Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker Are 'Living Our Best Lives' as She Says They Had Morning Sex for 90 Minutes

 Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are in newlywed bliss!

On Thursday's season 3 premiere of The Kardashians, Kourtney and Travis wasted no time making their affection for each other known.

"I have been just settling into life, wife life is amazing," Kourtney, 44, told cameras, before she and Travis, 47, ran off for "five minutes" to "do something really fast."

As the Poosh founder explained to sister Khloé Kardashian, she was currently ovulating. Because she and Travis had been actively trying to have a baby together, and decided they were done with IVF, the pair needed to capitalize on the natural baby-making moment.

"I'm so tired," Kourtney later shared, as Khloé, 38, quipped back, "Probably from having your 20-minute sex session downstairs."

With a laugh, Kourtney admitted, "Well, we had one this morning for like, an hour and a half, and I had one last night and the day before."

Khloé was taken aback by the revelation, asking her sister: "How do you have sex for an hour and a half!?"

But Kourtney saw it as no big deal. "You know, we’re just living our best lives," she said. 

Sex Workers See Stormy Daniels as a Hero After Trump Indictment

 On Thursday, following years of speculation, a grand jury in New York voted to indict former President Donald Trump. The charges stem from a $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election. Daniels claims she had an affair with Trump, which Trump has denied.

The indictment is historic in that it marks the first time a U.S. president has ever faced criminal charges. But it’s also notable for another reason: at the time she was thrust into the spotlight, Daniels was a famous pornographic actor who is now arguably one of the most historically significant sex workers alive.

As a member of a marginalized and stigmatized group, Daniels is now being heralded by many members of the left as the woman who brought Trump down — even though his 2024 campaign will continue as he faces charges, and jail time is far from guaranteed. She’s also being celebrated by many members of her own community, who feel her moment in the spotlight may be an opportunity to change the cultural conversation surrounding sex work.

Trump’s indictment, and Daniels’ involvement, “is going to be polarizing in the general public, obvi,” fetish performer Allie Eve Knox tells Rolling Stone. “Stormy is going to be seen as both a hero and a whore. [But] I am tickled as hell that after all the scandals, corruption, etc, it is a smart, brave woman in a bimbo costume that was able to take him down.”

When the allegations against Trump first became public in 2016, the reaction among sex workers was somewhat more mixed. “Honestly, I felt that my goodness, because it was so sensationalized, sex workers will be even more targeted because she is coming forward,” says Alexia Woodroe, an escort out of Toronto. Because one of the number one tenets of the industry is discretion, some wondered why Daniels would break “the number one commandment” of sex work and come forward, even though Trump did not pay Daniels for sex nor hire her in her capacity as a sex worker.

Over time, however, as more became known about the intimidation tactics Trump and his attorney used to silence Daniels (including threatening her with a goon while she was outside a fitness class with her infant daughter) that view changed. “If there’s a safety issue or any kind of fear, that is the only time we will disclose,” says Woodroe. “I was really proud of her. She has gone through a lot and been really courageous.”

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For years, coverage of the case primarily focused on the perceived salaciousness of Daniels’ profession, with late-night talk show hosts and headline writers making crass jokes about the industry. “Frankly, the whorephobia on display from both parties is extremely concerning,” says adult performer and content creator Allie Awesome.

Many sex workers were also disappointed to see the majority of the coverage focus on Daniels’ profession rather than the actual alleged fraud Trump is now being charged with. “It’s not the sex that is the issue, or even who it is with,” says Jetsetting Jasmine, a psychotherapist and adult film star and director. “It is the illegal behavior that is taking him down.”

The reaction to the indictment could be indicative of a shift in how not only Daniels, but also the industry at large, has been perceived. “I think the country’s attitude has softened some, mostly because of the explosion of OnlyFans during the pandemic,” says Knox, referring to the rise of the subscription-based platform initially popularized by sex workers which now boasts high-profile users like Cardi B and Bhad Bhabie. “Now everyone knows someone that has an OnlyFans.”

