour, pants and whines at the door; and in the Seinfeld episode 'The Contest' (1992), in which the 'm' word is never uttered, and where George's mother tells her adult son that he is 'treating his body like it was an amusement park'.
There is much evidence, then, for what the film scholar Greg Tuck in 2009 called the 'mainstreaming of masturbation': 'We are a profoundly self-pleasuring society at both a metaphorical and material level.' There are politically-conscious masturbation websites. There is the online 'Masturbation Hall of Fame' (sponsored by the sex-toys franchise Good Vibrations). There are masturbationathons, and jack-off-clubs, and masturbation parties.
It would be a mistake, however, to present a rigid contrast between past condemnation and present acceptance. There are continuities. Autoeroticism might be mainstreamed but that does not mean it is totally accepted. In Sexual Investigations (1996), the philosopher Alan Soble observed that people brag about casual sex and infidelities but remain silent about solitary sex. Anne-Francis Watson and Alan McKee's 2013 study of 14- to 16-year-old Australians found that not only the participants but also their families and teachers were more comfortable talking about almost any other sexual matter than about self-pleasuring. It 'remains an activity that is viewed as shameful and problematic', warns the entry on masturbation in the Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2011). In a study of the sexuality of students in a western US university, where they were asked about sexual orientation, anal and vaginal sex, condom use, and masturbation, it was the last topic that occasioned reservation: 28 per cent of the participants 'declined to answer the masturbation questions'. Masturbation remains, to some extent, taboo.
When the subject is mentioned, it is often as an object of laughter or ridicule. Rosewarne, the dogged viewer of the 600 masturbation scenes in film and TV, concluded that male masturbation was almost invariably portrayed negatively (female masturbation was mostly erotic). Watson and McKee's study revealed that their young Australians knew that masturbation was normal yet still made 'negative or ambivalent statements' about it.
Belief in the evils of masturbation has resurfaced in the figure of the sex addict and in the obsession with the impact of internet pornography. Throughout their relatively short histories, sexual addiction and hypersexual disorder have included masturbation as one of the primary symptoms of their purported maladies. What, in a sex-positive environment, would be considered normal sexual behaviour has been pathologised in another. Of the 152 patients in treatment for hypersexual disorder in clinics in California, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas and Utah, a 2012 study showed that most characterised their sexual disorder in terms of pornography consumption (81 per cent) and masturbation (78 per cent). The New Catholic Encyclopedia's supplement on masturbation (2012-13), too, slips into a lengthy disquisition on sex addiction and the evils of internet pornography: 'The availability of internet pornography has markedly increased the practice of masturbation to the degree that it can be appropriately referred to as an epidemic.'
Critics think that therapeutic masturbation might reinforce sexual selfishness rather than sexual empathy and sharing
The masturbator is often seen as the pornography-consumer and sex addict enslaved by masturbation. The sociologist Steve Garlick has suggested that negative attitudes to masturbation have been reconstituted to 'surreptitiously infect ideas about pornography'. Pornography has become masturbation's metonym. Significantly, when the New Zealand politician Shane Jones was exposed for using his taxpayer-funded credit card to view pornographic movies, the unnamed shame was that his self-pleasuring activities were proclaimed on the front pages of the nation's newspapers – thus the jokes about 'the matter in hand' and not shaking hands with him at early morning meetings. It would have been less humiliating, one assumes, if he had used the public purse to finance the services of sex workers.
Nor is there consensus on the benefits of masturbation. Despite its continued use in therapy, some therapists question its usefulness and propriety. 'It is a mystery to me how conversational psychotherapy has made the sudden transition to massage parlour technology involving vibrators, mirrors, surrogates, and now even carrots and cucumbers!' one psychologist protested in the late 1970s. He was concerned about issues of client-patient power and a blinkered pursuit of the sexual climax 'ignoring … the more profound psychological implications of the procedure'. In terms of effectiveness, critics think that therapeutic masturbation might reinforce individual pleasure and sexual selfishness rather than creating sexual empathy and sharing. As one observed in the pages of the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy in 1995: 'Ironically, the argument against masturbation in American society was originally religiously founded, but may re-emerge as a humanist argument.' Oversimplified, but in essence right: people remain disturbed by the solitariness of solitary sex.
Why has what the Japanese charmingly call 'self-play' become such a forcing ground for sexual attitudes? Perhaps there is something about masturbation's uncontrollability that continues to make people anxious. It is perversely non-procreative, incestuous, adulterous, homosexual, 'often pederastic' and, in imagination at least, sex with 'every man, woman, or beast to whom I take a fancy', to quote Soble. For the ever-astute historian Thomas Laqueur, author of Solitary Sex (2003), masturbation is 'that part of human sexual life where potentially unlimited pleasure meets social restraint'.
Why did masturbation become such a problem? For Laqueur, it began with developments in 18th-century Europe, with the cultural rise of the imagination in the arts, the seemingly unbounded future of commerce, the role of print culture, the rise of private, silent reading, especially novels, and the democratic ingredients of this transformation. Masturbation's condemned tendencies – solitariness, excessive desire, limitless imagination, and equal-opportunity pleasure – were an outer limit or testing of these valued attributes, 'a kind of Satan to the glories of bourgeois civilisation'.
