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Erotic gay wrestler is fundraising for Elizabeth Warren’s US Senate campaignBy Alex Pappas - The Daily Caller – Mon, Jun 4, 2012 The founder of an erotic gay website featuring nude men wrestling with each other is fundraising for Democratic Massachusetts senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. Stephen Driscoll, a Democratic activist in Massachusetts who runs the adult gay wrestling website BGEast.com under the name “Kid Leopard,” has raised nearly $5,000 for Warren under the organizational banner “LGBT for Elizabeth Warren.” The disclosure comes from the ActBlue online fundraising platform, which facilitates people using the Internet to fundraise for Democrats. **SNIP** Driscoll...

We keep hearing that young men are failing to adapt to contemporary life. Their financial prospects are impaired—earnings for 25- to 34-year-old men have fallen by 20 percent since 1971. Their college enrollment numbers trail women's: Only 43 percent of American undergraduates today are men. Last year, women made up the majority of the work force for the first time. And yet there is one area in which men are very much in charge: premarital heterosexual relationships. [snip] What many young men wish for—access to sex without too many complications or commitments—carries the day. If women were more fully in...

When Denise and Roger Friesen planned a Valentine's Day dinner for their Omaha, Neb., church, they immediately knew their theme: the Song of Solomon -- sometimes called the Song of Songs -- the sexiest book in the Bible. "O, that you would kiss me with the kisses of your mouth!" says a woman to her lover as the book begins. "For your love is better than wine." Later language compares male legs to alabaster columns and female bosoms to clusters of fruit on a tree. The Friesens, both 47, credit the little book in the Hebrew Bible with helping to...

Pope shares thoughts on loveBy Richard N. OstlingThe Associated PressJust in time for Valentine's Day, Pope Benedict XVI issued an encyclical letter on love. Popular prejudice thinks a Roman Catholic priest talking about human love is "like a blind man talking about colors," Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, president of the Vatican's council for charity, told reporters with a humorous touch unusual for Vatican news conferences. Turns out, a celibate, 78-year-old pontiff has perceptive things to say in his first encyclical "Deus Caritas Est" ("God Is Love"). Moreover, he says them with a clarity that could begin notable improvement in papal...

Pope Benedict XVI may try to "save eros," in the first encyclical of his papacy, Chicago's Cardinal Francis George told the Chicago Sun-Times. George expects the new pope will try to explain that erotic love, eros, and unconditional love, agape, are both inherently good in God's eyes in his encyclical titled "Deus, Caritas Est," Latin for "God is Love." An encyclical is a pope's most authoritative document, a pastoral letter circulated to the universal church. Letter talks about Christ The cardinal has not yet seen Benedict XVI's encyclical, which is expected to be released by the Vatican within days, but...

NEW YORK - With his campaign for city council going no place fast, Victor Bernace felt he needed something special to spark interest in his next fundraiser. How about exotic dancers? The New York Democrat said Saturday he plans to have bikini-clad go-go dancers and men in nothing but briefs at a "Havana Night" campaign party next month at a Manhattan nightclub. There will be no nudity at the $20-per-head event, Bernace said, but he promised "a sexy, erotic show." "I'm throwing a fun event. Most politicians — I've been to their fundraisers, and they are boring," he said. "People...

The city of Montes Claros in Brazil is to auction three penis enlargement machines to pay an employee's salary. A sex shop went bankrupt and the auction is the only way to guarantee the payment of a former employee. The judge who ordered the auction Vanda Lucia Horta Moreira told Hoje em Dia newspaper: "In 12 years of being a judge and after working in 27 different towns, it is the first time that I have authorised such a thing." "I am very curious to see how this auction is going to go."

LONDON (AFP) - A new skyscraper in London popularly dubbed the "erotic gherkin" for its curvaceous shape has won one of Britain's top architecture prizes, organisers announced. The building by leading British architect Norman Foster, officially called 30 St Mary Axe, its address in London's financial district, beat five other finalists to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize. The tower -- also called the Swiss Re Tower after the company which commissioned it -- has swiftly become one of the most recognisable shapes on the London skyline since it was completed earlier this year. The circular, glass-panelled...

LOS ANGELES - Acclaimed fashion photographer Helmut Newton died Friday after his car sped out of control from the driveway of the famed Chateau Marmont hotel and crashed into a wall, police said. He was 83. Newton, whose work appeared in magazines such as Playboy, Elle and Vogue, was best known for his stark, black-and-white nude photos of women. Newton apparently lost control of his Cadillac while leaving the Hollywood hotel, said Officer April Harding, a police spokeswoman. It was unclear whether he became ill while driving. People were on the sidewalk in front of the driveway, and the car...