Virgins wanted!

It seems that the world is getting real whacky with people doing all sorts of nasty and weird things.
Believe me, the latest news from Brazil is really off the wall. If you haven’t heard the news yet, here it is:
A student is auctioning off her virginity to the highest bidder to raise cash for what she claims to build homes for poverty-stricken families, reports Daily Mail.

The girl’s name is Catarina Migliorini, all of 20. She has announced the auction of her virginity and lo and behold, the current status of auction stands at a whopping $155,000 (£95,400 and still counting) and will go to a non-governmental organization, which, in turn, will construct modern houses in her southern Brazilian home state of Santa Catarina.

Moral police and guardians of all things good cried foul and called her a prostitute. But an adamant Migliorini says she still believes in love but will use the opportunity to make a positive difference to the world, according to the report.

And even hotter news is an Australian film crew will be framing every movement of the physical education student and release a documentary titled Virgins Wanted.

Daily Mail quotes her as saying, “I saw this as a business. I have the opportunity to travel, to be part of a movie and get a bonus with it. If you only do it once in your life then you are not a prostitute, just like if you take one amazing photograph it does not automatically make you a photographer.”

Migliorini, is of Italian descent and signed up to the project two years ago when she saw an advert by Thomas William Productions looking for a virgin to film.

However, the highest bidder of Migliorini’s virginity will be tested for sexually transmitted diseases prior to the encounter which will take place on an aeroplane, leaving from Australia to the US, in a bid to circumvent prostitution laws, says the report.

A condom will be compulsory, and Migliorini is prepared to prove to skeptics that she has not had sex before!

All virgin hunters, hurry! The auction is open till October 15!

Our women need to be sexually free!

Author of ‘Vagina: A New Biography’, Naomi Wolf’s article on attitude on women’s bodies in CNN gives us a lot of issues to ponder.  Yes, in the age of hyper-sexuality, where porn stuff is free of cost and available round the clock, it is Kate Middleton’s breasts and an American university professor who breast-fed a baby in class that are making news.
A Russian band Pussy Riots is all over news, you know for what. According to Naomi Wolf, female sexuality around the world is targeted because through traumatizing the vagina, you can intimidate women on multiple other levels.
Vaginal exams by armed strangers for "virginity tests’ on young women in Arab world are annoying. Yet, the women who staged protest against such an inhuman practice in Tahrir Square were put behind the bars.
According to Wolf, we are at an important crossroads in which it is becoming clearer to women around the world that, as one feminist artist put it, "your body is a battleground."
Yes, any scandal and discussion about vagina or breasts or "pussy riots" is ridiculous. It’s time the world learns how to respect female bodies.
The female bodies are divine, sublime and they deserve respect. They are not consumer goods.
The sexual revolution happened, but what for? Still our women are not sexually free as they deserve to be! They should be fully free to define the meanings of their bodies and their desire, to assert their sexual wishes without punishment!
Let’s all admit, pals, they too deserve many things that we enjoy.

Catholic Church sells porn, erotica?

It’s not breaking news at the moment, though I read it only sometimes ago! An online news provider reported the shocking news last month. According to worldcrunch.com, the Catholic Church owns a billion-dollar German media company that has been reported selling pornographic materials!
The German company Weltbild, the largest media firm selling books, DVDs, music and more also sells pornographic materials and other erotica like hot cakes!
And if you thought the high clergy didn’t know about the shady deal, catch your breath! The report says that the matter has been put into the notice of Church authorities some 10 years ago, but no action has been taken till date to address the situation.
It was reported that in 2008, a 70-page document was sent to all bishops whose dioceses have shared ownership of Weltbild for 30 years. And here is more, Wetbild, based in Augsburg, Germany, has a workforce of 6,400 and a turn over a whopping 1.7 billion euros in the form of revenues. When it comes to online book sales, Weltbild stand second to Amazon.com!
The report says some 2,500 erotic books are listed on the online catalogue of Weltbild including the Blue Panther Books with titles: "Schlampen-Internat" (Sluts' Boarding School). "Vögelbar" (F-kable), and "Anwaltshure" (Lawyer's Whore).
Oh Lord, don’t forgive them, for they know what they do!

I eat beef, so what?

Hey, do you eat meat on Saturday? They ask me here in Hyderabad. I say, “Why not, if I can eat it on a Sunday, why not any other day of the week? Do you eat beef? They are curious. “Buddy not just beef and pork, I had dog meat many times when I was in the Northeast,” I say. They are shell-shocked. I’m an oddball, they vouch.

And I am not ashamed to admit. After all, I’m no cannibal. Another avid blogger Jan Cho wrote recently: A lion topples a giraffe, a bear slays a fawn, a seal captures squid, and nobody objects. (Non-human) animals will be animals, and they do what they have to subsist and, if possible, prosper. The circumstances for humans are otherwise. Ethical eaters argue that it’s wrong for humans to kill animals for food where survival is not at stake. As omnivores with a conscience, humans have a choice in what we eat and understand the ethical implications of our choices. This is why we are held to a higher standard. But how did humans, unlike every other animal in nature, evolve the cognitive capacity to consider the ethics of our choices in the first place?