In more pleasure-conscious modern times, the balance has tipped towards personal gratification. The acceptance of personal autonomy, sexual liberation and sexual consumerism, together with a widespread focus on addiction, and the ubiquity of the internet, now seem to demand their own demon. Fears of unrestrained fantasy and endless indulging of the self remain. Onania's 18th-century complaints about the lack of restraint of solitary sex are not, in the end, all that far away from today's fear of boundless, ungovernable, unquenchable pleasure in the self.
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A Brief History of Homosexuality and Bisexuality in Ancient China
Bisexuality and homosexuality in Ancient Greece is (relatively) well-documented and understood, but same-sex love and romance in Ancient China is a little more complex and speculative.
Still, there is recorded documentation of same-sex relationships in each of Ancient China's many dynasties, and there are many things we know about how bisexuality manifested itself during those times. Similar to Greece, there wasn't a strict divide between "gay," "straight," and "bisexual," and in Ancient Chinese times, it's believed that same-sex relationships were more commonplace.
To increase your knowledge of queer history, here's some factoids about bisexuality and homosexuality from the time of Ancient China. (Unsurprisingly, many of the historic accounts of homosexuality take the form of stories/myths, so we'll share some of those too.)
Ancient Chinese Terminology
Let's start with some Classical Chinese terminology, which is quite fascinating. There were two common phrases for men who engage in same-sex relationships in Classical Chinese, which are sometimes (though not often) used today: "The passion of the cut sleeve" (斷袖之癖) and the "divided peach" (分桃).
Modern Chinese slang is equally as interesting, with Baboon (狒狒) being the literal translation of what Westerners call a bear-chaser and monkey (猴子) being the literal translation of what Westerners call a twink. 0 is also a symbol for bottom (0 is supposed to reference an anus) and 1 is a reference for top (1 being a symbol of the penis). So naturally, .5 means vers.
The History of the Cut Sleeve and Same-sex Relationships and Intimacy among Emperors of the Han dynasty.
We can probably guess your response when you first read the term "the cut sleeve," (Is it a euphemism for a circumcised penis?! What does it mean?!) but there's actually a heartwarming story that explains it. Emperor Ai of the Han Dynasty who ruled from 7 to 1 BC took the throne when he was 20. He was very much known for his homosexual, proclivities, we'll call them. One morning, Ai's lover Dong Xian was still asleep in bed, lying on Ai's robes. Instead of waking Dong Xian, Ai cut off his sleeve to let his lover continue to sleep peacefully.
But Emperor Ai wasn't the only emperor of the Han Dynasty (206 BC to 220 AD) that had same-sex sexual relationships. The Han records show that nearly every emperor that ruled during the Han Dynasty had same-sex lovers (10 of the 13) in addition to their wives and female concubines.
After the Han Dynasty, ancient Chinese people were more tolerant of same-sex relationships, assuming it didn't get in the way of eventually marrying (a woman) and starting a family.
The Tears of Lord Long Yang
Another passionate same-sex love story comes from Lord Long Yang who was lovers with the King of Wei. The two men were fishing, and together they caught an impressively large fish. Then, they happened to catch an even bigger fish, so the king threw away the first one. Suddenly, Long Yang broke out into tears. When the King asked him what was wrong, Long Yang replied that he was afraid he would be treated like the first fish. When the king found someone newer and more impressive, he'd be thrown away too. Moved, the King of Wei issued a decree stating that "Whoever shall dare speak of beauties in my presence will have his whole clan extirpated [destroyed]."
(Isn't that adorable? I mean, possessive and nuts, but also adorable?) Anyway, that's why "Long Yang" is a another reference to same-sex love in China.
In Classical Chinese, the pronouns he, she, and it were written with the same gender-neutral character, tā (他). If only English learned from Classical Chinese, instead of differentiating gender with obnoxious pronouns…
Because of this, there's more ambiguity with regards to same-sex relationships occurring in classical Chinese texts. Many stories can be read as either homosexual or heterosexual depending on the reader's desire. Also, many ancient writings were written by men with a female voice (or persona), further complicating as to whether the work was intended to be heterosexual or homosexual.
The switch of attitudes against same-sex relationships in the 19th century
Ancient Chinese attitudes towards same-sex couples were pretty relaxed (assuming it didn't interfere with heterosexual marriage and procreation), but of course, that's not the case with China today. It's unclear what exactly caused the attitude shift toward same-sex couples, but many scholars credit modern China's homophobia/biphobia and disapproval of same-sex relationships to the country's adoption of Western viewpoints of homosexuality.
In the 19th century, the idea of the "modern homosexual" was born in the West, and with it, the birth of the "modern heterosexual" whose behaviors and sexual activities were opposite of the modern homosexual. It's believed China picked up some of the new Western perspectives concerning homosexuality in the 19th century, which dichotomized sexuality, eventually demonizing same-sex relationships.
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The film making us face the idea disabled people have sex
'Yes We Fuck' is an uncompromising look at the reality that disabled people have sex lives too. We caught up with director and disability activist Antonio Centeno to find out more
BY Sirin Kale
As a society we're becoming more accepting of sexuality in all its guises and forms – and rightly so. 2015 could be seen as the year when trans issues finally broke through into the mainstream after decades spent on the margins of society, while more and more women in particular are joining the sexually fluid revolution. And yet for all of our talk, there's one conversation that we're not having – about how disabled people have sex.
