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Jun 28 2009, Asylum Staff

Filed under: Women, Sports Wimbledon champion and BBC commentator Michael Stich recently caused an stir by claiming women’s tennis is “just there to sell sex.” How dare he. The tight clothing, perspiration, and repeated moans of athletic ecstasy that we’

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