I agree, pal. It’s you who told me about an essay contest in New York Times’ Ethicist column that challenged omnivores to defend the practice of eating meat. “In recent years, vegetarians — and to an even greater degree vegans, their hard-core inner circle — have dominated the discussion about the ethics of eating… In response, those who love meat have had surprisingly little to say.”
Yes, I too have very little to say.
I take the side Jan Cho.
If you fellow humans can eat products derived from factory farm animals, who are subjected to terrible and unnecessary suffering in confinement, why can’t I eat their meat?
There is a terrible food shortage the world over. And the USA puts the blame on India. “In today’s food environment, eating meat may in fact be the best bet for survival for many Americans. It is a more reliable way for them to get the energy and nourishment they need. In many areas of the country, fruits, vegetables and whole grains are hard to come by, and adhering to a plant-only diet would — calorie for calorie, gram for gram — costs more money (and time that can’t be spared) than one consisting of bacon-topped burgers and fried chicken, which are subsidized by our country’s industrial agricultural system. Composing a complete and balanced plant-only diet, moreover, requires a level of knowledge of foods, nutrients and supplements that most Americans are nowhere near having. Abolishing meat from the diets of Americans would not be unlike throwing them to the wolves,” writes Jan Cho.
Well, it is ethical  for me to eat meat here in India too!

Catholic law book unkind to women

Going by the stories exposed by some bold nuns in southern Indian state of Kerala, all is not well within the Catholic Church. There have been stories of sexual abuse, intimidation, rape and even murder, but untold stories are allegedly more.
It is in these circumstances, this writer happens to read an interview given by a cardinal where he specifically said that the Church is “200 years out of date.”
Well, better late than never in realizing some facts. Vatican law book was never kind to the fairer sex. Women can’t be priests. No, not just that; any attempt to ordain a woman is a crime on par with child sex abuse! Who can ever imagine confessing sins to a woman! Sacrilege!
It may be recalled that earlier this year, the Vatican accused the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), which represents almost 60,000 American nuns, of not hating gays and women enough.
But remember while the Church was making allegations, the poor nuns were busy extending helping hands to the poor and the needy.
And if you did not know, the Vatican even ordered an archbishop to “work with” the nuns to revise their statutes, handbooks and programs. The fact is not only that LCWR has not extended outright support to contraception, but that they were busy focusing on helping people in distress.
Church is against contraception, everyone knows that. It has been stalling a reproductive health bill in the Philippines for 14 years, which, incidentally, puts them out of step with their followers in the country. Remember, eight out of 10 Filipinos are Catholic.
According to reports, 70% of the population supports the reproductive health bill, which also calls for sex education in schools.

Shameless Indian 'human safaris'

It’s shocking. It’s disturbing. In the modern times, when we in India boast of everything advanced, what happens in backwoods and boondocks is really saddening. The findings by an international human rights organization say that the aborigines of Andaman, “members of the Indian Jarawa tribe, who have managed to retain their way of life for thousands of years, are being threatened by "human safaris," in which nearly 200,000 tourists a year arrive to gawp at them.”
Any sensible Indian will sure be left chagrined to know this inhuman activity. Even if some strangers stare at us for a while, we lose our cool.  An online petition to be given to the Indian government says: “And these safaris are blatantly exploitative: most Jarawa people have no desire to have contact with outsiders. But the tours don't just threaten the tribe's privacy; they threaten its very survival.”
These tourists, along with their cameras and pervert mindsets, also bring infections that the tribe is vulnerable. They also bring gluttony, violence and carnal desires.
Despite the cheer felt after the official announcement that the tribes population had increased to 407, it is controversies relating to the exploitation of the endangered Jarawa tribes that create ripples in the civil society.
Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Shri Mahadeo Singh Khandela said, "The present population of endangered Jarawa tribe is 407... and there is no intervention in cultural life of the Jarawas and they are left to develop according to their own genius and at their own pace."
Despite the slight rise in population, the fact is that the Jarawas, the primitive inhabitants of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, are on the verge of extinction.  These people live in the lush forests of the island, and are not much exposed to the mainstream society. They even today live by hunting and continue with their traditional way of life.
According to recent reports, the controversial human safaris in the Andaman Islands are continuing unabated despite a ban. It may be remembered that there was an international outrage when a video clipping that showed the commercial exploitation of the Jarawa tribes to promote tourism appeared in the press in January. The video showed Jarawa women dancing half naked in front of the tourists in return for food.
The Indian government banned the human safaris following the outcry against it from different corners and ordered a probe into the issue. The Supreme Court of India banned any kind of tourism activity near their habitat.
But notwithstanding the ban, the inhuman act is unabated, say latest reports. It is said that the local administration has bowed down to the lobbying from the tourism industry. The safari, using the Andaman Trunk Road that cuts through the heartland of the Jarawa habitat, is increasing day by day, according to the latest reports.
It is time to respond. It’s time to speak up. Please pray for the endangered tribesmen and do something about this safaris!

