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  1. The Cry For Help the Web Didn't Answer

    5/16/12 9:00am by avflox
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    Liv Penpraze

    Last month, Warren and Kellie Penpraze made the heart-breaking decision to take their 19-year-old daughter Olivia off life support. Olivia had been admitted to the hospital after a suicide attempt resulted in irreversible absence of brain function. When the grieving father went to notify his daughter's friends using her laptop, Warren stumbled on Olivia's Tumblr, a blog with more than 900 pages of posts chronicling the last two years of the teen's struggle with suicidal feelings.  Read more >

  2. The Sad Ballad of the FarmVille Thief

    5/14/12 10:19pm by avflox
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    Helga Weber (Flickr)

    I know what it's like to feel stagnant. I don't know how it happens. It feels like we're moving up, like we're achieving something, but the grind is a high price to pay. Work, commitments, obligations and errands pile up and next thing you know, you're dying to get home so you can just throw on sweatpants, pop a Hot Pocket in the microwave and watch another season of something you've already seen a thousand times. It's easy. It's better than work and stress and the fact you're behind on your taxes or upside down on your mortgage.  Read more >

  3. Is Technology Destroying Your Relationships?

    5/9/12 5:55pm by avflox
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    Mike Licht/Marie-Denise Villers (Flickr)

    I read an article recently saying that Facebook is making us lonely. In typically alarmist fashion, the piece opened with the grim image of Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy Playmate, found mummified in her L.A. home, bathed in the creepy glow of her computer screen. Forensic pathologists estimated she'd been dead for a year when she was discovered. The message of the article was clear: no matter how many people we connect with online, we're all going to die alone.  Read more >

  4. Are Fertility Treatments A Sin?

    4/30/12 10:53pm by avflox
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    Evandro Inetti (Zumapress)

    According to Pope Benedict XVI, conception is limited to the conjugal act between a husband and wife and artificial procreation is a social sin. What does your conscience dictate? Are fertility treatments a sin?  Read more >

  5. Heart Attacks at the Heart Attack Grill: Fast Food and Bad Decisions

    4/24/12 12:35pm by avflox
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    Triple-Bypass Burger (Heart Attack Grill)

    Editor's update: ABC News reports that a second person has suffered a heart attack at the Heart Attack Grill this past weekend. The woman is recovering after "eating a double bypass burger, smoking cigarettes and having a margarita," according to ABC. -- Julie  Read more >

  6. The Troubling Message in Fifty Shades of Grey

    4/23/12 3:45pm by avflox
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    E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey book cover

    As someone who believes the world could do with a more open-minded approach to peoples consensual sexual interests, I wanted to like Fifty Shades of Grey. But as I read the book, I found it not only sets people who live a BDSM lifestyle back decades in terms of being understood by society, but that it eroticizes dangerous practices as well, especially for those who are new to this aspect of sexuality and looking to incorporate it into their lives.  Read more >

  7. Does Power Make Women Fantasize About Submission?

    4/20/12 5:57pm by avflox
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    Photo by Mike Prasad

    There is a great need among our species to answer the question of "why," and this need often leads to wild speculation that is very difficult to substantiate. When it comes to BDSM, we cannot ask "why" because the people who practice surrender are not a homogenous group. We're not just women, we're not just straight, we're not just submitting to lovers or even other humans. The answer to the question of "why" is as varied as our numbers are varied. All we can ask is "how."  Read more >

  8. Can Exercise Really Trigger Orgasm?

    3/23/12 11:09pm by avflox
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    Ron Sombilon (Flickr)

    For years now we have heard stories about women who reached orgasm working out, but very little data existed to corroborate that this was more than myth -- until now. Are "coregasms" real? This is what initial research into the topic has revealed.  Read more >

  9. Everything You Need to Know about the New Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines

    3/17/12 10:01am by avflox
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    Ed Uthman (Flickr)

    The threat of cervical cancer continues to be real, but proper screening is a way to safeguard against the disease. After reviewing the efficacy of pap smears and testing for human papilloma virus (HPV) as ways to detect cervical cancer, the United States Preventive Services Task Force has released their new recommendations. This is how the new guidelines break down and why.  Read more >

  10. Are You Ready for the Future of Safer Sex?

    3/13/12 7:37am by avflox
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    Chec-Mate app

    You're not thinking about safe sex at that moment, and unless neither one of you happen to have a condom handy, this won't even come up as a topic for discussion. And maybe that's the problem. Accidents happen, and even when they don't, some sexually transmitted illnesses can still get by despite protection. But what's the alternative? Letting him take off his jacket, offering white or red and then asking him to detail his sexual history? The last time he got tested?  Read more >

AV Flox

Full Name
AV Flox
Member Since
August 2008
About Me: 

AV Flox is a Peruvian transplant living in Los Angeles. She is the editrix-in-command of Sex and the 405, a site that shows you what your newspaper would look like if it had a sex section.

She champions understanding materiality while acknowledging the
cathartic properties of the overshare and believes in being as polite on the internet as we were taught to be IRL. Her life goal is to see all the world’s Foucault’s pendula.

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relationships, love, sex, dating, marriage, cheating

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