Still stroking after all these years
Ernest Borgnine admitted that he still pleasures himself. The 91-year-old actor was promoting his new book Ernie on Fox News when he was asked for his secret to longevity. "I masturbate a lot," he said in a stage whisper. The Fox anchors were caught off guard: "I just shook his hand!" one exclaimed.
South African squirrels are some of the most promiscuous and well-endowed in the animal kingdom. New Scientist reports on the animals' mating habits and immense genitalia relative to their size. "If humans had that, they'd have a 35-centimetre scrotum," one researcher noted. "That would be bad."
A lack of sex can cause high blood pressure. When faced with a stressful event, those who had abstained for at least two weeks had the worst responses, while those who'd had penile-vaginal intercourse were the most relaxed, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Adult film star Kimmy Thai no longer likes watching porn, now that she knows how it is made. "I was all excited about fucking girls on camera, but in the middle of a scene, just when I was getting into it, they keep yelling 'cut,'" Thai told The Naughty American. "I'm like, 'Why? Just let me fuck her!'"
Women do not run any risks from too much sex, but men do. "It is possible for a young man who is very forceful and who likes rough sex, to damage his erectile tissue," one urologist tells Forbes.com.
A 32-year-old English man has been banned from visiting his fiancée's house after neighbors complained about their noisy sex marathons. Some "witnesses described having to take time off work because of the sleepless nights caused by their neighbour," the Telegraph reports. The woman responded that she has "a normal sex life."
A 20-year-old woman was kicked out of a Kentucky mall because security claimed her short dress was distracting men. "The security guard approached me, asked me to step aside, made me completely do a turn around while he stared me up and down and then asked me to leave because my outfit was too provocative and people's husbands were looking at me," she later said. The woman bought the dress at the same mall a few hours earlier, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The wife of a Texas cop suspended for having sex with a woman during an undercover sting claims he was "just following orders," Fox News reports. The officer had been investigating local spas that were suspected prostitution fronts and claims he "received no objection" from the police department at the time.
Eating fatty fish from the Baltic Sea can substantially reduce some men's sperm counts, new research suggests. A study of 680 men from Sweden, Poland, Ukraine and Greenland found that, among those who had a specific genetic variation and were subjected to high levels of toxic substances found in the fish, their sperm counts were 40 percent lower, UPI reports.
The Bush Administration wants to redefine "abortion" to include birth control. "Health and Human Services officials are considering a draft regulation that would classify most birth control pills, the Plan B emergency contraceptive and intrauterine devices as forms of abortion because they prevent the development of fertilized eggs into fetuses," the Houston Chronicle reports.
A man was arrested after running up a €7,000 phone sex bill at a German hotel. The hotel called authorities after the chatty 22-year-old, who is wanted in other cities for similar offenses, could not pay for his six-night marathon, The Local reports.
Two University of Nebraska wrestlers who appeared on an adult site have been dismissed from the Huskers wrestling team. The two athletes, who appeared naked on Fratmen.tv, were declared ineligible because they violated an NCAA rule that prohibits athletes from appearing in pictures for commercial use, a university rep told the Chicago Tribune.
Naked pictures of French Olympic swimmer Laure Manaudou have surfaced online, Welt.de reports. Rumors swirled that Manaudou's ex-boyfriend, Italian swimmer Luca Marin, leaked the photos; he denies any involvement. It's yet another setback for the defending 400m freestyle champion, who suffered two major losses in the pool this week.
Designer condoms are all the rage, according to sex columnist Susannah Breslin. She's done a roundup of several stylish rubbers, including ones by fashion designer Marc Jacobs and rockabilly artist Coop (pictured).
A Colorado man tried to get free porn from a local shop by pretending to be a police detective. "Authorities said Monday that the man showed a badge and left a business card from the Longmont police 'age verification unit.'" Yahoo! News reports. "It was inventive on his part, I'll give him that," one officer said.
