We all evolve from curious 15 year old giggling on the slight mention of "Sex" to flamboyant young women who over the years have received gyan from magazines and "experienced" friends. However, sex is a never ending topic for discussion. Just when you think you've aced it you realized that's not all there is to it. 

False information about sex is available everywhere now. In the papers, your bedroom, on the streets. If you had the same doubts and had plans of asking them out loud, here are a few less embarrassing way to dispel all doubts. 

1. Size matters: Is it a universal law that what's bigger has to be better? Do you feel the intensity of your pleasure depends on the size of his organ? Wrong. Only about 4 centimetres (external one third) of the vaginal canal contains sensory nerves for arousal and orgasms. So why waste time trying to stimulate the internal two thirds of the vaginal canal when there's not going to be any response? Focus your attention to more important matters, women! 

2. Love foods or aphrodisiacs will get you "tingly": Pigging out on oysters and strawberries to spice up your sex life? Sorry to break your bubble women, it's nothing but a placebo effect. As in, if people believe oysters and chocolate are supposed to be sexually stimulating foods, they very well might become aroused after consuming them. Aphrodisiacs have no provable affect on the libido. 

3. Men think more about sex than women: Don't blame the sex game on the men. Women think about sex as much as a man does. If you're an 18 year old with raging hormones then there are chances you might be sleeping, eating and dreaming sex. After a certain age, men and women's sexual urges mellows a bit. And it's a complete no-no to weigh out sexual prowess. To each man his own. This also doesn't mean that only men make the first move for sex. Women do too! And nothing can be more turning on for the man than a woman in control. 

4. The withdrawal method won't get you knocked up: All it takes is a tiny sperm to get you pregnant. And that can happen through pre-ejaculation also. Most pregnancies happen because of the withdrawal method. This isn't a fool proof plan so heads up! 

5. Women don't like porn: Not all women want rose petals on their bed. And not all women want to be whisked away into a gentle world of "love-making". Women enjoy pornography too. And if anyone thought only men can conjure up fantasies, then you are definitely misguided. 

6. You won't get pregnant if you have sex while menstruating: Wrong! This is a long standing myth that most people believe in. It is unlikely that a woman will get pregnant while menstruating but not impossible. Sperms can stay alive inside you for several days, especially if you have a shorter cycle. 

7. An orgasm for women is supposed to be earth shattering and if not so, you're not normal: Myth, myth and 100% myth. Some women have orgasms and don't know about it. Pelvic muscles don't contract as much for some women however after a point of arousal they do feel relaxed and content. So if he failed to "rock" your world, then don't panic. You're still very normal. 

8. Every woman has a G-spot: The alluring mystery of the G-spot. Yes, it's true every woman has a G-spot, but not every woman's G spot is an erogenous zone. So if you've been on a quest to find out the sweet spot, then you're wasting your time. Focus on the other erogenous zones. She'd be so much happier! 

9. If she doesn't make pleasure noises, then she's not enjoying the sex: Some women are vocal, some are not. This doesn't mean she's not enjoying it. Don't expect her to scream out all the time. We know it's an ego boost for you, boys. But it just doesn't work that way. Sometimes, silence is golden. 

Baby found in trash...

A newborn baby was found in a garbage bag that was apparently unloaded from an airplane that landed on Sunday, Sep 12 in Manila from the Middle East, official said.

Security officials brought the baby boy and handed over to hospital where he was examined and cleaned him up, airport officials said.

Airport nurse Kate Calvo said. "He was healthy, his vital signs were OK according to our doctors.''

Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman was enraged by such inhuman acts and asked the police to investigate over the matter and criminally charge infant's mother.

However, if the mother is not found Soliman is said to put the child into adoption centre

Prostitution in Mumbai parlours busted, 11 arrested...

Mumbai: The Crime branch on Saturday, Aug 13 busted sex rackets that were being carried out in four Beauty parlours in Bhayander West.

Acting on a complaint filed against few salons in the area, the Bhayander police launched a search. During their raid on Shringar, Diana, Glow and Lotus parlours at various locations in Indira Market, the police came across several women lending sexual favours on clients who came there seeking "massage".

The cops arrested 11 including few of the clients. The customers have been booked under sections 110 (abetment) and 112 of the IPC. The police said the Diana parlour had a branchin Borivli, which was also recently raided.