That’s not to say, however, that the climate for sex workers in the United States has become any less oppressive. With anti-trafficking legislation like SESTA/FOSTA, which sex workers claim puts them at increased risk, still in effect, and far-right groups clamoring to shut down platforms like Pornhub, it’s a scary time for sex workers. The fact that Daniels has a relatively large amount of cultural capital compared to most other sex workers is not lost on many in the community.

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“Stormy Daniels is white, blonde, thin. She meets the desirability criteria society has set on women. If anyone is believable, she is the one who would be believed,” says Woodroe. “And the fact she has been able to do this says a lot about the privilege she holds.” That said, some sex workers are hopeful that Daniels’ prominence in the media will have a “trickle-down effect” on how people view sex work in general, perhaps even on the legislative level, with some sex workers on Twitter joking that the indictment could open to the door to broader cultural discussion of decriminalization.

Now, “people will know not to mess with us, hopefully,” says Woodroe. “If she can take down the POTUS, even the least of us can have an impact.”

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Anna Kendrick recommends drinking on a first date 'if sex is off the table

Actress Anna Kendrick stars in the upcoming comedy "Drinking Buddies," so GQ asked her some questions about drinking in its current issue.

Makes sense.

On what potential drinking side effect not to bring up on a first date...

Two subjects to never bring up on a first date are anything to do with the actual reality of your family, and, you know, liver cancer and how we’ve probably all got it.

On whether or not a guy should pay for the drinks on the first date...

Paying on a first date is a tricky thing because even though it’s meaningless, if a guy doesn’t, or doesn’t offer, it suggests poor judgment more than anything else.

On the potential benefits of drinking...

If sex is off the table, and you’re like “Let’s try to get to know each other,” I would recommend drinking. Highly.

And, on an unrelated note, on being asked for autographs whilst underwear shopping...

There’s something deeply embarrassing about being approached when you’re holding knickers. And it’s happened TWICE!

No-strings sex app launches for heterosexuals who can't be bothered with online flirting

Young people looking for no-strings-attached sex who don't want to go through the rigmarole of chit-chat online are looking forward to the launch of a new app next week.

Pure, which has been described as 'bringing Seamless to the bedroom', offers sex on-demand by simply asking users their gender and the gender of their preference, whether they can host and then shows them potential partners who answer 'Okay' or 'No Way'.

Pending approval by Apple's App Store, Pure's intentionally soul-less and potentially dangerous approach to hook-ups has no profiles, no chat sessions before-hand and deletes unfulfilled requests after an hour.

No-Frill Thrills: Pure removes the need for chatting online and sets up couples for sex in their area immediately 

Markedly different from more traditional internet dating sites such as Match.Com and OkCupid, Pure is also a departure from newer apps for anonymous sex hook-ups such as Tinder and Bang With Friends.

All these apps and sites require some kind of profile and online conversation to get to know the potential date better.

Breakthrough: In January of last year, Roman Sidorenko and Alexander Kukhtenko (pictured) had an idea to break their sexual dry spells - to create 'Pure' as an app for no-thrills-not-strings attached sex

However, Pure, created by Roman Sidorenko and Alexander Kukhtenko removes all of that and simply provides two people who want to have sex based on their image online the ability to arrange a meet-up.

'People are becoming comfortable with a format of online dating that once sounded scary,' said Dan Slater, author of Love in the Time of Algorithms. 

'If these new location-based, on-the-fly apps are largely for hooking up ... perhaps more people out there are looking for quick sex than had been originally thought.'

Of course, online apps to arrange no-strings-attached sex are nothing new.

Grindr has become a staple of the gay community since its launch in 2009 and became so successful that it directly influenced Tinder and Bang With Friends for heterosexual people.

Indeed, Tinder is currently at the center of take-over rumors in Silicon Valley and Pure managed to raise $200,000 in investment funds for its launch.

'We wanted an easy way to find sex, basically,' said Sidorenko to New York Magazine.

