Woman Hospitalized For Allergic Reaction To Husband’s Fluids Did you know hormones developed during pregnancy could cause a woman to become allergic to a man’s bodily fluids ? Well, one couple found this out the hard way on a recent episode of TLC’s “Sex Sent Me To The E.R.” show. via Huffington Post Some women are sick of their husbands. A woman named Kristyn gets sick from her husband, Sean. Not him exactly, just his seminal fluid, according to an episode of Sex Sent Me To The E.R. airing Saturday on TLC. After their son’s birth, Kristyn developed a ton of allergies and other health issues that stopped them from having intercourse for a year. On Sean’s birthday, Kristyn surprised her husband with sex and the couple got an even bigger surprise. Done correctly, sex usually leads to a lot of heavy breathing, but Kristyn had a much more severe reaction. She mysteriously experienced severe swelling, burning sensations and had breathing difficulties so severe that she passed out on the way to the hospital. Doctors suspected she might be allergic to Sean’s cologne, but tests revealed another allergen — his sperm. Sometime during her pregnancy, Kristyn had developed seminal plasma hypersensitivity, a condition similar to a peanut allergy, but instead it’s caused by contact with semen. Dr. Carmela Yomtoubian, an emergency room physician at Loma Linda University Medical Center, said the condition is rare. “During pregnancy, a woman’s immune system is mildly suppressed in order to not reject the baby that is growing inside of her,” she said. “During this time period, if the patient is exposed to some sort of new allergens, she can develop a hypersensitivity to that thing.” In rare cases, she says, that “thing” can be seminal fluid. Emergency room doctors gave Kristyn an antihistamine to combat the swelling and burning, and an allergist later confirmed Sean’s bodily fluids was the culprit. Doctors said she can continue to have sex with her husband provided they use condoms. Cold world. Shutterstock
Ed Kramer, co-founder of Dragon Con, pled guilty to three counts of child molestation this morning in Atlanta, Georgia, over 13 years after the first allegations that he sodomized three young boys were made. As a condition of his plea, Kramer was given 5 years for each count to run concurrently which a judge reduced to 34 months of house arrest , ordered to pay a $100,000 fine to each of his victims, and is required to register as a sex offender. HOUSE ARREST for molestation after avoiding prosecution for 13 years! In October of 2000, two boys, then 13 and 15, alleged that he had molested them while they slept over at the science-fiction conference creator’s house. Just before prosecutors were set to go to trial in 2003, a third young man came forward with allegations of his own which dated back to 1996. Kramer has avoided a trial for the past 13 years citing health reasons which would prohibit him from spending full days in a court room. Doctors have stated that he could only handle up to three hours at a time in court because of his use of a respirator, and that he would require a 90 minute break in between each 3 hour court session, making going to trial nearly impossible. A Gwinnett County district attorney stated in 2010 that he believed much of Kramer’s health complaints to be fabricated to avoid going to trial. Earlier this year, Kramer’s former business partners announced that he would no longer profit from Dragon Con when former attendees threatened to boycott the conference because of the molestation charges. He was paid an undisclosed amount for his share of the conference.