Empowerment: Tight vaginas and monthly salaries!

First it was a vagina tightening gel that came in the form of women empowerment and now it’s a monthly salary that should be paid by husbands for doing household chores!
If the first was proposed by a Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company that manufactured the gel to make copulation more pleasurable, it is Women and Child Development Ministry that mooted the second proposal!
Well, strange are the ways of Union ministries, everyone agrees. And now if the new proposal is put into practice, it would be soon mandatory for Indian husbands to pay a fixed monthly salary to their housewives for doing daily chores.

The Bill is being drafted by the ministry and is likely to be tabled in Parliament in next six months. It was reported that Minister for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath as saying that the move was part of government’s efforts aimed at women empowerment.  According to him, the government will set a standard for the salary amount to be paid to housewives every month.
A report appeared on a website quoted a senior government official as saying that husbands would be required to deposit 10-20% of their monthly salary in a bank account to be opened in the name of their wife. Incredible India! Whoa!

Is this female empowerment? Ridiculous!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPayFrCOiZM&feature=player_embedded

This is ridiculous! This is outrageous! They are selling in Indian market a product that tightens the genitals of women to get better pleasure for men and no one is talking about it. And shamelessly, there is a super quality commercial to advertise the product.

Claiming that it has come up with an answer to female empowerment, a Mumbai-based company Ultratech is marketing the product:  a vagina tightening gel. Phew!

The product, called 18 Again, was launched last month. The makers boast that 18 Again is a “femininity restoring” and “empowerment” product.  And the price: each jar is selling at Rs. 2,439, or around $43! According to sources, Ultratech invested huge money in its marketing campaign.


One of the product’s FAQs says that 18 Again is a result of years of research and development done by their scientists. It addresses intimate feminine concerns of women. It helps in the rejuvenation of the vagina by tightening it in a natural way. It is a product that provides true women empowerment.

Experts say that any such creams and gels cannot help in any way beyond a local vasodilating effect and it is most unlikely that the gel would be able to act on the vaginal muscles at all.

The worst, they call it “female empowerment”!

Experts say that it is one of several products to come on the market recently that are actually more about pleasing men — or more specifically, upholding age-old and errant ideas about what should be pleasing to men — even though they have been dressed up as women’s cosmetics and health care.

Steve Williams writes in one of his articles in a Care2 newsletter, “Indeed, a recent and aggressive upsurge in skin lightening creams, where women are told they will be more successful and more prosperous in love and life if they have a lighter complexion, have taken hold in India’s stores. There has even been a vaginal whitening product put on the market, though since an outcry, that particular product has apparently been moved to ship primarily for medical retailers.”

Pregnant students are kicked out of US schools!

Students are students wherever they are. They deserve love, respect and forgiveness in case if they do something wrong, even if so severe.  I don’t mean to generalize, but I know this happens to students from across the globe. Once they commit the shameful mistake of being ‘pregnant’ – the cause can be anything, rape, intimidated sex, seduction, tempting into consensual copulation… -  they are ridiculed, humiliated, sometimes kicked and what not!

A Louisiana school’s policy of forcing students suspected of being pregnant to take a pregnancy test or get kicked out of school should they either refuse or are pregnant has kicked up a storm in the US.  Civil liberty activists and other organizations are up in arms against this inhuman act.    

It is true that in the US, the reality is a growing number of students are facing pregnancy sometime in their academic career. The National Women’s Law Center is re-releasing its comprehensive new report that shows that schools across the country are failing to meet the needs of pregnant and parenting students, according to reports.

According to the report, says Jessica Pieklo, a Care2 activist,  schools still bar pregnant students from activities, kick them out of school, push them into alternative programs and penalize them for pregnancy-related absences, all of which violate Title IX—the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education—and increase the risk that they will drop out of school. “Recently,  we were outraged over a Louisiana school’s policy of forcing students suspected of being pregnant to take a pregnancy test or get kicked out of school should they either refuse or are pregnant. This is just the latest example of such drastic failures. It wasn’t until the school faced a demand letter from the American Civil Liberties Union and public pressure that it backed off its practice–and not before the lives of a handful of students were already affected,” Pieklo was quoted as saying by the Care2 newsletter.

According to Pieklo, the NWLC report examines the education laws and regulations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico and ranks them based on the extent to which their laws and policies help this vulnerable student population succeed. The majority of states have few or no laws, policies or programs specifically designed to improve outcomes for these students. Our schools can do better and our students deserve better.