Spanish director and disability activist Antonio Centeno wants to tackle this prudishness head-on. His film Yes We Fuck (which is co-directed with Raúl de la Morena) is a no-holds barred look at the world of disabled sexuality, with uncompromising visuals (of people having sex) and a strong sense of moral purpose. Centeno shows human intimacy in all its forms, and what strikes you from watching the film is that the issues faced by disabled people when it comes to their sex lives aren't so dissimilar to those faced by the rest of the population.
Watching the film, which recently showed at the British Film Institute's Flare festival, at times makes for uncomfortable viewing. You're discomfited by the fact that the sexuality depicted on our TVs and in popular culture almost uniformly represents one experience: that of heterosexual intimacy between two able-bodied, cis-gendered people.
Yes We Fuck is an uplifting, refreshing corrective to the narrative that disabled people are in some way sexless, made noble by the struggles they undergo to assimilate into a society that is in many ways ableist. The film isn't perfect – sections are too long, and while Centeno wants to depict the reality of disabled people having sex, at times the camera lingers too long or in a way that feels intrusive. It's clear that this is very much a passion project from the fledging director, and one which could perhaps have profited from tauter editing. Nonetheless, it's rare to see a film which so profoundly makes you confront your own prejudices to recognize that we all of us share a common humanity and a common desire to express that humanity through the most natural act of all – the act of fucking, of course.
To find why we need to get on board with the fact that disabled people fuck like the rest of us, Dazed caught up with Centeno at the BFI. Below is the transcript of our conversation, which has been edited for flow and clarity.
When Did Porn Become Sex Ed?
Conversations between adults and teenagers about what happens after "yes" remain rare.
THE other day, I got an email from a 21-year-old college senior about sex — or perhaps more correctly, about how ill equipped she was to talk about sex. The abstinence-only curriculum in her middle and high schools had taught her little more than "don't," and she'd told me that although her otherwise liberal parents would have been willing to answer any questions, it was pretty clear the topic made them even more uncomfortable than it made her.
So she had turned to pornography. "There's a lot of problems with porn," she wrote. "But it is kind of nice to be able to use it to gain some knowledge of sex."
I wish I could say her sentiments were unusual, but I heard them repeatedly during the three years I spent interviewing young women in high school and college for a book on girls and sex. In fact, according to a survey of college students in Britain, 60 percent consult pornography, at least in part, as though it were an instruction manual, even as nearly three-quarters say that they know it is as realistic as pro wrestling. (Its depictions of women, meanwhile, are about as accurate as those of the "The Real Housewives" franchise.)
The statistics on sexual assault may have forced a national dialogue on consent, but honest conversations between adults and teenagers about what happens after yes — discussions about ethics, respect, decision making, sensuality, reciprocity, relationship building, the ability to assert desires and set limits — remain rare. And while we are more often telling children that both parties must agree unequivocally to a sexual encounter, we still tend to avoid the biggest taboo of all: women's capacity for and entitlement to sexual pleasure.
It starts, whether intentionally or not, with parents. When my daughter was a baby, I remember reading somewhere that while labeling infants' body parts ("here's your nose," "here are your toes"), parents often include a boy's genitals but not a girl's. Leaving something unnamed, of course, makes it quite literally unspeakable.
Nor does that silence change much as girls get older. President Obama is trying — finally — in his 2017 budget to remove all federal funding for abstinence education (research has shown repeatedly that the nearly $2 billion spent on it over the past quarter-century may as well have been set on fire). Yet according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fewer than half of high schools and only a fifth of middle schools teach all 16 components the agency recommends as essential to sex education. Only 23 states mandate sex ed at all; 13 require it to be medically accurate.
Even the most comprehensive classes generally stick with a woman's internal parts: uteruses, fallopian tubes, ovaries. Those classic diagrams of a woman's reproductive system, the ones shaped like the head of a steer, blur into a gray Y between the legs, as if the vulva and the labia, let alone the clitoris, don't exist. And whereas males' puberty is often characterized in terms of erections, ejaculation and the emergence of a near-unstoppable sex drive, females' is defined by periods. And the possibility of unwanted pregnancy. When do we explain the miraculous nuances of their anatomy? When do we address exploration, self-knowledge?
No wonder that according to the largest survey on American sexual behavior conducted in decades, published in 2010 in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, researchers at Indiana University found only about a third of girls between 14 and 17 reported masturbating regularly and fewer than half have even tried once. When I asked about the subject, girls would tell me, "I have a boyfriend to do that," though, in addition to placing their pleasure in someone else's hands, few had ever climaxed with a partner.
Boys, meanwhile, used masturbating on their own as a reason girls should perform oral sex, which was typically not reciprocated. As one of a group of college sophomores informed me, "Guys will say, 'A hand job is a man job, a blow job is yo' job.' " The other women nodded their heads in agreement.
Frustrated by such stories, I asked a high school senior how she would feel if guys expected girls to, say, fetch a glass of water from the kitchen whenever they were together yet never (or only grudgingly) offered to do so in return? She burst out laughing. "Well, I guess when you put it that way," she said.
