Poll to study porn usage, among other sexual habits

Fri, Jul 16, 2010

my paper

FINDING out how widespread the habit of indulging in pornography is in Singapore may help reverse the falling birth rate here.

Looking at pornographic material may disrupt the need to engage in sexual activities in marriage, which would then result in fewer babies, said the Singapore Planned Parenthood Association (SPPA).

So the non-profit organisation, which promotes sexual and reproductive health, aims to find out how many people are looking at pornography and how often they are doing so - among other sexual habits - through an online survey.

Through the Fertility Awareness Survey, which it launched yesterday, it hopes to discover the factors causing the low birth rate here and resolve them.

For example, should pornography prove to be a pressing issue, it would advise couples on the matter during its sexual-intimacy talks, and rope in other voluntary welfare organisations and government agencies like the Health Promotion Board to help.

It also plans to offer counselling services and, through publishing the survey's results, spur couples facing the issue to come forward.

The association also hopes to use the survey results to raise public awareness of contraception and sexually transmitted diseases.

It aims to get 2,200 people, aged 16 to 40, to take its 52-question survey within three months.

The results will then be analysed by a panel of professionals including Professor Wong Peng Cheang, head of department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the National University of Singapore.

The SPPA carried out a similar survey in 1981, but that had focused on young people aged 14 to 21.

Attitudes may have changed since then, and the survey will give a better idea of what people in the reproductive age group think, said Prof Wong.

Mr Edward Ong, the SPPA's president, said that the survey will help to "create a profile of the young people and their lifestyles and, if other organisations find it useful, they can use it to model their programmes after the findings".

More than 30 people have completed the survey. To take part, visit https://fas.questionpro.com/ Participants can remain anonymous, but those who want to stand a chance of winning movie vouchers and a $150 dining voucher in a lucky draw can key in their identity-card number.

Hong Kong gang-rape victim not Singaporean, says MFA

On June 29, the young woman was allegedly raped six times by three Nepalese men on a yacht. -AsiaOne

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

AsiaOne

Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said yesterday that the woman allegedly raped by three men was not a Singaporean, as reported by national daily The Straits Times.

Local media had reported that the university student was from Singapore. She was allegedly gang-raped while on an exchange programme in Hong Kong.

This happened on June 29 when the young woman was allegedly raped six times by three Nepalese men on a yacht.

She had met them earlier at a pub in Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong's famous nightlife district.

Two men were charged on Monday with rape as well as aiding and abetting rape. The third, who is out on bail, is to report back to police by the end of the month.

Singaporean gang-raped in HK

A SINGAPOREAN undergraduate was gang-raped last month while on an exchange programme in Hong Kong, Hong Kong newspaper Sing Tao Daily reported on Sunday.

The Hong Kong police have arrested a man in connection with the crime, and are looking for two others who are believed to have been involved.

The woman, 22, had gone alone to a bar in Lan Kwai Fong, an area in the Central district with many bars and restaurants, and had become drunk.

Three Nepalese men who worked in the bar - two of whom are believed to be brothers - approached her and invited her to a party on a yacht.

She accepted their invitation, and they took her to a yacht in the Causeway Bay area, where they took turns to rape her, for a total of six times. The men had left by the time she woke up the following morning. She made a police report, and was taken to hospital for an examination.

Police in Hong Kong have classified the case as rape, the newspaper said. Police identified the three men, after visiting the bar and the yacht and reviewing the bar's closed-circuit television footage, and arrested one of the men near Lan Kwai Fong. -- MY PAPER - July 6, 2010

domain name .xxx suffix for websites with pornographic content

I am curious and will be looking forward to domain name with .xxx. It was reported it will be an official domain name address.

BRUSSELS - THE company that oversees Web addresses is expected to give the go-ahead on Friday for the creation of a .xxx suffix for websites with pornographic content, company officials indicated on Thursday.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the Internet on behalf of the US government, has in the past resisted creating a .xxx generic domain name system akin to those for .com and .net.

