Canada’s federal science museum has removed an animated video showing youth masturbating from an upcoming sex exhibit following a public outcry, a museum spokesman said on Wednesday.
The Canada Science and Technology Museum will open the “Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition” on Thursday as planned despite strong criticism from Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore, who has called it an insult to taxpayers.
But the facility has decided to remove the video and raise to 16 from 12 years the minimum age for unaccompanied children to tour the exhibit designed to answer questions youth have about sexuality.
“The museum has received a higher than expected amount of expressions of concerns from the public,” spokesman Yves St-Onge said.
“We take the feedback of our community seriously, and so we have carefully considered their suggestions, and taken appropriate action that we believe will best serve our audiences.”
The show includes life-sized, full-frontal nude photos of males and females at various stages of life, and Canada’s Sun newspapers have described a “climax room” showing animations of aroused genitals with a voice of a man describing an orgasm.
In the exhibit, clinical sexologist Jamy Ryan discusses anal sex: “If you’re comfortable with trying that activity, go ahead and do it. It could be fun for you. But if you’re not, you don’t really have to do it. It’s not an obligation.”
Moore spokesman James Maunder said it was clear the exhibit fell outside the museum’s mandate of fostering scientific and technological literacy.
“This content cannot be defended, and is insulting to taxpayers,” he said.
Responding to criticism, St-Onge said: “The exhibition is designed to present information in a scientific, frank and accessible manner, an approach that the Canada Science and Technology Museum supports.”
Shocked Australian families have told of their disgust after children were handed explicit novelty chocolates at a school Mother’s Day function.
The chocolates were shaped like penises, breasts and buttocks – as well as others depicting couples having sex. They were passed out in see-through bags at a P&C function held at Woodberry Public School in the Hunter Valley last Friday.
Cassandra Lacey, who has two sons at the school, said she was horrified to be handed a bag of the treats as she walked through the door.
“As soon as I opened mine, my son said, ‘Ah, Mum’ and I had to do a double-take,” Ms Lacey said. “Every single chocolate was to do with sex. This was in the school hall, on the school grounds and in school time.”
Another woman who attended Friday’s function said she watched on, “absolutely disgusted”, as children were given the chocolates.
“My nine-year-old grandson gave this zip-lock bag to me, put it in my lap and said to me, ‘You’ve got a willy in there Nanny’,” she said.
“Then I had a three-year-old sit down next to me and she said, ‘Hey, what’s this?’ She had this brown chocolate shaped like a penis and was about to eat the top off it. I told her she had better go and talk to her mother.”
It is believed the chocolates were left over from last year’s P&C Mother’s Day fundraiser, held as an adults-only girls’ night at a local venue.
P&C spokeswoman and school council president Jenny Gray said she was not at Friday’s function but intended to meet principal Josie Bailey to discuss the issue.
“All I can tell you is that it has come to my attention and yes, I have spoken to the principal and we’ll be having a meeting on Monday,” Ms Gray said.
She insisted the issue would not be “swept under the carpet”.
Kerri Dobson has had 21 conquests and has the mementos to prove it.
Ranging from hair gel to a nude photo, clothes to song lyrics, she has something to remind her of each man she has had a sexual encounter with.
One of her prized ‘trophies’ is a condom wrapper which Kerri had kept after losing her virginity aged 15.
Kerri, now 22, said: “Ever since then each time I spend the night with a guy I walk away with something I hope he won’t miss.
“Often it’s clothes like a used pair of boxer shorts, an old T-shirt, a hat or a jumper — something that smells of him.”
Kerri, of Brighton, said: “I’ve always been a collector and compiled scrapbooks from holidays. This is just a more adult version.
“I’m not ashamed of my big collection as each sexual experience has shaped me and the items remind me of that.”
Operators of a Chinese cable car are cracking down on couples, who are born in the 1990′s, in an attempt to halt mid-air romps.
A gondola ride in Henan Province in China has compelled the local authorities to erect a sign banning people from having sex while riding on the cable car carriages.
Following numerous complaints, authorities were apparently forced to step in and put an end to what has been a popular local pastime for young couples.
They are only concerned about couples born in the 90′s, according to the sign.
An Australian woman was injured while having sex in her hotel room during a work trip. Now she is entitled to compensation for the injury.
In the Federal Court, Justice John Nicholas ruled that the woman was injured during her “course of employment”.
The woman’s barrister argued that sex was an “ordinary incident of life” in a hotel room, much like showering and sleeping.
The Judge ruled that “if the applicant had been injured while playing a game of cards in her motel room she would be entitled to compensation” and the fact that the woman was engaged in sexual activity rather than some other lawful recreational activity while in her hotel room does not lead to any different result.
A woman has left a post on small advert website Craigslist in an attempt to track down a man who became the father of her unborn child during a sexual encounter at a Motörhead concert in Chicago.
The blue-haired rocker has advertised for her baby-daddy via the missed connections section of small advert website Craigslist.
The 28-year-old goes into considerable detail about exactly what they got up to in the toilet at the Motörhead and Megadeath gig at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom before dropping the bombshell news.
She describes herself as clad in fishnet stockings, a silver boob tube top and biker boots.
Her brief encounter was with a man sporting a red mohawk, a double ‘viper’ tongue piercing and black pentagram gauges. She writes: ‘I was grinding on you in the pit, then we went to the bathroom and got f***** up.’
She then goes on to describe in graphic detail exactly what happened next, before adding: ‘You were really good and you had to gag me so I would[n’t] make too much noise.’
And if that doesn’t get his attention, she adds: ‘Anyway I’m pregnant. It’s yours. Contact me if you want to be part of your child’s life.’
News of the unusual posting quickly went viral, although not all the responses have not all been positive.
Another Craigslist user responded: ‘Yet another good reason to go find and join a neighbourhood composting project or a community bake sale, or even sit at f****** Caribou Coffee and read a damn book, rather than go to a Megadeth/Motorhead show, boys and girls.’
