By Adam Bernstein (Washington Post) Loren R. Mosher, 70, who died of liver cancer July 10 at a clinic in Berlin, was a contrarian psychiatrist and schizophrenia expert who was dismissed from the National Institute of Mental Health for his controversial theories on treatment. While chief of NIMH’s Center for the Study of Schizophrenia from [...]

By Elisabeth Bumiller (NY Times) The Marines were the service most opposed to ending the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but they were the only one of five invited branches of the military to turn up with their recruiting table and chin-up bar at the center Tuesday morning. Although Marines pride themselves on being the [...]

By Bob Tourtellotte (Reuters) A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday shows 57 percent of Mexicans would be either very likely or somewhat likely to tolerate the sexual indiscretions of stars and politicians. They were followed by Belgians at 55 percent. In the United States, the tolerance factor was 48 percent. France, in fact, was way [...]

By Brian Rogers (Houston Chronicle) Thomas Jason Fortenberry, 30, is accused of choosing two 15-year-olds and two 17-year-olds for a church game that ended with the girls being covered in honey. According to court documents, Fortenberry recently admitted to the two older girls that he hid a camera at the Greater Harvest Community Church in [...]

By Melinda Wenner Moyer (Scientific American) Contrary to what many people believe, recent research shows that moderate pornography consumption does not make users more aggressive, promote sexism or harm relationships. If anything, some researchers suggest, exposure to pornography might make some people less likely to commit sexual crimes. “There’s absolutely no evidence that pornography does [...]

(AFP) Romantic novels threaten women’s sexual and emotional health, according to British author and relationship counselor Susan Quilliam, who blasts the books for defining the success of a relationship as the ability to crank out babies, while failing to promote safe sex and encourage patience in achieving female orgasm. Ms Quilliam, writing in the Journal [...]

By Rupert Neate (The Guardian UK) Last month when BeautifulPeople.com was attacked by a computer virus, some claim standards slipped and around 30,000 new members gained admittance. Now, in a move which has made those rejected “apoplectic” with rage, they have been unceremoniously booted off at a financial cost of more than $100,000 (£62,000) to [...]

By Jules Siegel (Moronia) In case you missed it, a Democratic congressman named Anthony Weiner sent a picture of his bulging briefs to a female college student who had invited him to add her to his private Twitter harem. Unfortunately he inserted the wrong code and sent it to all his zillion followers, none of [...]

(Response Source) Swoon.co.uk, the new online dating site, has revealed the results of new research that shows four out of five middle-aged Brits (35-54) have suffered a romantic break-up. Surprisingly, more than a third of those recently separated would still date their ex even if they had known more about their personality beforehand. When it [...]

By Carol J. Williams (Los Angeles Times) Derence Kernek and Ed Watson live together each day in fear that they won’t be able to pledge “till death do us part” before it’s too late. Watson, 78, is in rapidly failing health, afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, diabetes and hypertension. A federal appeals court ruled last [...]