The rise of oral sex, as well as its demotion to an act less intimate than intercourse, was among the most significant transformations in American sexual behavior during the 20th century. In the 21st, the biggest change appears to be an increase in anal sex. In 1992, 16 percent of women aged 18 to 24 said they had tried anal sex. Today, according to the Indiana University study, 20 percent of women 18 to 19 have, and by ages 20 to 24 it's up to 40 percent.
A 2014 study of 16- to 18-year-old heterosexuals — and can we just pause a moment to consider just how young that is? — published in a British medical journal found that it was mainly boys who pushed for "fifth base," approaching it less as a form of intimacy with a partner (who they assumed would both need to be and could be coerced into it) than a competition with other boys. They expected girls to endure the act, which young women in the study consistently reported as painful. Both sexes blamed the girls themselves for the discomfort, calling them "naïve or flawed," unable to "relax."
According to Debby Herbenick, director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University and one of the researchers on its sexual behavior survey, when anal sex is included, 70 percent of women report pain in their sexual encounters. Even when it's not, about a third of young women experience pain, as opposed to about 5 percent of men. What's more, according to Sara McClelland, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, college women are more likely than men to use their partner's physical pleasure as the yardstick for their satisfaction, saying things like "If he's sexually satisfied, then I'm sexually satisfied." Men are more likely to measure satisfaction by their own orgasm.
Professor McClelland writes about sexuality as a matter of "intimate justice." It touches on fundamental issues of gender inequality, economic disparity, violence, bodily integrity, physical and mental health, self-efficacy and power dynamics in our most personal relationships, whether they last two hours or 20 years. She asks us to consider: Who has the right to engage in sexual behavior? Who has the right to enjoy it? Who is the primary beneficiary of the experience? Who feels deserving? How does each partner define "good enough"? Those are thorny questions when looking at female sexuality at any age, but particularly when considering girls' formative experiences.
We are learning to support girls as they "lean in" educationally and professionally, yet in this most personal of realms, we allow them to topple. It is almost as if parents believe that if they don't tell their daughters that sex should feel good, they won't find out. And perhaps that's correct: They don't, not easily anyway. But the outcome is hardly what adults could have hoped.
What if we went the other way? What if we spoke to kids about sex more instead of less, what if we could normalize it, integrate it into everyday life and shift our thinking in the ways that we (mostly) have about women's public roles? Because the truth is, the more frankly and fully teachers, parents and doctors talk to young people about sexuality, the more likely kids are both to delay sexual activity and to behave responsibly and ethically when they do engage in it.
Consider a 2010 study published in The International Journal of Sexual Health comparing the early experiences of nearly 300 randomly chosen American and Dutch women at two similar colleges — mostly white, middle class, with similar religious backgrounds. So, apples to apples. The Americans had become sexually active at a younger age than the Dutch, had had more encounters with more partners and were less likely to use birth control. They were also more likely to say that they'd first had intercourse because of pressure from friends or partners.
In subsequent interviews with some of the participants, the Americans, much like the ones I met, described interactions that were "driven by hormones," in which the guys determined relationships, both sexes prioritized male pleasure, and reciprocity was rare. As for the Dutch? Their early sexual activity took place in caring, respectful relationships in which they communicated openly with their partners (whom they said they knew "very well") about what felt good and what didn't, about how far they wanted to go, and about what kind of protection they would need along the way. They reported more comfort with their bodies and their desires than the Americans and were more in touch with their own pleasure.
What's their secret? The Dutch said that teachers and doctors had talked candidly to them about sex, pleasure and the importance of a mutual trust, even love. More than that, though, there was a stark difference in how their parents approached those topics.
While the survey did not reveal a significant difference in how comfortable parents were talking about sex, the subsequent interviews showed that the American moms had focused on the potential risks and dangers, while their dads, if they said anything at all, stuck to lame jokes.
Dutch parents, by contrast, had talked to their daughters from an early age about both joy and responsibility. As a result, one Dutch woman said she told her mother immediately after she first had intercourse, and that "my friend's mother also asked me how it was, if I had an orgasm and if he had one."
MEANWHILE, according to Amy T. Schalet, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of "Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex, " young Dutch men expect to combine sex and love. In interviews, they generally credited their fathers with teaching them that their partners must be equally up for any sexual activity, that the women could (and should) enjoy themselves as much as men, and that, as one respondent said, he would be stupid to have sex "with a drunken head." Although she found that young Dutch and American men both often yearned for love, only the Americans considered that a personal quirk.
I thought about all of that that recently when, driving home with my daughter, who is now in middle school, we passed a billboard whose giant letters on a neon-orange background read, "Porn kills love." I asked her if she knew what pornography was. She rolled her eyes and said in that jaded tone that parents of preteenagers know so well, "Yes, Mom, but I've never seen it."
I could've let the matter drop, felt relieved that she might yet make it to her first kiss unencumbered by those images.
Goodness knows, that would've been easier. Instead I took a deep breath and started the conversation: "I know, Honey, but you will, and there are a few things you need to know."
