Liam Gallagher has declared that he wants to release a range of adult sex toys.
The former Oasis frontman who helms his own Pretty Green clothing company , jokingly revealed that he is considering a new line of intimate bedroom products.
While the singer recently said that the label will be launching a women's fashion collection later this year, he has drawn the line at women's handbags.
When asked whether or not he would consider creating his own range of bags, he replied: "Not yet, Bulls**t. “Some girl asked me if I was making handbags, so I said yeah,†the always eloquent ex-Oasis frontman explained. “I could make knickers and thongs and all sorts of f***ing vibrators – Pretty Green f***ing soldier boy!â€
However, the 37-year-old affirmed that he has been delighted by the fledgling firm's success, adding: "Obviously a lot of Oasis fans are buying it and it's just normal people who are buying it - it's good gear, man."
Liam also said that his first post-Oasis album which he’s recording with all ex-Oasis members except his brother Noel , will be out by the end of the year and has a strong David Bowie/T-Rex glam feel.
Tiger Woods Pornstar mistress Joslyn James has said that she will post photos of her and the number one golfer on her website.
The news comes in line with reports that the two spent a night together three weeks after the Woods' wife Elin gave birth.
James posted e-mails from Woods' lifelong friend and president of Tiger Woods Design, Byron Bell, detailing travel arrangements for her to meet up with the golfer when he was touring on her website.
In one e-mail from Bell, who once served as Tiger's caddy, there is information about a flight from Seattle to DC, the same weekend Woods played at a PGA Tour event in Bethesda.
The e-mails oppose Woods' statement in last week's Golf Channel interview that no one in his inner-circle knew of his affairs.
James carried on a three-year affair with Woods.
According to Radaronline.com, James spent a night with Woods just a few weeks after his first child, daughter Same Alexis Woods.
Sports by Brooks, a sports blog, contacted James' manager about the photos.
"All I can say is everything on her site and everything going up on her site is related to her relationship with Tiger," the New York Post quoted the manager as saying.
Sextoys.co.uk has launched its very own TV channel so customers can watch fun and informative demonstrations on demand before they buy. Presented by their very own Pleasure Presenters, you can learn all you need to know about the latest and greatest adult products, from form to function to tips on how to use them.
There will even be regular features with their resident sexpert Rachel Foux, where she will be answering browsers questions and giving sex and relationship advice.
Sextoys.co.uk decided to add the TV channel after the success of their new community, The Vibe which can be found on the site. The Vibe has informative articles on sex and relationships, the latest sex news plus blogs and forums, where you can talk with like minded people.
“It makes sense for us to launch our very own sex toys TV says Monique Carty of sextoys.co.uk The Vibe is an extensive wealth of information as well as being fun, but we felt it was missing an important element. People still aren’t comfortable going in to sex shops so this is a great way for them to see the sex toys up close and working. In a way, it is better because you get a detailed demonstration of products and you can stop, pause and watch again on demand. We get so many people emailing us because they are too embarrassed to call and ask questions, that we thought why not answer them before they ask? We try and give our customers all the information they need on the site but sometimes you can’t get across just how powerful, fun, unique a product is. The Vibe TV allows us to show that.â€
The Vibe TV is presented by Layla, Rachel and Ben who are all sextoys.co.uk customers and auditioned for the job. The auditions were open to customers only, because the website wanted people that were really passionate about the products and the brand.
Female condoms have been around for almost two decades, but many women have never heard of them — much less used one.
Now, there's a push to reintroduce the female condom to the public and make it an essential tool in the battle against HIV/AIDS. Motivating this move is the fact that the disease continues to be a persistent problem in the United States, particularly within African-American communities.
A Challenging Mission
As those introducing the female condom are learning, it's not always easy to get people to adopt an unfamiliar product.
"Any time we have a new product, it's sort of scary and awkward and you have to figure it out a little bit," Dr. Shannon Hader, director of the Washington, D.C., HIV/AIDS Administration , tells NPR's Allison Keyes.
Hader and her colleagues are finding that the reservations that surround new products generally are compounded when the product is such an intimate one.
Cecilia Boyd, the development coordinator at the Pediatric AIDS Chicago Prevention Initiative, was tasked with distributing the condom to the women who come to her organization. That being the case, she thought she should try the condom out for herself.
