Melbourne: Even as rain deterred plans of thousands of women who were to turn up at Sydney’s SlutWalk protest, those who did make it managed to make the event a powerful one.
 
Despite the low turnout, the message was loud and clear: women`s dress is not an invitation for sexual assault.

Most of the 200-odd people who gathered at Town Hall were rugged up for the chilly weather.

Some women were scantily clad and many men in attendance were dressed in women`s clothes.

They carried signs with the slogans: “Proud and happy slut”, “Blame rapists not boobs” and one woman had written on her breasts: “Can`t touch these without consent”.

BOSTON: The reports of a party at the prestigious Yale University where undergraduate students attending the soiree were asked to strip naked and forced to drink alcohol have triggered an investigation by the varsity authorities and police.

The party, hosted by ‘The Pundits’, a senior prank society at Yale, is now being investigated for sexual assault and hazing of undergraduates. About 50 students attended the invitation-only annual nude bash.

Students were told to arrive at the party in costume, but midway through the night were told to strip naked. Members of the Pundits “were force-feeding people alcohol” as well as forcing several students to kiss each other. Later, 10 students had to be hospitalised for excessive drinking.

JABALPUR: An alleged sex-for-marks scandal has come to light here, leading to the arrest of two Jabalpur University officials.

Controller of Examination Professor S S Rana and the Deputy Registrar R S Kakodia of Rani Durgawati Vishwavidyalaya (RDVV) here were arrested on March 1. Police had earlier arrested one Raju Khan in this case.

Two other accused, Prerna Atwal, a student, and one Ajay Khandelwal, are absconding, police said.

According to the complaint filed by S Arya, a first-year MBBS student of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College last month, Prerna, her senior in the college, told her that she would have to sleep with Khan if she wanted to get her marks increased in the revaluation.

We give you tips on what not to do this V-Day.

1. If you are thinking of proposing to the one you love on Valentine’s Day, then boy, do we have news for you. The idea is not only a hundred years old, but it borders on the lines of being lame.

2. If you think imposing a life-sized stuffed teddy bear (unless your eye candy is ten years old) or a ginormous red heart on the recipient of your affection is going to get you brownie points, think again. Get a life… and some originality, perhaps?

Lakshmi Menon, the sultry babe from Bangalore, has become the first Indian model to feature in the world renowned Pirelli Calendar.

For the calendar’s 2011 edition created by designer photographer Karl Lagerfeld, Lakshmi is seen posing (extreme right in the pic below) along with international models Erin Wasson (far left) and Bianca Balti (centre).

The calendar has all the three models posing in the nude. The theme of the calendar is Greek mythology and the models are made to look like Greek gods and goddesses.

New Delhi: US President Barack Obama wears his Ivy League badge on his shirt sleeves and business suits. And it has been no different during his ongoing India trip.

He sports a personal style that is youthful, intelligent and fashionable at the same time, says American men`s fashion monitor askmen.com.

In the US, it is believed that Obama has taught men how to wear a suit again. Since Nov 6, when the president landed in India, his clothes and attitude are widely perceived as reflecting an astute blend of balance, understated power and casual style.

Mumbai: Indian origin actress Sarita Choudhury, best known for her roles in ‘Kama Sutra: A Tale Of Love’ and ‘Mississippi Masala’, will be seen on Indian screens again, this time in an emotional drama titled ‘For Real’.

‘My role in ‘For Real’ is that of a mother of two kids who gave up a singing career in London and moved to India to be a housewife,’ Sarita, 43, told IANS in an e-mail interview from New York.

Let us introduce some of the most unusual sexual practices that not many couples perform in real life. If we are wrong, let us know.
 
Unusual sexual practices: Urtication

The sexual practice which is technically called urtication is concerned with the desire for stinging plants, for example nettles that we use to “torture” the partner’s body. It all depends on our courage, which means that some people who like doing this go very far and “burn” their genitals as well. A confession of a man who admitted he put a nettle leaf on the inside of his condom in also very interesting. Supposedly, this really arouses him during intercourse and provides him with additional pleasure. The same goes for a woman who said that she adores it when her partner stimulates her vagina with nettle during foreplay. It has a similar effect to hot wax and whipping. The skin is naturally much more irritated after contact with the nettle.

MUMBAI: Model Viveka Babajee, who shot to fame with the Kamasutra condom advertisement in the 1990s, committed suicide in her flat in Continental Building in Bandra (west) on Friday night. Her body was found hanging from the ceiling fan in the hall, police said.

ACP (west) Amitabh Gupta told TOI that the occupants in the neighbouring flat alerted the fire brigade and police after they suspected a gas leakage in her flat. The 37-year-old Viveka stayed alone and neighbours got no response when they rang the doorbell, police said.

