{"id":3075,"date":"2009-09-30T09:35:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T13:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2009-09-30T09:35:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T13:35:38","slug":"science-marches-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3075","title":{"rendered":"Science Marches On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surgery to create an artificial hymen and &#8220;restore&#8221; virginity has been around for a while now and is particularly popular in Japan.  Now the Japanese have devised an even cheaper alternative: A $14.99 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigimo.com\/main\/product\/Artificial,Virginity,Hymen,2299.php?prod=2299\">gadget<\/a> which is inserted about 20 minutes before intercourse.  It expands to create a &#8220;tight feeling&#8221; and releases a blood-like fluid.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional religious sorts are extremely displeased with this idea and Egypt is <a href=\"http:\/\/carnalnation.com%2Fcontent%2F32738%2F4%2Fhymen-glyphics-egypt-pop-fake-virgins\">considering the death penalty<\/a> for anyone caught importing the product.<\/p>\n<p>I sort of love that scientific advances&#8211;even silly ones like this&#8211;are slowly prying loose the stranglehold that fundamentalist religion has on human thought.  Also the thought of an Egyptian hymen cartel makes me giggle.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weirduniverse.net\/blog\/\">Weird Universe<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgery to create an artificial hymen and &#8220;restore&#8221; virginity has been around for a while now and is particularly popular in Japan. Now the Japanese have devised an even cheaper alternative: A $14.99 gadget which is inserted about 20 minutes before intercourse. It expands to create a &#8220;tight feeling&#8221; and releases a blood-like fluid. Traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}