<![CDATA[Jezebel: ghb]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: ghb]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/ghb http://jezebel.com/tag/ghb <![CDATA[Stress: The Natural Bug Spray • Man Arrested For Revisiting Outhouse Pit]]> • Scientists believe they may have discovered why mosquitoes leave some of us alone while they devour others. No, their blood does not "taste better." Mosquitoes respond to certain chemical odors, some of which are tied to stress.

• Researchers have found that the drugs used to treat bleeding after a woman has given birth, as well as the drugs administered to deal with labor pains, may impede milk production and hamper a new mother's ability to breastfeed her newborn. • Children as young as two or three have been shown to harbor certain negative stereotypes about the elderly. "We're seeing what we could call ageism by about age three," said University of Alberta researcher Sheree Kwong See. An obvious antidote? Taking toddlers to visit their grandparents. • Taco Bell has agreed to pay two 16-year-old former employees a total of $350,000 to make up for the fact that they were both raped by supervisor Terence E. Davis. Davis plead guilty to the charges, and will serve two concurrent eight year sentences. • GHB may be most commonly known as a "date rape" drug, but apparently, many people are sipping the stuff to get high. One capful gives a feeling similar to drinking five beers in five minutes, topped off with some PCP, but don't get too excited; it is incredibly dangerous and highly addictive. • Statistics New Queensland Health show that one in four abortions performed at 20 weeks or later went wrong in 2007. The figure is up 20% from 2003. • Three American men have been charged with molesting young children in Cambodia. Ronald Gerard Boyajian, Erik Leonardus Peeters, and Jack Louis Sporich were prosecuted under a new initiative, that aims to crack down on U.S. citizens who travel abroad, often to Cambodia, to prey on kids. All three men had previously been convicted of sex offenses in the U.S. • A Maine man has been arrested - for the second time - for climbing down into the waste pit in an outhouse. Gary Moody claims he went into the pit to rescue his shirt, which he says he put on the outhouse seat "because outhouse seats are dirty." No shit, but whats underneath them is way, way worse. • Samar Saed Abdullah has been condemned to die for being accessory to the murder of three men. She claims that her husband committed the murders, yet he remains on the loose while she faces hanging. Her parents swear she is innocent, and claim the Iraqi police tortured her into confessing. • Ever wondered what it is like to be a baby? Philosopher Alison Gopnik says: "When we travel for instance, we are suddenly surrounded by an unexpected new world and, instead of just focusing on the important things, we take in lots of information at once. That actually makes us more vividly conscious of our surroundings, not less. I think that for babies, every day is like first love in Paris." • Meet Calvino Inman, a young boy who cries tears of blood. Even though vampires are so in right now, this poor kid's condition sound terrible, not to mention painful. •  To celebrate the legalization of gay marriage in Vermont, Ben & Jerry's has announced they are temporarily changing the name of the delicious classic "Chubby Hubby" to "Hubby Hubby."

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<![CDATA[Polish Baby Factory Is Open For Business • Date Rape Drugs May Be Banned In UK]]> A surrogate "baby factory" has opened in Poland where 37 young women are ready to give birth to babies for couples unable to conceive for roughly $22,000 a child. • An 84-year-old Nigerian man with 86 wives advises men against taking so many partners, but he was granted his power to "control" and "heal" women by God, so, you know, whatevs. • In the wake of the news that The Well of Loneliness is being reprinted for its 80th anniversary, one critic asks if there is still a need for the category of "lesbian literature." • Researchers have discovered that your natural body odor is determined by genetics, not simply your level of cleanliness.

• Check out the GoateeSaver, a device that one bites onto while shaving to create the perfect goatee every time. • Mothers are launching their own businesses in the UK after they become fed up with the lack of flexibility to spend time with their family in their old jobs. • Gamma-butyrolactone and 1,4 butanedoil may be banned in the UK where they convert into the date-rape drug GHB when ingested rapidly. • Working-age singles in Australia report having "low life satisfaction," and are only happier on average than marginalized groups like the unemployed and single parents. Is this another study trying to scare single people into getting married? • A new law may be forming in Kuwait that will require that all gyms become gender-segregated. • A 90 year-old woman had her biggest wish come true when a male staffer at her assisted living facility volunteered to serve her fish and chips in a thong. Some staffers complained that it wouldn't have happened if the genders had been reversed.

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<![CDATA[ A children's toy is being recalled in Australia...]]> A children's toy is being recalled in Australia after three kids were hospitalized after ingesting pieces of it which were found to contain a chemical that, once in the human body, metabolizes into the party drug GHB. (So much better than China and their lead Barbies.) The toy, Bindeez, is a craft kit made up of colorful beads that can be assembled to create designs like flowers and unicorns, which actually seems perfectly suited for its euphoric side effects. [The Age via Boing Boing]

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