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- Love + Sex
Woman Has Sex Toy Removed from Her Body After 10 Years
A 38-year-old female patient was presented with symptoms including mild incontinence, sepsis, lethargy, and unexplained weight loss. Diagnosis: She'd had a sex toy inside her body for 10 years without knowing it, reports the Scottish Daily Record. Doctor
- Parenting
Florida Hospital Threatened Mom with Forced C-Section
Two weeks before she gave birth to her fourth child, a Florida hospital threatened to force a C-section on 29-year-old mom Jennifer Goodall "with or without [her] consent," Jezebel reports. Goodall wanted to try delivering vaginally before agreeing to wh
- Healthy Living
Why Some Ice Cream Bars Don't Melt
Don’t you hate it when you get distracted after opening an ice cream sandwich and it melts? On the flip side, don’t you hate it when it … doesn’t melt? An Ohio mom tells Cincinnati's WCPO that she got a little alarmed upon discovering that her son's Walm
- Parenting
Mother of 2 Goes Missing After Getting Gas
Jennifer Huston fueled up her green Lexus LX-470 at a gas station in Newberg, Oregon, around 6pm Thursday, and hasn't been seen since. The Dundee mom of two was wearing black and pink Nike shoes and yoga pants at the time, and was caught on the 76 statio
- Parenting
8-Year-Old Man Kills Burglar Who Begged for Unborn Child's Life
An 80-year-old Long Beach, Calif., man says he gunned down burglary suspect Andrea Miller Tuesday night as she pleaded for the life of her unborn child, reports the AP. “She says, 'Don't shoot me, I'm pregnant, I'm going to have a baby!' And I shot her a
- Beauty
Androgynous Fashion Model Comes Out as Transgender
The fomer Andrej Pejic—the gender-bending model who took the fashion world by storm in 2011—is now Andreja Pejic. Pejic came out as a transgender woman via stories on People, Entertainment Tonight, and Style, as noticed by Jezebel. The 22-year-old had se
- Healthy Living
Watching TV After Work? You Probably Feel like a Loser
It seems natural to reach for the remote to take a breather after a taxing day of conference calls and TPS reports, but a new study warns that especially work-weary folks who flick on the TV or play video games may feel incredibly guilty and like failur
- Healthy Living
A New Fitness Wristband Will Give You a Shock If You Slack Off
If what you need to meet fitness targets is a device attached to your body that will jolt you with electric shocks, then a new company called Pavlok has just the thing for you. Founder Maneesh Sethi says the fitness-tracking wristband he devised can keep
- Parenting
An Innocent Question Gets 4-Year-Old Boy Banned from Doughnut Shop
A curious 4-year-old in Monroe, Conn., is going to have to get his doughnuts elsewhere after asking a Doughnut Inn customer the wrong question. Justin Otero's mother says the boy asked the customer if she had a baby in her belly and was told no. "My resp
- Pets
Dogs Get Jealous Just like Us
What will a puppy do if its owner both ignores it and showers affection on a lifelike stuffed dog? Push its way between its owner and the toy, raise its tail, push its owner, bite at the toy, and even whine and bark. Whether that amounts to jealousy in t
- Love + Sex
The '50 Shades of Grey' Movie Trailer is Here, and It's Steamy!
It's the moment we've all (OK, at least some of us) been waiting for—the premiere of the steamy trailer for 50 Shades of Grey, which will hit theaters just in time for Valentine's Day next year, Forbes reports. A slightly more family-friendly version of
- Healthy Living
Who Ages Faster, Black or White Americans?
A troubling new study says that black Americans age faster and die younger than their white counterparts, possibly because of the "everyday stressors" of being black, Medical Daily reports. Researchers at USC calculated this "biological age gap" by analy
- Parenting
McDonald's Fires Mom Who Let 9-Year-Old Daughter Play Alone in Park
The South Carolina single mom arrested for letting her 9-year-old daughter play in a park while she worked at McDonald's has been given her daughter back—but has lost her job. The lawyer representing Debra Harrell pro bono says McDonald's has let her go,
- Love + Sex
'Bride Schools' Prep Women for Mail-Order Marriages
You don’t necessarily have to speak the same language as your husband to be a mail-order bride in South Korea—just the language of love. Unfortunately, many of the marriages arranged that way there don’t handle Cupid’s vernacular well, either, so the Sou
- Parenting
Parents Arrested for Locking Autistic Twins in Basement
To stop his 22-year-old autistic twin sons from misbehaving, John Land told police he installed an external deadbolt and padlock on a basement bedroom with the “sole intention” of keeping the men locked away during the overnight hours, NBC4 reports. The
- Parenting
Mystery Woman Makes Millions with 'Toy Porn' Videos
Want to make millions on YouTube without ever showing your face? Try posting videos of yourself "unboxing" children's toys (with a deliberate crinkle of the packaging) and showing how the toys work. It helps to have a pleasant, sing-song voice and nicely
- Love + Sex
Wife Dies After Accusing Husband of Gay Encounter on Nude Beach
Michael Doster is suspected of killing his wife after a gay-sex rendezvous at a Florida nude beach—but so far no witnesses have stepped forward in the case, Gawker reports. According to an affidavit, Doster's wife Pamela caught him giving a man oral sex
- Healthy Living
Study: Binge Drinking Makes You Cool
Want to be the center of your social circle? You might have to hit the bottle. A new study notes men and women who engage in heavy drinking more frequently hold higher positions of power within their friend groups. The study—focused on 357 young adults h
- Pets
Colorado Toddler Mauled by Pit Bull He Tried to Hug
A Colorado woman who allegedly left her pit bull tied to a pole in a parking lot and wandered off was arrested after the animal mauled a 19-month-old boy who tried to hug it. "The child went to give the dog a hug, and it latched onto his face," giving h
- Love + Sex
The 10 Most Popular Wedding 'First Dance' Songs
This happens to be one of the top weekends of the year for weddings, notes Business Insider, which picks up on new rankings from Spotify of the most popular first-dance songs. And the winners are: "At Last," Etta James "I Won't Give Up," Jason