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Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
What happens to a country when its young people stop having sex? Japan is finding out… Abigail Haworth investigates

Abigail Haworth
The Observer, Sunday 20 October 2013

...Japan's under-40s appear to be losing interest in conventional relationships. Millions aren't even dating, and increasing ( Read more... )

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how is it that “Supernatural” hasn’t won more awards? isn’t more famous?

and by famous i mean a showy, public favourite. it has felt like this underground, cult-ish show for years…and thats how long its been on

if i WERE a nutjob fan, i’d say it was a conspiracy. but i’ll leave that to the show’s plot.

but come ON. the show is just so good! ( Read more... )

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. That's a popular belief that pervades society these days and is born of a curious and unearned entitlement, sort of like the way we all think a bus shouldn't have urine on it, but of course it does. It's also terribly untrue due to its lack of completeness. Everyone can have an opinion, but you have to be ( Read more... )

Things You Should Never Say to Someone Who's Single

ah, these sound familiar. here the ones i've personally been told:

"So, why are you single?" 
"Have you tried online dating?" 
"Maybe you’re not trying hard enough." 
"When are you going to get married?" 
"You have such a pretty face, I bet if you lost weight you could find a man!" 
"You’ll always be ( Read more... )

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The trouble with these cleavage-ogling breast cancer campaigns is that, like most advertising, they place a disproportionate emphasis on straight male sexual desire and reduce a woman’s value to a body part. It seems particularly crass that women’s health funding should depend on the same sort of eye-candy marketing that sells beer, chicken wings ( Read more... )

"I don't know exactly when it became completely okay to ask a random stranger which one of their progenitors stepped outside the narrow queue of their own race and decided to knock boots with someone of another race. I find this line of questioning really irritating amd incredibly invasive - the Chris Matthews-style interrogation has become too ( Read more... )