A man in Hong Kong had to be rescued after his penis got stuck in a park bench. The 41-year-old was humping the bench's steel holes and called authorities when he couldn't slide his engorged member out. It took four hours to separate him from the bench. "Doctors stated that if he had been stuck for even an hour longer, they would have had to remove his penis," Weird Asia News reports.
A third of British women have tried spanking in the bedroom, a new survey claims. "It seems that people...are becoming far more open to alternative sexual behavior," one psychotherapist tells The Sun.
A Swedish pharmacy chain that only sells sex toys for women has been accused of discrimination. Two men reported the state-run chain to an equal opportunities ombudsman agency, stating that it had a "misguided and untrue view on sexuality where a woman with a dildo is seen as liberated, strong and independent, whereas a man with a blow up plastic vagina is viewed as disgusting and perverted."
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A voice-activated vibrator has gone on sale in the United Kingdom to mark National Orgasm Day. "The techno toy reacts to commands from the user telling it to go faster, slower or harder," The Sun reports. "Ladies can even personalize the instructions by programming nine functions with their own keywords to get the £80 gizmo going."
The Houston Police Department may be missing $50,000 in sex toys confiscated by vice officers in 2005 from the Adult Video Megaplexxx. "The discovery came to light when a lawyer for the adult-entertainment shop sought to reclaim the 564 items that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently declared legal to sell," according to the Houston Chronicle.
Extra-marital sex is depicted in a much more positive light than married sex on prime-time TV, according to the Parents Television Council. "PTC President Tim Winter said the study results 'suggest that many in Hollywood are actively seeking to undermine marriage by consistently showing it in a negative manner,'" Ad Age reports.
A 111-year-old New Zealand Tuatara named Henry has successfully impregnated one of his mates. "After a recent bout of genital cancer was removed, he's back in the sack both figuratively and literally, and enjoying a healthy sex life with his harem of three females, much like his idol, Hugh Hefner," Zooillogix reports.
The owner of a car wash in Illinois has been forced to remove her marquee advertising "the best hand job in town," UPI reports. A spokesperson for the Chicago suburb defended the decision, saying, "She's using a double entendre that could leave a negative impression of her business and the city."
British athletes have been ordered to abstain from sex during the Olympics in Beijing. The ban is an attempt to curtail athletes' emotions and have them completely focused on competing. Former British gold medalist Sir Matthew Pinsent was supportive, saying that the Olympic Village atmosphere was "like a school disco" in his days of competition, according to the Daily Star.
John McCain suggested his wife Cindy should enter a topless beauty pageant. The presidential hopeful made the gaffe at the Sturgis motorcycle rally this week, the Huffington Post reports. "I told her with a little luck, she could be the only woman ever to serve as both the first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip," he announced to the crowd, seemingly unaware of the contest's racy requirements.
A pile of porn originally owned by Franz Kafka has been unearthed in England. The collection, which has been hidden for decades by scholars to preserve the author's image, was discovered by academic James Hawes, who will publish some of the material in his forthcoming book Excavating Kafka. "Some of it is quite dark," he tells the New York Sun.
A quarter of Italian couples engage in wife-swapping, according to a new article. England's Telegraph reports on the piece in the Italian-language paper La Stampa, which states that "an estimated 500,000 Italian couples are swapping partners at private sex clubs," adding that "thousands more are taking part in the activity in a more informal fashion, doing it in car parks, specially designated beaches and even cemeteries."
A Calvin Klein commercial featuring Eva Mendes has been deemed too hot for American TV. The spot for the new CK fragrance Secret Obsession shows the actress rolling around in bed and briefly exposing her nipple. An edited version will air in the States while the uncut clip broadcasts outside the U.S., the New Zealand Herald reports.
A dairy farmer in eastern Poland was sexually accosted by a bull who mistook him for a cow. "The bull smelt my dad who had just been with cows and thought he was a cow ready for mating," the farmer's daughter told Ananova.com. "He managed to get away and ran home -- completely naked, terrified and bleeding."
