More Male Prostitutes than Females in Sweden

More young men than women selling sex in Sweden

Some 1.5 percent of young men and women aged 16-25 in Sweden — where it’s legal to sell sex but illegal to buy — have had sex for payment, according to anew report by the Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs.

The study also showed that more men than women are having sex for payment, such as money, alcohol, drugs or shelter. 2.1 percent of men and 0.8 percent of women claim to have sold sex.

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Oldest Javelins Predate Modern Humans, Raise Questions on Evolution

Oldest Javelins Predate Modern Humans, Raise Questions on Evolution

The oldest stone-tipped projectile weapons date to 280,000 years, study says

The oldest known stone-tipped projectiles have been discovered in Ethiopia. The javelins are roughly 280,000 years old and predate the earliest known fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, by about 80,000 years.

These javelins are some 200,000 years older than previous examples of similar weapons, suggesting that modern humans and their extinct relatives had the know-how to create these sorts of complex thrown projectiles much earlier than often thought.

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