'It’s very interesting to see what Fifty Shades of Gray did for the pleasure-products industry,' said Sidorenko. 

To much Chat? Tinder was inspired by the success of Grindr - an app that allowed the gay community to meet up for sex after finding each other online 

'When that book became a monster hit, it became okay to talk about BDSM stuff. It became okay to buy sex toys. This is the way the dating industry will be changed.'

Appealing to all genders and orientations, the appeal of Pure will be to cut down the basics of sex to the essential ingredients, such as gender, age, appearance, location and availability.

 

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A key component of Pure will be removing the hurt of rejection by showing its users only the matches who have clicked 'Okay'.

However, the art of seduction does not seem to have died a complete death.

Traditional online dating site Match.com raked in profits of $205 million last year - showing that people don't necessarily want to skip the 'getting to know you' part of a sexual relationship.

Bang with Friends has been equally successful - however, it too focuses on chatting online rather than simply meeting for sex

'These apps are tapping into this perception that people are looking for casual sex, but most people are using these apps as a gateway to something longer term,' says Lauren Kay, the founder of the Dating Ring, a start-up that pairs algorithmic date-finding with old-fashioned in-person matchmaking. 

While Pure is focusing its efforts initially on the gay market, it hopes to eventually open up the bi, straight and polyamorous markets very soon afterwards.

They will church $9.99 for a day pass - allowing users unlimited requests for 24 hours.

Eventually, Pure want to tap into the female demographic and are planning a series of marketing events in New York bars in the coming weeks.

However, Harry Reis, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Rochester says that the online dating market is presumptuous about no-strings-attached sex.

'Just because a person isn't interested in monogamy doesn't mean they're interested in having sex with anyone and anything,' he said to the New York Magazine.

Queens teacher who had sex with 14-year-old student gets 6 months jail

A former Queens teacher was sentenced to six months in jail on Monday for sleeping with a 14-year-old student.

Daniel Reilly, 36, was also sentenced to ten years of probation, and has to register as a sex offender for being sexually active with the girl, who was one of his English students at IS 237.

Sex drive: Zurich launches drive-in prostitution plan

A series of wooden sheds have been constructed in Zurich, Switzerland as part of an initiative to regulate prostitution.

They look like garages or shelters but are being called by the locals ‘drive-in sex boxes’.

The idea is that men wanting to pay for sex can drive into one of the sheds having picked up a prostitute from an approved area.

Project director Michael Herzig said the boxes should improve security for sex workers.

“We’ve had a problem here which has been getting worse over the last few years, especially regarding Roma women, some of whom were being forced into prostitution. This was a degrading situation which we really had to stop.”

It is hoped the sex boxes will persuade prostitutes to sell their services away from residential areas, in a safe environment – the sheds are all equipped with alarms.

“This solution has several advantages: the support service for the women is better because we are directly here on site. The infrastructure is better. The women can come to us and use the shower and the toilets. We can talk to them without other people listening and the area is closed and observable,” said Ursula Kocher, of the Flora Dora centre for women:

The million euro project was approved by voters in Zurich last year in a referendum. The site is only open to drivers of cars and will operate from early evening until 5am each day.

Prosecutors: Florida teen in same-sex case contacted girl, so plea offer pulled

(CNN) -- Some 20,000 text messages, 25 photographs including nudes, and alleged secret meetings have prompted prosecutors to rescind a plea offer and request that bond be revoked for Florida teen Kaitlyn Hunt, charged with felonies in a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl, according to court papers.

Hunt, who turned 19 last Wednesday, was charged with two felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery after the parents of a then-14-old schoolmate went to authorities in Indian River County saying Hunt had a sexual relationship with their daughter.

After the case gained nationwide publicity, Hunt was offered a plea deal in which she would not face jail time, nor would she have to wear an ankle bracelet or have to register as a sex offender.

But Florida Assistant State Attorney Christopher Taylor told CNN Monday that since learning about Hunt's alleged contact with the victim in this case, the state has taken the deal off the table.