An electrical stimulation device originally designed to be a foot massager is now being marketed as an orgasm machine in the U.K. The device, called Slightest Touch, "uses electrode pads that are attached to the user's ankles that send electrical pulses up a woman's legs for up to 30 minutes, bringing them to a pre-orgasmic state," TechRadar reports.
If the Enquirer is to be believed, several photos of Anne Hathaway nude have been seized by the FBI. The pics were reportedly taken from Hathaway's ex Raffaello Follieri, who was recently arrested for fraud. "In additional [sic] to the naked photos he took of Anne, 25, he also prized a sizzling photo of her in black fishnet stockings, a garter belt and bustier that totally exposed her top. Follieri, 30, supposedly paid a very famous photographer to take that steamy shot."
Boinkology reports on CollarUp, an odd new contraption designed to prevent your condom from slipping off. The lightweight elastic band wraps around your waist and attaches at the base of your penis, keeping your rubber snug and secure.
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his staff are being criticized for having a nipple removed from a reproduction of a famous 18th century painting in their press room, Reuters reports. "It was an initiative by those on the presidential staff who look after Berlusconi's image," his spokesman told an Italian newspaper. "That breast, that nipple...it ends up exactly inside the frame captured by TV news stations at press conferences."
A Fox News "sexpert" prescribes spending Labor Day at home rather than away on a vacation, saying, "I highly recommend seriously considering the sex 'staycation.'" Besides a no-clothing policy, stocking up on liquor, delivery menus and bedroom toys, Yvonne Fulbright suggests making use of the entire household. "Change up where you're having sex...like the bathtub, on the floor, atop your dining room table, up against your patio windows...."
Humans have an erotic relationship with God says a Canadian college professor. "I think we're afraid because ultimately in sex we're going to meet God," says B.C. psychologist Chuck MacKnee of Trinity Western University. "Some Christians even have peak religious experiences while being sexual." Despite TWU's opposition to sex outside marriage, MacKnee's classes are popular among students, and "his private therapy practice is full," The Vancouver Sun reports.
The mayor of small-town Lavonia, Georgia received a standing ovation after he announced the city's purchase of a strip club. "But it's not planning to get into the adult entertainment business," MSNBC.com reports. The city had been trying to shut down Cafe Risque for years, so after its recent $1 million purchase they "took down the signs advertising it and burned them in a large bonfire at the strip club site."
A woman's style of walking may be linked to the ways she can achieve an orgasm. Sex researchers watched two groups of women walk and they "associated a good strut, complete with sashaying hips, with the ability to orgasm with only penetration," Thefrisky.com reports. "Surprisingly enough, they were 81 percent accurate!"
A broken penis extension has cost a Russian man his marriage. "Doctors in Voronezh, southern Russia, had fitted the special prosthetic when Grigory Toporov, 47, told them he didn't measure up to his wife's expectations in the bedroom," Metro.co.uk reports. "[S]he was horrified when the extension broke off during a wild sex session" and wants a divorce.
If Ice News can be believed, Denmark tops all Scandinavian countries in number of animal bordellos. "According to current laws, as long as the animals are not suffering, the government has no problem with bestiality," Ice News reports. "Danish Internet sites openly advertise sex with animals without any fear of repercussion from authorities."
A sex-themed Guinness ad on YouTube has been deemed a fake. The highly-buzzed spot, which was created by user DESchatz, portrays a woman balancing a beer bottle on her back while having sex with multiple partners. The clip has since been removed from YouTube but can be viewed below.
A Christian group has designed a new line of underwear to promote abstinence. The women's thong bears the slogan "Earn your right to wear white," while the men's boxer touts the phrase "Respect God. Respect yourself."
A series of witty Olympics-themed ads by a Chinese condom manufacturer have caused a stir in Beijing. The Telegraph reports that the ads, which show stick figures playing various sports with the prophylactics, are targeted to the residents of the Olympic villages, which are "reputed to be hotbeds of after-hours indulgence."