Maria Kang, the controversial online force also known as “Fit Mom,” was temporarily kicked off Facebook last week after a fat-shaming rant. Kang wrote a post about positive media coverage of an online group that’s encouraging plus-size women to post photos of themselves in lingerie. The group’s goal is to show what “real women” look like . Maria Kang , who caused controversy this year by posting a photo of her toned self with her kids and the tagline “What’s Your excuse?” was not impressed. Fit Mom Banned From Facebook Maria wrote on Facebook that she was “starting to get annoyed” at all the attention this was getting, then criticized the high obesity rates in the U.S. “We keep blaming the culprit (school lunches, fast food) when real change starts at home,” wrote Kang, upset that she, conversely, took heat for being so fit. Kang, who said that she aims to inspire , not shame, is nonetheless proud of how she looks and unwilling to apologize for her fitness commitment. “People made me feel bad about a picture of me and my children,” said Kang, who fears coverage of the lingerie group is “normalizing” obesity. “When you see someone who is healthy it’s almost so shocking,” she laments. “We’ve gone to a point where we’re normalizing [a health] crisis.” Kang says “we need to change this strange mentality we are breeding in the U.S.” and “start celebrating people who are a result of hard work, dedication and discipline.” After Kang put the post on Facebook it was flagged by a reader, and the social media site removed it, calling it “hate speech,” KGO-TV reports. Soon after it banned Kang, Facebook then said the post had been taken down by mistake and reinstated Kang’s access to the social media site. According to KGO, Kang’s original post was not reposted. Kang wrote another message reiterating that she didn’t want to shame overweight people but that she believes some people celebrate unhealthy habits. “I think you should love yourself,” she told ABC News . At the same time, she says, “there’s a fine line we’re walking between I love myself and accept myself, and I love and accept and want to progress myself.” What do you think of Maria’s stance on the issue? Preach on! Shut the heck up! Everybody just calm the eff down … View Poll »
You CANNOT be serious… Man Claims Sex Assault Attempt Was A Prank Because He Thought Victim Had Sense Of Humor Via NYDailyNews A creep who allegedly tried to sexually assault a woman jogging in Central Park last month claimed it was “prank” and that he picked the 29-year-old victim because he “noticed her eyes.” “I knew she was going to scream but I didn’t think that she was going to call the police. It was to scare her,” said accused fiend Saul Alvarez, who pleaded not guilty to first-degree attempted sex assault at his arraignment in Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday. Authorities say Alvarez, 21, approached the jogger about 10:45 p.m. on June 28 near Laskar Pool, threw her to the ground, covered her mouth and tried to drag her off the path, but she managed to break free. He was arrested about a half hour later and began blab to investigators, saying “her eyes made me think that she had a good sense of humor and she was a good person to play the prank on.” He said he “jogged behind her for about five to 10 minutes,” waited till a witness on a bike was gone and then “played my prank,” but initially claimed another man who looked like him was the culprit. “My prank was supposed to be to scare her by grabbing her from behind and taking her down to the ground,” the accused perv said. He faces up to 15 years in prison for the disturbing attack. Bruh, when those boys in prison bend you over in the shower it will NOT be a “prank”. Image via Shutterstock
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The early ratings for last night’s Oscars indicate that the telecast may have racked up its best numbers since 2007, according to Deadline . Which is good news for Seth MacFarlane , especially if you ignore that the biggest viewership increase came after The Walking Dead ended on AMC and that six of the nine Best Picture nominees had done more than $100 million at the box office. Otherwise, what do you really remember for last night’s telecast besides Jennifer Lawrence’s face plant, the Jaws play-off theme (which was funny exactly once) and the steamed look on Ben Affleck’s mug when he came out on stage after MacFarlane’s Gigli remark? And that brings me to my first Oscars recap observation: 1. Was everybody in the Dolby Theater on Ablixa? Beginning with the show’s weirdly cold opening, the telecast was devoid of the emotional highs and lows, pomp and circumstance that the Oscars used to have and haven’t had for a few years. During the Movieline liveblog, I wondered if Harvey Weinstein had gotten Trazodone added to the Academy Awards gift bag, but I now think the Side Effects antidepressant reference is more appropriate, which is exactly what the Oscars telecast was: exceedingly appropriate. Even MacFarlane’s most out-there insults seemed even-keeled. New York Magazine slammed MacFarlane for being sexist, but I thought his bigger sins were being mediocre and cold. It’s as if the digital revolution didn’t just rewrite the way the film industry makes and releases movies, it reduced the way Hollywood generates excitement into a kind of binary code. Everything’s either a 1 or a 0. That’s what last night felt like, and the only time I felt some of that old-timey Oscar excitement was when Affleck gave his speed-speech. The privilege of being able to make movies is obviously still exciting to Affleck and he’s good at spreading that excitement. 