Sexual and Reproductive Health

Tasha Tells All...On LA County's Measure B Condom Law

Every Monday, adult superstart/OC girl Tasha Reign gives us her thought on life, sex, politics, and everything else in-between. For her inaugural column, Tasha weighs in on Measure B, an LA County initiative that passed in 2012 and now makes condom use mandatory on porn shoots. Enjoy!The Wrap on Wra ... More >>

[UPDATED with the Defense Table View:] Nik Richie, The Dirty Website Chief Accused of Defaming NFL Cheerleader, Awaits New Trial

See Update No. 2 on page 2 on Nik Richie Radio coverage of the host's surreal feelings and reception as a Middle Eastern terrorist in Kentuck and his lawyer vowing to win in the end.See Update No. 1 after the jump explaining why the federal judge declared a mistrial.ORIGINAL POST, JAN. 24, 1:53 P.M. ... More >>

Patient Med-Aid: For Those Sick Enough to Smoke

A peek inside Orange County's most exclusive medical-marijuana club, one no one wants to join

'How to Survive a Plague': Who Saved the World?

David France on the stirring history of ACT UP

Consider This

Andrei’s Conscious Cuisine & Cocktails

Dr. Robert Sears Takes on Both Sides of the Great Vaccination Divide

The author of 'The Vaccine Book' presents his own alternatives to the CDC-recommended schedules kenneth m. ruggiano

Zelda Bing's Love Camp

Long Beaach Playhouse

Disneyland and AIDS Charity Sued for Darth Vader Swinging at Angry Bird But Hitting Lady

​A woman is suing Disneyland and the AIDS Services Foundation of Orange County in Superior Court because she claims her back was injured by a Disney employee dressed as Darth Vader and doing battle with a bird during the 2011 AIDS Walk Orange County at the Anaheim resort. If the incident had happe ... More >>

[UPDATED] Loretta Sanchez Calls Republican Attack on Planned Parenthood "A Shame"

​[UPDATE at 5 p.m.: After her morning TV appearance, Congresswoman Sanchez appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews in the afternoon and reiterated her stance that "it's really sad" that Komen for the Cure has decided for political reasons to attack "a very important" medical resource for countles ... More >>

[UPDATED with Court Appeal:] Michael Kamrava, Fertility Doctor, Loses License

Kamrava​UPDATE, JUNE 6, 8:08 A.M.: An administrative law judge previously said Michael Kamrava, Octomom Nadya Suleman's fertility doctor, should keep his medical license, but the California Medical Board overruled that recommendation last month.So, Kamrava has turned to another judge, this one at ... More >>

Gettin' Made: She Blinded Me With Crafty Science

One of my best friends is a microbiologist, and with that comes a special love for all science-themed crafts. So when I saw a link to the Scientific Culture shop on Etsy, it was love at first smarty-pants sight. Lab Ware art post cards by Scientific Culture​ After the jump, get your s ... More >>

Octomom's Fertility Dr. Michael Kamrava Faces License Panel; Nadya Suleman Under Fire, Too

​Dr. Michael Kamrava is the one facing a Medical Board of California this week that could revoke or suspend the Beverly Hills fertility specialist's license to practice medicine, but it seems as if La Habra's Nadya Suleman is on trial in Los Angeles as well.Today's bombshell: Octomom's medical re ... More >>

Laurie Hassold's Creepy Crawlies

Laurie Hassold reanimates and reclaims a host of horrific life forms

What You Missed: AIDS Walk Orange County, the National, Doheny Blues Festival

Christopher Victorio24th Annual AIDS Walk Orange County​On Saturday morning, Harvey Milk Day, the 24th annual AIDS Walk Orange County raised awareness of much-needed funds for HIV/AIDS prevention. The day's events included art, a family fun zone and food festival, a pie-eating contest, Great Pa ... More >>

Girls Volleyball Coach Could Get a Year for Allegedly Exposing Player's Vagina and Breasts

​A 36-year-old Sacramento Christian high school teacher and girls volleyball coach could get up to a year in the pokey after allegedly exposing a 17-year-old player's vagina and breasts in the midst of what was supposed to be an athletic massage.The incident involving Minh Anh Nguyen--who faces on ... More >>

[UPDATED:] New Year Shapes Up Eventfully for Octomom

Mo.re to loathe.​UPDATED WITH LINK TO VIDEO OF OCTOMOM DEFENDING HER FERTILITY DOCTOR.It's already shaping up to be an eventful new year for Nadya "Octomom" Suleman. The La Habra resident rang out 2009 by learning she'd been named the nation's least-desirable neighbor. By Monday morning, Octomom w ... More >>

