This unique experience was brought to realization by one of the leaders of adult digital online entertainment, Somavision LLC., which has also released such titles as Pinktropics, Digamour, 3DPlaything, and Sex Station 7.

“This is the first game that weâ’ve made for a gay audience and weâ’re very excited to see how it is accepted. With each iteration of our games we strive to push the envelope both technically and thematically”, states lead designer Mike Huxley. In BumTropics® Somavision Studios takes their unique brand of computer entertainment to a new level by mixing gay themes depicting near photorealistic 3d actors with an action oriented video games.

“We received a lot of great feedback from our last title, Digamour. So we improved upon that base to create a great new experience that will appeal to casual sex gamers as well as hardcore ones”, says Huxley, “Our primary focus with our games is always to create an involving and immersive sexual experience for the player, regardless if that experience is design to appeal to gay or straight gamers”. BumTropics® has also partnered with The Pinko #1 selling interactive sex toy to create a truly unique game play experience.

“We’re really excited to partner with the team at The Pinko. It creates a unique opportunity to interact with our game and feel it will add immeasurably to the overall experience”, says Somavision CFO Travis Mitchell.

BumTropics is now available online at www.bumtropics.com and installs on your windows based PC.

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â’My dad was using portable urinals in the living room because my mother had blocked his access to the bathroom,â’ Nelson says. â’I got really concerned.â’

Nelson searched the Web and read about hoarding. Someone who hoards collects items with limited or no value, such as newspapers and trash, and then is unable to discard them, she learned. Entire rooms become filled with clutter and homes are left with narrow pathways to walk through.

People who engage in hoarding put themselves and neighbors in danger, say experts at the University of Michigan Health System. Their living conditions can present a fire hazard and are often unsanitary and unsafe. Hoarders face the real prospect of becoming buried under an avalanche of trash. Treating hoarding is difficult because people who suffer from it often don’t see the squalor they live in as a problem.

â’We all collect, we all save,â’ says James L. Abelson, M.D., Ph.D., an anxiety disorders expert in the U-M Department of Psychiatry. â’We apply the term â’˜hoardâ’ when itâ’s a more extreme version of acquiring and not discarding.â’

It is believed hoarding afflicts one- to one-and-a-half million people in the United States, Abelson says. Hoarders, he says, succumb to forces within their brains such that the overflowing garbage in their homes isnâ’t seen or isnâ’t experienced as distressing, Abelson says.

â’Whatever they see in terms of clutter doesnâ’t seem to matter to them,â’ Abelson says. â’What matters is the fact that these things have importance to them and the loss of these things would trigger distress.â’ Those who suffer the most are family members of hoarders, he adds. â’I have heard stories of hoarders whose children took to the streets in their teens because there was no more room in the home for them.â’

Children suffer because they canâ’t have friends over, they have a sense of embarrassment, and they have some confusion about what is and isnâ’t normal behavior, he says. U-M researchers who have studied animals like squirrels that â’˜hoardâ’ food for the winter are now using insights from that work to study hoarding behavior and its neurobiology in humans.

Why people save to the point where it becomes maladaptive is the kind of question that can be applied to every psychiatric disorder because they are all exaggerations of adaptive traits, he says. Hoarding is challenging and frustrating to treat, he says.

â’There are no simple drugs that have an impact on it,â’ he says. Therapy is helpful but challenging because it requires the person who needs treatment to be highly motivated. We basically set up a program of practice so that they can become desensitized to reduce the amount of pain they experience when they let go of objects,â’ Abelson says. â’If we make sufficient progress with that, we can help them ultimately clean out their homes, but itâ’s a very challenging process.â’

If someone wants to help a person who hoards, they first need to assess if the person is willing to talk to a professional. â’If cooperation can be obtained, itâ’s much more likely to lead to a positive and successful outcome.â’

For more information on hoarding :: http://www.ocfoundation.org/hoarding/

• Men are increasingly interested in an educated woman who is a good financial prospect and less interested in chastity.
• Women are increasingly interested in a man who wants a family and less picky about whether he’s always Mr. Nice Guy.