2. The Oscars should not aspire to be the Tonys. So, I understand why there was a preponderance of musical numbers last night: MacFarlane is a show-tunes freak, Les Miserables , Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway were all nominated, and Barbra Streisand was on board to perform a tribute to the late Marvin Hamlisch. But that doesn’t mean they were a good thing. The show was listless to begin with, and all those musical performances didn’t help. Plus, the Chicago (2002) and DreamGirls (2006) tributes left me wondering if I’d slipped and fallen into the Hot Tub Time Machine. I half-expected to see Jackman join MacFarlane for some sort of tribute to The Music Man , which Family Guy has parodied more than once. I’m reluctant to say this is part of a trend, by the way, but have you noticed that the same thing has been happening, in a more contemporary manner, with Saturday Night Live ? The practice of having musical guests hosting and performing — as Justin Bieber just did — is not helping the show’s comedy cred, and, for a number of seasons now, an unusual number of skits seem to be built around musical performances. (On a related subject, as a big Lonely Island fan, I have to note that the “YOLO” clip with Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar was lame.) 3. The only real surprise of the night was Christoph Waltz’s win: Coming as it did near the beginning of the telecast, Waltz’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar — which had been predicted in some quarters but mostly as a longshot — left the impression that a night of surprises was ahead. And then everything unfolded as predicted. If you followed all of the pre-season Oscar punditry, I bet you were bored. 4. Was Ben Affleck’s comment about not holding grudges directed, in part, at Seth MacFarlane? One of the more interesting observations Affleck made during his Best Picture acceptance speech was, “You can’t hold grudges. It’s hard. But you can’t hold grudges.” The Argo director could have been referring to the Academy’s decision to snub him for a Best Director Oscar, but just as well could have been referring to MacFarlane’s remark that he’d gone from “starring in Gigli to becoming of the most respected filmmakers of this generation.” The line didn’t seem so sharp to me. Gigli is an awful movie. But Deadline reported that Affleck was pissed off by the remark, and the filmmaker did launch a half-hearted jab at MacFarlane when he came out on stage shortly after the Oscars host uttered the punchline. (Affleck said something about it still being possible for MacFarlane to “turn the show around,” but wouldn’t it have been cool if he just said, ‘Argo, fuck yourself”?) The grudges remark, which Affleck delivered during his Best Picture acceptance speech, was a nice zen-like catch-all that demonstrated that Big Ben wasn’t just an Oscar winner, he was an enlightened Oscar winner. 5. You know that the media is burning out on Oscar coverage when… Reporters are asking Jennifer Lawrence if she tripped on purpose . I’m surprised no one asked if Jessica Chastain was the culprit. [ Deadline ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
1-Year-Old Child Swallows 42 Refrigerator Magnets A 1-Year-Old boy is reportedly in recovery after being rushed to the hospital for swallowing 42 magnets taken off of the refrigerator when his mother “briefly” turned her back. The x-ray above was taken once the toddler and his mother arrived at the hospital. via Huffington Post When a Russian mother noticed a “large shortage” of magnets from her refrigerator, she pinned her 16-month-old son as the culprit. Except the boy hadn’t just taken the magnets off the kitchen fridge– he’d swallowed them, according to the Austrian Times Doctors had to surgically remove an alarming 42 toy magnets from the baby’s stomach on Tuesday, said spokesman Olga Terekhina in a Chelyabinsk Oblast Children’s Hospital announcement. The mother rushed her son to a local clinic, where an ultrasound revealed dozens of marble-sized magnets filling up his abdomen, according to the Daily Mail. He went straight to the operating room, and was reportedly in recovery on Tuesday. Pediatric surgeon Nikolai Mikhailovich said he’s extracted as many as two dozen magnets or foreign objects at one time, but 42 pieces was a “record” for him, according to the release. Toddlers are very busy and get into things all the time, but 42 magnets? This lil crumb snatcher was going for a world record. Thank goodness he’s ok! Photo Credit: Shutterstock/ CEN
A 20-year old woman visiting Manhattan from Australia was sexually assaulted early Sunday morning, police report, and authorities are now searching for the culprit. According to The New York Post , the victim had left nightclub Lavo in a taxi but quickly exited the vehicle after an argument with the driver. She was then dragged into an alley near East 58th Street between Park and Madison avenues, although the young lady could not recall the exact location when questioned by police. But she did describe the attacker as middle-aged; approximately 6’2″; 190 pounds. He was also wearing dark clothing and a skull cap. Police has released the above sketch and encourage anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).
