Spanish nurses are up in arms, after management at a hospital in the South, demanded that all nursing staff either wear mini-skirts OR be docked a serious percentage of their pay. After complaints, the national office in charge of pay disputes is looking into whether or not this is a breach in the gender equity law!
Woman forced to remove nipple ring at US airport AFP - Friday, March 28 03:41 amLOS ANGELES (AFP) - A woman who was forced to remove her nipple rings with pliers before boarding a flight in Texas, demanded an apology Thursday and said she wants the government to investigate the incident."It was just total humiliation in front of people I had no earthly idea who they were," Mandi Hamlin, a 37-year-old graphic artist from Dallas, told reporters at her lawyer's office in Los Angeles.
Hamlin's attorney, Gloria Allred, said the woman "was given a pair of pliers in order to remove the rings in her nipples ... The rings had been in her nipples for many years."
Hamlin said she wanted a public apology and for the Transportation Security Administration to investigate the incident, which happened in February as she was boarding a flight from Lubbock, Texas, to Dallas.
TSA spokesman Dwayne Baird said he was unaware of the nipple ring incident.
"I'd be really curious to know what this woman had in her nipples," he said, adding that he had "never heard of any of our people having anyone remove something that sounds as small as a nipple ring."
Allred said the TSA's measure was "cruel and unnecessary."
"The last time that I checked, a nipple was not a dangerous weapon."
Many Britons have decided that piercings and tatoos - anywhere and everywhere! - are dead sexy. I do not agree and cannot help but wonder what these folks will look like in years to come, as skin sags and bags. I do like a sign I saw in a local pierce and tatoo parlour, however!
"Nose piercing, while you wait!"
Apparently, Heather's award of over 26 million £ is not enough for her. As she divorces Sir Paul McCartney, she plans to milk it for all it's worth and is appealing the landmark divorce settlement. What was he thinking when he married his dead wife's look-a-like? He will have about 800 million £ left, but it's the principle of it all!
60 Minutes Correspondent Andy Rooney (CBS)
As I grow in age, I value women over 40 most of all. Here are just a few reasons why:
A woman over 40 will never wake you in the middle of the night and ask, "What are you thinking?" She doesn't care what you think. If a woman over 40 doesn't want to watch the game, she doesn't sit around whining about it. She does something she wants to do, and it's usually more interesting. Women over 40 are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you deserve it, they won't hesitate to shoot you if they think they can get away with it. Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what it's like to be unappreciated. Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to a woman over 40. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over 40 is far sexier than her younger counterpart. Older women are forthright and honest. They'll tell you right off if you are a jerk if you are acting like one. You don't ever have to wonder where you stand with her. Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!
Why aren't condoms working? Well, not literally...why are our young people (and others), ignoring the importance of safe sex?
The amount of money spent on "selling" people on the need to protect themselves when having sex is mind boggling. Billions and billions of dollars, pounds, euros, etc., yet not only is the developing world facing overwhelming AIDS rates, the developed world, specifically the US and UK, doesn't seem to be able to slow the ever-increasing numbers of STDs and teen pregnancies...
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Why are people over 50 the new "victims" of sexually transmitted diseases? How come many gays have abandoned safe sex? Why are Hispanic-American women one of the fastest growing HIV?AIDS groups?
The seniors think they are immune! Gays may be suffering from message overload. And Hispanic women may not be getting the message at all or in an understandable manner.
But teens? Those who are the most targeted regarding condom use, aren't getting the message that this is the only thing coming between themselves and deadly disease, with birth control thrown in, a freebie. These are questions that are not fresh and new, but some of the answers are coming from the teens themselves. And what they have to say is certainly a nasty statement about our societies in general!
Programs targeting teens with the safe sex message have been told by that group that one of the primary reasons that many of them do not use condoms consistently - or at all - is because they either can't get them or are made to feel guilty when they do buy them or collect them from sex clinics (UK). How come, they ask, sex is everywhere - TV, movies, magazines, even newspapers - but they are made to feel like paraiahs when they do try to "do the right thing." Meaning, why trust adults when the messages are a confusing hypocritical mess; sex is "ok" in the marketplace, but if you are a teen, it's a no no.
Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands...they got rid of the righteous and went with the strictly practical and it worked. Their STD rates are incredibly low, as are their teen birth rates AND, interestingly, it appears they are far less likely to have "inappropriate" sex than their American and UK counterparts. Education, governments, they all dropped the "moral" message and peddled only the practicle, using shared resources to do so. It would seem that this actually boosted what many would consider a "good thing," that is, that fewer of these countries' teens are treating sex as if it were nothing, of no consequence. Self esteem, educational levels, all those areas we look to to judge just how successful we are in raising our children appear to have a direct correlation with practicality rather than puritanism....perhaps genuinely safe sex - not having it until it's "right - is the product of open discussion, not mixed messages.
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