At ‘Breastaurants,’ Business Is Booming

Published on Mar 21, 2013
While many restaurant chains are struggling, Twin Peaks, Tilted Kilt and others are thriving.

MEGAPOST: Cigarette and Cigar Commercials 1940s, 1950s, 1960s

1949 TV commercial from Camel cigarettes.

MEGAPOST: Modern Polygamy – Our America with Lisa Ling

Spotlight on a Young Polygamist Family

Uploaded on Oct 24, 2011
Lisa visits Isaiah and his two wives to determine if what she sees in this young and modern family’s daily lifestyle will change any of the preconceived notions we have about polygamy.

Deleted Scenes: Housewife to Sister-wives

Uploaded on Oct 24, 2011
Lisa Ling visits Joanne’s birthing center in Centennial Park, where she discovers the unexpected gains – and losses – of being born in polygamy…

Deleted Scenes: Teresa’s Divine Revelation

Uploaded on Oct 24, 2011
Teresa tells Lisa Ling what it’s like to find out you’re spiritually contracted to marry someone…who already has a family.

The Story Continues: Modern Polygamy

Uploaded on Dec 5, 2011
Find out what has happened since Lisa Ling and the Our America cameras visited polygamist families in Centennial Park, Arizona.

Dr. Drew – Lisa Ling – Inside polygamist compound

Published on Dec 3, 2012
On Thursday night, Dr. Drew was joined by journalist Lisa Ling who was invited into the “Centennial Park” polygamist compound, with cameras, to talk with their leaders and families.Her special “Our America with Lisa Ling, Modern Polygamy” airs on OWN this Sunday night at 10 p.m. ET.In this clip, watch as Dr. Drew examines a group that claims they have nothing in common with the Warren Jeffs’ community with respect to forced marriages and men having sex with underage girls.

Breaking Polygamy

Published by ABCNews on Nov 23, 2012

• Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints — not mainstream Mormons
• Warren Jeffs
• Homeschooling in Utah

Secrets of the Sect

Part 1: ABC News’ Amy Robach goes inside the FLDS, which has been called “the American Taliban.”

The Reeducation of Willie Steed

Part 2: Steed, 18 and starting a new life, found his FLDS education had left him unable to read.

A Haircut Equals Freedom

Part 3: “I want bangs!” Nellie Steed, 6, said, breaking with her strict FLDS upbringing.

Confronting ‘The God Squad’

Part 4: Police harassment of former FLDS led the Department of Justice to file a civil rights suit.

Pulled Back to the Fold

Part 5: Suzette Steed gets some news and must decide between her past and her daughters’ future.

Boom in Asia’s male beauty market anything but made up

Published on Dec 9, 2012
Cosmetics companies are using fresh-faced South Korean pop stars to fuel sales of their products to Asian men, who increasingly view appearance as a vital ingredient for success.

MEGAPOST: Teen Domestic Violence Prevention Public Service Announcements (PSAs)

Government campaign targets teenage domestic violence

Teenage boys are being urged not to violently abuse their girlfriends in a new Government campaign.

Abuse in teen relationships (girl)

This powerful Home Office advert, directed by top British director Shane Meadows, aims to challenge the attitudes of teenagers towards violence and abuse in relationships.

Abuse in teen relationships (boy)

This powerful Home Office advert, directed by top British director Shane Meadows, aims to challenge the attitudes of teenagers towards violence and abuse in relationships.

Boys Teen Dating Violence 60 sec PSA

“Just because it isn’t physical doesn’t mean it’s not abuse.”

60 second PSA from seeitandstopit.org about teen dating violence. For boys.

“My boyfriend raped me, but because of my illegal status I’m afraid to report it.”

This PSA was created by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) CREATE! and Domestic Violence Prention Program (DVPP). It was conceived, written and acted by students from Belmont and Miguel Contreras High School in Los Angeles California.
The DVPP is the MALDEF component to the Los Angeles Domestic Violence Collaborative in partnership with the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and the Los Angeles Urban League.

Is Kim Jong-un the world’s sexiest man? Um, no

The newspaper falsely reported that Kim Jong-un was the world’s sexiest man–based on a satirical story from The Onion.

Published on Nov 28, 2012 by Channel4News
The state-owned People’s Daily newspaper in China has removed from its website a story announcing this year’s winner of the “World’s Sexiest Man” award as North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, following the revelation that the story was a spoof.

Ellen Roasts Bic Pens for Women

Published on Oct 12, 2012 by TheEllenShow
It’s hard to believe, but Bic has a new line of pens, just for women. See what Ellen had to say about them!

Women search for love in the world’s first ‘adopt-a-guy’ dating boutique in Paris

Published on Sep 13, 2012 by itnnews

Eligible bachelors in quirky costumes are packed into Barbie-style boxes while women peruse in their hunt for love. Report by Matt Blake.