Texts, photos and meetings would violate a no-contact court order issued in February as a condition of Hunt's being out of jail while awaiting trial.

Prosecutors now say in court papers that also in February, Hunt gave the girl an iPod. The device was used to receive and send about 20,000 text messages between the two, according to the court papers.

Hunt also is accused of sending photographs and videos to the girl, with the court papers saying "These photographs are explicit and depict the defendant nude ..."

Prosecutors included examples of texts they say Hunt sent to the girl, including: "(N)o matter what if they find out we talked I'm going to jail until trial starts."

The texts are proof that Hunt was "consciously and intentionally violating the court's order," prosecutors said in the papers.

Prosecutors also say that the younger girl told a detective that Hunt would drive her to "a remote location where they would have intimate physical contact." The court papers claim that the most recent meeting took place two weeks ago.

The Hunt family refused to comment and their attorney has not responded to CNN's request for an interview.

The case gained national attention when Hunt's family went public on Facebook after she was charged, detailing their daughter's case and essentially accusing the victim's family of going after their daughter because she is gay.

The victim's family said that isn't true and that they were only trying to protect their teenage daughter.

A judge will decide Tuesday whether Hunt's bond should be revoked and if that happens, she could be jailed.

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No-Frill Thrills: The Rise of Minimalist Sex Apps

In January of last year, Roman Sidorenko and Alexander Kukhtenko had an idea to break their sexual dry spells the way they solved many of their other problems: with an app.

"We wanted an easy way to find sex, basically," says Sidorenko. But the two friends (who describe themselves as "pomosexuals") were too impatient to use the available dating apps on the market, all of which required them to spend hours flirting with potential flings via chat or text message before getting a date and, possibly, sealing the deal. They knew there were horny people around them looking for sex — and nothing more — but had no way of figuring out where, and who, they were.

"We thought it would be cool to use an approach like Uber," Sidorenko says. "Where you basically create the request, and you get a car pretty soon. We thought it would be cool to have something like that to find a sex buddy."

San Diego mayor in sex harassment settlement talks

SAN DIEGO — Settlement talks in the sexual harassment lawsuit against Mayor Bob Filner are underway as petitions circulate to recall the former congressman who has been besieged by allegations from more than a dozen women.

Attorney Gloria Allred announced Monday evening that she and her client, Irene McCormack Jackson, spent the day in mediation at a downtown office building, where Filner was spotted by a TV crew entering earlier in the day.

Allred wouldn't say whether Filner's resignation was discussed nor whether the mayor was present. She said the mediator, former federal judge J. Lawrence Irving, asked that no one make comments while talks continued.

Filner is facing a recall effort prompted by the cascade of sexual harassment allegations that also led the entire City Council and many leading Democrats to call for him to step down, including U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.

Filner has vowed to remain the leader of the nation's eighth-largest city and said he would return to work Monday after completing an intensive two-week therapy program. His lawyers said he also spent one week in outpatient counseling.

Before going into therapy, Filner vowed when he returned that his "focus will be on making sure that I am doing right by the city in terms of being the best mayor I can be."

But he wasn't seen Monday at City Hall, where a few dozen Filner supporters rallied outside, engaging in heated arguments with opponents.

"The mayor coming back to City Hall is the wrong message," Councilman Kevin Faulconer said Monday. "There is no way that he is able to move any type of agenda forward."

Faulconer said the mayor needs to "quit dragging the city of San Diego through this. He needs to resign. He needs to go get the help that he clearly and desperately needs."

Faulconer was later seen entering the building where Filner was spotted by KFMB-TV in San Diego. The councilman referred questions to the city attorney's office, which declined to comment.

Allred said she and her client would not be returning Tuesday.

Steve Erie, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego, said Filner's resignation must be part of the settlement discussions. Filner would benefit from waiting it out, Erie said, since his pension would spike after serving a year, which would be in December. He also may be trying to shed financial responsibility for the lawsuit.