In Light of Braff: Five Bizarre Internet Hoaxes

Flickr user Thor Arvid​The world thought  Scrubs actor Zach Braff was dead yesterday for a few hours--suicide, they said. Turns out, it was just a Scrubs fan that had created a faker CNN page in 2007 that somehow resurfaced. In an age where someone's Wikipedia page is edited spookily quick to ... More >>

B HERE is Here for Hepatitis B Sufferers with Free Art Exhibit and Live Show Today

Comedienne Happy Slip performs tonight--and you can see her free.​The B HERE campaign that raises awareness of the life-threatening disease hepatitis B launched Thursday, but it really swings into high gear on the UC Irvine campus today. First, a free art exhibit featuring works ... More >>

Planned Parenthood Still In the Running for County Funding

All seemed to be said and done yesterday in the fight over whether Planned Parenthood should receive county funds for its non-abortion related health care programs.

Chloe Lum of AIDS Wolf Is Sick. No, Really

Angels in America

Maverick Theater

Citizen of the Week!

Gabriel Zarate didn't originally deny he taken an incestuous interest in his 7-year-old daughter for a two-year period. He admitted that he forced her to orally copulate him. He even acknowledged that on "five or six" other occasions, he stripped her and rubbed his erect penis on her vagina as mas ... More >>

Ed McKie Has Been Stymied in His Efforts to Create a Safe Space for Gay Meth Addicts in Santa Ana

Eat, Drink and Be Gay Married! After 27 Years, One Couple Finally Has Its Big, Fat, Mexican Wedding

Speak Out

Elegies for Angels, Punks 
and Raging Queens

Viva La Mujer

Portrait of Ten Women

At the Miss Hermosa y Protegida Pageant, the Curves Can Be Fake, But the Messages Are Very Real

The Vagina/Marijuana -Logues at the Hunger Artists Theatre

Ron Paul Liked Bill Dannemeyer

In The New Republic's recent critique of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's old wacky newsletters, there's one disturbing Orange County connection, according to author James Kirchick: They frequently quoted Paul's "old colleague," Representative William Dannemeyer--who advocated quarantin ... More >>

Wednesday's Headlines & Surprises: Safer Teen Sex in OC?

Lots of Unprotected Fornications in SD: The San Diego Union-Tribune reports this morning that youths ages 15 to 24 in our southern neighbor county had a whopping 85,000 cases of chlaymdia, gonorrhea and AIDS in 2005. How’s that rank? Well, according to the newspaper, researchers at the Cali ... More >>

Takin' Care

Cruisin’ For A Cure

Beach Break: Hard times

Selling erectile dysfunction medication on the Internet may have been considered a lucrative side business for award-winning state narcotics agent Henry Kim, that is until some pesky undercover Long Beach cops got nosy and ruined everything. It all started last week, when Kim allegedly placed an ad ... More >>

Foxes, Henhouses, and the Fashion Police

Just like breaking a leg can take your mind off a toothache, the major traumas the Bush administration has inflicted on the body politic make it easy to forget the lesser damage it's doing.  Or, as Ruth Marcus puts in her column in today's Washington Post, "The tornado of disastrous headlines - ... More >>

Commie Girl

Everyone Has AIDS! (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS, AIDS!)

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Greenest of Them All?

Grist online magazine's Muckraker says the California gubernatorial race may very well come down to who voters think is more environmentally minded, Ahnuld or Phil the Pill.

AIDS 'n' Pagans

This Sunday (a day named to honor Egyptian sun god Ra), Orange County pagans, witches, warlocks (maybe Moorlachs?) and other so-called heathens are using their mystic powers to fight the AIDS. That's right, I said pagans. Monotheistic religions are so passe. AIDS was first noticed in America when, i ... More >>

!Ask a Mexican!

The Breakfast Club

Notes From the Banana Republic: Lawsuit alleges Christian cabal eats at Dennys, controls Santa Ana schools

Cavallo wants to know

UPDATED: Is a pool stick bigger than a penis?

Cavallo wants to know

Is a pool stick bigger than a penis?

Schools Out Forever

A Year in the Banana Republic of Santa Ana

Rrrrrrrrromance!

Pussies of the World, Unite!

V-Day College Campaign 2002 presents The Vagina Monologues

Anthrax? Yawn

Local abortion providers have been dealing with the threat for years

My Conscience Is Killing Me

A nurse says a prominent Newport Beach physician gave AIDS patients bogus drugs. The doctor says hes being blackmailed

Bob Outs Himself!

Empty Chairs

Disappearing humans

The Gay Inferno

Fabulous Hell doesnt try to promote the upbeat living-with-AIDS story

Celebrate Post-Feminism Week!

Seven days worth of angry, horny women

Commie Girl: The Decoy

Now, how do you make gay-bashing funny?