Prince Charles has been put in an uncomfortable spot after accidentally inviting Dita Von Teese to perform at a September birthday bash for Prince Harry. The miscommunication happened when the two met at a recent polo tournament and the burlesque queen and Playboy cover girl told Charles she was a "dancer." According to a source at the Daily Star, "She was stunned when he suggested the idea, explaining that his son loved a good dance."
Erectile dysfunction drugs may help treat brain tumors, new research suggests. "Tests in rats showed two erectile dysfunction drugs -- Schering-Plough's Levitra and Pfizer's Viagra -- helped carry a chemotherapy drug past the blood-brain barrier," Reuters reports.
Two German police officers who responded to a noise complaint were mistaken for exotic dancers. "A young woman was giving a party and there seems to have been some confusion initially because the partygoers thought the two officers were a strip act," a police spokesman told Spiegel Online, adding that "The misunderstanding was swiftly resolved and calm was restored."
An art exhibit that transforms porn stars into saints makes its U.S. debut this weekend in Philadelphia. The collection, simply called "Pornsaints," features more than 30 works by artists from around the world searching for similarities between "the sacred and the sexual," the Naughty American reports.
A new book featuring portraits of phone sex operators comes out in September. Mother Jones offers a sneak preview of Phillip Toledano's Phonesex project, which "reveals not just the identity of operators who answer the phone when you call a 1-900 number, but their desires, fears, motivations and most memorable calls."
A French couple that made an X-rated video at a Canadian World War I memorial and uploaded it to an adult website was fined and given a four-month suspended sentence by the French government. "The verdict came just six months after another couple were fined for taking nude photographs of themselves at the same memorial at Vimy in northern France, which pays tribute to the 60,000 Canadians who died in the Great War," Yahoo! News reports.
IT University of Copenhagen students have created the Dark Room Sex Game, an audio-only game that simulates the sounds of a couple getting it on. In it, two players create a "mutual rhythm" with Nintendo Wiimotes and slowly increase speed to try to achieve a mutual orgasm. The game also includes an orgy mode, where four players "swap partners randomly" and compete for the first orgasm.
While Angelina Jolie boasted that her pregnancy was great for her sex life, being pregnant can have positive or negative effects in the bedroom. "Study after study shows that most women go through a somewhat predictable trajectory of desire during pregnancy," MSNBC reports. "Libido drops during the first trimester, often rises during the second, and then falls off precipitously in the third. 'You can imagine making love and suddenly having to get up to vomit,' [pregnancy author Arman] Brott says, not uncommon during the first trimester."
While men have Viagra, Cialis and other wonder drugs, women with lackluster sex lives have a more complicated path to better sex. However, impotence drugs, testosterone, an amino acid called arginine, anti-stress herbs and certain experimental medicines have helped some women, CNN reports. "[T]he most important rule: Don't wait for your doctor to ask you about sexual problems."
Heartlessdoll.com rounds up the most ridiculous underwear worn by video game characters. Included on the list are the strip of velvet passing for armor (on Ivy from Soul Calibur, left); the gravity-defying tube-tops in Age of Conan; and the metal thong worn by Shahdee in Princess of Persia.
Formula One chief Max Mosley won an invasion of privacy suit Thursday against a British tabloid that claimed he took part in a "sick Nazi orgy," the Guardian reports. A judge ruled that News of the World must pay the motor racing boss $120,000 in damages, plus approximately $1.7 million in legal costs, for a story that claimed Mosley participated in a sadomasochistic sex romp with a Third Reich theme.
Eating soy-based foods on a regular basis could cut your sperm count in half, a new study suggests. The plant contains isoflavones, a variety of chemicals which have a similar effect on the body as the female hormone estrogen, the BBC reports.
Spider-Man is finally going to lose his virginity. Brian Bendis, the writer behind Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man comic, tells Newsarama that Peter Parker and sweetheart Mary Jane will do the deed in the upcoming October installment.
