A hairdresser gave birth to a baby girl – just three hours after being told she was pregnant by doctors. Belinda Waite, 21, had been to her local hospital several times during the past nine months and says she was told she had a severe case of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and gout. In fact she was pregnant with a healthy baby girl who arrived a month ago. Miss Waite, known as Billy, from Bampton, Devon, said:”You read about these stories in magazines but you never think they happen to real people and I certainly never thought it would happen to me.” Read More…

When someone you love is depressed, what are the warning signs that suicide is a possibility? Every 17 minutes, someone dies by suicide in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Suicide is the 11th-leading cause of death for Americans, and while it often comes as a surprise to friends and loved ones, it is largely considered to be preventable if warning signs are heeded. “The tragedy of completed suicide is that most could have been prevented if family members knew what to look for,” says Lisa Boesky, a psychologist and author of When to...

10-minute body language. This week: ways to tell if someone is lying. By James Borg Society would quickly collapse were it not for the dozens of tiny lies we permit ourselves every day. Mostly we use this for simple good manners. For instance, when breaking up with a partner, we reassure them that “It’s not you, it’s me”, when in reality it most certainly is them. We all learn to lie at such a young age: every parent will recognise the moment where a child first puts their hand to their mouth before stating a blatant lie. From that moment, we get steadily better at...

By Keith Fraser, The Province The mother of a six-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted at a Coquitlam daycare is suing the daycare and one of its employees for damages on behalf of her daughter. In 2008, Kyle David Lennax, 23, was convicted and sentenced to two years less a day in jail and three years’ probation for his assaults on the girl at the Funshine Daycare Centre. The mother, who can’t be identified due to a publication ban on any information that would identify the girl, says that the daycare and its operator knew or ought to have known of Lennax’s “sexual inclinations...

Esquire’s sex columnist on the truth about “girls night out,” wedding obsessions, and more revealing solutions for the bedroom Women don’t like explosions, in art or in life. Women aren’t as funny as men. We’re often cleverer, frequently wittier, but to be really funny demands a certain clownishness that our grace just does not allow. It’s fine, really it is. We grow pathetic goatees and look awful in cargo shorts anyway. Women are aware of about 10 percent of the things men actually think and say about us. Best to keep it under five. Women love to be...

Had sex. Those two little words can sure elicit a reaction depending on when and where they’re uttered. But what does “had sex” mean, anyway? It seems that no one knows. In a new study from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, researchers found no consensus on what “had sex” means. They conducted a random, telephone survey of 204 men and 282 women living in Indiana. The respondents ranged in age from 18 to 96. Most were heterosexual. Read More…

Extra small condoms for boys as young as 12 are going on sale in Switzerland Alexandra Williams in Geneva Called the Hotshot, the condom has been produced after government research showed 12 to14-year-olds did not use sufficient protection when having sex. The study, conducted on behalf of the Federal Commission for Children and Youth, interviewed 1,480 people aged 10 to 20. It showed more 12 to 14-year-olds were having sex, in comparison with the 1990s. The Hotshot condoms, which cost 7fr60 (£4.70) for a packet of six, have been created by Lamprecht AG, a leading condom manufacturer in Switzerland....

By THE NEW YORK TIMES Recently, a panel of experts joined the Consults blog to answer readers’ questions about sex addiction. One reader, responding to reports of golfer Tiger Woods’s sex addiction, wondered if the sex addiction claim was just to save face and release all personal responsibility for his actions. Q.Men who play with fire must know they might get burnt. Read More…

By THE NEW YORK TIMES Recently, a panel of experts joined the Consults blog to answer readers’ questions about sex addiction. Here, two of those experts respond to one wife who is concerned that her husband may be a sex addict who is addicted to her. Is My Husband Addicted to Me? Read More…

A proposed city ordinance has a lengthy definition of a medical marijuana dispensary, along with rules of operation. “We want to be able to make clear what is going on, and that it is legitimate,” said Jessica Hogan, director of public relations for the nonprofit Colorado Springs Medical Cannabis Council, which helped draft the proposed ordinance being considered by the Colorado Springs City Council. The ordinance refers to “Medical Cannabis Dispensaries,” cannabis being the botanical name for the plant from which marijuana comes. Read More…