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“Elementary Conjecture” by Bill Anderson
Mixed-media on wood
Artist’s Statement: Automobile production was a publicized rubric for the United States’ general production and state during the early ’50s as the U.S. became involved in the Korean War. The ads of the ’50s did not yield their fervor to push the American family ideal through their [...] -
XXXs & Ohhhs: Passionate Kisses switches positions and scores new business
“You cannot escape sex,” said Ann Sowers, owner of Passionate Kisses adult toy and novelty store at 21 Kern St. “And it’s not that big of a deal,” she continued, completely at ease in a store full of toys that she’d never bring home to her four-year-old son. Sowers happily indulges curiosity in her X-rated business, noting that “everyone has sex. Otherwise we would not be on this earth.”
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RU-Informed? Myths about Plan B and the “abortion pill,” RU-486
Methods of birth control and abortion were being implemented not long after people first began bumping uglies. The oldest illustration of a man using a condom was painted on the wall of a cave 12,000-15,000 years ago.
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Hudson Health Center is packed; swirling with sickness like a Sub-Saharan hospital. I tuck my nose in my shirt to shield myself from the coughing, sniffling, sneezing carriers of the common college cold, which spreads across campus like mono in the San Fernando Valley.