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The chief censor hunts for the big five: Sex, horror, crime, cruelty and violence http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/82968384/the-chief-censor-hunts-for-the-big-five-sex-horror-crime-cruelty-and-violence After tweaks to the law in recent decades, the independent Crown entity covers films, books and computer games. One thing hasn’t changed. Most people still agree definitions of the “public good” will always be subjective.Continue Reading

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Your Mental Health Is Making You Poor http://www.vice.com/en_au/read/why-your-mental-health-is-making-you-poor There are several different types of spending associated with mental health. The most obvious one is manic spending, which can affect people who are bipolar or have other kinds of mood disorders when they are on a high. “I would spend loadsContinue Reading

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Can Psychedelics Cure OCD? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/can-psychedelics-cure-ocd_us_57a34716e4b0c863d4004453 Psilocybin, along with LSD and most other psychedelics, was classified in 1970 as a Schedule I drug, defined as having high risk of abuse and addiction and no medical use. While this was perhaps an understandable reaction to the excesses of the Woodstock era, theContinue Reading

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Japanese men share what they can put up with in a girlfriend, but would be marriage deal-breakers http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/japanese-men-share-what-they-can-put-up-with-in-a-girlfriend-but-would-be-marriage-deal-breakers 7. When she goes out drinking, she gets so hammered that she can’t remember what she did or where she was (13.5 percent) 6. Often brags on social media about all theContinue Reading

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From the early 1930s to the end of the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military. More than 200,000 Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Malaysian and women of other nationalities, euphemistically referred to as “comfort women”, were enslaved by the Japanese ImperialContinue Reading

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http://www.stripes.com/news/servicemembers-pushups-raise-awareness-of-veteran-suicide-ptsd-1.423033 Maj. Kendall Langston, 47, a New Zealand Army reservist and veteran of missions to Bosnia and Angola, took the challenge after seeing American friends posting about it on social media. “A few of my close mates are doing it, and I got nominated,” he said. The New Zealand DefenceContinue Reading

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http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/209883/nan-goldin-ballad-of-sexual-dependency One of the most powerful images, “Nan and Dickie in the New York Motel,” is a self-portrait in a mirror where Nan is half-naked and Dickie is fully dressed and the room appears to be tilted in the vertigo of sex. The images track Goldin and her friends engagedContinue Reading

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More than 2,000 leaked incident reports from Australia’s detention camp for asylum seekers on the remote Pacific island of Nauru – totalling more than 8,000 pages – are published by the Guardian today. The Nauru files set out as never before the assaults, sexual abuse, self-harm attempts, child abuse andContinue Reading