women's rights

Brazilian woman Ana Catarina Bezerra Silvares has a rare and - and apparently very real - medical condition called "compulsion orgasmic," which requires her to masturbate up to 47 times a day or suffer from painful consequence. The need for constant self-gratification obviously presents problems in the workplace, but a Brazilian judge has made the 36-year-old's life easier by ruling that

As a 16-year-old, Galia Slayen made a life-size Barbie out of wood, chicken wire, paper-mache and -- of course -- two big balloons as way to deal with her anorexia. Now, four years later, Slayen is a sophomore at Hamilton College and is using the massive (but freakishly slim) doll she built to start a conversation about eating disorders and body image issues.