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But other eyewitnesses saw nothing that struck them as amiss. Another said he saw the couple walking toward the hotel elevator about 1 a.m., with Amy walking unassisted. He thought little of it; he figured they’d «hooked up» for the night. Gary asked if police could at least arrest Gardiner or search his apartment for evidence. «We’re not going to go out and arrest an innocent man,» Gary recalls Welch saying.

• The above captures the raving, impudent screed of a man finding out his girlfriend is not a virgin—courtesy of Singapore’s top provider of local comedy, NUS Whispers—a sentiment many men were sympathetic to.
• Barry assured them that police didn’t need a positive toxicology test for GHB to prosecute the case.
• Ruben Andre Garcia, 31, the producer of GirlsDoPorn site has pleaded guilty to federal charges after it was revealed he tricked and forced women into appearing in sex videos.
• Nearly two dozen women won $12.7 million in a fraud lawsuit against the owners and operators of a San Diego-based pornographic website, GirlsDoPorn, a Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.

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But through constant self acceptance, projects to keep him busy, and rewarding relationships, he manages to keep the urge for sex at bay. These days, Alvin is mostly content with his status as a virgin, ranking himself a 3 on a 1-10 scale of frustration. In school and work, sex and romance never happened, and Alvin isn’t the type of person who’s able to put themselves out there to meet and hook up with people. He recounts his journey through Polytechnic, NS, and working life, before deciding to take the A Levels as a private candidate. Now, towards the tail end of his 20s, he’s studying in a local university.

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Japan’s punishing corporate world makes it almost impossible for women to combine a career and family, while children are unaffordable unless both parents work. Cohabiting or unmarried parenthood is still unusual, dogged by bureaucratic disapproval. Many people who seek her out, says Aoyama, are deeply confused. «Some want a partner, some prefer being single, but few relate to normal love and marriage.» However, the pressure to conform to Japan’s anachronistic family model of salaryman husband and stay-at-home wife remains. «People don’t know where to turn. They’re coming to me because they think that, by wanting something different, there’s something wrong with them.»

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But on this note, it’s worth considering how waiting until marriage to engage in any sexual activity or even discuss sex can be a recipe for disaster. There’s no jealousy because he can’t miss what he doesn’t know about. He doesn’t feel alienated by others around him—especially given how the LGBT movement has been highly sexualised and marginalised—but he does feel disoriented. So my interrogation into his virginity turns very quickly into a deep HTHT about his status as a single man. He reveals that while there are days when he might feel lonely, there are other things to look forward to.

Before cutting off the interview and threatening to sue the paper for libel, Gardiner encouraged the Observer to contact Lindsey Williams, who had «walked in» on him and Amy «being physical» one time at TCU. «I imagine Amy was in control of that physical encounter,» Gardiner says. «She was with me at the front desk, where we both asked for a hotel room. Me, I’m not very smart, I paid for it.»

All three men were involved in recruiting college students to shoot their first porn videos, and by and large they sought out women who were low-income and may have needed money for things like rent, books, and tuition. According to a civil lawsuit, Wiederhold that same year “significantly decreased his involvement with GirlsDoPorn and began devoting most of his time to developing content” for the other site. That same time frame is when prosecutors allege Wiederhold committed the crimes for which he was indicted last month. SAN DIEGO – Matthew Isaac Wolfe was sentenced in federal court today to 14 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy with Michael Pratt, owner of the website… SAN DIEGO – David Warren of Las Vegas was sentenced in federal court today to 10 years in prison for coercing three women to engage in prostitution and transporting them…

Two years ago, he convicted a serial GHB rapist named Angelo Sherman. Seven women, including one assaulted in 1995, testified against Sherman. While Dallas police appear to have little faith in solving drug-rape cases, one suburban neighbor has a recent conviction to its credit. In October, thanks in part to quick work by a Mesquite police detective, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office took a GHB rape case to trial even though it lacked a positive toxicology report. «When you are testing for drug-facilitated sexual assault, there shouldn’t be a cut-off level,» Mozayani says. After listening to Amy’s symptoms, Wimbish called the case «textbook GHB.» Unfortunately, that meant authorities would probably find nothing in her urine, since she didn’t get to a hospital until midafternoon the next day.

Keen to see her nation thrive, she likens her role in these cases to that of the Edo period courtesans, or oiran, who used to initiate samurai sons into the art of erotic pleasure. Japanese men have become less career-driven, and less solvent, as lifetime job security has waned. Yet conservative attitudes in the home and workplace persist.