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A California appeals court ruled in favor of octuplets mother Nadya Suleman, denying a call for an independent guardian to monitor her children's finances. Calling the petition an "unprecedented, meritless effort by a stranger" and directed an probat

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HealthDay

[stock tip] A spray touted as the first potential treatment for premature ejaculation has proved effective in a second study, according to the company that developed it. PSD502 -- which combines the drugs lidocaine and prilocaine -- is sprayed on

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LiveScience

There have been few evolutionary reasons given for oral sex to date, and fellatio is largely thought confined to humans. Now scientists find the short-nosed fruit bat routinely engages in oral sex, the first time fellatio has been seen in adult anima

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AP

A 1970s-era Texas law that allows parents to show "harmful material" to their children has come under fire after a prosecutor said he couldn't file charges against a man accused of forcing his 8- and 9-year-old daughters to watch hardcore online porn

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AP

Rhode Island would close a loophole allowing prostitutes to ply their trade indoors under new legislation approved by state lawmakers. The bill approved Thursday would make prostitution a misdemeanor offense regardless of where it occurs. Prostitu

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AP

Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a federal hate crime to assault peo

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AP

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit aimed at driving classified ads for prostitution off the Craigslist Web site. U.S. District Court Judge John Grady said not all postings on the Craigslist "Adult Services" section advertised prostitution and t

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by Radley Balko (Reason)

The latest case comes from Iowa, where the state's supreme court just upheld the 2005 conviction and sentence of Jorge Canal. While he was 18, a 14-year-old female friend asked Canal to send her a picture of his penis. Even the Iowa Supreme Court ac

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