photo from The Roslin Institute In sci-fi news, NPR has a fascinating article on gender-bending chickens. In holy contraception news, a high school in Rome installs a condom vending machine and the Catholic Church freaks. In major buzz-kill news, an ass-backward school district in Mississippi cancels the entire prom to prevent a few same-sex couples […]
Good design used to be completely unheard of in the world of sex accessories — neither function nor form was particularly paid attention to, whether it was a vibrator or a pair of latex undies. Fortunately, in the last decade or so, both form and function have improved immeasurably, and we could not be happier. […]
photo by ingalatvia DC is to become the first city to distribute free female condoms — in beauty salons, stores, and high schools — in an effort to fight HIV. According to Cellphones.org, 15% of Americans have interrupted sex to answer a cellphone call. Speaking of modern life messing with our booty, apparently Americans are […]
photo by je@n Go ahead: try to answer that question. It’s tougher than you might think. Does it mean intercourse? Then how do gay people “have sex”? Does it involve penetration? Then what about those who only climax from external stimulation? Does it involve orgasm? Then what about all the women who’ve had sexual relations […]
photo by daveynin We were going to write about Robert Pattinson’s joke misfire in which he told Details magazine that he’s “allergic to vagina” (we read his “explanation” and we still don’t get it). But then our friends at Planned Parenthood sent us a link to this awesome Washington Post profile of PP’s Dr. Carol Ball, who travels 200 […]
photo via MTV.com Remember when former Miss California Carrie Prejean got famous for (a) getting pageant-funded breast implants and (b) saying “I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there”? Well, suddenly No-Offense Prejean is looking like the picture of tolerance (after all, she did also […]
photo by benstein Okay, so we know this article was written by a high schooler and all, but we can’t help being fascinated by the statistic she mentions that 20% of new divorce cases in the US include the word “Facebook” in them. Australian study shows that despite drugs that sharply reduce the concentration of […]
Vancouver is continuing the tradition, started in 1992 at the Barcelona Olympics, of making free condoms available to athletes. They’re matching the amount of 100,000 that the Chinese provided at the last Summer Games. But since there are fewer athletes in the Winter Games than in the Summer, it works out to more condoms per […]
The good news is there are a lot of birth control options available to women. The bad news is you have to figure out which one is right for you — how to choose?! Planned Parenthood has a pretty cool, new widget that can help take a little bit of the guesswork out of it. […]
photo via TheStar.com A restaurant in Canada that jokingly (they say) invited diners to have Valentine’s Day sex in its unisex bathroom would now rather forget about the offer. Apparently not everyone got the “joke” part. President Jacob Zuma of South Africa acknowledged that he fathered one child out of marriage, which contradicts the government’s HIV/AIDS campaign […]
photo by Charleston’s The Digitel Not only does Jenny Sandford not stand by her man, she writes a tell-all memoir about his “hiking the Appalachian Trail” that’s due out this Friday. Tell CBS to pull the lame anti-choice ad they’re running during the Super Bowl. Scientists have finally solved the mystery of how one tiny […]
photo by Marina(im.back) You might have seen the headlines this week that read “Rise in Teen Pregnancy Rates.” Of course what’s missing from that title is the fact that these are not real-time figures they’re talking about. The 3% rise in teen pregnancies among 15-to-19-year-olds increased between 2005 and 2006 — the first jump since […]
photo via NY Daily News li>Scientists say too much sex (with you supporting your weight on your hands) can cause carpal tunnel syndrome. So switch it up, people! In the wake of rumors that Tiger Woods’ is seeking help at an addiction center, sex therapists, professors, and psychologists are left pondering whether sex addiction really exists. […]
OkCupid.com is a free online dating site (with, btw, a weirdly all-male staff, save for the one woman on their about page whose title is, even more disturbingly, “office chick”). They cataloged over 7000 photographs (with average attraction ratings and aged 18 to 32) on their site, analyzing 1) facial attitude (Is the person smiling? […]
photo via IMDB A recent study by the Pew Research Center, comparing marriages in 2007 with those in 1970, found that husbands whose wives earn more than they do jumped from 4% to 22%. This is partly because, for the first time ever, in the under 44 age group, more women than men have college […]
Nevada County has finally legalized male prostitutes — so now the only question remaining, especially with the approval arriving in the middle of a recession, is this: Will the phones be ringing off the hook, or will the silence be deafening? A small brothel — and wannabe stud form — about 150 miles northwest of […]
