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Women can be allergic to sex with men, but doctors are finding women can overcome this allergy through regular sex combined with treatments derived from semen. "It's really a very rare condition, but it does happen," allergist and immunologist David Resnick at New York Presbyterian Hospital told LiveScience. Semen allergy symptoms can include itching, burning and swelling in the genitals. In the most severe cases, hives or swelling might appear elsewhere on the body and the woman might experience difficulty breathing. "Typically symptoms occur within 30 minutes of intercourse, but in rare cases it may be hours or even days...

The Internet provides the perfect forum for cyberbullies, individuals whose aim is to gain gratification from the distress caused by provoking and tormenting others. The anonymity, ease of provocation, and almost infinite source of targets means the Internet is full of predators from pedophiles targeting children to serial bullies targeting ... anybody. Cyberbullies get a perverse sense of satisfaction (called gratification) from sending people flame mail and hate mail. Flame mail is an email whose contents are designed to inflame and enrage. Hate mail is hatred (including prejudice, racism, sexism etc) in an email...

Happy Friday everyone! The monster storms last night knocked out power and turned my alarm off. It also jacked with the clock on my coffee grinder/brewer. Not cool. Anywho, please, let the silliness begin!.

Broward Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a 76-year-old man Thursday who they say was going door-to-door in a Lauderdale Lakes neighborhood offering free breast exams. Two women accepted the exams, BSO officials said. At about 9 a.m., BSO investigators say, Philip Winikoff drove to an apartment complex near the 3200 block of Northwest 40th Street. Carrying a black ''doctor's'' bag, he walked up to the building and told a 36-year-old woman that he was in the neighborhood offering free breast exams.

What women look for in a man Wed Apr 5, 2006 4:47 PM BST164 LONDON (Reuters) - The old adage that women look for wealth in a man appears to be under threat after research on Wednesday showed women are starting to put physical attractiveness above solvency. The shift is occurring because women have been freed from the constraints that previously dictated how they chose a mate as they increasingly control their own finances, the study said. "We are seeing that women who have control over their finances are less concerned with the fiscal status of their potential mates and...

Posted on Tue, Apr. 04, 2006 Outsmarting the cat that wakes you up DR. ROLAN TRIPP Knight Ridder Newspapers Gloria Stepps treasures her sleep. When her beloved 6-month-old kitten, Bongo, began interrupting her blissful slumber, she wondered what he wanted. At first, she thought he was just hungry so she gave him breakfast early. When her sleep disruption continued, she tried soothing him with verbal cooing. Another night, when he destroyed some valuable items with his midnight kitten-crazies, she tried to calm him back to sleep with cuddling. Mistake. Mistake. Mistake. Bongo quickly figured out the secret to getting anything...

Samantha of Sex and the City, it is fair to say, would not approve. The casual attitude to sexual relations embraced by the most liberated of the characters in the television series turns out not to reflect the views of 21st century women quite as well as widely imagined.Researchers investigating female attitudes to sex and their sexuality were surprised to find that most women have rather more traditional, conservative views on one-night stands than they expected. Around nine out of 10 of those questioned felt casual sex was immoral and that those women who engaged in it were not doing...

Not sure where X Alien is today so at the request of others, I'm kicking of the OFST. Seeing that Aprils Fools Day is tomorrow and its also Paulab's birthday tomorrow, use today's thread to share some of your best April Fools memories and to throw a birthday wish Paulab's way.

Man Who Had Sex With Sleeping Wife Charged Wife Says She Asked Him Not To Do That POSTED: 10:57 am EST March 30, 2006 FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A 28-year-old man faces a charge of sexual assault and one count of domestic violence harassment for allegedly having sex with his wife while she was sleeping. An arrest affidavit stated that the woman reported being awakened about 30 times over the last year to find her husband having sex or oral sex with her. She told Fort Collins police that she confronted her husband several times, telling him that she felt...

A local Ft. Collins man was charged with sexual assault and "domestic violence harrassment" after his wife complained to police that on numerous occasions in the past year she awoke at night to find him "having sex or oral sex" even though she had told him this seemed like rape to her. The husband also admitted to taking nude photos of her while she slept. Full story here.