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Minnesota vs USC Recap - Minnesota Wins 71-57
Minnesota earned a 71-57 victory over USC on Saturday, getting 14 points from Andre Hollins at Galen Center.
Minnesota was the ATS victor, as they covered the 7.5-point spread as a favorite.
Minnesota got 13 points from Rodney Williams Jr. and another 12 points from Trevor Mbakwe. Julian Welch contributed 4 assists, while Rodney Williams Jr. cleaned the glass with 11 rebounds.
USC got a 15-point performance from Omar Oraby, who was supported by 13 points from Byron Wesley. Jio Fontan had 4 assists in a losing cause for USC, while Dewayne Dedmon grabbed 10 rebounds.
Minnesota led at halftime, 38-26.
The rebound battle favored Minnesota as they grabbed 40 boards, while USC only had 32.

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After kicking off 2013 with their eight-man one-night 67kg tournament, Krush returned earlier today with Krush.26 featuring a 70kg title fight and the opening rounds of both the inaugural 58kg tournament and the 55kg WILDRUSH League, as well as a 70kg fight between top Japanese Middleweights Yoshihiro Sato and Kenta.
In the night's main event, Krush 70kg champion Yasuhiro Kido picked up his first title defense with a 2nd round knockout of Takuro Moriya. After a slow first round, Kido landed a flurry of punches that floored Moriya, who was unable to get up. There was a bit of trash talk from both fighters coming into this fight, with I believe Moriya trying to get Kido to bet that he'd retire if he lost, so it must've felt good for Kido to knock him out. This was Kido's first fight since being knocked out in the K-1 Word MAX Final in December, which snapped a 6 fight win streak, but Kido now improves to 2-0 with a pair of knockouts in Krush title fights. Next in line would probably be Kenta, but next for Kido is a fight in Big Bang in February. Moriya has a 4-fight win streak snapped including a pair of wins over Asami Zaurus, who he beat in a #1 contender bout to earn this fight. Next for him could possibly be a fight with Yoshihiro Sato and a win would definitely be a career best.
In the co-main event, former Krush 70kg champ Kenta pulled off an upset over Yoshihiro Sato, winning 29-28 on all 3 cards. Kenta seems to have used his high volume, presusre style while being able to get inside the taller Sato's reach. This is a huge win for Kenta who had a rough 2012 with losses to Yasuhiro Kido, TOMOYUKI and Soichiro Miyakosh and probably places him in line for a 3rd fight with Kido and the chance to get his title back. Big disappointment for Sato, who hadn't fought in Krush since February, as most people had him pegged as one of the top 2 Middleweights in Japan. He was coming in off of back to back losses in GLORY to Shemsi Beqiri and Sanny Dahlbeck.
In the opening round of the Krush 58kg tournament, Nobuchika Terado scored a 3rd round knockout of KO-ICHI, Takeru knocked out Kenta Yagami in the 1st round, Shota Kanbe won a unanimous decision over Koji and Yuzo Suzuki knocked out Tsuyoshi Nakajima. In the reserve bout, Yuta Otaki knocked out SATOI in the first round. Not a lot of surprises as tournament favorites Nobuchika Terado and Takeru moved through with stoppage wins while Suzuki proved that he had improved more than Nakajima since their first fight and Kanbe, the youngest fighter in the tournament, picked up a solid win. The semifinals take place at Krush.27 and will see Nobuchika Terado vs Shota Kanbe and Takeru vs Yuzo Suzuki. I fully expect Takeru and Terado to get by their opponents to set up a final between the two, though Suzuki has a lot of momentum going into this fight after two very strong performances in a row.
In the opening round of the 55kg WILDRUSH League, Takumi picked up a unanimous decision over Kazuki Okawa, Yuya Suzuki scored a 3rd round stoppage of Masanori Shimada and Yuki Masato and Kazyosi fought to a draw. Suzuki finds himself in first as the only person to score a knockout, earning 3 points, while Takumi gets 2 points for a decision win and Masato and Kazyosi each earn a point for a draw. The first round didn't teach us a whole lot, as Takumi won with ease and one of the other fights ended in a draw. However, 16 year old Masanori Shimada took a big hit in his stock as he was 2-1-1 as a pro and 36-2-2 as an amateur, and so did Kazyosi, who was 2-0-0 in his pro career coming in. Despite not getting 3 points for a stoppage, I'm still confident that Takumi will run through the tournament field, but he may need to score some stoppages to ensure that Suzuki doesn't outpoint him.
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Canal Fulton Police Chief Doug Swartz is being sued by a Jackson Township man who claims he was seriously injured when he was struck while crossing the street nearly five years ago in front of Jackson High School.
Travis Dagner, who was 15 at the time of the incident, filed the lawsuit in April in Stark County Common Pleas Court. Court records show the case is scheduled to go to trial Aug. 30 in front of Common Pleas Judge Lee Sinclair.
The lawsuit indicates that the statute of limitations had not expired because it was filed within two years of Dagner's 18th birthday. Dagner is seeking more than $25,000 compensatory damages.
Stacie Roth, Dagner's attorney, could not be reached for comment Friday afternoon.
The lawsuit accuses Swartz of negligence by failing to operate his vehicle in a safe manner and speeding in a school zone.
