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The sex toy industry continues to grow each year. In fact, it's now valued at 15 billion dollars, but with so much growth comes innovation--and sometimes that innovation is a little scary. Innovation also means the sex toy market is inundated with whole lot of different sex toys. Do you want to have sex with a toy that looks like a foot? No problem. Want to get a strap on made specifically for your forehead? You got it. Need a sex toy that was made with your dog's enjoyment in mind? Oh yeah, it exists. With so many weird toys out there, how do you know what you really want and what you should get? Well luckily for you, I've compiled a short list of some of the go-to toys that every couple should invest in. You can move on to the forehead strap on once you've secured this list... Check out these toys and tell me what you thought I missed.

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  theatlantic:

  Race Didn’t Cost Abigail Fisher Her Spot at the University of Texas

  When the NAACP began challenging Jim Crow laws across the South, it knew that, in the battle for public opinion, the particular plaintiffs mattered as much as the facts of the case. The group meticulously selected the people who would elicit both sympathy and outrage, who were pristine in form and character. And they had to be ready to step forward at the exact moment when both public sentiment and the legal system might be swayed.

  That’s how Oliver Brown, a hard-working welder and assistant pastor in Topeka, Kan., became the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit that would obliterate the separate but equal doctrine. His daughter, whose third-grade innocence posed a searing rebuff to legal segregation, became its face.

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  03/19/13

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  Nonprofit Buys House Across From Westboro Baptist Church, Paints It Rainbow Colored

  Aaron Jackson, one of the founders of charity Planting Peace, decided to purchase a house across from the homophobic Westboro Baptist Church and then paint it the colors of the gay pride flag.

  According to The Huffington Post, the organization purchased the Topeka, Kansas house for roughly $83,000. Planting Peace calls it “Equality House” and is the beginning of a campaign against the hate group.

  “I didn’t know anything about the church or where they were located, but that story kept popping up. And one night I wondered, Where is this church? I got on Google Earth, and I was ‘walking down the road,’ and I did a 360 view. And I saw a ‘For Sale’ sign sitting in the front yard of a house. Right away it hit me, Oh my gosh, I could buy a house in front of the WBC! And immediately I thought: And I’m going to paint that thing the color of the pride flag.”

  Read the full article at The Huffington Post.

  (Photos: Carol Hartsell / Huffington Post)

  
  

  03/19/13

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