"As long as he doesn't resign, he has leverage," Erie said. "So stay tuned."

McCormack was the first to go public with harassment allegations. Since then, his accusers have included a university dean to a retired Navy rear admiral. Some contend he cornered, groped and forcibly kissed them.

Filner, 70, served 10 terms in Congress before being elected mayor in November. The feisty liberal has long had a reputation for berating employees and has been dogged by rumors of inappropriate behavior toward women. But nothing in his past approaches what has surfaced in the past six weeks.

Questions also have risen over his spending and a trip to Paris. At least four agencies are investigating Filner: the city attorney's office, the state attorney general's office, the Sheriff's Department and the U.S. attorney.

City Council President Todd Gloria said the city's daily operations have been running fine without Filner but the city needs a leader to set policy.

"Those of us who have called on the mayor to resign know he is not being effective at this time," Gloria said.

Filner's spokeswoman Lena Lewis and lawyer James Payne did not respond to calls.

If Filner should resign, Gloria would step in as acting mayor.

The recall petition drive started Sunday. Organizers must collect 101,597 signatures of registered San Diego voters by Sept. 26. If the petition has fewer than that, the recall campaign will have 30 more days to circulate a supplemental petition to gather additional valid signatures.

If enough signatures are validated by the city clerk, the petition will be presented to the City Council, which must schedule an election within 60 to 90 days.

The more sex you have, the more money you make

If it sometimes appears that some people are just lucky — have lots of sex, and a well-paying job, too — you might be on to something, according to a new study from theInstitute for the Study of Labor at the University of Bonn.

Previous research has found that happiness — no surprise — tends to increase with the frequency of sexual activity. There’s been little study of how the libido relates to wages, though. This new data comes exclusively from the Greek population in 2008, so take that for what you will. But assuming the Hellenes are at all reflective of humanity writ large, results suggest that wages and sexual activity rise together.

The researchers controlled for urban and rural residence, various personality traits, gender, education and belief in God (which tends to be negatively correlated with sexual activity). They found that, for Greeks between the ages of 26 and 50, one standard deviation of increase in sexual activity corresponded with a 5.4 percent increase in wages. Married men having no sex receive lower wages by 1.3 percent, and there’s no difference in the wage returns for sex for gay and straight people.

Now, that doesn’t mean that having more sex will automatically make you earn more. The authors write that high levels of sexual activity are likely an indicator of good health, which also tends to correlate with higher earnings.  It’s also possible that causality runs the other way: Earning more makes you more sexually attractive. Either way, a Marginal Revolution commenter summed up the situation well: “It has always been apparent that sex is good: Now we have statistical confirmation! That’s great.”

Sex charges against teacher stun students, parents

Students and parents at Corona's Centennial High School reacted with surprise and disbelief after prosecutors charged a female special education teacher with having sex with five teenage boys over the last year.

Summer Michelle Hansen, 31, was charged Tuesday with 16 felony counts involving sex acts with five teenagers younger than 18, none of whom were students in her life skills class.

“I really hope it’s not true, because that would be really sad,” Marrisa Byers, a student at the high school, told KTLA-TV. “Especially since it’s a special ed teacher, that hits a little bit harder.”

Riverside County prosecutors allege that from May 2012 to May 2013, Hansen committed sexual acts with the teenagers — who were as young as 16 — in her classroom, in a campus utility room, in her vehicle parked near a teenager's home and at the home of another teenager.

Hansen, who has taught at Centennial for nearly five years, was arrested in June after Corona police conducted an initial investigation. Detectives allege that the teacher rewarded one of the boys with sex for winning a baseball game.

She has been on administrative leave.

“I’ve seen her around and heard she was a really nice lady. And just to hear something like that is almost heartbreaking,” student Austin Farris told KTLA.

Parents and friends, though, have rallied around Hansen and questioned the accusers' motives. Some have even claimed Hansen’s Facebook page was hacked to make it appear that she “liked” the movie “Bad Teacher.”