England's Daily Mail chronicles the rise of "gastrosexuals" -- men who learn to cook in order to get laid. According to a new study, "48 percent of people say being able to cook makes a person more attractive to them and 23 percent of 18-34 year old men say they cook to potentially seduce a partner."
Modern agriculture has led many well-fed insects to become celibate and reproduce asexually, according to Australian researchers. "The discovery contradicts long-held assumptions that when food is plentiful insects indulge in more sex because the population boom makes it easier to find mates," the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
A New York man is claiming that he has a Madonna-Alex Rodriguez sex tape and wants a million pounds for it. England's Daily Star reports that the video was supposedly "shot with a hidden camera in an apartment allegedly used by the pair for secret afternoon trysts." Madonna's reps said they are "aware" of the claims but provided no further comment.
A plan to temporarily legalize prostitution in South Africa during the 2010 World Cup is being criticized. The BBC reports that the local authority in Durban, where the games will be held, suggested the proposal to acknowledge that the sex industry thrives during major sporting events, and legalization would allow them to implement safety measures.
Viagra may help women on antidepressants achieve orgasm, a new study shows. The New York Times reports that in a small clinical trial, women experiencing sexual dysfunction as a result of their medications reported an increase in sexual arousal after taking the drug.
A federal appeals court on Monday threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS for the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show that ended with Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction," Reuters reports. Jackson's right breast was exposed to 90 million viewers for less than a second during her performance with Justin Timberlake.
Apple has added a loud shutter sound to the camera function in Japanese iPhone 3Gs to prevent voyeurs from taking unwanted photos. "In Japan, upskirt and downblouse shots have become increasingly popular with the advent of high-resolution camera phones," Cult of Mac reports.
A prominent New York lawyer has been accused of laundering money for a strip club which offered sex services through a voter reform group, the New York Times reports. According to police, 52-year-old tax lawyer Louis Posner used Voter March, an organization which contested the 2000 U.S. presidential election results, to funnel profits for the Hot Lap Dance Club, where "the wealthy clientele paid as much as $5,000 for sex with dancers in private rooms."
American porn star Belladonna thinks that Pope Benedict XVI should let priests watch porn as a way to "deal with [their] sexual tension and stress," the Australian News reports. To help the cause, Belladonna has offered to donate hundreds of her own films to the Catholic Church for distribution to priests.
A new product called Liquid Virgin is billed as a "tightening lubricant" that promises to make the user's vagina temporarily taut. The jury's still out on whether the stuff actually works, but one active ingredient is potassium alum, a sour food additive that makes your mouth pucker. It is also unknown how it affects a man's penis during sex.
A new extreme sport is sweeping across the world: nude rock climbing. No ropes, no gear and no clothes allow enthusiasts to get to the "true essence of the climbing spirit," according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail. Climber and photographer Dean Fidelman has created a 2009 calendar called "Stone Nudes" that focuses its lens on female climbers in the buff.
Religious conservatives are accusing Mattel's racy new Black Canary Barbie of promoting S&M. The Sun reports that the doll, which wears leather and fishnets and is based on the D.C. Comics character of the same name, is being described as "filth" by a group called Christian Voice. "Barbie has always been on the tarty side and this is taking it too far," the organization said in a statement.
An environmental news blog has posted a graph of the most expensive places to have sex, based on the average price of a pack of condoms. Because they can't be recycled, some cities are putting a "sex tax" on prophylactics. The most taxing location is Ireland, where rubbers go for an average of $18 a pack, while Shanghai is the cheapest at $4.50.
Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals, which makes the male enhancement pill Enzyte, has been ordered to forfeit $500 million after being convicted of fraud. Enzyte markets itself as a natural supplement for erectile dysfunction, but customer complaints brought the company to trial for false advertising. Enzyte's founder is also facing 20 years in prison, Xbiz.com reports.