Residents of the Indira Market area had lodged a complaint with the police about the prostitution racket after they got suspicious as the parlours stayed open till late at night.

Why are you confused, Mr Kejriwal?.. any problem???

            My Grandfather, especially after he hit the 70s, used to sulk a lot. His expectations from everyone —family, friends, neighbours, even the perpetually edgy mountain hen we kept for her delicious eggs that my uncle used to suck raw after cracking a hole in it with a pin — soared with age. We all loved him and cherished his presence in our lives but, man, could he get cranky. Anna Hazare sometimes reminds me of him.

           The stragglers and stray-arounds who sat uneasily and impatiently with Hazare during his Mumbai protests may just have aggravated his illness. It’s quite possible that he may not have felt so sick had the attendance been thicker and the crowd noisier. He should, of course, have been wiser and pared down his expectation from a city that largely only prostrates before train and trade. Still, that must have hurt.

As if that was not enough, our elders in the Rajya Sabha dumped the proposed Lokpal Bill into the black hole of parliamentary proceedings. Before anyone knew how exactly the tumultuous day of its debate ended, chairman Hamid Ansari suddenly got up at the stroke of midnight, said good night and left. The most painful cut, though, came when the BJP, a party Anna and his team had warmed up to and begun to depend upon to deliver on a strong anti-graft ombudsman, opened its arms to Babu Singh Kushwaha, a tainted minister of the Mayawati cabinet who was first stripped of his post and then of the BSP’s membership. 

In what must be the dumbest and most short-sighted move the BJP had made in recent times — what will it now tell those it was asking not to vote for a “corrupt” Congress? What will be its main political plank for the coming elections, now that it has proven itself to be more opportunistic and welcoming of wrongdoers than any of the UPA members— one of those who got a resounding slap across the face was Anna and his band of the faithful. No wonder Arvind Kejriwal, his confidante and Man Friday, told The Times of India that he was confused and did not know the way ahead.

              But this might just have come at the right moment for Kejriwal & Company. Confusion is not such a bad thing. It often clears cobwebs of the mind after the initial bewilderment. The BJP’s Kushwaha self-infliction will educate Anna and gang better on how to deal with India’s netas. They will learn how to weigh their words, to calibrate with caution and strategize with sense. In any case, they should have distanced themselves from the BJP-RSS— categorically and convincingly— long ago. It may not have brought in the crowds, but it would have multiplied the respect. 

And if they thought one Ramlila would bring in Ram rajya, they needed this pinch in their bottoms to wake them up. They have one great thing, though, going for them right now. It is a generation ready to rock and roll with them — a generation that holds our leaders to standards they have seen, read and heard about in the advanced world; a restless, surging population that doesn’t know the dark days of the licence raj and suffocation of India’s peculiar brand of socialism; a breed that hatched just as the economy opened up, growing up with all the advantages reforms had to offer. A youthful force that is impatient of anything that hinders their progress. And they think it is corruption. What more does Anna want? More cynically, Indians are notoriously sensitive mostly about their own interests, and the pay-per-favour system which blankets our lives these days goes against the fundamental tenets of that very awareness. 

More heartening for the Lokpal army is the fact that very few actually believe street protests compromise either our democracy or Parliament. That is a scam perpetuated by pathological contrarians with blinkers. Governments are falling on the streets now more than ever before. Forget the uprisings of the Arab world, who would have thought Russians and Israelis would swarm their cities asking for respite, change and progress. Who would have thought Burma would actually allow Aung San Suu Kyi to contest elections in an authoritarian regime hurtling so furiously towards democracy that the US says it can’t keep pace with the transformation. 

It’s a long haul, of course. For a country wrapped around the neck in red tape, corruption often is the only way to cut through it. The roadside vendor harassed by the police won’t care if his misery comes to an end with the intervention of a legislator, however sinister and devious he might me. It will also take a mountain to tear away voters from reposing faith in leaders just for being representatives of their caste, community and religion. Change won’t be easy. But when you carry a torch, you should be ready to walk through the dark.

Maya's re-election chances boosted with 7% growth...

Globally, a country is called a miracle economy if it attains 7% GDP growth. The latest member of the 7% growth club is, surprisingly, Uttar Pradesh. This should matter in the coming state election.

