Showtime’s series “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” was based on the blog and book by Belle du Jour Britain’s most famous — and heretofore anonymous — sex worker and blogger, Belle du Jour, reveals her true identity…turns out she’s a specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology. We shit you not. And in case […]
1952 DC comic book panel via Hilobrow Not exactly breaking news, but we can’t believe we missed this a few weeks back: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women will most likely overtake men in the American workforce before the end of the year. New research shows that lube is finally getting the lovin’ it deserves. A […]
Australia kicked off its first ever Sexual Health Week yesterday (running through the 15th) to promote condoms, STI tests, birth control, etc . (To paraphrase Paul Hogan, now that’s a fight!) As part of the project, a survey was conducted showing that nearly all adult Australians taking part in the study have had unprotected sex, but […]
Rihanna’s album, “Rated R,” is — not coincidentally — on sale now Some people have been questioning Rihanna’s choice to wait to talk about her domestic abuse right until the release of her new album. Um, what? First of all, that’s just the way the magazine-TV-PR-celebrity-promotional circle jerk works: celebrities don’t tend to chat to magazine writers […]
photo by cliff1066 The cover story in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine is about the First Marriage. It’s both inspiring and a little chastening — let’s see you be President or First Lady and still rock hot monogamy like that. And also a little terrifying — how would we ever recover from an Obama divorce? We’d lose […]
photo from Porn for Women It’s long been a given in the sex advice biz that dudes who break out the vacuum cleaner every once in a while are more likely to get laid. Even some guys who look for the Best Robot Vacuum cleaner have a good chance of getting some. Having a partner […]
A new study has found that 36% of people under the age of 35 Tweet, text, or check Facebook right after sex. For the over-35 group, that figure drops to only 8%. Are we totally giving away which side of the 35 dividing line we are located on when we say, Seriously, people? That’s really what you […]
photo via The U.S. National Archives I was going to have sex…and then I got high. New study shows that pot-smoking may cut a man’s sex life short. Speaking of pot-smoking hippies, a federal judge in San Francisco refused to dismiss a constitutional challenge to Proposition 8, ruling that a trial was required to resolve legal and factual […]
Two days left till Marge Simpson’s Playboy centerfold hits newsstands. Now we’re justing waiting for Stewie’s cover story in “The Advocate.” Support for civil unions up to 57%; support for same-sex marriage still only at 39%. But would a rose really smell as sweet if we gave it another name? It’s sad enough that there’s […]
photo by Brian_L_Romig One step forward in Texas: A judge in Dallas just ruled that it would hear a divorce suit by a gay couple who were married outside of Texas, even though same-sex marriages are banned in the state. (Perhaps they heard our recent suggestion to the state of Indiana that it’s Good Family Values to dissolve […]
photo by methTICALman Ah, college. The beer pong, the all-nighters, the walks of shame, the pillow over your head so you can’t hear your roommate’s drunken hook-up… Well, Tufts University has gone and ruined the last of these fond memories. A new campus policy is meant to deal with an issue that was previously managed […]
photo by Johnny_Jupiter A recent survey found that only 41 percent of U.S. truck drivers think that sex is more important than their truck. Although anyone who’s seen the excellent documentary Hands on a Hard Body could have told you that years ago. Speaking of research that depresses the hell out of us while not being the […]
photo by VirtualErn An anthropologist claims that hot dinners — rather than sex — were the basis for early human marriages. A Kansas couple is robbed at knifepoint while having sex in a dumpster. Seriously, people, a dumpster? We try not to be judgmental around these parts when it comes to sex, but that’s just plain nasty. […]
We have a special place in our hearts for Sherri Williams: the owner of a sex toy store called Love Stuff in Hoover, Alabama, she has been fighting her state’s ban on sex toys since the law was enacted in 1998. Yep, you read right, 1998: this isn’t an antiquated law Williams is trying to […]
photo by [177] According to a recent study, men who are smart and funny may have healthier sperm, too. We can’t believe it: Last week we were praising Glamour magazine for publishing a photo of an average-sized woman; now this week we’re giving the thumbs up to Playboy (yes, Playboy) magazine, for their list of […]
STD toys from Giant Microbes A horrifying Swedish study finds that contracting STDs can make some young idiots men feel more manly. The NY Times weighs in on the health care debate…over penis pumps. They seem to endorse them. We’re not so sure. Speaking of health care, anti-choice zealots are making the debate all about […]
