Paul Ryan
Mike Pence…
Sex sells when your product is shit. Sheep – Follow those Stars, you don't need your soul.
From Dakota Johnson to Cardi B, here's why experts say celebrities endorsing sex toys is so important
For years, celebrities have used their star power to promote everything from makeup to migraine medication. Now, however, a new trend has emerged: Stars are using their massive platforms to promote sex toys, a move that experts say can have a positive impact on how women view their sexuality.
Dakota Johnson is now a co-creative director and investor for Maude, a sexual wellness company that sells sleek, chic vibrators and other sexual products. Cara Delevingne — once photographed with her then-girlfriend Ashley Benson bringing a “sex bench” into their home — is also getting into the business of pleasure. She was named the co-owner and creative advisor of sex toy company Lora DiCarlo in 2020.
“When I first connected with the Lora DiCarlo team, it became even more apparent to me that the topic of sexual wellness needed to be normalized,” the Carnival Row actress explained to Teen Vogue. “I believe that it’s important for women or people who identify as women to feel comfortable in their own sexual power. I hope through my voice and platform I can amplify and encourage everyone to take pleasure into their own hands."
Other stars are just proud customers. Cardi B has previously promoted Bellesa Boutique, with the “WAP” rapper even gifting the brand’s products to guests at her birthday party. Gwyneth Paltrow proudly purchased herself a vibrator for Christmas in 2019. Her company, Goop, launched its very own vibrator in 2021, which sold out immediately, after previously promoting a 24-karat gold one from the company Lelo in 2016.
Of the decision to sell vibrators, Paltrow told The New York Times, "I think as opposed to 'Why a vibrator now?' it’s sort of, 'How can we make a vibrator that helps continue to diminish stigma around that stuff?'"
All of these endorsements are helping women, famous or not, see sex toys as a normal part of sexual wellness — something that wasn’t always the case.
“The use of sex toys definitely comes with a stigma attached to it,” explains Rachel Needle, a licensed psychologist in West Palm Beach, Fla. and the co-director of Modern Sex Therapy Institutes. “There is a lot of shame due to misinformation and misunderstanding about sexual pleasure and the use of sex toys and accessories. But sex toys can be used for exploring one’s own body and for self-pleasure, to enhance sexual pleasure by those who have sexual difficulties, and with a partner or partners.”
Kate Balestrieri, a licensed psychologist, certified sex and sex addiction therapist and host of the Modern Intimacy podcast, tells Yahoo Life that “when female celebrities use their platform to talk about sexual wellness and pleasure, the whole world listens.”
“Even in 2021, women can experience tremendous amounts of shame, disapproval, deference and isolation in their quest to understand, learn more, own or enjoy their sexuality,” she adds. “Many are given the message that their sexuality is a gift for their partner, or for procreation only. Sexual messaging such as this fosters a disconnect for women in the experience of their own bodies and pleasure.”
Balestrieri stresses that these women are pioneers, not just because they are talking about sexual wellness, but because they break down the stigma of who should be thinking about how to bring more sexual pleasure into their lives.
“When female celebrities step into the space of sexual health and wellness, other women take notice and the conversation about women’s sexual pleasure begins to shift,” she explains. “Suddenly, women see these women who are role models, professionals and in some cases mothers, embracing sexuality, sexual pleasure and sexual conversation. Permission to think about sex differently, and through the female gaze, becomes ever so slowly more and more permissible.”
She adds that while these stars may be opening themselves up to criticism and even “slut shaming” for being outspoken about their sexuality, “their navigation on a public stage always implicitly tells women that they do not need to react, respond or crumble to the sex-negativity of others.”
“Sex therapists and educators work diligently to help people create a healthy relationship with sex but can only reach so many people,” she continues. “When female celebrities join in that conversation, the reach of the message is incredible.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/celebrity-sex-toys-cara-delevingne-dakota-johnson-cardi-b-152201808.html
And it's those "Humanitarians" who have been very vocal about the fact that the "shots" haven't gotten to Haiti.
Orphans abundant again, once the parents get the shots?
Haiti blocked off for a reason?
https://www.borgenmagazine.com/better-u-foundation/
Around the World With Jim Carrey: The Better U Foundation
During the 2008/2009 crop season in Mali, the Better U Foundation worked with Africare to test the implementation of SRI in 12 villages. Data showed that yields increased up to 87 percent with SRI and saved up to 32 percent more water.
The Better U Foundation visited Haiti after the devastating earthquake of 2010 to provide financial aid for purchasing urgently-needed medical supplies. The foundation then worked to introduce SRI to Haitian farmers. SRI was shown yet again to be more productive and profitable than traditional methods.
The Better U Foundation and the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) established the SRI International Network and Resource Center (SRI-RICE). The first of its kind, this SRI technical resource center is an international support system for poor rural households, designed to help increase productivity and innovation.
The System of Rice Intensification is now being adapted into a broader System of Crop Intensification. SCI takes the principles of agriculture first practiced with SRI and applies them to a range of crops. The methodology of SCI varies according to crop species.
The flexibility of SRI and SCI allows for farmers in many different regions with varying climates, soil and resources to achieve the same increases in crop yield. The Better U Foundation will continue to spread the news and resources for adopting these systems around the world in order to combat global hunger.
CA being held hostage. Extreme heat, fires, housing prices rising, gas prices rising, water being drained, homeless numbers growing, covid bs raging…
Seems pretty precipicey for CA.
California to require masks at schools, though CDC says they're not needed if vaccinated
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-require-masks-schools-even-190315806.html
Planned Parenthood gonna get exposed this time?
The real measure of Justice Amy Coney Barrett will come in the next year
The knee-jerk reaction to Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s first term was that she was less conservative than some had hoped and others had feared.
But those judgments are likely to be premature, because the real tests for Barrett will come over the next year, in her second term as a justice.
The 49-year-old Barrett, for example, was lampooned by Democrats as a threat to health care during her confirmation hearings last year, but then ruled against a challenge to the Affordable Care Act in this year’s term.
Barrett is likely to be a crucial and possibly a deciding vote on two huge cases on hot-button culture war issues: abortion and guns. How she rules on those cases will illustrate the kind of justice she is and will be, and could end up becoming an enormous part of her legacy and the court’s.
The abortion case is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. At issue is a law passed by the Mississippi Legislature in 2018 that banned most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. A federal court found the law unconstitutional, because Supreme Court jurisprudence prohibits bans on abortion before a fetus is viable outside the womb, which is considered to be at around 24 weeks of pregnancy.
The Supreme Court could uphold the lower court’s ruling, but most observers think that’s unlikely. Some also believe it is unlikely to throw out Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 ruling that upheld a constitutional right to abortion.
The middle ground would be for the court to get rid of the viability threshold, allowing states to enact bans on most abortions prior to 24 weeks of pregnancy, but to replace it with a different standard.
This is where politics comes into play.
The three most conservative justices — Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch — are all considered likely to throw out Roe v. Wade if the opportunity were presented to them. The three liberal justices — Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor — would keep it in place. But the three others — Barrett, Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh — constitute a swing bloc of sorts that controls who gets a majority of votes.
more
https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-real-measure-of-justice-amy-coney-barrett-will-come-in-the-next-year-192158587.html
It's so f'n hot in CA muh pool is losing 3/4 in of water a day.
Thought Trump said it was going to get cooler!!
Weather fuckery is flat out evil