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...play, regularly mounting one another and (hide the kids' ears here) sticking their noses into certain boy-dolphin parts. (Very regularly: roughly half of male dolphin sex occurs with other males.) Among bonobos, same-sex sexual behavior is also thought to ease social tension and facilitate reconciliation. And among garter snakes, male-on-male contact may allow some solitary males to thermoregulate and, therefore, survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Some Animals (and People) Are Gay | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...didn't get to jump for the garter at Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' wedding? That just left you more time to study for this week's pop-culture quiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 4, 2006 | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

Long before before Jenna Bush flashed a fake ID or Amy Carter staged a sit-in, another rebellious First Daughter was grabbing the nation's attention by lounging atop the White House roof smoking cigarettes, placing bets with a bookie and toting a pet garter snake named Emily Spinach in her pocketbook. "I can be President of the United States or I can attend to Alice," Theodore Roosevelt once said when asked to discipline his headstrong eldest child. "I cannot possibly do both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alice Roosevelt Longworth: An American Princess | 7/3/2006 | See Source »

...film has a moral, it is, "Don't dream it, be it"--a line O'Brien took from the catalog of the racy couturier Frederick's of Hollywood. For most Rockyphiles it is enough to dress like a Frederick's dream: Dracula makeup, dominatrix corset, your basic black garter belt. The hard-core fans, who mime the dialogue onstage, do more than suit up for the dream; they star in it. And once in a full moon the dream can come true. Ron Maxwell, 22, is a Citibank computer operator by day and one of the Eighth Street's performing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Land: The Voice of Rocky Horror | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...women act as their own props mistresses and makeup artists, carrying hot pink double-ended vibrators, garter belts, piles of thongs and tiny skirts. Their clear platform shoes are seveninches high, pushing their bodies to a model’s height and their feet into arched curves. In the bathroom, the girls make their final touches, brushing scented Victoria’s Secret powder onto each other’s backs and breasts. Through the thin wall, they can hear the driver booming the instructions: no touching, no licking, nothing—unless the stripper offers. In an industry where...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Her Skin Doesn’t Show | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

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