| December 18, 2008 | - Researchers were studying whether hirsute women are more likely to have G spots and whether women with small G spots can grow them with practice.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| September 24, 2008 | - A man in Kentucky sued his doctor after his penis was amputated during a circumcision.
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WLKY
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| August 26, 2008 | - An Australian plastic surgeon who received oral sex from a patient before providing her with a nose job was fighting to keep his medical license. “Knowing her nose better than anyone else,” said Dr. Martyn Mendelsohn, “I was in a unique position to take care of the problem.”
| Source:
News.com.au
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| August 5, 2008 | -
McCain campaigned at a biker rally in South Dakota, at which there is each year a beauty pageant that features topless contestants performing fellatio upon bananas. “I encouraged Cindy to compete,” he told a crowd. “I told her with a little luck she could be the only woman ever to serve as First Lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”
| Source:
Talking Points Memo
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| June 9, 2008 | - One in four adults in New York City were infected with the virus that causes genital herpes.
| Source:
Breitbart
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| May 4, 2008 | - The sister-in-law of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian electrician accused of locking his daughter in a basement dungeon for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, told the Associated Press that Fritzl hadn't had sex with his wife in many years: “I believe it was because my sister had been getting bigger,” she said. “He never liked fat women.”
| Source:
AP via Google
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| March 20, 2008 | -
Researchers found that a diet that includes lots of folate will keep sperm healthy.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 18, 2008 | -
Playgirl invited former New York governor Eliot Spitzer to pose nude in its pages; Spitzer's replacement, David Paterson, became the first black governor of New York and promptly admitted that he had in the past frequented a New York City Days Inn hotel to have sex with “a woman other than my wife.”
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Playgirl
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New York Daily News
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| February 28, 2008 | - An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale struck England and Wales, with its epicenter in Market Rasen; the event caused one couple, Rob Wilkinson, 19, and Charlotte Green, 17, to momentarily think that their lovemaking was special. “Did the earth,” Rob reportedly asked, “just move for you, darling?”
| Source:
The Sun
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| January 31, 2008 | - A Japanese urologist noted an increase in “vaginal ejaculation disorder, or an inability to ejaculate inside the vagina,” among Japanese men, crediting it to “incredible progress made in masturbation goods.”
| Source:
Wanton women cry that men jerk their shot and miss the real target
|
| October 28, 2007 | - The New York Times Style section published a feature on the rise of the term “vajayjay” to describe female genitalia. “The reason that vajayjay has caught on, I think, is because there is a black--Southern especially--naming tradition, which is to have names like Ray Ray and Boo Boo and things like that,” said John H. McWhorter, a linguist at the Manhattan Institute. “It sounds warm and familiar and it almost makes the vagina feel like a little cartoon character with eyes that walks around.”
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 12, 2007 | - The governor of Ulyanovsk, Russia, urged everyone to skip work and make love.
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo
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| August 23, 2007 | -
Studies in the U.S. showed that one in four adults read no books last year, that white youths are happier than the youths of other races, and that senior citizens are enjoying an active and varied sex life that includes masturbation, vaginal intercourse, and oral sex.
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Yahoo News
Source 2:
Yahoo News
Source 3:
Washington Post
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| August 19, 2007 | - An Australian woman was crushed to death by her sexually aroused pet camel.
| Source:
AP via The Star
|
| August 6, 2007 | - Scientists found that a female mouse with a disabled nasal organ will begin to exhibit masculine behavior: mounting other mice, engaging in pelvic thrusting, and abandoning her young.
| Source:
Sydney Morning Herald
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| August 3, 2007 | - Bob Allen, a Florida State Representative who sponsored a bill to curtail sex in public parks, said that he recently offered oral sex to a man in a park because he was afraid of black people.
| Source:
AP via myfoxtampabay.com
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| August 1, 2007 | - A New Zealand study found that vegans are disgusted by sex with carnivores because meat-eaters are “composed of the lives of others.”
| Source:
ABC News
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| August 1, 2007 | - A study showed that penduline tits often abandon their offspring in order to pursue sexual conquests.
| Source:
Science Daily
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| July 31, 2007 | -
Researchers at the University of Texas identified 237 reasons that people have sex, including “he smelled nice.”
| Source:
ABC News
|
| July 25, 2007 | - A prisoner in Ft. Lauderdale was convicted of indecent exposure for masturbating in his cell.
| Source:
The Smoking Gun
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| July 16, 2007 | - It was reported that during intercourse the owners of private submarines are sometimes troubled by peeking dolphins.
| Source:
NineMSN
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| May 31, 2007 | - An Italian
doctor built vaginas for two women who lacked them due to Mayer-von Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome.
| Source:
Reuters via ABC (Australia)
|
| May 31, 2007 | -
Serb farmers were exchanging cows for penis-enlargement
surgery.
| Source:
Independent Online
|
| May 30, 2007 | -
Paris Hilton went to jail and, according to family members, “breaks down crying a lot because she can't deal with the reality and the pressure.”
| Source:
AP via local6.com
|
| May 29, 2007 | -
Sex stimulants were banned in Australian
prisons.
| Source:
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
|
| May 29, 2007 | - In New York, a psychologist named Gordon Gallup announced that semen may be a powerful and addictive antidepressant for women.
| Source:
Psychology Today
|
| May 28, 2007 | -
Argentine
researchers used Viagra to treat jet lag in hamsters.
| Source:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Wichita Eagle
|
| May 22, 2007 | - An Egyptian jurist at Al-Azhar University was disciplined for issuing a fatwa that permitted women to breastfeed adult men.
| Source:
BBC
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| May 10, 2007 | - Researchers at Johns Hopkins University linked throat cancer to oral sex.
