For this month’s edition of Hot & Healthy, Marker has spiced things up with a full, 2-course meal with entrée and dessert! Delicious, right? And since it’s summer, below these not one, but two video recipes, you can check out some great sex moves that involve things like pools, beaches and hot tubs!

Summer sex moves from those classy people over at Cosmopolitan:

• Stairway to Heaven
• Ladder Lovin’
• Breakin’ the Waves
• Hot Tub Hug
• Deep Water Dare
• The Randy Raft

Yeah, they’re probably all painfully uncomfortable, but hey, you only live once, right?

For this month’s Hot & Healthy, keep things light, lemony and lovely with Marker’s pasta salad just in time for spring!

And once you try out that salad, get ready to toss her salad with this month’s scandalous sex act. Just please the perineum with your tongue, let things heat up and then indulge in some more pasta salad!

Here’s a mash-up video of the protesters during Gov. Granholm’s State of the State address.

For this month, sauce things up with Marker’s “BOOM Roasted BBQ Sauce.” Check out this Bar-B-Cutie!

To keep things saucy once you’re done indulging with some BBQ pulled pork, check out this sex move from Cosmopolitan, the saucy spoons!  Both partners lie on their side facing the same direction, and the giver enters the receiver from behind.  This position allows the giver’s hands extra access to pleasure the receiver with touching them in all the places that count.

So, it may be just a little after the holidays, but everyone still enjoys some eggnog every now and then, right?  Of course!  So in honor of the season, here’s Nick Lippard’s delectable eggnog french toast.

And to burn off those calories, along with any other calories you inevitably gathered throughout the holiday season, let’s go with a sex move that includes a bit of a French twist!  That’s right, it’s the Eiffel Tower.

So, go ahead and grab those two dear friends of yours and give this thing a go. Simply have one girl in between two guys.  She will be on her hands and knees giving oral sex to the one guy while the other will be satisfying her from behind. The two guys put their hands together into a triangle formation, and voila! French architecture in a sex move.

For this month’s Hot & Healthy, check out Bri’s Fried Cooters!   The perfect treat to set out on the table for a tasty appetizer before the big meal this Thanksgiving.  I mean, everybody loves Cheerios, so why not fry them up and sprinkle them with salt?  Sounds strange, yes, but let this video demonstration convince you:

And once you’re done nibbling on your Cooters, try this circular (get it? Cheerios are circular, too) sex position with your partner!

It’s THE DRAGON:

The receiver lies on their stomach with arms raised above their head with a pillow placed under their pelvis for the sake of comfort.  With the receiver’s legs spread slightly, the giver imitates the receiver’s position on top of them and slides on inside.  Instead of thrusting, the receiver starts a circular, swirling motion.  Why?

Well, according to the reliable source of Cosmopolitan in such matters, it just feels better.  The subtle motions will also delay the giver’s climax, and the receiver can even swirl their hips a bit to increase the impact of that sensual swirling motion.

Saddle up for this month’s Hot & Healthy with Food Network’s Paula Dean and her pumpkin bars just in time for Halloween.  And then burn off those calories and get in the spirit of costuming and role-playing with this month’s cowgirl sex position.

PUMPKIN BARS:

What you’ll need—

Bars:

• 4 eggs
• 1 2/3 cups granulated sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 15-ounce can pumpkin
• 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

Icing:

• 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
• 2 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions—

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Using an electric mixer at medium speed, combine the eggs, sugar, oil and pumpkin until light and fluffy. Stir together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and baking soda. Add the dry ingredients to the pumpkin mixture and mix at low speed until thoroughly combined and the batter is smooth. Spread the batter into a greased 13 by 10-inch baking pan. Bake for 30 minutes. Let cool completely before frosting. Cut into bars.

To make the icing: Combine the cream cheese and butter in a medium bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the sugar and mix at low speed until combined. Stir in the vanilla and mix again. Spread on cooled pumpkin bars.

THE COWGIRL:

The receiver kneels astride the giver and leans forward on their arms while the giver is laid back. There you can nail that g-spot with the perfect control of penetration.

You leave your dorm room while your roommate and their significant other are just hanging out. You come back only to find various clothing articles, including underwear, sprawled on the couch, by your desk and everywhere else in the room. Turns out they are in the shower together. Your roommate pleads with you afterward telling you they promise there was no sex happening in there. This leaves you only the option to believe that they had done it on the couch beforehand.