This bitter lunatic had her 13-year-old son tie the poor puppy up… after he gifted the lil’ guy to her 5-year-old daughter. According to The Daily Mail , Trooper is recovering after being dragged down the highway: A woman has been charged with felony animal cruelty after she allegedly tied a pit bull puppy behind her ex-husband’s car before he unwittingly dragged the dog behind him for a mile along a highway. Benetta Johnson, 41, is accused of instructing her 13-year-old son to tie the puppy behind the truck in a bid to secretly return the dog the man had given to her 5-year-old daughter as a present. Victor Washington, 39, of St Louis, Missouri, has said that he didn’t know the puppy – now named Trooper – was attached to his vehicle on the morning of November 21 before he drove off – a claim St Louis police say is supported by surveillance footage outside his home. Heading into work that morning, Mr Washington was on I-55 when a woman frantically signaled for him to stop. Once he pulled over, he made a discovery so horrifying that he fled about 100 yards to escape its sight. Crumpled and bloody, he said the dog never made a sound while lying limp on the roadway. I was just so devastated by what I saw,’ Mr Washington told the St Louis Post-Dispatch. ‘It still makes me emotional just thinking about it.’ He initially told police he had never seen the dog before, not realizing it as the puppy he had given to Johnson’s daughter several months earlier. It was a gift Johnson had tried to return to him before. Washington said it was only after a flurry of media attention to capture the culprit – with rewards doubling to $5,000 – that he texted Johnson, asking: ‘Please tell me you still have that dog.’ ‘She told me she did,’ he told the paper. But weeks before the incident, he said Johnson called him complaining about the puppy, saying the animal was sick and too timid. She wanted him to take the dog back but he admits having been upset by the request and brushed it off. Footage taken outside Washington’s apartment complex on the night of November 20 shows a car pull up to his truck around 10pm. He recognized it as his ex-wife’s. Her son can then be seen leading the animal to the back of the truck, attaching him to the hitch of the trailer, and walking away. Mr Washington said that he likely did not see the canine because it was either hiding or taking a snooze under the truck. ‘He must have been asleep,’ Mr Washington said. ‘She said he was a really shy dog, so maybe he didn’t want to come out if he saw me.’ Johnson was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of felony animal abuse. Mr Washington doesn’t think Johnson intended for him to take off with the dog tied to his truck. He told the Post-Dispatch: ‘This whole situation is just so sad. Sad for the dog. Sad for my ex-wife. I mean, just because she’s my ex-wife I don’t want to see her go to jail. She has kids,’ he said. ‘It was an ignorant mistake she made. But she is a sweet person, and I don’t think she would just leave him there thinking this would happen,’ he said after her arrest. Today, the golden pit bull once bandaged from his ears down to his toes, is recuperating under close watch at the Humane Society of Missouri after his harrowing rescue. Seen today with two leg casts, a raw right ear and a soft knit jersey made for a baby over his body for warmth, Trooper’s status has largely improved. The puppy, which doctors feared may not survive, was admitted with exposed tissue and bone. The humane society reports that along with numerous treats, cards and donations coming in, they have had ‘overwhelming’ interest to adopt the dog. They say that due to the extent of his injuries, however, they expect a still long road to recovery before he is able to leave veterinarians’ care. That’s an opportunity Mr Washington hopes he’s equally entitled to. ‘I owe that much to that puppy,’ he told the Post-Dispatch, promising he’d give it a good home. ‘Because I gave it to the wrong people.’ Do you think she knew what she was doin’ and just didn’t give an ish? Images via Missouri Humane Society/facebook
