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Can Masturbating Before Bed Help You Fall Asleep Faster?

Having trouble getting to sleep? Is stress keeping you awake at night? Have melatonin gummies and magnesium supplements failed you? According to new research published in the journal Sexuality & Culture , a classic stress-relieving technique might lead to better sleep. The researchers, needing to maintain an air of respectability, call it “self-pleasure.” You know him better as jerking it, cranking it, beating off, flogging the dolphin, flicking the bean, and whatever other creative way you have of describing masturbation. Researchers at Central Queensland University in Australia surveyed 301 adults about their nighttime habits, sleep quality, emotional well-being, and dream content. Their goal, specifically, was to study how masturbating affects a person’s sense of relaxation, their emotional comfort, their imagination, and their level of intimacy with their own bodies. They found that people who masturbated before going to bed reported having fallen asleep faster, slept ...
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Daily Horoscope: June 18, 2026

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Not every Thursday asks something of you. This one does. Pluto opposing Venus — exact today — has a way of pulling the real story out from under the polished one, and most people will feel it somewhere in their relationships or their finances before the day is out. Hang in there, stargazer, because the morning actually starts steadier than you’d expect: the Moon trining Saturn early gives you more composure than the rest of the day might seem to call for. Use it. Whatever comes up today is asking for the truth, not the version of it you’ve been carefully presenting. The two things aren’t as far apart as you think. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 You got over it a while ago, but the other person doesn’t know that, because you never actually said anything. That’s the thing about moving on at your speed, Aries — you process fast and assume every...
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Beloved Pop-Punk Musician Has ‘Emotional’ Moment on Stage in a Wheelchair With His Band, and It Warms My Millennial Heart

Chad Gilbert recently had an emotional moment on stage, and it as alongtime fan; it just warms my Millennial heart. On June 8, the beloved pop-punk guitarist joined his band, New Found Glory, on stage in Nashville. Due to serious health issues, Gilbert has been using a wheelchair to get around. Not letting that be a deterrent, he whipped out there on his electric chariot and greeted the cheering crowd. Gilbert has not fully toured with New Found Glory in a few years due to battling pheochromocytoma , a rare type of cancerous tumor. Chad Gilbert has remained an active member of New Found Glory throughout his cancer battle Taking to Instagram to share images of his big night, Gilbert offered some perspective on how he was feeling. “Monday was such a special night,” he wrote. “I got to play a show in front of my daughter, something I truly never thought I’d get to do again. And my beautiful wife and all the nurses and doctors, my amazing team that have kept m...
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Daily Horoscope: June 17, 2026

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There’s a lot moving under the surface today, and the feeling hits before the explanation does. Venus opposing Pluto is the engine behind it — things that have been carefully contained have a way of coming back out into the open, and conversations you thought were finished tend to reopen. Don’t fight it, stargazer. The afternoon brings some relief. The Moon connects with both Jupiter and Venus, and what felt charged and exposed this morning starts to loosen up. By the time the evening rolls around, what asked something hard of you today has a funny way of being exactly what you needed. Show up for all of it. Read your horoscope for the week , and see what the stars have in store for your sign today.  Aries: March 21 – April 19 Something that’s been stuck finally isn’t, and your first instinct is going to be to floor it. Very you. But Jupiter sextiling Mars today is an expansion of energy, not a green light to blow past every boundary y...
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Mystikal Receives Sentencing in 2022 Louisiana Rape Case

Louisiana rapper Mystikal, 55, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to rape. The incident dates back to 2022, when one of Mystikal’s female business associates came forward with allegations. She claimed that he had violently attacked her and raped her in his home. He denied the claims initially, but has been held without bond ever since being arrested. He eventually agreed to a plea deal in March 2026. On June 16, he returned to court, according to ABC News local affiliate WBRZ . During the sentencing, Mystikal—whose real name is Michael Tyler—addressed the victim in court. “If I did that to you, I deserve the max sentence,” he said. Mystikal was handed down a sentencing of two decades behind bars, stemming from his March plea deal. If he serves his full sentence, Mystikal will not be released from prison until he’s 75 years old Interestingly, WBRZ also reported that, on June 12, Mystikal filed a motion to withdraw his ...
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3 Hip-Hop Albums of the 2000s With the Most Unusual Crossovers

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The 2000s were already unusual as far as some of the music goes. But here we’re just scratching the surface of totally wack hip-hop crossover albums. The following three albums merged rap and hip-hop with rock through features, mash-ups, and all sorts of surprising collaborations. ‘Collision Course’ by Jay-Z and Linkin Park Collision Course is interesting for more than just being a hip-hop crossover album. By its nature as a mash-up, it transcends collaboration. It also goes further than a typical mash-up. Instead of just editing the existing tracks together, Jay-Z and Linkin Park re-recorded their songs in the studio. This technique resulted in a more natural-sounding mash-up, with all the pieces fitting together nicely. Released in 2004, Collision Course remixed several tracks from Meteora and Hybrid Theory with others from The Black Album, Vol. 2…Hard Knock Life, Vol. 3…Life and Times of S. Carter , and The Blueprint . The al...
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3 Reasons Scientists Think Aliens Stay Away from Earth

Between government document dumps and a Spielberg movie about extraterrestrial life, it’s a good week to believe in aliens. It’s also a good week to reality-check that belief. About a third of the public in the U.S., Australia, and elsewhere now believes aliens are already on Earth, fueled in part by the government’s recent UAP document releases and the new Steven Spielberg film Disclosure Day . Carol Oliver, Professor in Science Communication and Astrobiology at UNSW Sydney, writing in The Conversation , has three reasons why that belief is probably wrong. Space Is Much, Much Bigger Than You’re Imagining Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun, sits roughly 40 trillion kilometers away, 268,000 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. At the speed of our fastest spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe, getting there would take approximately 6,650 years. That’s just the nearest neighbor. Traveling near the speed of light introduces it...
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