Has anything similar to this happened to you before? The stories you read above are true stories of an unfortunate MSU freshman who got to know the term “sexiled” a little more intimately than she would have preferred. Urban Dictionary defines sexiled as “exiling your roommate (usually in a college setting) from his/her room so that you can engage in sexual activity without voyeurism.”

There is no official policy against sexiling because as long as it is sex with consent, nothing can really be done by a faculty member or an RA in the hall. It comes down to a conflict needing to be resolved strictly between roommates. More often than not, however, it is a situation that results in the roommate who’s being sexiled just silently dealing with it. Professor Andrew Barclay, a retired psychology professor from MSU who has been nicknamed Dr. Sex, disagrees with there being no policy.

Sophomore math major Brianne Schultz found preventing sexiling an easy feat. “I go into the hallway to talk on the phone, and [my boyfriend] comes over when [my roommate] isn’t there. Problem solved,” Schultz said.

Lauren Deitz, a freshman biosystems engineering major, feels the effects of living with a roommate who’s in a relationship, but not in the same sense. Is it possible for a single person in such a living situation to feel even more single? “She is really considerate of me and only has [her boyfriend] over when I’m not there,” Deitz said. That, however, still doesn’t prevent her from feeling the effects. “It makes me feel bad when they’re talking on the phone every night,” Deitz said.

“The person you live with has moods that affect the observer’s attitudes,” Barclay said. “If your roommate is always euphoric, it tends to piss you off, especially if your life is not so good.” The same goes for roommates who are affected by the person they’re living with being in a relationship. “This argues for keeping the relationship out of the room even though letting it in is convenient for the person ‘in love,’” he said. 

Maria Bianchi, a sophomore in political theory and constitutional democracy, looks on the brighter side and relates her roommate’s relationship to any other.

As Sundberg puts, “It’s not like my roommate never has girls over, either.”

You leave your dorm room while your roommate and their significant other are just hanging out. You come back only to find various clothing articles, including underwear, sprawled on the couch, by your desk and everywhere else in the room. Turns out they are in the shower together. Your roommate pleads with you afterward telling you they promise there was no sex happening in there. This leaves you only the option to believe that they had done it on the couch beforehand.
Your roommate has their significant other over during exam week only to sit in the room whispering dirty talk to one another while you are attempting to study.
Your roommate and their significant other plan on having a hot, steamy birthday weekend, and you overhear the talk about sexy lingerie. It was supposed to be in the significant other’s dorm room. Turns out it wasn’t. Without your permission. They were fulfilling each other’s sexual fantasies in the room you share with this person.
Has anything similar to this happened to you before? The stories you read above are true stories of an unfortunate MSU freshman who got to know the term “sexiled” a little more intimately than she would have preferred. Urban Dictionary defines sexiled as “exiling your roommate (usually in a college setting) from his/her room so that you can engage in sexual activity without voyeurism.” [sundberg]
There is no official policy against sexiling because as long as it is sex with consent, nothing can really be done by a faculty member or an RA in the hall. It comes down to a conflict needing to be resolved strictly between roommates. More often than not, however, it is a situation that results in the roommate who’s being sexiled just silently dealing with it. Professor Andrew Barclay, a retired psychology professor from MSU who has been nicknamed Dr. Sex, disagrees with there being no policy.
“If college-age people can’t deal with the selfishness or moral conflicts of a roommate who is using their sex-life as blackmail to keep you out of your own room, colleges have to act in loco parentis to protect the rights of the weak or the shy,” Barclay said. “It is good practice to confront the roommate about taking over a space that is only half theirs.” He even goes as far as to say that definite action should be taken if a student is being repeatedly sexiled.
“MSU should provide them with a new room without charge for the semester so they can get a new room (roommate) the next,” he said. “People who are that self-centered don’t get it and, better yet, will have to learn from their own bad choices.”
Mechanical engineering sophomore Erik Sundberg said he disapproves of the idea and makes sure that whenever his girlfriend comes over, his roommate doesn’t feel uncomfortable. Because with being sexiled, “You wander aimlessly around the hall wondering if you left any of your stuff on the futon that will have to get thrown in the wash once you get the OK to return to your own room,” he said. “I wouldn’t feel comfortable asking him [a roommate] to leave.”
Sophomore math major Brianne Schultz found preventing sexiling an easy feat. “I go into the hallway to talk on the phone, and [my boyfriend] comes over when [my roommate] isn’t there. Problem solved,” Schultz said. [levin]
Lauren Deitz, a freshman biosystems engineering major, feels the effects of living with a roommate who’s in a relationship, but not in the same sense. Is it possible for a single person in such a living situation to feel even more single? “She is really considerate of me and only has [her boyfriend] over when I’m not there,” Deitz said. That, however, still doesn’t prevent her from feeling the effects. “It makes me feel bad when they’re talking on the phone every night,” Deitz said.
Even the freshman with the roommate horror stories who wishes to remain anonymous feels those same effects of living with someone who’s in a relationship. “I felt lonelier… [even though] the situation was so annoying,” she said.
Barclay said that any situation one roommate is in affects the other roommate indirectly.
“The person you live with has moods that affect the observer’s attitudes,” Barclay said. “If your roommate is always euphoric, it tends to piss you off, especially if your life is not so good.” The same goes for roommates who are affected by the person they’re living with being in a relationship. “This argues for keeping the relationship out of the room even though letting it in is convenient for the person ‘in love,’” he said.
[sexiled]Maria Bianchi, a sophomore in political theory and constitutional democracy, looks on the brighter side and relates her roommate’s relationship to any other.
“I am extremely lucky in that I’ve never been asked to leave by my roommate,” Bianchi said. “I don’t think…that having a roommate in a relationship impacts me any more than having friends in relationships.” And one good part of living with someone in a relationship? Sometimes they go to their partner’s place. “It means I get the room to myself more often, which is kind of nice,” she said. But while she has it good now, she admits to having been sexiled before. “Last year I was in a different living situation, and so I am familiar with the term,” she said.
Geoff Levin, a sophomore majoring in international relations, finds himself in the exact opposite situation.
“In a way, I often feel that I have two roommates rather than one,” Levin said. That’s because his roommate has his girlfriend over to spend the night on an average of five nights a week. Levin, however, doesn’t mind. “I have been in relationships before, so I understand where he is coming from,” he said.

