Ten years after their original best-selling nude calendar, the Calendar Girls from Leeds, England, have released a second edition to raise money for leukemia research. Their first exhibition, which came about after Miss August's husband died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, inspired the film Calendar Girls.

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Nobody likes to answer a phone call from a bill collector. But imagine you're a rape victim, and that bill is for your rape kit — the invasive procedure conducted to collect DNA evidence.

Across the US, authorities drag their feet when it comes to using DNA evidence to prosecute rape. In LA County, 12,669 such rape kits sit in storage. But in Texas it's worse. Rape victims receive delinquent bills from the hospital and phone calls from creditors demanding they pay thousands of dollars for evidence collection. The bills present a financial burden, but they also serve a second dose of trauma for victims trying to heal.

Shockingly, a shortage of funds does not motivate the policy. The Texas crime victim compensation fund has a large surplus that could cover the costs. In addition, the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program, named after a victim whose assailant wasn't arrested for six years thanks to an untested kit, offers generous federal funding for rape kit testing.

Since it's not for a lack of money, what's happening in Texas offers troubling evidence that society does not consider rape a serious crime.

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What can't a sex worker do? They can be sci-fi geeks, own cats, and really, really, really love bacon.

But in all seriousness, this "I Am a Sex Worker" video, says sex workers are people who live lives as ordinary as ours. They're not, necessarily, the stumbling ladies of the night I see in the middle of the day on the seedier streets of San Francisco.

With sex workers organizing, fund-raising, and releasing public service announcements, I do wonder how far off the legalization of prostitution is. Would you support it?

"Sorry, I'm bored."

—Amy Winehouse, before wandering off stage during a performance at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival. The concert was plagued by bad weather, and according to some sources, Winehouse's inability to remember lyrics to her own songs.

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I got out of a three-year relationship about two years ago. I have since dated half of LA. I'm getting wary of dating. Rarely have I been on a date where both of us liked the other — either I get interested or the guy does — and rejecting someone is about as much fun as being rejected.

I am starting to see a pattern: the guys will come on strong and chase me until I resist and when I kind of seem to get interested, the guys just vanish. Whether I tell them I'm interested or not interested — they vanish. I'm at a point where I'm too scared of going on dates for fear I'm going to scare people away. What do I do?

— Almost Too Scared to Date

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