That’s according to a study by University of Iowa sociologists Christine Whelan and Christie Boxer. They analyzed results of a 2008 survey of more than 1,100 undergraduates at the UI, the University of Washington, the University of Virginia and Penn State University, comparing the results to past mate-preference studies.

Since the 1930s, researchers have been asking college students to rank a list of 18 characteristics they’d prefer in a mate from “irrelevant” (0) to “essential” (3), allowing for a comparison of mate preferences dating back three generations. And my, how times have changed: Today’s young adults rank love and attraction as most important; a few generations ago it didn’t even make the top three.

“Marriage used to be a practical arrangement. Getting married for love or attraction was considered foolish and perhaps even dangerous,” said Whelan, author of “c” and a visiting assistant professor of sociology in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

In the 1930s male respondents were seeking a dependable, kind lady who had skills in the kitchen. Chastity was more important than intelligence.

Now, guys look for love, brains and beauty — and a sizable salary certainly sweetens the deal. Men ranked “good financial prospect” No. 12 in 2008, a significant climb from No. 17 in 1939 and No. 18 in 1967.

“These results are consistent with the rise in educational and career opportunities for women, and men’s increasing desire to share the financial burdens with a future spouse,” Whelan said.

Chastity — which men ranked at No. 10 in 1939 — fell to dead last in 2008.

“When we administered the survey, several female students snickered at the idea that we even included the chastity item,” Whelan said. “This is consistent with the widespread hook-up culture on college campuses.”

For women of the 1930s, emotional stability, dependable character and ambition ranked as the top three characteristics they wanted in a man. Attraction and love didn’t come in until No. 5. Today, women, like men, put love at the top of the list, with dependability and emotional stability rounding out the top three characteristics in Mr. Right.

Women rate desire for home and children much higher in importance than men do. In 2008, women rated desire for home and children fourth men ranked it ninth.

Women ranked “pleasing disposition” as significantly less important in 2008 than they have ever before. Pleasing disposition — presumably interpreted to mean being a nice guy — fell from a steady ranking of No. 4 throughout the second half of the 20th Century to a significantly lower rank of No. 7 in 2008.

“Perhaps this means women will be more forgiving if the guy forgets chocolates and flowers on Saturday, as long as he meets the other requirements,” quipped Whelan. “But this might also point to a change in vocabulary. ‘Pleasing disposition’ is a very old-fashioned phrase that might not be the most accurate measure of the modern preferences.”

Whelan and Boxer, a UI graduate student, clustered their findings into rough categories of essential, important, desirable and unimportant characteristics. Groupings were compiled using the natural breakpoints in the value continuum for the statistical means. (For more on Whelan’s relationship research, visit http://www.readmarrysmart.com.)

What Men Want

Essential characteristics:

• Mutual attraction and love.
• Dependable character.
• Emotional stability.

Important characteristics:

• Education and intelligence.
• Good looks.
• Ambition.

Desirable characteristics:

• Good financial prospect.
• Good cook and housekeeper.

Unimportant characteristics:

• Similar political background.
• Chastity.

What Women Want

Essential characteristics:

• Mutual attraction and love.
• Dependable character.
• Emotional stability.

Important characteristics:

• Education and intelligence.
• Desire for home and children.
• Ambition.

Desirable characteristics:

• Good looks.
• Refinement.

Unimportant characteristics:

• Similar political background.
• Chastity.

Personal Thoughts

Soapbox Issue One : Only in the United States does the issue of become so heterosexual.  Pick up a Canadian, European or even a South American country and surveys, research and articles about relationship are not so male/female centric.  What about what a Gay man or woman look for in a relationship? I guess in a survey of over 1100 college student there were no gay or openly gay applicants?  That is hard to believe.  I guess the GLBT community doesn’t count.

Soapbox Issue Two : Are you the same person when you were 18-22?  Majority of us can actually say no (and be proud of our personal growth).  Since when is college a definitive time in decision making?  Isn’t college about finding and defining ourselves?   What is important to a person who is under 22 is going very different than those who are in their 30′s, 40′s, 50′s, 60′s and above.