If indeed you are planning on sexiling your roommate, sexiled interviewees offer these tips:
-Come up with some sort of code such as something discrete to post or hang on the door that allows your roommate to know what’s going out without announcing it to the entire hallway.
-Set some ground rules early on such as how often, what’s appropriate, and under what conditions.
-Scope out any other possibilities before crashing in the dorm room. Is there any other possible place to go that wouldn’t disrupt your roommate?
-Don’t make it inconvenient by bringing someone over on a weekday or stumbling in at 3 am.

Now, all of these tips wouldn’t necessarily relate to those MSU students described above who are in uniquely convenient situations. The above list would be more for those on the brink of running into the disasters initially described by the anonymous freshman.

On the flip side, if you feel like you’re about to be sexiled, prepare yourself in these ways:
-Pack up some stuff to entertain yourself for a while, like your laptop or homework.
-Start calling your nearby friends asking for a place to stay for a while or for the night, depending on the severity of the situation.
-If worse comes to worst, find a comfy dorm lobby to settle yourself in until you think it’s safe to return to your room.
-If you’re camping out in the area, check the room every so often to see if it’s locked or if there still seems to be breathing inhabitants inside, but do it ever so discretely.

Whether you find yourself on the side of sexiler or the sexiled, it is a sticky situation that can actually be handled in a civil manner. The best advice is to simply talk to your roommate about it, even as potentially awkward as that sounds. It really is a two-way street when it comes down to it as both parties may become the sexiled or sexiler at one point in time.
As Sundberg puts, “It’s not like my roommate never has girls over, either.”