"I thought, oh my god, this is huge! How am I going to get this thing in?" says Boyd, but she adds that, like so many things in life, practice makes perfect. "Once you try it a few times, you really start to get the hang of it."
The female condom looks like a larger version of the male condom. On one end there is an enclosed inner ring, which is inserted into the vagina, and on the other end is another ring that opens to the outside. It provides a lubricated, protective coating for the woman wearing it.
Boyd says that, in her experience, women have been wary.
"A lot of our women, particularly our African-American women that we work with, they're just like, I can't do that; I can't wear that. If I pull that out, my man's going to look at me like I'm crazy," she says. "It's unfortunate, but as long as we keep talking about it, maybe we can get more women using them."
Boyd does report that the condoms are popular in one of the demographics she works with — immigrants from Africa and Southeast Asia.
"I think they come from places where they don't have that option and they don't have power in their sexual relationships," Boyd says. "So when they come here, and this organization is giving them an option to protect themselves in their sexual relationships, they're just like, 'Oh my gosh, this is so awesome.' They have actually been very open to the female condom."
Showcasing The Benefits
Hader likens the product to o.b. tampons, which came onto the market without an applicator. They were more environmentally sound, but they required more work for women upon insertion.
"It took a little bit of early adventure," she says, "[from] women who are less scared."
Ultimately, the tampons gained a buzz and took off. Hader is hoping for the same takeoff for the female condom.
The product has been updated since it was first introduced two decades ago. The version on the market now has a softer material, which warms up immediately. And Hader says that early focus groups found it had another benefit, which is now being used to entice new users.
"The outer ring is this rolled material ... that just fits over the outer lips and clitoris," she says. "Some people say it becomes an added enhancement to your sexual activity."
Combating AIDS
Motivating the push to reintroduce the female condom is the fact that HIV/AIDS continues to be a persistent problem in the United States, particularly within African-American communities.
The most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the HIV incidence rate for black women nearly 15 times as high as that of white women, and nearly four times as high as that of Latinas.
"We have persistent impressions of 1981, that maybe HIV is still just a gay white man's disease," says Hader. "That probably wasn't true at the time either. But we know now for sure, HIV is a women's disease too."
And the disease has struck the nation's capital with a particular vengeance. The breadth of the epidemic was captured recently in a media campaign by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation that used the slogan, "AIDS is D.C.'s Katrina."
The MAC AIDS Fund s providing the funding to distribute half a million female condoms specifically in Washington, D.C. The fund's executive director, Nancy Mahon, reports that the project has been a public-private partnership between her organization, the CDC and CVS drugstores, which has agreed to carry the female condom, so that women who try the free condoms and like them will have a place to buy them.
The free condoms will be distributed in clothing stores, beauty salons and other public gathering places.
"The best examples oftentimes have been barber shops and beauty salons, where people hang out," Hader says. "They start conversations, and even just having that fishbowl of condoms there, starts people talking about sex ... so we think these are really friendly places to introduce some of these really important safer sex products."
The female condom may not be for everyone, she acknowledges, but it is one more weapon in the fight against the spread of HIV and AIDS.
China shut down or blocked more than 140,000 mobile WAP sites offering pornography for mobile phone users in a five-month crackdown, an official said Monday.
Zhou Huilin, deputy director of the national office against pornographic and illegal publication, said the move had "clearly cleansed the Internet environment."
"In the next stage, we'll target serious criminal activity related to porn mobile WAP sites with servers overseas, as many such sites were moving their servers overseas to avoid supervision," he said.
China stepped up its war against Internet pornography in a five-month campaign, which was launched in August last year by nine government and Communist Party of China (CPC) departments, involving police, publicity, health, information technology, banking, and radio, film and television.
The crackdown was conducted in three phases, with particular attention placed on Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Anhui where many WAP sites are registered.
More than 150,000 items of lewd content had been deleted from or blocked on the Internet in Beijing during the campaign, and about 310,000 items had been deleted in coastal provinces of Guangdong and Jiangsu, according to Zhou.
As part of China's latest efforts to curb porn, a judicial interpretation issued last month further clarified that production, replication, publication, sale and spread of obscene electronic information (video) targeted at minors aged under 14 via Internet or mobile WAP sites was a crime.
China's population of Internet users reached 384 million by the end of 2009, with 233 million, or 60.8 percent of the total users, going online by mobile phone, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.