According to the lawsuit, Dagner, then a sophomore at Jackson High, was trying to cross Fulton Drive NW around 2:45 p.m., Sept. 5, 2007. The lawsuit states that Swartz was traveling east on Fulton when he entered the left turn lane and hit Dagner, throwing him onto his vehicle and slamming him to the ground. Dagner reportedly sustained "severe and permanent" injuries as well as "pain and suffering and emotional distress." The lawsuit alleges that Dagner continues to incur medical expenses from the crash and lost the ability to seek "gainful employment."
A crash report obtained from the Jackson Township Police Department shows that Dagner was not transported to the hospital. It also states that Dagner "ran out in front of (Swartz), causing (Swartz) to strike him." The report listed vehicle speed at 25 mph in a 20 mph zone.
Swartz, who was promoted to police chief earlier this year, was driving a 2004 Pontiac Grand Am and was not on duty, according to the crash report. He was not cited for the crash.
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I am a single mother for my 10 yo daughter, and help take care of my elderly mother, which sometimes needs to take priority over work. I will just quote this from Lehman Brothers/ Aurora Loan Services, "We value our team members that take pride in your family, if there is ever any time needed to take care of your family, we are more than happy to let you." In July. '05, I needed to take some time off to help my mother with my father that was DIEING of CANCER, before dieing in Aug. '05. I was written up for missing too many days of work, and was denied my Family Grievance, since i had to take days off before he died.
This was a very hard time for me, beings that my mother and father had adopted me since a newborn. I am very close to my family, and as Lehman had stated, FAMILY FIRST, this was my priority.
Within the last two years of being a CS Rep, I had continued to move up in our CUSTOMER SERVICE RATINGS PROGRAM, ending up with a silver this year, '08. I was one of the few CS Reps. that would take time with our customers, and made sure that they understood what was being said, that they would be happy after the call, and that I was there to help them, NOT FIGHT AGAINST THEM. Lehman wanted us to get in as many calls as possible, and not care about quality or care about our clients. I understand that these are hard times for everyone, including myself.
After being FIRED, i had to file for Unemployment, and was told that I was going to have to do the 12 week waiting period to receive any payments, because I was fired for missing too many days. I filed an appeal, and get this, LEHMAN BROTHERS/ AURORA LOAN SERVICES, were obviously too busy trying to scam you guys, that they would not even get on the line for the telephone hearing.
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Geoff Scott, Community Investment Manager at Keepmoat
Housing and regeneration specialists, Keepmoat have appointed their first Community Investment Manager to the North East Business Development Team to support local people in the communities they are working within across the region into training and employment opportunities.
Forty-five-year-old Geoff Scott from South Hetton, East Durham joins Keepmoat from South Tyneside Council where he worked as an Apprenticeships & Skills Co-ordinator for five years.
The £7 million pound refurbishment of the iconic Grade II* Listed Byker Wall on behalf of Byker Community Trust will be a key project for Geoff to use his expertise to work in partnership with Byker Community Trust and Newcastle Futures to maximise the training opportunities that this project can offer to local people and businesses.
Based at one of the company's regional offices in Hebburn, Geoff will start working on the Byker contract in February next year.
"I am really looking forward to working with the people of Byker as Keepmoat works to improve the 400 flats and maisonettes in the Byker wall."
"Keepmoat has a strong history of working in Byker and I look forward to continuing its involvement in the physical, social and economic improvements of the area."
Part of the Byker Community Trust's £24.5m planned investment in the estate, this phase of works will see a full external fabric overhaul including a new roof, new windows and doors.
Improvements will also be made to communal stairwells and entrances, new aerial systems and a complete repaint in line with the original colour scheme.
The Byker Community Trust (BCT), the housing association responsible for the ownership and management of more than 1,800 homes on the estate, appointed contractors Keepmoat to carry out the work earlier this year.
Graham Scanlon, Business Development Director for Keepmoat North East, said: "Engaging with local communities is an important element of our work. It is imperative that residents are engaged and supported through our improvement programmes and that we maximise the ability of local people to find training, apprenticeship and job opportunities.
"Geoff brings with him a wealth of experience from his previous role and I would like to welcome him to the team. I am sure he will be a great asset to the business and to the local people of Byker."
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And that's why I picked Froakie ;3;
(First time in generations that I picked the water starter, the only other one being Mudkip on my first Sapphire)
(First time in generations that I picked the water starter, the only other one being Mudkip on my first Sapphire)
The more I look at fanart of these final evos, the more I am sure that I have no idea who I am going to pick!!!!!!
I'm liking this new water starter he even has a cool new move called Water Shuriken, how cool is that!
I think it's so cool! Love the movement in this!
this pokeman is really hot and that tongue scarf is absolutely amazing
well i hope youre not being sarcastic because it really it gets way to much hate
like what the hell
the notion of ironically liking something is so utterly confusing to me at this point that i have no clue how to really respond to that. ive had so many long-winded philosophical conversations on that topic and it always just leads me to believe that ironic people are just very confused about what they genuinely enjoy or they're lying to themselves without realizing it. the only time i ever really use sarcasm is in knee-jerk disgust at something and that doesn't happen very often at all
but yea, i wouldn't know much about the general pokemon fan's reaction to this stuff cus i'm not someone who actively follows pokemon. all i know is the pokeman is hot and its design really appeals to my kiddie sensibilities of coolness, with it's sharp protrusions and lankiness. the tongue scarf is just really cute and fun and cool and it just really sells the design for me
This is amazing dude!!
i think the tongue scarf is a bit silly but otherwise i LOVE
better than fennekins evo at least????
this is what froakie's final looks like??????? O ______________________________________________ O
where can i find pics of the three final evos? i havent seen em yet. links?
