Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, September 12, 2011— as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• The Blue Plate Special at The Men's Club
• Monday Madness at Club Onyx
• Monday Effen Monday at Uptown Cabaret
• Manic Monday at Dilworth Billards
• Monday Funday at Dixie's Tavern
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, September 9, 2011— as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Bottle Service at The Gold Club
• After Hours Breakfast Buffet at The Men's Club
• OMG Longest Happy Hour at Howl at The Moon
• Charlotte's Happiest Happy Hour at Uptown Cabaret
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, September 8, 2011— as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• What The Buck Thursday at BarCharlotte
• Table Dances at The Crazy Horse Show Club
• Blue Plate Special at The Men's Club
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, September 7, 2011— as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Riot Wednesday at The Saloon
• The Wednesday Fabulous Feast at The Men's Club
• Pure Wednesday at Halo
• Free Cover at Club Onyx
• Wild Wednesday at Leather and Lace SouthEnd
Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago, and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of his half siblings - an extended family of sorts for modern times.So Daily searched a Web-based registry for other children fathered by the same donor and helped to create an online group to track them. Over the years, she watched the number of children in her son's group grow. And grow.
Today there are 150 children, all conceived with sperm from one donor, in this group of half siblings, and more are on the way. "It's wild when we see them all together — they all look alike," said Daily, 48, a social worker in the Washington area.
As more women choose to have babies on their own, and the number of children born through artificial insemination increases, outsize groups of donor siblings are starting to appear. While Daily's group is among the largest, many others comprising 50 or more half siblings are cropping up on websites and in chat groups, where sperm donors are tagged with unique identifying numbers.
Concern is growing among parents, donors and medical experts about potential negative consequences, including the possibility that genes for rare diseases could be spread more widely through the population. Some experts note the increased odds of accidental incest between half sisters and half brothers, who often live close to one another.
So, when are we going to start being more like the French?
Although other countries, including Britain, France and Sweden, limit how many children a sperm donor can father, there is no such limit in the United States. There are only guidelines issued by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, a professional group that recommends restricting conceptions by individual donors to 25 births per population of 800,000.
This is just nasty.
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, September 6, 2011— as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Blue Plate Special at The Men's Club
• College Night SIN Party at Whisky River
• SIN Night at Tilt
• $2 Tuesday at Club Onyx
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, September 5, 2011— as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Monday madness at Club Onyx
• $10 Table Dance at The Gentlemen's Club
• Manic Monday at Dilworth Billiards
• Chubby's Karaoke at Dixie's Tavern
• Monday Night Football at The Men's Club
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, September 2, 2011— as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Penthouse Dances at The Gold Club
• ECU Kickoff Party at Tilt
• Cock (Gamecocks that is) Party at The NC Music Factory
• Late Night Breakfast Buffet at The Men's Club
The HIV scare comes less than one month after the launch of a new online sexual health database aimed at preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among porn actors through mandatory testing. To be listed in the database — a requisite for getting work — porn actors must get tested every 30 days and present a clean bill of health. But critics say routine testing does not prevent STDs from creeping in."Testing is not a substitute for condom use, and it never will be," said Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Los Angeles. "No test can detect HIV from the moment of infection. There will always be a window period," which might not reflect recent infection.
The health of the porn stars is important, but it seems the producers don't think people would watch or buy porn where condoms are used. It's hard to believe that we're having a debate about using condoms in porn in 2011.
The positive test results will be confirmed by more sensitive testing methods, but details of the case, including the performer's name, age and sex, will not be released. It is also unclear how many sexual partners might be at risk."The average American male has seven female sexual partners in a lifetime. But it's possible for a male to have seven sexual partners in a single day on porn movie set," said Weinstein. "Because this is a network that's kind of inbred, the spread of disease could be exponential."
Here are the five best events to get you hot and bothered with or without a date going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, September 1, 2011— as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• Bottle Popping Thursday at Club Onyx
• Extreme Tailgating Party at Third and Popular Streets
•Free Admission to MAL Strip Clubs
•Diverse Thursday Football Afterparty at Dharma Lounge
• What The Buck Thursday at BarCharlotte