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Online: http://www.thelocal.se/20232/20090623/
Pop’s parents, both 24, made a decision when their baby was born to keep Pop’s sex a secret. Aside from a select few – those who have changed the child’s diaper – nobody knows Pop’s gender; if anyone enquires, Pop’s parents simply say [...]

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THE DAILY STAR 18 February 2009
BEIRUT: “Help,” a new Lebanese film that was due to open this week, now hangs in limbo as the license granted to it by the state’s censorship department has been revoked, “not on the basis of anything legal, but on [...]

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“The AIDS pandemic continues to devastate sub-Saharan Africa. Two million people died from the disease in 2005 alone. Twelve million children have lost at least one parent. The statistics are staggering.”
Kristen Ashburn’s BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family is the story of these men, women and their [...]

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I have been made aware of two penises on trains recently. One on a train in England, and one on a train in Italy. I read about some of the experiences of women in Egypt on the BBC news site posted by SM last week, who [...]

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 Swinging in English, echangisme in French, scambio in Italian. An article in the conservative newspaper La Stampa revealed this week that an estimated 500,000 Italian couples are officially exchanging partners at private sex clubs, with thousands more doing it in car parks, specially designated beaches [...]

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1- La tenue traditionnelle d’un circoncis

2- La circoncision

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62% of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women. And who is to blame for the maltreatment? 53% of men say women. 83% of Egyptian women reported having been sexually harassed. Nearly half of them said the abuse occurred daily. Only 2.4 percent of Egyptian women [...]

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Dimanche 29 juin, un millier de personnes s’est réuni à Istanbul, sur la principale avenue piétonne de la ville, Istiklal Caddesi, pour la traditionnelle marche de la fierté gay et lesbienne.

Cette année, la marche avait un goût particulier… très gaie et colorée contrairement à la [...]

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Friday night
Saturday morning

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