A series of racy photographs of several former Winnipeg Blue Bombers cheerleaders has surfaced online, the Globe and Mail reports. The images, which date back to 2005 and feature members of the Blue Lightning squad stripping off their uniforms, are "both unauthorized and not endorsed by the Blue Bombers franchise," the football team said in a statement.
A naughty new advertising campaign for a Singapore furniture store is causing a stir. The ads for Lorgan's The Retro Store features silhouettes of men and women having sex in rooms full of the store's '60s-style furnishings and carries the tagline, "Everything from the '60s: Well, almost."
People with sexy voices are often more attractive, new research shows. The study notes a correlation between appealing voices and people with great physical symmetry, one of the underlying characteristics of beauty. "The sound of a person's voice reveals a considerable amount of biological information.... It can reflect the mate value of a person," one psychologist tells LiveScience.
Jay-Z reportedly ordered a watermelon cut in the shape of wife Beyoncé's breasts during a recent stay in Nigeria. A source for the Daily Mirror claims that "One giant watermelon was split in two and ornately carved into a mold of Beyoncé's boobs," while "two cherries were used as nipples." The sculpture was supposedly displayed in his luxury hotel suite.
Google is trying to purge the X-rated content that has infiltrated Lively, its latest online endeavor. The site, which allows users to create 3-D virtual rooms where they can invite friends and chat with them online, has seen an increase in "sex rooms" which host explicit images and adult-themed conversations, CNET.com reports.
An eatery in Beijing is serving up exotic animal genitalia. The Guolizhuang Restaurant claims to be "China's first specialist in animal-penis dishes, serving more than 30 types of private parts from ducks, snakes, seals, oxen and dogs, just to name a few," the Electric New Paper reports. Many of Guolizhuang's patrons subscribe to the Chinese belief that eating reproductive organs can be a libido booster.
Nine British women are facing prostitution charges after being arrested for taking part in an oral sex contest while on vacation in Greece. "The women had been paid to take part in the competition, which was video-recorded and was to be posted on the Internet," Sky News reports. Six British men and six Greek men were also charged in the incident.
Two condoms dating back to the 19th century have been discovered at a Spanish university. The antique prophylactics, which are made of pig intestines and tie on with a ribbon, were found wrapped in a piece of newspaper dating from 1857 and stashed inside an old medical book, TypicallySpanish.com reports.
Boating enthusiasts have better sex lives, according to a Canadian survey. The poll shows that 63 percent of boaters reported sexual satisfaction compared to 54 percent of their landlubbing counterparts. "Those who had never been on a boat reported the least satisfaction, while those who went boating 10 or more times a year were the most satisfied," the Times Colonist reports.
A new website lets johns rate their dates with call girls. According to the News Journal, TheEroticReview.com "allows visitors to rank their experiences with prostitutes on a scale of 1 to 10, as well as to leave comments. It gets 500,000 to 1 million unique visitors each month."
A new book details one woman's 40th birthday gift to her husband -- sex every day for a year. In 365 Nights: A Memoir of Intimacy, Charla Muller reveals that although the couple didn't actually achieve her goal, they did have sex "roughly 28 days a month for 12 months," according to the Daily Mail.
Archeologists discovered an ancient sexual curse on a lead tablet that dates from the 7th century AD. "Part of [the curse] reads: 'May your penis hurt when you make love,"' the head of the Athens Archaeological School in Greece told Cyprus Weekly.
The Nintendo Wii will have a new, X-rated use with the September debut of Wiimote sex toys, Gizmodo reports. The nifty attachments slip over a Wiimote and take advantage of the vibrating pulse that the remote controllers produce while gaming. Both his and her options will be available.
Erotic furniture is gaining popularity in Europe. A few of the finer examples of the new trend are "a 'Boobycase' drinks cabinet, a four-poster bed surrounded by giant carved penises, a 'bend-over chair' and a 'Tittyfrutty' fruit bowl," Spiegel Online reports.
