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Anatomy of a penis pill scam
From the questionnaire, "This article provided one of the first in-depth examinations of a burgeoning sector of the Internet economy - sale of body-enhancement products of limited or no benefit." The author looked at the company CP Direct, which raked in over $74 million selling pills that, according to the story, did nothing.
Tags: Internet; mail; e-mail; spam; scam; Longitude; body enhancement
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Making the Cut
Ms. Magazine investigates what happens to newborn babies if their bodies do not conform to establish standards for male and female bodies. The magazine discovered it is standard practice for surgeons to perform cosmetic surgery on babies with sexual organs that do not look male or female. "Sometimes clitorises look more like penises. Sometimes the outer labia on a girl baby fuse into a scrotal-looking sac so her genitals may appear almost indistinguishable from a typical newborn baby boy." Doctors sometimes decide to change the sex of newborns simply because their sex organs look more male or more female. Ms. Magazine has found that this practice leads to problems for the babies later in life.
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Arizona Republic reports on an experimental procedure for young sex offenders, which some critics call child abuse; treatment involves placing a ring around the child's penis linked to a computer, showing the child pornographic materials and gauging their sexual arousal with a computer; the child was ordered to inhale ammonia if the response was deemed by researchers to be inappropriate, June - December 1992.
Tags: AZ Young