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Argentina : First Country in Latin America to Legally Recognise Gay Marriage

City of Buenos Aires , Argentina Gay couples celebrates victory in Argentina . They are now given same rights enjoyed by their heterosexual counterparts including adopting children after the country legalised same-sex marriage last Thursday, 15 July 2010. The unprecedented legislation passed despite intense opposition by the Roman Catholic Church .  Argentina is known to be predominantly Catholic nation. The vote is  33 to 27  with three abstentions. With this, Argentina became the first country in Latin America to legally recognise gay marriage. While same-sex civil unions are recognised in Buenos Aires, parts of Mexico and Brazil and in Uruguay , no other Latin American country prior to Argentina had allowed gay and lesbian couples to marry. Argentina now joins nine other countries in the world where same-sex marriage is legal, including Belgium , Canada , Iceland , Netherlands , Norway , Portugal , South Africa , Spain , and Sweden . In the United State...

Would You Sell Your Virginity For $45,000 dollars To A Stranger?

To a young  New Zealand teenager, the answer is YES! She auctioned off her virginity to a stranger for over $45,000 to fund her university tuition fees according to a New Zealand  news headline story .  The 19-year-old Northland student, who listed her virginity to an unpopular auction website  ineed.co.nz , even thanked more than 30,000 people who viewed her ad and to the more than 1200 offers made. Is this a growing trend? Are teenagers resorting to a high class prostitution taking advantage of the advancing technology and the obscure legality of prositution? Earlier this year, In the United States, a Fox News Sto ry reported a 22-year-old woman, Natalie Dylan,  is selling her virginity online — offering her body to bidders nationwide in an auction that reportedly has netted a $3.7 million offer — and the law isn't doing a thing to stop her. Then another teenager   Alina Percea , 18, in the United Kingdon auctioned he...