Soapbox Issue Three : Put 35,000 young men and women together … most who never lived away from parental supervision ever before what do you think is going to happen?  I am not saying that college is full of sex fiends, but even in a conservative college like Messiah, Eastern and even Bob Jones people find a way to “get it on”.  I went to two conservative colleges and there was allot of bodily fluid being passed.

Soapbox Issue Four : University of Washington, the University of Virginia and Penn State University do not make a survey.  That is like taking San Francisco, New York and Chicago to survey lifestyle choices.  Last time I watched television, late at night, “Girls Gone Wild” did not happen with college girls from Georgetown University, I mean who would dare to hinder any serious political career with a topless, girl on girl action, drunk video tape emerge while on the campaign trail?

Bottom Line

This survey is just what heterosexual college kids think, not representing Male/Female opinions of even .0001% of the US population.  I guess we now know where the real party schools are located : University of Washington, the University of Virginia and Penn State University; transfer or apply asap if you are horny little teenager.

The study examines the link between sex and mental health â’“ found that undesirable gay men face stigmatization, avoidance and outright rejection, which can lead to depression, anxiety and alcohol abuse. It also highlighted cases whereby undesirable gay men will forgo safe-sex discussion and, in some cases, condom use, in the context of sex with a more attractive partner.

â’We tend to devalue sexual life as something that is extracurricular and frivolous, but this research shows a significant link between sexual desirability and health,â’ says Green. â’Men with low levels of â’˜erotic capitalâ’ are systematically marginalized, which can take a real toll both physically and psychologically.â’

For more information on the study, published in the current edition of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, please contact: Adam Isaiah Green, Assistant Professor of Sociology: 416-978-8261 or AdamIsaiah.Green@utoronto.ca

Personal Note

This study deserves a duh!   Everyone knows that those who have a lower self esteem  . . . tend to do anything to please the other.    I remember having this same conversation with a friend questioning (over nine years ago) sexuality and self esteems. We not only discussed the number of gay individuals trying to live hetrosexual lives and the number of straight individuals who are trying to live homo/bi sexual lives.

My friend said, “There are people that are too ugly that the only way they get sex is to do anything. Even go gay for a lay.”

How mental stability always goes into question and the direct link to their choices.  The basic need to be love and to be wanted has not only hindered their decision making process but leads lives that are just lies.  There too many people who are living unhappy lives.

If you are unhappy, make the appropriate change and learn that it is ok to be alone for the right reasons.

â’Today weâ’re beginning this sexperiment, seven days of sex,â’ he said, with his characteristic mix of humor, showmanship and Scripture. â’How to move from whining about the economy to whoopee!â’

(New York Times)

Personal Thoughts

It takes heterosexuals to only think about sex and the only solution about marriage is more f*cking.  Forget talking, stronger communication, spending time together in an activity, or even bowling.  All those emotional connections that help build a stronger sex life . . . foolish. Just f*ck?

If you think for one moment that your marriage will be better with more sex … you are foolish.

Sex is important.  That is what defines the difference between friendship and lovers.  Sex is NOT the bond that holds a marriage together if it did then explain the bond of those marriages (for medical reasons or other reasons) that have limited sex?  Can it be an emotional commitment?  Can is be more that a fancy of a 14 year old mistaking love for affection?  When we are young we do not know the difference between love, hormones and affection.  That is why when we were young simply hand holding accelerated our heartbeats and now as adults it is a flattering form of affection.  We grow older understanding the difference. Doesn’t maturity define love and commitment beyond f*cking?  I believe it does.

Marriage and Commitment is more than procreation and sex. It is a bond that can be broken even in a sexually active marriage.  A bond called love.

That is why religious zealots, like Mr. Young and his followers, will never understand the true meaning of love between two committed same-sex partners.  It is the evangelical “christian” who are obsessed with sex, who is having it, how, when and with whom.  For evangelical “christians” it is all about sex.

Maybe that is why I see so many unhappy married “christian” woman . . . pity them, I do.