No sex please: An asexual life

Andy is young and healthy – yet he’s never experienced physical desire. And there are thousands more like him.

At 21, Andy Holland is happy, easy-going and interested in the same things as most university students. With one notable exception: Holland is not attracted to women, or to men. In fact, he has no desire to have sex. And in this, he is not as unusual as we might assume. Read Full Story
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Female athlete was really a man

A Chinese woman athlete who won dozens of medals has thrown most of them away after learning she is really a man.

Xiao Nan, of Chengdu, won more than 40 medals as a women in student competitions after graduating from high school.

But after hospital tests confirmed Xiao's suspicions that she was really a man she has thrown out all but 10 of them.

"Being a champion was never a happy thing to me. Standing on the podium made me feel guilty, and I always thought the real champion should have been the one standing next to me," Xiao said.

Xiao's extraordinary athletic performances in schools and in provincial and national competitions, won her great honour and free access to university education.

But, inside, she felt confused: "I felt I often had an impulse or desire for women instead of men. And my body is more like a man than a woman."

Xiao had a check-up at a local hospital and the result confirmed she had male chromosomes.

He is now living as a man and has begun a course of sex change surgery at Sichuan Xichan Plastic Surgery Hospital which will take nine months.

"The first thing I want to do after the surgery is to go swimming, wearing only boxer shorts," Xiao told Chengdu Business Daily.
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The Grand View Topless Coffee Shop

The Grandview Topless Coffee Shop has a 18 or Older sign on the front, and when you walk in, topless women are ready to serve you coffee.

The Coffee Shop is located at the site of the former Grand View Motel, opened its doors Monday on busy Route 3 in Vassalboro. A sign outside says, "Over 18 only." Another says, "No cameras, no touching, cash only."

Half-naked waitresses and a bare-chested waiter serve up the morning treats. Rules are strict: there's no touching and only adults are allowed into the log-cabin style shop.

Dozens of residents objected to the shop when the Vassalboro planning board meeting took up the matter last month. But town officials said the coffee shop met the letter of the law.
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Find Out if Your Brain is Male or Female

Some researchers say that men can have 'women's brains' and that women can think more like men.

Find out more about 'brain sex' differences by taking the Sex ID test. Click Here for the test. Read more...

Husband's kiss woke "sleeping beauty wife" in coma

The 34-year-old from the U.K. suffered a heart attack nearly two weeks after giving birth to her son and failed to regain consciousness.

After two weeks sitting by his wife's bedside hoping she would wake from a coma, Andrew Ray was at his wits' end. Doctors had told him Emma could become a real-life sleeping beauty when she failed to regain consciousness after a heart attack.

Andrew woke his 'sleeping beauty' wife Emma from her coma with a kiss. 'What happened next was beyond my wildest dreams,' he said. 'She turned her head towards mine, puckered up her lips and gave me a little kiss. 'I couldn't believe it.

The kiss was witnessed by doctors who were astonished by the 34-year-old's sudden response.

Doctors believe her heart attack may have been caused by a blood clot after her son was delivered by Caesarean section.
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Cell phone saves man from bullet

R.J. Richard says his cell phone saved his life.The 68-year-old man, from Covington, La., was mowing the lawn on his 5-acre property when a stray bullet hit on his chest. He initially thought a rock kicked up by his tractor hit him. The phone fell apart when he pulled it out of the chest pocket

Richard says he's sure God told him to put the phone there rather than a pants pocket as usual.

Doctors told Richard the bullet came at an angle, which along with the cell phone probably prevented serious injury.

Richard figures the bullet was fired by a hunter in woods near his 5-acre property.
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World's shortest Man Meets Woman With Longest Legs

He Pingping of Inner Mongolia, China's autonomous region, the world's smallest man, sits on the lap of Svetlana Pankratova of Russia, the Queen of Longest Legs, as they pose at Trafalgar Square in London on Tuesday.




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Man Grows World's Longest Hair

Tran Van Hay may have the world's longest hair. At approximately 6.2 meters long the 73 year-old vietnamese man keeps it balanced on his head under a scarf and it looks like a giant turban. He unravels it for visitors and his wife lays it out on the table to show them just how long it is.

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Five legged pig

The five-legged pig was born in Lingzhou village, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on August 3.





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