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A new study by scientists at the University of Alberta looks at whether music can help babies cope with pain better. In one specific study found, male babies who heard music during their circumcisions had lower heart rates and decreased pain. But what soundtrack do you choose as a parent? More »
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So, kids, how do you feel about Vavelta, the miracle skin serum derived from babies' foreskins? Personally, we're not for it! [Scientific American] More »
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Yesterday, one of Jezebel's brother sites, Gawker, wrote about "Debauchette," one of the several prostitutes who appeared on the Diane Sawyer 20/20 special about working girls. Even though Debauchette's voice was altered and her appearance masked, her mother recognized her because of the idiosyncratic cadence of her voice and her gestures. "I listened to what you had to say in the interview and I expect you feel you have thought all of this through," Debauchette's mom said. (All things considered, a reasonably calm response.) Karly Kirchner of sex-worker site Bound, Not Gagged recounts a similarly accepting response from her mom, but adds that she wants her mother to start reading her posts on the blog. More »
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Over on the Jewish blog Jewcy, two Heebroads are debating the relative merits and drawbacks of foreskins. Sex writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel is vehemently anti-foreskin. Aesthetically, she finds the uncut peen distinctively unsexual: "they make me want to pat them like a dog and tuck them back where they came from," Bussel writes. But more irksome is the fact that Bussel feels that she doesn't know what she's doing with a foreskin because so few of the men she's been with were uncircumcised. Of her first time dealing with an uncut cock, Bussel says, "I felt like a timid teenager. I felt like I needed Dr. Ruth leaning over my shoulder, showing me just where to stroke and pull. This kind of killed the mood." More »
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"I wanted to fit into American culture. When you're circumcised, there's less rejection from women," says one man to the Los Angeles Times. Once again, the topic of adult circumcision is on people's, er, lips and a new study basically concludes that circumcised guys experience just as much sexual satisfaction as uncircumcised ones. But apparently dick status anxiety still abounds. Seriously: Is any lady rejecting a guy because he has a turtleneck? We simply refuse to believe ladies are kicking dudes out of bed when they see that their penises come wrapped up, too. [LATimes] More »
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