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Clara Moskowitz
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com
Fri May 16, 5:31 PM ET

As gay couples celebrate their newfound right to marry in California and opposition groups rally to fight the ruling, many struggle with this question: Is homosexuality natural?

On this issue, Nature has spoken: Same-sex lovin’ is common in hundreds of species, scientists say.
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By Greta Christina, The Blowfish Blog
Posted on May 16, 2008, Printed on May 16, 2008

“Nobody in their right mind would want to do that. You’d have to be desperate/damaged/strung out on drugs to do that.”

This argument gets used a lot by people who are against porn, prostitution, other kinds of sex work. And those of us who have actually been in sex work and not loathed it (or who know people who have) tend to counter simply by offering counter-examples: raising our hands, pointing to ourselves and each other, saying, “Me. Over here. Did sex work. Liked it (or didn’t hate it). Not a basket case. Case closed.”
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By Josey Vogels, My Messy Bedroom
Posted on May 15, 2008, Printed on May 15, 2008

I feel so boring. If I blow up a balloon, I might have a little fun knocking it around the room for a while, but that’s about it. I throw a pie in someone’s face, sure, I’ll get a giggle out of it, but it’s hardly gonna make me come.

So why are balloons, pies or wanting to be stuffed in the oven like a turkey such a sexual turn-on for some and not others?
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Stephen King fires back after blogger attacks remarks
By The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 - Bangor Daily News

BANGOR, Maine — Stephen King has fired back at conservative critics who attacked him over a remark he made a month ago at a writers symposium for high school students.
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The red car trailed behind Dom back to the outskirts of Lakeside. There was the radio but Vince didn’t use it and neither did he; what would they say to each other? It had been hard enough face to face and Dom knew that if he asked any of the hard questions that he wanted to ask, that he should ask, that he would push Vince away. More than anything, he didn’t want that to happen, so he said nothing.
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