Prosecutors could seek up to 13 years in prison for Hansen if she is convicted of all the charges. Hansen's attorney, David Cohn, denied that Hansen broke any laws.

Hansen was scheduled to be arraigned on the charges Thursday.

Meanwhile, Shanda Barnett told KCAL-TV she intends to use the Hansen allegation to talk to her 15-year-old son, who attends the school, about the issue.

“I really think that this is too close to home,” she said.

America's First Sex Manual Has Some 'Interesting' Thoughts On Virginity, Same-Sex Marriage And Female Pleasure

On the internet, there are seemingly endless resources for information about sex -- for better and for worse. But where did Americans get their sex education way, way back in the day? It turns out they read Aristotle's Complete Master-Piece, In Three Parts; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man, a sex manual published in Boston in 1766.

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This "sexy" book was originally published in England in 1684 and then reprinted in the United States 82 years later. A copy of the guide, which Open Culture reports was written by William Salmon (not, in fact, Aristotle), a self-proclaimed English "Professor of Physk," was put up for auction in January of this year after a 200-year-long ban in England.

According to Open Source, the book was one of the most widely circulated publications regarding sex and reproduction in North America at the time, but it certainly lacked scientific basis for many of its claims. For instance, Edinburgh auction house Lyon & Turnbull's book specialist, Cathy Marsden, told HuffPost UK in April that the book warned readers that if a woman became pregnant out of wedlock, she might give birth to an infant covered in hair or Siamese twins.

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The manual's stance on topics like virginity and marriage also reflects the Puritanical era in which it was written. According to Booktryst, Aristotle's Complete Master-Piececontends that virginity is, "the boast and pride of the fair sex," that marriage is meant to be between a man and a woman, and that any sex outside of this context fills "the world with confusion and debauchery, has brought diseases on the body, consumptions on estates, and eternal ruin to the soul, if not repented of."

Interestingly, some parts of the book are shockingly progressive. Marsden told Open Culture:

Sex after a heart attack: why many avoid it

After going through the experience of a life-threatening heart attack, many patients are justifiably terrified of having another — perhaps one they won’t survive — and some avoid sex for this reason. If their doctors took the time to discuss the resumption of sexual activity, however, women recovering from heart attacks have reported in a new study that they’d be far more likely to return to their former sex lives.

Unfortunately, very few cardiologists broach the topic of sex, especially with their female patients, according to research published last week in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers extensively interviewed 17 female heart attack patients and found that very few of their doctors discussed resuming sex unless the women asked directly for guidance.

“These patients told us it would be easier to overcome their fears of sex after having a heart attack if their doctors gave them more information,” said study co-author Stacy Lindau, a gynecologist at the University of Chicago Medicine who specializes in treating sexual dysfunction in people undergoing cancer and other medical treatments.

“Even providing just one sentence of counseling on this issue is so much more than saying nothing and can have a real impact on patient outcomes,” she added.

The new study builds on previous research also conducted by Lindau involving 1,900 heart attack patients who were surveyed about their sex lives after leaving the hospital. That study published last year found that only one-third of women and slightly less than half of men received hospital discharge instructions about resuming sexual activity. Those who didn’t get any advice were 44 percent more likely to report a year later that they still hadn’t resumed intercourse.

The American Heart Association issued landmark recommendations in 2012 advising cardiologists to discuss the resumption of sexual activity with heart attack patients. In the majority of cases, the panel of experts concluded, a heart patient’s risk of having a heart attack during sex was no greater than the risk faced by their peers of the same age without any heart problems.

A number of factors could explain why physicians and nurses fail to follow these recommendations, said Elaine Steinke, a professor of nursing at Wichita State University in Kansas who helped write the 2012 recommendations. “Medical providers may feel embarrassed or not view it as important enough information to include in a conversation before a patient is discharged from the hospital.”

But, she added, doctors can easily fold it into any recommendations they provide on physical activity. The Heart Association guidelines said the stress to the heart during sex is equivalent to climbing two flights of stairs.

