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• Chicago Doctor: "I've Treated Hundreds Of Unconsummated Marriages"

  Dr. Domeena Renshaw, a professor of psychiatry at Loyola University in Illinois, has treated over two hundred unconsummated marriages in her 36 years. That may not seem like much on paper-- unconsummated marriages are believed to account for less than 1% of total marriages, but imagine going, as some couples have, 23 years of sleeping in the same bed without ever once having had sex... Read More... Posted Aug 15 2008, 11:53 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: religion, viagra, marriage, wtf, India, vagina, doctors, wedding, couples, Chicago, sex life, erectile dysfunction

• Snoop Dogg Is Planning A Bollywood Takeover

  Apparently the 1 billion strong populace of India doesn't care for Western music. But all that is about to change... Read More... Posted Jul 28 2008, 03:33 PM by Verena von Pfetten with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: snoop dogg, India, bollywood, rap music, Cashmere Asia, Snoop Dogg Bollywood

• Our Advice to Indian Reality TV Contestants? Don't Be on Indian Reality TV.

  The BBC reported today that three employees of an event management firm in India were arrested for putting someone's life in danger. They had organized a reality show where contestants attempt to stay under water for as long as possible, and one 22-year-old collapsed and is currently hospitalized in "serious condition."   Read More... Posted Jul 15 2008, 03:49 PM by Nicole Pasulka with | with no comments Filed under: India, reality television

• Video of the Day: Using A Cell Phone While Operating A Motor Vehicle

  By the way, this is legal in most US States, including Florida. Via Fark.com.  Posted Jul 11 2008, 11:40 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: video of the day, cell phones, FARK, youtube, India, florida, driving, cell phone etiquette

• 70-Year-Old Woman Gives Birth to Twins, We Stop Worrying About Drying Up

  Over the weekend, we shamefully found ourselves on a picnic blanket with two other late-20's women, discussing the fact that while we don't want children now, we don't want to be all dried up by the time it actually becomes a possibility. While we know that's a little ridiculous, a woman reaches her fertile peak at 27. Considering we're 26 and we're more likely to end-up on Top Chef than The Bachelorette, we can't help but sometimes worry about these things. Especially after we've been swigging whiskey from a bottle and burning ourselves with sparklers.  But if a 70-year-old woman can get knocked-up, we are going to stop worrying right this second. Read More... Posted Jul 07 2008, 11:22 AM by Emily Farris with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: babies, India, old and crazy, pregnancy, old people

• And You Think Your In-Laws Are Bad?

  Imagine for a moment that your in-laws are such terrible people you have to file a case against them for violence. Then imagine you go to file said complaint only to find out your in-laws have gone to extreme measures to make sure the complaint won't really matter. Read More... Posted Jun 03 2008, 05:29 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: violence, India, parents, in laws

• Australian Troop Scandal Is The Epitome Of Sexism

  Politicians and press persons in Britain and Australia are getting their knickers in a twist over allegations Bollywood star Tania Zaetta bedded one or more soldiers during a goodwill tour of Afghanistan. Why is this story sexist?  We're glad you asked... it was our first thought ("wow-- this story is sexist!") when we came across it in the Telegraph newspaper...  Read More... Posted May 23 2008, 10:23 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: sex scandals, India, military, australia, sexism, bollywood, soldiers, tania zaetta

• Sing and Dance Along With Indian Condoms

  We go apeshit for sex education PSAs that personify condoms. But this video has singing and dancing too!   Read More... Posted May 09 2008, 01:31 PM by Nicole Pasulka with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: India, condoms, condom psa

• Bras and Semen: Stuff People Are Stealing

  This week brings us two accused thieves: one a multi-billion dollar American corporation, the other an Indian dude with a seriously flawed "get rich quick" scheme.  Read More... Posted Apr 24 2008, 01:40 PM by Nicole Pasulka with | with no comments Filed under: sperm, India, sperm donors, victorias secret, sperm bank

• India Figures Out What To Do With Its Sperm and Guns Surplus

  Hey all y'all Indian dudes out there: looking to pick up a gun and get your tube tied? Well, have we got the program for you! Shivpuri district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, an overpopulated area renowned for its machismo culture, has started to offer fast-tracked gun licences for those who agree to be sterilised. “This is a state with a high number of dacoits [bandits], where people like to keep rifles,” Manish Shrivastav, the administrative chief of Shivpuri and originator of the lateral thinking behind the plan, said. “It also has a low level of vasectomies because of a perceived notion of manliness. I decided to match that with a bigger symbol of manliness — a gun licence. It has been a success.”   Yeah, except that now they're running short on these...   Except that now they're running out of these...   Read More... Posted Mar 25 2008, 04:06 PM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: sperm, guns, India, vas deferens, vasectomy

• The Sexy Women of Bollywood

  Here's something you don't see very often: scantily clad Bollywood actress photo essays. Perhaps to celebrate Richard Gere's newfound freedom, India Target has a seven-page spread featuring some extremely hot women of the Indian film industry. It almost makes us want to sit through more than four seconds of a Bollywood film-- with the sound on. Read More... Posted Mar 17 2008, 12:41 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: India, photo of the day, models, shilpa shetty, richard gere, bollywood

• Today in Sex: News From Around the World

  Since we're still recovering from the madness and debauchery that was last night, we're going to take the easy way out and combine about a half dozen pretty good lil' blog posts into a new daily roundup, the likes of which we hope shall never be repeated. Men in India force their wives to have sex, a doctor has been accused of trading services for (um) services, sex causes/cures headaches (the real question: can it cure hangovers?), a man out on bail for having sex with a 12 year old is in jail again after having sex with a 13 year old, and having hot sex in your office may increase productivity companywide: these and more, after the jump... Read More... Posted Feb 06 2008, 10:56 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: drugs, pedophilia, sex, India, office romance

• More than 500 Kidneys Stolen in India

  And we thought organ theft was the stuff urban legends and Nip/Tuck was made of. Maybe here in the States it's legend, but in India it's really happening, to real people, who no longer have their fucking kidneys. Many of the donors were day laborers, like Mr. Mohammed, picked up from the streets with the offer of work, driven to a well-equipped private clinic, and duped or forced at gunpoint to undergo operations. Others were bicycle rickshaw drivers and impoverished farmers who were persuaded to sell their organs, which is illegal in India. [New York Times: Kidney Thefts Shock India] Posted Jan 31 2008, 12:16 PM by Emily Farris with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: new york times, India, poor people, organ theft, laborers, nip/tuck, organs

• Fabio to India: Stop Stealing My Groove!

  According to The Times of India, of which Scanner has a subscription, male cleavage is now all the fashion rage in Bollywood and it's rapidly turning the country’s men-folk into a bunch of low v-neck and specially designed tunic-wearing eye candy. Not to be confused with good old-fashioned man boobs, the male cleavage look is buffed, hairless and shining with cocoa butter. All right, we’ll set aside our opinions about men who wax too much for a moment and agree that it would be all kinds of hot to see some Naveen Andrews hevage. But that guy who married the dog, not so much. Posted Dec 12 2007, 05:30 PM by April Peveteaux with | with no comments Filed under: man boobs, The Times of India, animal marrying, Naveen Andrews, India, Male cleavage, waxing