First Same-Sex Couples Marry in Alaska

First Same-Sex Couples Marry in Alaska
It appears that at least two same-sex couples have been married in Barrow, Alaska, according to Kristine Hilderbrand, who said state Magistrate Mary Treiber waived the three-day waiting period required after issuing of marriage licenses.

Hilderbrand said she married Sarah Ellis at around 4 p.m. today. The two are likely the first same-sex couples to be married in Alaska.


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The World’s First Erotic Haunted House Will Scare You Stiff

The World’s First Erotic Haunted House Will Scare You Stiff

Screen Shot 2014-10-13 at 3.46.30 PMIs that a meat cleaver in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Finally, the world’s first “erotic haunted house” is open for business. We know how long you’ve been waiting.

San Francisco’s Disneyland of taboo sex, the equal parts historic and imposing Kink.com Armory building in the Mission District, home of the “controversial” prison-themed circuit party and the subject of a James Franco documentary, is now welcoming visitors to an evening of sexy scares.

“We know that many people find Kink’s films scary, so we wanted to have a little fun with that,” said Andrew Harvill, the producer of the event. “The Armory building itself is actually haunted, so setting up a real haunted house tour using our dungeons and sets was a natural fit. It’s both terrifying and, depending on your kink, arousing.”

“The two emotions, fear and sex, are inextricably linked. We wanted to play off that and offer people a truly old school scare in an unexpected setting.”

The event, called Hell in the Armory, bills, “Over-the-top production featuring contortionists, nude models body painted by the city’s top talent, prosthetics, animatronics, interactive art and a menacing cast of characters.”

We’d like to hear more about those prosthetics.

h/t Accidental Bear

 

Dan Tracer

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What To Watch This Week on TV: Laverne Cox's Trans Documentary

What To Watch This Week on TV: Laverne Cox's Trans Documentary

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Check out our weekly guide to make sure you’re catching the big premieres, crucial episodes and the stuff you won’t admit you watch when no one’s looking.

— As the first trans woman on the cover of Time Magazine and the first Emmy-nominated trans actress, Laverne Cox has already helped raise awareness of the trans experience in popular culture, but this time her focus is on real-life coming out, dating and discrimination. Cox tells the story of seven trans youths in her new documentary The T Word airing Friday at 7p.m. Eastern on MTV and Logo.

A pregnant virgin, the return of Top Chef and more TV this week, AFTER THE JUMP …

 

— The premise of Jane The Virgin may seem a little kooky. A 23-year-old virgin gets mistakenly artificially inseminated, and it only gets loopier from there. As soapy as it sounds, the show has a lot more soul than you might expect, thanks in no small part to its lead, Gina Rodriguez. Catch the first episode tonight at 9 p.m. on the CW.

 

— With same-sex marriage sweeping the country, how long is it before we get our own sitcom about a middle-class couple that won’t just get hitched already? In the meantime, we’ll just have to make due with Casey Wilson (Happy Endings) and Ken Marino (Party Down) as they play a couple that can’t quite make it to the altar on the new show Marry Me, premiering Tuesday at 9 p.m. Eastern on NBC.

 

— If you missed last week’s premiere of American Horror Story: Freak Show, you missed an incredibly strange and delightful performance of David Bowie’s “Life On Mars” by Jessica Lange. Catch up on everything you missed in our recap, and tune in to the next episode Wednesday at 10 p.m. Eastern on FX.

 

— Top Chef tackles Boston in its latest season, premiering Wednesday at 10 p.m. on Bravo. This time, Top Chef-alum and All-Stars winner Richard Blais joins the judges’ table.

What are you watching this week?


Bobby Hankinson

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Seth Rogen Discusses Getting Naked With James Franco

Seth Rogen Discusses Getting Naked With James Franco
Seth Rogen and his pal James Franco got everyone’s attention earlier this month when they posted photos of themselves galavanting through the wilderness in the nude and referenced the TV show “Naked and Afraid.”

Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller joined HuffPost Live’s Marc Lamont Hill on Monday to discuss their Hilarity for Charity event to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s, and we couldn’t let them go without inquiring about Rogen and Franco’s naked antics. Rogen said the pair filmed an installment “Naked and Afraid” set in North Korea to coincide with their film “The Interview,” set for release this Christmas.

Check out the video above to hear Rogen describe all the NSFW fun, and click here for the full HuffPost Live conversation.

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Study Finds Men With Big Feet Are More Likely To Cheat On Their Lovers

Study Finds Men With Big Feet Are More Likely To Cheat On Their Lovers

If you have big feet, shame on you! You’re more likely to cheat on your lover. At least according to a new survey by IllicitEncounters.com, a nefarious online dating website for married folks seeking hanky panky on the side.

Over 3,100 men participated in the survey, which matched gentlemen’s shoe sizes against the percentage of guys seeking extramarital affairs. What researchers found was that guys with feet larger than size 10 are three times more likely to cheat on their partners than than those with size seven to nine.

18 percent of dudes have size seven feet. Of that 18 percent, just 4 percent reported that they would cheat on their partner. By contrast, 22 percent with size 11 shoes and 16 percent with sizes 12 to 13 shoes said that they would consider being unfaithful.

According to David Perrett, a specialist in psychology and neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews, “Body proportions are related and big shoes will likely mean a bigger, taller body. Body stature will relate to personality. Size will enable individuals to dominate in social situations. Dominance itself may open opportunities for affairs.”

So there you have it, folks.

And what about the age-old myth that men with big feet have larger penises?

Well, researchers at University College London say there’s no evidence that links shoe size and penis length.

According to researchers: “Many believe that the size of a man’s penis can be estimated by assessing various other parts of his body, notoriously his shoe size, [but] the ability to predict the size of a man’s penis by observing his shoe size is a common misconception.”

Hand size, however, may be a different story.

Related stories:

How To Estimate A Potential Lover’s Package By Studying His Hands

Scientists Say Men With Big Balls Are More Likely To Cheat

PHOTOS: Sexy Studs And Their Feet Have Us Reconsidering Our Feelings About Foot Fetishes

Graham Gremore

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Nevada Anti-gay Activists Claim Ninth Circuit Assigned Specific Judges to 'Influence' Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

Nevada Anti-gay Activists Claim Ninth Circuit Assigned Specific Judges to 'Influence' Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

NinthThe anti-gay Coalition for the Protection of Marriage is asking the Ninth Circuit to grant an en banc rehearing in the case challenging Nevada’s gay marriage ban – with the coalition’s lawyer, Monte Stewart, claiming the federal appeals court picked specific judges “in order to influence the outcome” of the case.

Same-sex couples were able to begin marrying Friday following last week’s Ninth Circuit ruling by a three-judge panel overturning the state’s gay marriage ban. 

Buzzfeed reports:

Reinhardt_berzonOne of the reasons he asked for the rehearing, he claimed, is the “high likelihood that the number of Judges [Stephen] Reinhardt and [Marsha] Berzon’s assignments to the Relevant Cases, including this and the Hawaii and Idaho marriage cases (which we treat as one for these purposes), did not result from a neutral judge-assignment process.”

Stewart wrote that the claim was the result of “careful statistical analysis” by Dr. James H. Matis.

Stewart went further, writing, “The appearance of unfairness is not a close question here. Even without the aid of professional statisticians, a reasonable person will immediately sense that something is amiss when one judge out of more than thirty is assigned over a four and one-half year period to five of this Circuit’s eleven cases involving the federal constitutional rights of gay men and lesbians, another to four of those cases, and both of them to the momentous ‘gay marriage’ cases.”

Read the ridiculous petition below via Equality Case Files


Kyler Geoffroy

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