What started off being quietly referred to as SMS messaging has exploded into a defining feature of our generation and prompted an expansion of text messaging plans among wireless providers. But how else is texting affecting us? The line becomes blurred in considering whether or not texting has become a necessity or remains a mere convenience in daily lifestyles, especially among students.
There is debate over whether texting has become an integral part of the current generation or if it has underlying negative effects on our overall communication.
[phone]“Generations change, and we live in a fast world,” said biochemistry sophomore Chris Beiser. According to the CTIA Wireless Association, around 79 percent of all teenagers have a cell phone — a 36 percent increase from 2005. The demographic of high school and college students now are being considered the mobile generation, “Gen M,” a generation that relies more and more on devices that provide mobility, and a generation that will shape the way mobile devices are continually used and advanced in the future. A study done by CTIA also shows that in June 2000, only 12.2 million SMS messages were sent, as opposed to 75 billion messages in June 2008.
So what is it about texting that is so popular among teenagers now? According to a research study conducted by Carly Lejnieks at HarrisInteractive in September 2008, 72 percent of teenagers use a full QWERTY keyboard when texting, a feature that makes the process a whole lot faster and more convenient.
“[Texting] makes communication a lot easier,” said sophomore Spanish major Shawn Mitchum. While texting has made contacting people an easy feat, some say that the increased use of texting has had some negative effects as well. “It has also shortened my attention span,” Mitchum said. With the quick back-and-forth responses involved with sending and receiving text messages, it is understandable that conversations have become increasingly abbreviated.
Kim Cornelissen, a freshman majoring in special education, said that texting has even inhibited some students’ abilities to even hold face-to-face conversation. “Teenagers can hold conversation but not to a mature degree,” Cornelissen said.
Ramon Barthelemy, a junior in astrophysics, does not necessarily think texting has negative effects but agrees that it has changed the way people communicate with one another. “Formality is something that has fallen behind with generations, and texting is an example of this,” Barthelemy said. [molly]
According to the HarrisInteractive study, 79 percent of teenagers say they use their cell phone to make or receive calls, while 67 percent say they mostly use their cell phone to send and receive text messages. Those are surprisingly close percentages considering the fact that the accepted primary use of a cell phone is to make and receive calls. Will this generation or the next reach the point where the texting percentage surpasses the calling percentage? The rapidly increasing popularity proves that such is a possibility. So what is it about texting that has made it such a hot commodity?
“I can text people in situations where I wouldn’t normally be able to call,” Mitchum said.
It may not only be the convenience factor contributing to rising popularity. “You can take time to come up with the right thing to say,” chemical engineering freshman Will Bryan said. Talking on the phone or in person requires people to be on their toes. Text messaging places people in the comfort of having a backspace key to compose exactly what they want to say.
The HarrisInteractive study provides more reasons. Forty-six percent of teenagers say they like texting because it allows them to multitask, 42 percent claim they like it because it is fast, and 36 percent say they enjoy it because they do not have to talk in person. Only 10 percent of teenagers said they prefer texting because it is less expensive, which proves that the motivations behind increased text messaging certainly do not lie in saving money.
For some students, however, like microbiology major and sophomore Molly Roseland, texting has not improved our way of communication and, in some cases, has even complicated things.
“Anything that can be accomplished in 20 minutes of texting can be accomplished with a thirty-second phone call,” Roseland said.
What about communicating with parents via text? Is this “Gen M” leaving the past generation behind? Kim Cornelissen tries her best to keep her parents involved.[tech1]
“[Texting with my parents] is kind of fun. I like to expose them to new technology,” Cornelissen said. Others, such as Will Bryan, say texting his parents is just a frustration. “They’re not good enough at it,” Bryan said.
Whether or not a student’s parents are technologically adapted to texting, it can sometimes be a humorous connection depending on the level of ineptitude. In other cases, it can provide a nice escape route from a potentially nasty argument with a parent over the phone. Rather than raising voices and by simply tacking on the “caps lock” key, some could figure that worse tensions in the argument are side-stepped this way.
If texting with parents has become increasingly more socially acceptable, then texting for more professional purposes may start coming into consideration. One example of this at MSU is the emergency text messaging system known as MSU ETXT. The first use of this in the new semester occurred at 9:15 a.m. on Jan. 28 when an emergency text message was sent out informing subscribers of a “suspicious death” in Spartan Village. [mitchum]
“Everyone’s in contact with their phone, so people are alerted right away,” Cornelissen said, about the emergency text system. It makes sense. The best way to get a hold of someone is more often than not through a text message. Unlike leaving a voicemail, a text message is right there for the person to read whenever they happen to glance at their phone. And so, in the case of an emergency situation, it appears to be an effective approach to notify students. Registering a cell phone for this feature can be done by visiting etxt.msu.edu.
Does this on-campus feature suggest the possibility of more professional uses of text messaging? Will it go so far as to include communicating with professors with homework questions and inquiring to employers about a job interview?
“E-mail is a professional way of communicating,” Barthelemy said. “And texting is basically e-mail through phone, so it’s possible.”
No matter which way a person looks at it, texting is an undeniable and growing presence in our culture, one that could very well change the way we communicate forever. Just think about Valentine’s Day that just passed a couple weeks ago and those infamous candy hearts with cute phrases such as, “Kiss Me,” and “Be Mine.” Consider the one that now says “TXT ME.” Looks like this generation is destined to be TTYLing and LOLing their way through everyday life.