London: She was hailed as the poster girl of new America, a Lebanese immigrant who won the Miss USA crown. But just a day after, Rima Fakih`s victory has been tarnished with pictures of her pole dancing at a strip club emerging on the Internet.
 
The 24-year-old from Michigan who is thought to be the first Muslim woman ever to win the competition, features in a video sliding up and down a stripper`s pole in a blue tank top, hot pants and high heels.

Fakih won the `Stripper 101` contest at the Coliseum Gentleman`s Club in 2007 and other photographs showed her wearing a bra stuffed with dollar bills, reported Daily Mail online.

New Delhi: Indian designers feel that Aishwarya Rai was looking “pretty” and “elegant” in a train gown at the opening ceremony of the Cannes International Film Festival, yet some wished she had stuck to a sari.

The 34-year-old actress had Wednesday night worn a violet blue fully embroidered tulle and mousseline gown from Lebanese designer Elie Saab, teaming it with round solitaires and topped with a buffon hairstyle – reminding one of yesteryears actresses like Sharmila Tagore.

MUMBAI: A desire to get married the traditional way attracts young non-resident Indian couples to tie the knot in India, but the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA) may not be applicable to them if they are domicile of a foreign country. The Bombay high court has said that the HMA cannot apply to an estranged couple who were domiciled in the US.

Justice Roshan Dalvi quashed an order of the Pune family court which had said Indian courts would have jurisdiction to hear a divorce case even if the couple had resided for a single day in the city when they came to India for a holiday.

Well-known fashion designer Rohit Bal suffered a heart attack on Tuesday and has been admitted to Medanta Medicity in Gurgaon, a source close to the designer said.

Bal, 42, suffered an attack at his Defence Colony residence and was initially rushed to Aashlok Hospital in Safdarjung Enclave in South Delhi. He was later shifted to Medicity, the source said.

“All his family members are with him in the hospital,” said the source, who is also part of the fashion industry.

Bal, popularly known as ‘Gudda’ in the fashion industry, has been described as master of fabric and fantasy.

New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Monday held that sex without marriage amounted to rape.

The court rejected pre-arrest bail to a man who repeatedly had sex with a woman but refused to marry her even after their engagement.

The woman stayed with her fiance, Nikhil Prasar, in Mumbai for a few days, “where they had fun, and then went to Delhi and stayed in a hotel where they had sex”.

When it came to fixing a date for marriage, however, Nikhil refused, on the grounds that he had learned that she belonged to a different caste.

New York: Indian-born celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon has pleaded not guilty in a New York court to dozens of new charges that he sexually assaulted nine women and underage girls.

Already convicted of raping women in California, Jon, 36, was extradited to New York to face charges he preyed on 15 to 26 year old wannabe models between 2002 and 2006.

Wearing a white shirt and tan drawstring pants, dark-rimmed glasses and handcuffs, the one-time rising design star said nothing but “not guilty” as he was arraigned on Friday in a Manhattan court.

When your relationship isn’t a humdrum affair, then why should your sex life be dull and lifeless? There’s more to a rocking sex life than just simple, great sex.

A marvelous sexual connection includes different kinds of sex, even the ones you haven’t dared to experiment with perhaps. Check out the different kinds of love making acts you and your lover can indulge in for a night of passion.

Experimental sex

VIJAYAWADA: The heaviest flood in over a hundred years hit the Prakasam barrage on Krishna river threatening several villages downstream even as people of Vijayawada city clung on to a faint hope on Monday.

The toll in the heavy rains and rampaging floods in the state rose to 52. The Krishna was all furious as a record 11.03 lakh cusecs of floodwater reached Prakasam barrage. However, there was no threat to human lives as 2.5 lakh people of Krishna and Guntur districts have already been shifted to relief camps.

LOS ANGELES: An Indian-born fashion designer convicted of sexually abusing a string of teenage girls and women was Monday sentenced to a minimum of59 years in jail by a Los Angeles judge.

Anand Jon Alexander, 35, whose clothes had reportedly been worn by stars celebrities including Paris Hilton and Mary J. Blige, was found guilty of 16 sex crimes, including forcible rape and sexual battery, at a trial in November.

Alexander represented himself at Monday’s sentencing hearing, where he broke down in tears as he requested a new trial. The judge rejected his request.

Venezuela makes history at the Miss Universe pageant… by winning the crown for the second year running!

And the crown goes to…

As Miss Venezuela Stefania Fernandez takes home the Miss Universe 2009 crown, the first runner-up title is shared by Miss Australia Rachael Finch and Miss Puerto Rico Mayra Matos Perez, with the title of second runner-up going to Miss Kosovo Gona Dragusha.

Venezuela has won five Miss Universe titles, five Miss World and four Miss International crowns — more than any other country.

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