UP has long been regarded as incurably feudal, caste-bound and incapable of fast growth. With a population of 200 million, it has dragged down the rest of India. A standard old joke had Nehru telling Jinnah: "You can have Kashmir provided you take UP as well."

Today, politicians and journalists are analyzing UP election prospects largely in terms of caste and religious combinations. They also look at corruption charges, and Mayawati's populist proposal to divide UP into four new states. They don't think economic growth matters.

That could be an error. In the bad old days, promises of economic development were bad jokes, since the state remained an economic laggard. Far more important were caste-based and religion-based reservations in government jobs and educational establishments. Nobody knew or cared about state GDP.

Yet that proved to be a mistake in the last election in Bihar, where too growth was once viewed as an irrelevant joke. When this column broke the news in early 2010 that Bihar had suddenly started growing at 11% under Nitish Kumar, it was greeted with scorn. One grey eminence declared that the growth data were not statistically significant. However, they turned out to be electorally very significant indeed — Nitish Kumar won by a landslide in the state election later that year.

One of the most welcome surprises of the last decade has been the sudden acceleration of GDP in many big backward states that earlier pulled down the rest of India. The Planning Commission estimates that between 2004-05 and 2010-11, Bihar averaged 10.9% growth, Chhattisgarh 9.45%, Orissa 9.47% and Uttar Pradesh 7.01%. In three of these states — Bihar, Orissa and Chhattisgarh, the chief ministers were re-elected. Mayawati must be hoping that she can do the same, although UP lags well behind the other three in growth.

It would be quite wrong to draw any automatic connection between growth and electoral success. The DMK in Tamil Nadu and Left front in Kerala presided over rapid GDP growth too, but were voted out in state elections in 2011. Meanwhile, Assam registered miserable GDP growth, yet Tarun Gogoi was re-elected (thanks largely to his peace accord with Ulfa).

So, growth is only one of many factors. But the same can be said of caste and reservations too. After all, Uttar Pradesh has had the same caste composition for decades, yet parties of all stripes have come to power in the last two decades.

Arvind Virmani, former chief economic advisor, has created an economic model to try and explain electoral trends. This model posits that when growth of GDP per capita is faster in the last five years than the preceding five years, the incumbent will have a better chance of getting re-elected. Conversely, a worsening of the growth rate reduces re-election chances.

This model has had a reasonable, though by no means infallible, track record in the last decade. India's GDP growth slowed between 1997-98 and 2002-03 (because of the Asian financial crisis, global recession and two droughts). In consequence, three-quarters of incumbents lost elections in the early and mid-2000s. The NDA government in 2004 claimed to have created a shining India, yet per capita GDP growth during NDA's tenure was only 3.8% per year against 4.7% in the previous five years. It lost, as predicted by the model. Subsequently, per capita GDP accelerated under UPA-I. It duly won re-election in 2009. Many other incumbent governments won in states with accelerating growth.

In Uttar Pradesh, the first four years of Mayawati's rule yielded per capita GDP growth averaging 4.8% per year. This was twice as high as the 2.3% in the preceding five years (2002-07). This may not be conclusive, but is surely relevant.

Sceptics say that statistics in UP are notoriously unreliable. Few people can sense any sort of economic miracle. Industrialists complain of massive power shortages and government extortion. Road building and real estate have boomed, but corruption is massive. Mayawati has jailed many Yadav goons, but let loose her own. Brahmins who flocked to her in 2007 are now attracted to Rahul Gandhi.

These are the critical issues, say political analysts, not GDP. Maybe. But in a four-cornered contest, tiny factors can swing the vote, and growth is more than tiny. Analysts believe Mayawati is currently well behind the Samajwadi Party, with the Congress and BJP fighting for third place. But if she comes out on top —a big if—7% growth will be the clinching factor

Silver, cash amounting to Rs 90L seized in Rajkot

RAJKOT: Unaccounted cache of silver and cash worth Rs 90 lakh were seized from two Bhavnagar traders, who mysteriously disappeared after landing in Rajkot, giving rise to suspicion of abduction on Tuesday night.
According to police, they received a tip-off about the consignment of silver arriving in two cars near Aji dam and alerted the custom department.
"Both police and custom department officials located the vehicles with given descriptions and unearthed the silver cache. However, there was no sign of traders who had brought the cache, giving rise to suspicion that they were kidnapped," a police official said.
The seized cache include 70 kg silver and Rs 53 lakh cash.