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http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/3363309/Women-want-real-men

Nerds, wusses, hairy blokes and passionate Phoenix fans rejoice - you may not be destined for life on the dating sidelines after all.

A new survey suggests that not all woman are after a hairless muscle-man from the pages of Men's Health, but instead are on the lookout for a guy who is a little rough around the edges.
Top of the desirable traits was the unshaven look - a turn-on for 41 percent of women, while a slightly geeky personality was also popular.

Those who've been making frequent visits to the beauty therapist for a wax can also stop with the masochism - a hairy chest was voted the third-biggest turn-on, followed by a bookworm or a man who doesn't mind showing his sensitive side and crying during a soppy film.
Other secret desires of the fairer sex included grey hair, glasses and being a passionate supporter of a sports team.
A spokesman for www.onepoll.com which carried out the poll, told the UK's Mail Online that almost one fifth of women would never publically admit what they really found attractive in a man.
Instead they would claim they were after the more socially accepted model of the perfect male - a muscle-bound, clean-shaven manly man.

"But these results prove that they secretly want something different. It seems women really do like a guy who is able to show a softer side, or who is carrying a little bit of extra weight," the spokesperson said.
The poll also revealed that 91 percent of women would prefer a guy with a few flaws over someone who is perfect and more than half would rather find a guy who wasn't afraid to let it hang out a little bit, rather than someone who was buff.

Almost two thirds of the 2500 respondents preferred a hairy man, while 56 percent liked some stubble, the Daily Mail reported.
Fifty-eight percent of women also wanted a bloke who doesn't mind what he eats over someone who was watching his weight.

Quote: "Women commit crimes against women, and in many cases the victims
become the perpetrators, " Antonio Maria Costa, director of the Vienna-based
U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, said in an interview. "They become the
matrons of the business and they make money. It's like a drug addiction."

http://www.foxnews. com/story/ 0,2933,491904, 00.html

Fox News
12 February 2010

United Nations Discovers Most Human Traffic Perpetrators are Women

AP - UNITED NATIONS — Surprisingly, the perpetrators behind human
trafficking around the world are often women, the U.N. reported Thursday.

Women are the majority of traffickers in almost a third of the 155 nations
the U.N. surveyed. They accounted for more than 60 percent of the human
trafficking convictions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

For many, human trafficking is a world they had been pulled into themselves.

"Women commit crimes against women, and in many cases the victims become the perpetrators, " Antonio Maria Costa, director of the Vienna-based U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, said in an interview. "They become the matrons of the business and they make money. It's like a drug addiction."

Most of the world's nations reported some form of "modern slavery" last
year involving mainly the sex trade or forced labor.

And the number of victims should grow as the global financial crisis
deepens, Costa said.

The report by Costa's office was based largely on human trafficking
convictions reported to the U.N. between September 2007 and July 2008.
About 22,500 victims were rescued during that time. About four of every
five reported cases involved sexual exploitation; most of the rest involved
forced labor.

But Costa's agency gave no overall figures for how many millions of people
might be affected. He said most countries' conviction rates for human
trafficking rarely exceed 1.5 per 100,000 people.

Two of every five countries covered in the report had not recorded a single
conviction from 2007 to 2008.

"Either these countries are blind to the problem or they are ill-equipped
to deal with it," Costa said.

"We only see the monster's tail," he said. "How many hundreds of thousands
of victims are slaving away in sweatshops, fields, mines, factories, or
trapped in domestic servitude? Their numbers will surely swell as the
economic crisis deepens the pool of potential victims."

The report's release coincided with the appointment Thursday of Academy
Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino as a U.N. goodwill ambassador to help
Costa's office fight human trafficking. Sorvino, who graduated magna cum
laude from Harvard University in 1989 with a degree in Chinese, won an
Oscar for best supporting actress in 1995's "Mighty Aphrodite."

"Until a few years ago, I blissfully believed that slavery was a thing of
the past. ... Well, obviously I was terribly wrong," she said after Costa
draped a blue-ribboned medal around her neck.

Sorvino told how the stories of trafficked children hit her particularly
hard since becoming a mother with two young children herself.

"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," she said, repeating a famous
statement by Abraham Lincoln, whose 200th birthday was celebrated Thursday.

The report also pointed out that women and girls suffer most from sexual
abuse. About 20 percent of victims globally were children, mainly in
Southeast Asia's Mekong region and parts of Africa.

Costa, who serves as the U.N.'s chief crime fighter, said it's difficult to
get nations to address human trafficking because "it's at the crossroads"
of other complex occurrences such as human migration and prostitution.

Sixty-three percent of the nations in the report had adopted some laws
against human trafficking. The U.N. said most did so only after its
protocol against human trafficking entered into force in December 2003.

Dear dad4justice,

Most wives (~60%) and most husbands (~60%) have cheated
on their spouses. That means most married people have
experienced infidelity -- either giving or getting.

But, as I often discover in my polls, people do not
want to acknowledge the realities of their lives.

As Socrates famously uttered: "The unexamined life is
not worth living."

That's what I'm all about: I force people to examine
their lives. And, they don't like that very much.

If you have caught your spouse cheating on you, there
are two legal options (violence isn't a legal option):
1) File for divorce within one week
2) Remain in the marriage

My infidelity poll deals with option #2: staying with
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If you're currently staying in a marriage with a cheating
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Parents’ Influence on Adolescents’ Sexual Behavior

In light of a recent report that, for the first time in more than a decade, the rate of pregnancies among 18–19-year-olds in the United States is on the rise, parents should keep in mind that their attitudes and actions can have a substantial influence on their adolescent children’s sexual behavior. In particular, conveying the messages that it is best to wait until marriage to have children and that marriage should be a bond of commitment can decrease the likelihood that teens will be sexually active.

1. Parent-adolescent communication. Adolescents whose mothers discussed the social and moral consequences of being sexually active are less likely to engage in sexual intercourse.

2. Parental monitoring. Children whose parents monitor them more closely are less likely to be sexually active when they are in their teens. full details
3. Birth out of wedlock. Teenage girls are less likely to be sexually active if their parents were married at the time of their birth.

4. Single-parent socializing. Teenage boys whose mothers date more often and more quickly after a divorce are more likely to be sexually active.

5. Parents’ attitudes. Teenagers who feel their parents strongly disapprove of their being sexually active are less likely to contract a sexually transmitted infection.

6. Transitions in family structure. The likelihood that teenaged girls will become pregnant increases with each change in family structure that they experience.

7. Intact family. Adolescents in single-parent households are more likely to be sexually active than peers in two-parent families.

8. Family stability. On average, adolescents whose mothers divorced tend to have more sexual partners than peers who did not experience parental divorce.

9. Parental involvement. Teens whose parents watch television with them more frequently and limit their TV viewing are less likely to be sexually active.

10. Parental guidance. Adolescents whose parents talk with them about standards of sexual behavior are more likely to be abstinent.

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