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Singer-actor Ray J has confirmed that there is a second sex tape featuring him and reality TV star Kim Kardashian but he claims she is the only person who has a copy of the X-rated footage. The 41-year-old singer-and-actor and his ex-girlfriend Kim, dated from 2003 to 2006, and in 2007, a year after their split, a sex tape was unveiled by Vivid Entertainment. The reality star took legal action against the company and settled for $5 million and the footage was released to purchase as the adult film `Kim Kardashian,…

Thich Nhat Hanh, the Zen master, activist and poet who taught mindfulness to people from all over the world after being exiled from his home country Vietnam, passed away on January 22, 2022, at the age of 95. After a week of memorial ceremonies in Vietnam, France and the United States, his casket made its journey to the cremation grounds on January 29, to the accompaniment of texts, poems and songs offered by his senior monastic disciples. The man, who was respectfully addressed as “Thay” (meaning ‘teacher’), is the…

When asked to choose their favourite story in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw’s acclaimed debut collection, most people, the author tells me, say Peach Cobbler. This simultaneously funny and punch-in-the-guts-devastating tale focuses on Olivia, a young girl in the American south who believes the local pastor to be God, because when he visits she overhears her mother screaming “Oh, God!” from the bedroom.Central to the story is the “best cobbler in the world” – a fruit pie that Olivia’s mother bakes for…

Book: Full Disclosure Author: Stormy Daniels Publisher: St. Martins Press/Pan Macmillan Pages: 270 Price: Rs 699 In a tell-all memoir that justifies its title "Full Disclosure", porn star Stormy Daniels makes stunning claims about US President Donald Trump, dwelling on his psyche, wondering whether he is fit to hold the world's most powerful office, and detailing his body in a manner that will be clearly seen as "not cool" by the man she had the most unimpressive sex with ever. Daniels notes…

A region of the mouse brain, called the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, is larger in males than females. Many neurons (green) produce the estrogen receptor. A specific population of these neurons (labeled for a protein called Nfix in red) is more abundant in males than in females. CSHL Assistant Professor Jessica Tollkuhn and her team identified genes targeted by estrogen in neurons that coordinate sex differences in neural circuits. Credit: Bruno Gegenhuber/Tollkuhn lab/CSHL, 2022Sex hormones play a significant role…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Grooming, a term associated with adults who sexually abuse children, has become an attack word in today's battle over anti-LGBTQ legislation and is spilling out into the broader culture wars. …