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cool job. so is greninja your favrotie?
Greninja and Chestnaught, i still can't decide all of the starters are pretty neat actually
from the start i wanted to choose froakie and this lil buddy got really bound to me
i always put hope into it and now it has one of the most badass evos ever
still can't get over the tongue |D
Why? I think its actually a pretty rad design but not really realistic
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STOCKTON - Lincoln rallied from two goals down in the third quarter to beat Bear Creek 11-7 in the opener of the San Joaquin Athletic Association boys water polo schedule on Teusday at Lincoln High's Richard De Long Aquatic Center.
Junior Dante Puccinelli tied the game 6-6 with 17 seconds remaining in the third quarter for the Trojans (7-7, 1-0 SJAA), lobbing a shot over Bear Creek goalkeeper Tom Reiber, who finished with 15 saves for the Bruins (7-8, 0-1).
Puccinelli then scored three of Lincoln's next four goals, the last of which lifted the Trojans to a 10-6 lead with 2:07 left in the game.
"All of our (swimmers) are good passers," Puccinelli said. "I was able to get some shots off, but I knew I needed to finish hard and keep playing defense."
Bear Creek's Nathan Andrade scored off an assist from Corey Gritsh to cut the Trojans' lead to 10-7 with 1:37 remaining, but a shot by Lincoln's Chad Louie deflected off Reiber's hands with 1:11 left to finish the scoring.
Said Bruins coach Nick Thomas: "That's the best Bear Creek's ever played against Lincoln."
The Trojans built an 8-2 lead early in the second half but had to hold off a furious fourth quarter Bruins rally to open their SJAA season with a victory.
Lincoln captain Anna Haley had four goals and three steals, and Brittany Smith and Lei Lei Mingram had two goals and four steals, respectively, for the Trojans (4-4, 1-0 SJAA).
Nicole Cunningham and Shelby Thomas each scored two goals for the Bruins (8-4, 0-1).
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Complaint Review: Kelly M. Peterson - Attorney at Law
Kelly M. Peterson - Attorney at LawProvo, Utah United States of America
Kelly M. Peterson - Attorney at Law - Crooked, Lying, Sleazy Attorney Found by Federal Court to have engaged in Felony Wiretapping Provo, Utah
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Several Litigants sued him in Federal Court and the United State District Court in Utah found 1) That he committed multiple felonies and engaged in third party wiretapping of parents talking to their children during visitation 2) he had been taking payments under the table from various parties involved in these proceedings 3) he was immune from criminal prosecution because he had qualified immunity from suit and could just sleaze his way out of Federal wiretapping charges and civil lawsuits for his conduct.
Here is the Federal Lawsuit on this scumbag attorney (Federal Lawsuit CV 2:11-949-TC) : http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/utah/utdce/2:2011cv00949/82381/69.
He destroyed dozens of families and after the bad publicity with the nasty Federal Lawsuit which outed his criminal activities the STATE OF UTAH FIRED HIM. Not because he was doing these things (The lawsuit implicates several Utah State Judge in his scheme to double bill divorce litigants in Utah Courts) but because HE GOT CAUGHT.
BEWARE!!! This sleazy criminal is the last person on earth to hire to protect innocent children. He is a MONSTER and DESTROYER of families.
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SUBMITTED: Thursday, April 04, 2013POSTED: Thursday, April 04, 2013
This is not the case. Kelly uses the law to do his job as an attorney while working with judges who also do their jobs. He never billed litigants in proceedings while being paid by the state. He recently was transitioning from a state position to owning his own office, in this time he received no money or outside funds from anyone for his personal business.
The United State District Court in Utah found all the items listed in the above report in paragraph 2, to be false accusations and no credit was given to any of these claims, because they just are not true.
The Federal Lawsuit mentioned and listed is actually quite informative about a Mrs. Kim Dahl who tried to sue Kelly Peterson for his conduct on her case. For those willing to read it, it actually confirms that Kelly Peterson did not behave inappropriately. The wiretapping claimed from above was actually a recorded conversation done by her ex-husband and used in court against herself.
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MOC: The Heber Valley Concerto
Posted 08 May 2012 - 09:39 PM
I was inspired not so much by the train itself as the two guys playing their instruments on the flatbed. :)
Click on each image to see the larger picture, or visit the full set or my photostream to see everything.
This took me approximately one week to build. It will be at Brickworld 2012.
And before anyone mentions it - yes, I know American trains don't have those bumpers that are on the European-inspired magnet hook up pieces. No, I wasn't going to cut them off - painting was enough of a sin. ;)
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Fantastic designing 'Pepa Quin', Brick On with The Piano Guys.
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Great MOC, your rendition of the MRS-1 looks awesome!
