While real bears often attack humans, sometimes fatally, the stuffed version can be an emotional crutch for people of all ages
Only in a film comedy, you might think, would a 35-year-old man otherwise in possession of his senses still be clinging to his teddy bear; and even then only if it happened to be able to talk. In fact, more than a third of British adults sleep alongside a prosaically mute ursine stuffed toy, if a recent Travelodge survey is to be believed. Fifteen per cent of men and 10% of women regard their teddy as their best friend.
Perhaps few go as far as 28-year-old Charles Marshall of Cincinnati, who was arrested in June for the fourth time for sexual behaviour with a teddy bear in public. Nonetheless, teddies have been exerting an ever-tightening grip on the human heart since they we first hugged them a century ago.
As is well known,...
Only in a film comedy, you might think, would a 35-year-old man otherwise in possession of his senses still be clinging to his teddy bear; and even then only if it happened to be able to talk. In fact, more than a third of British adults sleep alongside a prosaically mute ursine stuffed toy, if a recent Travelodge survey is to be believed. Fifteen per cent of men and 10% of women regard their teddy as their best friend.
Perhaps few go as far as 28-year-old Charles Marshall of Cincinnati, who was arrested in June for the fourth time for sexual behaviour with a teddy bear in public. Nonetheless, teddies have been exerting an ever-tightening grip on the human heart since they we first hugged them a century ago.
As is well known,...
- 8/6/2012
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
Could you love me? Yes. If you looked like Thomas. Every now and again you come across a film that you love and cant wait to share with the rest of the world, and when you do, nobody has heard of it. Such a film is Lady Frankenstein. The film opens with a couple of Burke and Hare like grave robbers digging up a body and delivering it to Dr. Frankenstein and his old and crippled assistant, Charles Marshall. With all the pieces in place,…...
- 6/16/2012
- Horrorbid
London, June 16: A man in Cincinnati has been arrested for the fourth time for having sex with a teddy bear on Wednesday evening.
According to the Smoking Gun, employees at a health clinic spotted him pleasuring himself in an alley.he Cincinnati Municipal Court records showed that Charles Marshall has already been convicted three times of engaging in public indecency/disorderly conduct with a teddy bear,.
According to the Smoking Gun, employees at a health clinic spotted him pleasuring himself in an alley.he Cincinnati Municipal Court records showed that Charles Marshall has already been convicted three times of engaging in public indecency/disorderly conduct with a teddy bear,.
- 6/15/2012
- by Machan Kumar
- RealBollywood.com
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