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Sex manual for ultra-orthodox Jews aims to initiate newlyweds
Tuesday 23 April 2013
Dr David Ribner's book The Newlywed's Guide to Physical Intimacy educates young couples who likely have very little experience with the opposite sex
Successful rape convictions at all-time high
Tuesday 23 April 2013
The number of successful convictions of defendants charged with rape has continued to rise, prosecutors said today.
A Tory Councillor, a West Sussex village and some inner city kids - if only all racism was this simple
Monday 22 April 2013
The bigoted rural snob is Britain's equivalent of the US Southern redneck, a stereotype which allows us to safely locate racism as 'elsewhere' and move on
Jimmy Savile had many other victims, warns ex-head of Operation Yewtree investigation
Friday 19 April 2013
Jimmy Savile could have sexually abused treble the number of victims who have come forward so far, the former head of the investigation into his crimes has reportedly said.
Kama Sutra sexed up with app that lets readers study poses in 3D on their smartphone
Monday 15 April 2013
The Kama Sutra, the 2,000-year-old sex manual, has been sexed-up for a 21st Century audience with a new app that enables couples to study its poses in 3D
Computer consultant charged over sex website
Thursday 11 April 2013
A computer consultant will appear in court later this month charged with offences in connection with a website that offered to pay the tuition fees of female students in return for sex.
Step into The Sex Clinic: Channel 4's latest Mating Season documentary
Thursday 11 April 2013
The show follows patients in London and Birmingham's busiest sex clinics
Manchester police make first arrests under new hate crime law after emo teenager is attacked
Thursday 11 April 2013
Police in Manchester have arrested two people for an attack on a 16-year-old emo in the first recorded hate crime against followers of alternative subcultures.
Child sex charges coach driver found dead
Wednesday 10 April 2013
A coach driver who was facing trial on child grooming charges has been found dead at his home.
Size really does matter: Homo sapiens' 'larger than necessary' penis may have evolved through natural selection by prehistoric women
Monday 08 April 2013
In a scientific tour-de-force worthy of the search for the elusively small Higgs boson, scientists have discovered that size really does matter to women when it comes to the length of a man’s manhood.
Man arrested in connection with burglaries during which women were sexually assaulted while they slept
Sunday 07 April 2013
Police have arrested a man in connection with two burglaries during which women were sexually assaulted as they slept.
On a one-way street to social inequality
Sunday 07 April 2013
Lashing out at the freakshow of Mick Philpott won't solve the problems of our overstretched welfare system
Album: THe Knife, Shaking the Habitual (Rabid)
Saturday 06 April 2013
In the seven years since Silent Shout, Swedish siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer have ventured unfathomably far from the towering synth pop with which they made their name.
Ex-Church of England priest Keith Wilkie Denford and organist Michael Mytton guilty of string of child abuse offences
Friday 05 April 2013
A retired Church of England priest and a former organist and choirmaster have been found guilty of a string of child sex abuse offences dating back more than 25 years.
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