Oh and btw - dibs on building a Miracle Express!
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Thanks for the comments, guys. On to my next moc!
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Not only the diesel locomotive but also the train and the whole scene from which this project has inspired!
Superb work!
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This weekend I took some video of the train in action at my club's latest show.
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Perhaps Lego should make the Heber Valley Concerto Train Set a set of 2013 rather than ghost trains and the like.
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Hello, could you explain me, where in the php code i could change this?
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You will have to change MySQL database schema as well to increase video title length.
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It hasn't helped :(
In the beginning I thought, that i have to change this code:
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But nothing happened.
Only 20 letters in a title of a video, not more.
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Please change the database schema as mentioned earlier to change varchar(20) to mediumtext.
Or if you change the above, uninstall the plugin and activate it once again through CVG admin panel.
Together with this, you will have to modify the above mentioned file also.
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Thank you very much!
My apologies, i didn't know anything about MySQL until this moment!
All are working!
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Could you go through more detail about changing MySQL? Where can I find this file, and where is the part of the code that must be changed? I have no coding background, so please explain thoroughly.
Thank you, I would really like this plugin to work for me!
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I successfully rolled back to 2.7.1 after experiencing numerous errors upgrading to 2.8. I'm neither a newbie nor super-experienced, but I'd made backups and I had 2.7.1 on my hard drive still from the last upgrade. This experience got me thinking about what I dislike in WordPress.
I have another blog in Textpattern, so I have some means of comparison--WordPress updates are so frequent (if I include the plugins that need to update periodically, etc) and can be so potentially devastating to a blog that I wonder why there's an "Automatic Upgrade" button at all--the forum posts are filled with newbies who've not backed up, and who expected the button to work right. It has never worked correctly for me and I've always had to manually upgrade and if there are going to be problems, it sure would be better to go slower and step-by-step than just to push a button and hope.
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MICHEAL ANYIRAHD ST HEMET California 92502 Hemet, California United States of America
MICHEAL ANYIRAH ROBERT ,BUCK , WILLIAM ,PENNY ,PRISM PEACH, KINGSTON He lives in Hemet he is a Nigerian scam artist. He is Married and lies to everyone to steal money Hemet , California
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Thank you so much, Wedding Cake Hints, for featuring my wedding cake designs even if I'm not a professional baker. My designs were never featured in a blog before so thanks!
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Complaint Review: Pass-Guaranteed.com
Pass-Guaranteed.comInternet United States of America
Pass-Guaranteed.com Global Certification Courseware Ltd. Practice exams full of errors!! Internet
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Once again fake customer report
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AUTHOR: Michael - (United Kingdom)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, November 27, 2012POSTED: Tuesday, November 27, 2012
If you did order from PG. What is your order number or receipt id so we can look into this for you.
You can also call us toll free: 1-866-931-8404 not like other vendors where you can't speak to anyone.
Maybe this is why they feel threatened by PG because we provide more superior products.
If we receive an email where their is an error, within 24 hours it will be corrected but this rarely happens.
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Complaint Review: Grant Resource Center Or Grant Instructor, LLC Or Grant Research Guide
Grant Resource Center Or Grant Instructor, LLC Or Grant Research Guide3155 East Patrick Lane Suite 1 Las Vegas, Nevada U.S.A.
Grant Resource Center - Grant Instructor - Grant Research Guide Put in a hidden $49.50 monthly fee in a seven page terms and conditions agreement and charged it to my bank account and when I called to dispute the charge they refuse a refund Las Vegas Nevada
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When I found out about the charge to my account, I called and cancelled and received an email from this company confirming my cancellation. The person who I spoke with was David Strulowitz and emailed me from email@example.com.
The first response I had after I contacted my bank to report this fraudulent charge was to contact the BBB in Vegas. Grant Resource Center or Grant Instructor, LLC is not in their system. I have a feeling this is a hand full of people running a scam. I have asked local law enforcement to investigate these individuals for criminal intent and attempt to defraud the general public under false advertising and misleading business practices.
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AUTHOR: Nick Ramos - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, September 10, 2008POSTED: Wednesday, September 10, 2008
There it states: "A free seven (7) day subscription in the Grant Research Guide Resource Center is included with each free CD that is shipped. If you choose to cancel your subscription to the Grant Resource Center anytime within the first seven (7) days of sign-up you can do so without charge. If you decide to keep your membership in the Grant Resource Center, a charge of $49.50 will be automatically billed to your credit card each month for continued subscription access. Please see the Terms and Conditions for additional details."
We have designed our website to simply offer individuals all the right tools to receive government funding.1.95 instant access for 7 days is a great deal and plenty of time to insure that this is what your looking for, if you do not cancel with in the 7 days, no charges are issued. We are proud to state that our website has no hidden agenda, all the charges are stated right on the billing page. If you any questions at all please feel free to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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An event at Angel Fire Resort this past week is raising some eyebrows.
The Pray for Snow Party was meant to be a community celebration where people prayed for snow.
But some called the event a Pagan ritual that publicly dishonored God. The two-hour event included the burning of Snowzobra, a wooden statue named after Zozobra that is burned during the Fiesta De Santa Fe.
Officials said the party wasn't intended to be religious.
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