New recommendations concerning the specific type of sex counseling doctors should provide are set to be released by the association on Monday.

In the new study, some participants mentioned that their sexual activity was less frequent but that their physical intimacy with their partner — all were in committed relationships — had increased since their heart attack.

Others said having sex after their heart attack was life-affirming and helped them regain a sense of normalcy.

But many also had more fear and anxiety about how their bodies would handle the exertion, getting worried if their heart starting racing during foreplay. Spouses worried too. One woman said she had to convince her husband that she “wouldn’t die in bed.”

Another said she didn’t resume sex because she lost her libido, a side effect she attributed to the antidepressants she started taking to manage depression following her heart attack.

“Any sort of invasive procedure on any part of the body has the potential to affect someone’s sexual function,” Lindau said. “If a healing wound is painful, patients will be more protective of that part of the body and avoid putting pressure on it, which may require new positions for sexual intercourse.”

While cardiologists may not want to delve into this much detail with their heart attack patients, they should make referrals to health care providers who do, Lindau emphasized.

“We’ve seen from this study and previous ones that patients — especially women — who aren’t counseled about sex after a heart attack are less likely to resume it,” Steinke said. “These findings are a call for health care providers to do more. They must make this part of a routine practice.”

Same-Sex Couple Marries Outside Philly Despite Ban

A suburban Philadelphia woman who tied the knot with her longtime partner Sunday with a county marriage license despite the commonwealth's ban on same-sex marriage said it was the day "that every committed couple waits for."

Dee Spagnuolo, 39, and Sasha Ballen, 38, were married at their Wynnewood home — with their three young children playing roles in the hastily arranged ceremony — after receiving a license from officials in Montgomery County.

"We're excited — we've been waiting for this day for a very long time," said Spagnuolo by phone as she sat in her kitchen with a friend doing her hair for the ceremony.

The ceremony was the latest to take place in the county where officials began issuing licenses last week — licenses that could be ruled invalid if officially challenged, although so far no such court challenges have been announced — in defiance of a 1996 state law defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

"It wasn't planned, it wasn't political — it was purely out of love," she said. "This is a day that every committed couple waits for."

Spagnuolo, who met Ballen 21 years ago during their first days at Bowdoin College said, she was grateful to the local officials who granted the license "for deciding that they wanted and needed to be on the right side of history."

The licenses issued Wednesday in Montgomery County are believed to be the first to same-sex couples in Pennsylvania, the only northeastern state without same-sex marriages or civil unions. State law also says same-sex marriages, even ones entered legally elsewhere, are void in Pennsylvania.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit this month asking a federal judge to overturn the law. But before resolution of the suit, officials in the affluent and increasingly Democratic county signaled that they would grant same-sex licenses.

Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman, a Republican, said Wednesday evening that a same-sex marriage license isn't legally valid in Pennsylvania, but she said it's not her place to intervene. Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane, though, has said that she will not defend the ban, leaving any defense to Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's office. A spokesman for Corbett said county office-holders are required to uphold the law but did not say if the governor would challenge the marriages.

In other states with same-sex marriage bans, licenses issued by defiant local officials have been voided by courts.

Spagnuolo cited polls indicating a steady decline in the percentage of Pennsylvania residents opposing gay marriage, and she believes acceptance has already reached a "tipping point."

"I think we, as a society, will look back at this period of time and sort of ask ourselves 'What was the issue here?' — if we're not already doing that," she said.

Spagnuolo said she believes that more and more couples coming forward to get married has helped reduce opposition as people see how ordinary they are.

"We're a pretty regular family; we live behind a white picket fence. We drive a minivan," she said. "We spend Saturdays at T-ball and gymnastics classes. There's really nothing too exciting going on here."

Another couple, Alicia Terrizzi and Loreen Bloodgood of Pottstown, married immediately after receiving a license from the county last week, exchanging vows in a park before a minister and their two young sons.

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