It has in recent years repeatedly rejected a request by US company ICM Registry Inc. to sign off on the .xxx domain.

But members of ICANN's board have argued that in order to maintain neutrality in dealing with domain name assignations, it should create .xxx and allow websites with sexually explicit content to start using the suffix on a voluntary basis.

'If expedited due diligence results are successful, then staff will proceed into contract negotiations with ICM (over .xxx),' ICANN's general counsel John Jeffrey told delegates at a week-long ICANN meeting in Brussels on Thursday.

Online pornography is a vast industry. Figures collated by Internet Pornography Statistics suggest more than US$3,000 (S$4,175) is spent on Internet pornography every second, with 'sex' the number one search term in the world, accounting for 25 per cent of all Internet searches. -- REUTERS

source: June, 25 2010

Pretty Thai Girl Wins World's Tightest Vagina Award

Tiny Pik-Tik Kum, the pretty 21 year old Thai girl who already holds the Hairiest Vagina In the World Award, walked off last night with the far more prestigious 'World's Tightest Vagina' Trophy. Pik-Tik beat a hundred other hopefuls in the 3-Day event that has held crowds in spell-bound rapture at London's Royal Albert Hall.

Pik-Tik owes the tightness of her vagina to a stroke of luck at birth coupled with severe restrictions she imposes on the way it's used. Boyfriends are selected exclusively from those with only the tiniest penis. And strict time limits are placed on the final act of love-making.

"As an Olympic Tight Vagina athlete, I have always taken my training very seriously", she declared after the result.

In an interview with Bargis Tryhol, the man with the World's Largest Penis, Pik-Tik observed that she'd never consider getting intimate with such a hugely endowed gentleman. "It would mean the finish of my career", she declared as she looked upon Mr Tryhol's penis in awe.

Pik-Tik picked up $25,000 prize money for having the World's Tightest Vagina. Judges, who used 'soft' probes to select the winner, all agreed that her beautiful black-haired vagina deserves a place in the Book of Records and the Hall of Fame. She also has very small breasts.

Next years World Tightest Vagina Contest will be held in Athens starting on April 15th.

source : http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i72873

Why you should have sex every day

An article found in asia1.com

Sex can actually heal an ailing mind and body and help to prevent unwanted diseases, reported Times of India.

The newspaper looked at five reasons why having sex every day is beneficial for health.

#1: Great form of exercise

#2: Pain relief

#3: Prostate protection

#4: Prevention of erectile dysfunction

#5: Stress release

#1 Great form of exercise

Having sex will allow you to burn 7,500 calories a year - if you do the deed three times a week for 15 minutes. That's the equivalent of jogging 120km.

Breathing tends to get heavier during intercourse, which raises the amount of oxygen in your cells. The testosterone produced during sex also helps to keep bones and muscles strong.

#2 Pain relief

Endorphins - hormones that act as weak painkillers - are produced during sex. They act similarly to pain controlling drugs like morphine and codeine by interacting with the opiate - or sedative - receptors in our brain, says medicinenet.com

Sex also helps to train a woman's pubococcygeus (PC) muscle, which is the muscle that supports the pelvic organs. By doing so, it keeps the reproductive organs in shape.

#3 Prostate protection

Most of the fluid that a man ejaculates is secreted by the prostate gland. If ejaculation ceases, the fluid stays trapped in the gland and may cause it to swell.

Regular ejection can help to remove these fluids and in maintaining a healthy prostate.

#4 Prevention of erectile dysfunction

An erection keeps the blood flowing through penile arteries, so the tissue stays healthy.

Doctors also compare an erection to an athletic reflex: the more you train the more capable you are to perform.

#5 Stress relief

The body produces hormones during sex that help to keep that happy feeling going. Besides the feel-good endorphine (see point #2), your body produces dopamine - a substance that fights stress hormones - and oxytocin, a desire-enhancing hormone secreted by the .pituitary gland.