A British woman on holiday in Dubai may face six years in prison for having sex on the beach. Michelle Palmer was arrested because of the United Arab Emirates' strict policy against public displays of affection, which includes arrests for kissing. Palmer is "worried that the authorities will push for the harshest possible sentence to make an example of her behavior," the Times Online reports.
A third of British women sleep with at least two men while they're on holiday, according to a new poll. In addition, "one in six has had a fling with three or more men," and "a quarter of women cheat while away without their partner," the Daily Mail reports.
An increasing number of couples over 70 are sexually active, according to a new study. Swedish researchers interviewed 1,500 septuagenarians and compared the results to similar polls from previous decades, learning that "More than two-thirds -- 68 percent -- of married men in the most recent survey said they had sex, an increase from 52 percent, while the percentage of married women having sex rose from 38 percent to 56 percent," BBC News reports.
Work-related stress causes erectile dysfunction in 10 percent of men and a reduced libido in 20 percent, according to a new survey. "Men should think about the underlying cause of their ED, including how to combat their stress levels; not staying too late at work, a balanced and healthy diet, and regular exercise," one doctor tells Male Health.
A former stripper in Boston claims she had sex with New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez in his hotel room during the 2004 American League Championship Series, thus causing his team to lose the Boston Red Sox. Now Candice Houlihan is speaking out about the rendezvous as well as Rodriguez's pending divorce from wife Cynthia. "A leopard doesn't change his spots," she told the Boston Herald. "I think [Cynthia's] doing the smart thing."
A cage match in Arkansas that ended with two wrestlers kissing is suspected to be a stunt pulled by Sacha Baron Cohen of Borat fame. The Associated Press reports that the crowd of 1,600 started angrily lobbing beer at the men and police had to clear the convention center. One of Baron Cohen's movies is due out next year.
A Girls Gone Wild video of Ashley Dupre "letting it all hang out" at spring break will be hitting the market soon, Newsday reports. The 23-year-old exotic dancer, who caused a media frenzy in March when news surfaced that ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer had hired her as a high-priced prostitute, has dropped her $10 million lawsuit against the company. "We have hours of footage of Dupre including her in some very interesting sexual situations," founder Joe Francis told the paper.
The College Times has compiled 10 of the strangest sex laws in the U.S. The paper reports that having sexual relations with a porcupine is illegal in Florida, while in Virginia it's illegal to have sex with the lights on, among others.
Riding the wrong bicycle may cause sexual problems in men. News-Medical.net reports that warning signs include "genital numbness, erection problems and soreness and skin irritations in the groin area" as well as "changes to their sperm function" if the seat is not positioned properly or the pedal resistance is too high.
New data may provide doctors with a way to cure herpes. Researchers "discovered that a mysterious gene carried by the herpes simplex-1 virus -- the one that causes cold sores -- allows the virus to lay low in the nerves it infects," Reuters reports. "It may be possible to 'wake up' the virus and then kill it with standard antiviral drugs such as acyclovir," one researcher noted.
A Johns Hopkins urologist is aiming to help women suffering from female sexual dysfunction. Dr. Karen Boyle says "that many women have misconceptions about their sexual problems that stem from being told 'it's all in your head,'" ABC News reports. The term "female sexual dysfunction" covers "problems that affect a woman's sex life, including inability to achieve orgasm, decreased sex drive, arousal disorder, vaginal dryness and sexual pain disorders."
A young Chinese woman has posted revealing photos of herself online to raise money for earthquake relief. The Beijing-based 19-year-old, who goes under the name Xiao Yun, has created a stir across Asia since launching her fundraising website in mid-June.
A new Indiana law that requires retailers to pay a registration fee if they want to sell sexually explicit material has been struck down, the Chicago Tribune reports. A district judge found the law to be too general, writing that everything from "a romance novel sold at a drugstore" to "a collection of old Playboy magazines sold by a widow at a garage sale...would appear to necessitate registration under the statute."