Perversion for Profit (1965) and Printed Poison – Citizens for Decent Literature

Perversion for Profit is a 1965 propaganda film financed by Charles Keating and narrated by George Putnam. A vehement diatribe against pornography, the film attempts to link explicit portrayals of human sexuality to the subversion of American civilization, and briefly draws a parallel between pornography and the Communist conspiracy. The film is in the public domain, and it has become a popular download from the Prelinger Archives. Perversion for Profit illustrates its claims with still images taken from various soft core pornography magazines of the period, though with some portions of human anatomy obscured by colored rectangles.

To bolster his position, Putnam makes several references to “Dr. Sorokin, the renowned Harvard sociologist”. This individual is Pitirim Sorokin, a Russian-American who founded Harvard’s Sociology department and served as the American Sociological Association’s 55th president.

In an article discussing the Prelinger Archives for the San Francisco Chronicle, Peter L. Stein observes that the film has gained a different sort of utility than its producers intended: …as the parade of girlie magazine covers, men’s physique pictorials and campy S&M leaflets continues, the film betrays a kind of prurience the filmmakers could hardly have intended. What results is a remarkable visual record of midcentury underground literature and sexual appetites, and a gloss on the values of the society that condemned them.

At the time the Chronicle article was written, Perversion was the Archive’s second most popular download, superseded only by Duck and Cover. Ephemeral film scholar Rick Prelinger, founder of the Archive, views the popularity of such films as a sign the “unofficial evidence of everyday life” has become more interesting than “‘official’ documents from Washington or New York”.

In 2004, a Prelinger Archive user going by the pseudonym “Trafalgar” produced a remix, in which short clips from the film are rearranged to make a pro-pornography advocacy video. Trafalgar’s remix, entitled Come Join the Fun!, is available from the Internet Archive’s open-source movie collection. The electronica band 3kStatic sampled audio from the original Perversion film for the title track of their 2005 album Perversion: for Profit.

Printed Poison – Citizens for Decent Literature

the “infection” of “so-called” nudist mags in a community and “abnormal perversions”

Lupe Fiasco – Bitch Bad (2012)

Yeah, I say
Bitch bad, woman good, lady better
Hey, hey
Hey, hey

[Verse 1]
Now imagine there’s a shorty, maybe five maybe four
Ridin’ ’round with his mama listening to the radio
And a song comes on and a not far off from being born
Doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong
Now I ain’t trying to make it too complex
But let’s just say shorty has an undeveloped context
About the perception of women these days
His mama sings along and this what she says
“Niggas, I’m a bad bitch, and I’m that bitch
Something that’s far above average”
And maybe other rhyming words like cabbage and savage
And baby carriage and other things that match it
Couple of things are happenin’ here
First he’s relatin’ the word “bitch” with his mama – comma
And because she’s relatin’ to herself, his most important source of help
And mental health, he may skew respect for dishonor

[Hook]
Bitch bad, woman good
Lady better, they misunderstood
(I’m killin’ these bitches)
Uh, tell ‘em
Bitch bad, woman good
Lady better, they misunderstood
They misunderstood

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MEGAPOST: 1940s-1950s Sex Education

Disney ’46 The Story of Menstruation

The Story of Menstruation is a 1946 10-minute animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions in 1946.
It was commissioned by the International Cello-Cotton Company (now Kimberly-Clark) and was shown to approximately 105 million American students in health education classes.

It was one of the first commercially sponsored films to be distributed to high schools. It was distributed with a booklet for teachers and students called Very Personally Yours that featured advertising of the Kotex brand of products, and discouraged the use of tampons, where the market was dominated by the Tampax brand of rivals Procter & Gamble.

The Story of Menstruation is believed to be the first film to use the word vagina in its screenplay. Neither sexuality nor reproduction is mentioned in the film, and an emphasis on sanitation makes it, as Disney historian Jim Korkis has suggested: “a hygienic crisis rather than a maturation event.”

Nas – Daughters (2012)

*NOTE – try to find unedited version!

RapGenius Lyrics – Nas – Daughters

Condom shortage in Kenya

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention…but this an adage Isiolo residents have taken to another level, quite literally…this because there are people in the area who have finally decided to take all necessary measures to combat the high rate of HIV prevalence in the area … Only that their way of going about arresting the spread of the virus is not one you would consider orthodox. Here’s Evelyn Wambui with the story of people that have resorted to re-using condoms or plastic paper bags, due to the scarcity or unavailability of condoms in the area.

There was rare excitement in Witimire slums in Nyeri after a non-governmental organization supplied the residents with condoms. The government yesterday admitted that condoms were out of stock. The Kenya Red Cross has also moved in to supply another consignment to Isiolo town which is one of the areas hard hit by the condom shortage. Pamela Asigi reports.

Don Trip – Letter To My Son ft. Cee-Lo (2011)

Lyrics at Rap Genius

Please, no pity for a G
Though I’ve got a son that I barely get to see
I see him for an hour. After that he’s gotta leave
On top of that, I only get to see him once a week
Yea, right, lucky me
Well fuck child support and whoever disagrees
I learned a valuable lesson, indeed
But I’m just trying to be the best father I can be
Apparently I’m an unfit father, cause all I know is dope
And all I got is dirty dollars
But I’m selling dope to help my family get farther
Cause no 9 to 5 is gonna prevent us from starving