| Source:
BBC
|
| April 30, 2007 | - Scottish scientists were developing a pill that will simultaneously boost women's sex drive and decrease their weight. When the pill was given to monkeys, said the scientists, females displayed their feelings via “rump presentation and tail wagging” and males through tongue-flicking and eyebrow-raising.
| Source:
BBCnews.com
|
| April 16, 2007 | - An Australian study reported that acting on sadomasochistic fetishes improves men's happiness.
| Source:
The West.com.au
|
| April 13, 2007 | - A leaked, X-rated DVD sent to parents of elementary school students in Illinois featured the principal having sex with a teacher on his desk, next to a pile of standardized tests.
| Source:
CBS2Chicago
|
| April 13, 2007 | - A study found that students who participated in federally endorsed sexual abstinence
programs were as likely to have sex as those who did not. “This report confirms that these interventions are not like vaccines. You can't expect one . . . small dose to be protective all throughout the youth's high school career,” said the commissioner of the Family and Youth Services Bureau.
| Source:
AP via CNN
|
| April 4, 2007 | - Dr. John Billings, creator of the “Billings Method” of natural birth control and father of nine, died.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| April 3, 2007 | - Durex, a contraceptive company located in Knutsford, England, began assembling a “massive” panel of volunteer testers for its condom and lubricant products.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| April 3, 2007 | - Polish burglars knocked over a sex shop in Austria, then used vibrators, prophylactics, and a vacuum cleaner to elude the police in a high-speed car chase.
| Source:
Metro UK
|
| February 27, 2007 | - Female koalas in Australia were ignoring males in favor of five-bear lesbian orgies.
| Source:
The Advocate
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| February 22, 2007 | -
Catholic leaders criticized New York City for distributing 26 million subway-themed condoms.
| Source:
News-Medical.net
|
| February 19, 2007 | -
Actor Ralph Fiennes admitted to having sex in an aircraft bathroom with a stewardess, whom his spokeswoman called a “sexual aggressor.”
| Source:
ThisIsLondon
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| January 31, 2007 | -
Rubber genitals were stolen from the set of the new “Hannibal” movie.
| Source:
Sun
|
| January 29, 2007 | - The U.S. market for female-arousal liquids continued to grow.
| Source:
Advertising Age
|
| January 16, 2007 | - Zookeepers in Thailand put their male panda on a diet. “Chuang Chuang is gaining weight too fast,” said a zookeeper, “and we found Lin Hui is no longer comfortable with having sex with him.”
| Source:
AZcentral.com
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| November 30, 2006 | - Conservative rabbis in Beverly Hills called for an end to the religious edict forbidding oral sex between men; anal congress, however, would still be forbidden.
| Source:
Los Angeles Times
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| November 20, 2006 | - A San Francisco-based organization called for a “Global Orgasm for Peace.”
| Source:
AP via local6.com
|
| November 16, 2006 | - The Department of Health and Human Services refused to ensure that its reports on abstinence for young people were factually and scientifically accurate.
| Source:
TPM muckracker
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| November 1, 2006 | -
Japanese law enforcement arrested a fetishist who had filled a warehouse with 5,000 pairs of stolen children's shoes.
| Source:
Mianichi Daily News
|
| October 31, 2006 | - The United States said it would fund millions of dollars' worth of abstinence-only sexual education for adults.
| Source:
USA Today
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| October 24, 2006 | - The Reproductive Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, revealed that men who use their cell phones too much could be making themselves infertile.
| Source:
The Independent
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| October 4, 2006 | -
Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei announced that intentional masturbation during Ramadan breaks the fast.
| Source:
YNetNews.com
|
| September 13, 2006 | - Fertility clinics in Britain were low on sperm.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| September 8, 2006 | - Dapoxetine, a pharmaceutical believed to prevent premature ejaculation in men, remained in “regulatory limbo.”
| Source:
Medpagetoday.com via Google News
|
| September 5, 2006 | - Pop star Prince disputed Justin Timberlake's claim to have “brought sexy back.”
| Source:
Contactmusic.com via Nerve.com
|
| September 5, 2006 | - Three men in Lancaster, Wisconsin, were arrested after attempting to steal a corpse from a cemetery in order to have sex with it.
| Source:
WCCO.com
|
| August 30, 2006 | - Female condoms were becoming more popular in South Africa.
| Source:
Mail & Guardian
|
| August 28, 2006 | - In Russia a participant in a sex-doll
river-rafting
race was disqualified for sexually abusing his rafting apparatus. “I think,” said the man's friend, “it was an expression of his great desire to win.”
| Source:
MOSNEWS.COM
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| August 24, 2006 | - At Chicago's O'Hare airport, Mardin Amin, 29, of Skokie, Illinois, was arrested after telling security agents that the penis pump in his backpack was a bomb.
| Source:
Forbes
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| August 24, 2006 | -
F.D.A. representative Dr. Janet Woodcock said that selling the Plan B contraceptive over the counter would transform it into an “urban legend” that would tempt adolescents to create “sex-based cults.”
| Source:
New York Times
|
| August 24, 2006 | - An English woman capable of climaxing forty times per day was convicted of benefit fraud.
| Source:
The Times of London
|
| August 15, 2006 | - Officials in Canton, Ohio, decided that a 13 percent pregnancy rate among its high schools' females justified moving beyond an abstinence-only approach to sex education.
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LA Times
Source 2:
Local6.com
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| August 7, 2006 | - America Online released the search query data of 658,000 people to the Web, then pulled the information because it could be used to violate user privacy. User 88112, for instance, searched for “christian beliefs and sex outside of marrigae” and “penis abnormalities in children,” while user 843043 searched for “fungal meningitis and coma” and “easter
cookie recipe for jesus' suffering.” “This,” said an AOL representative, “was a screw up.”
| Source:
eWeek
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| August 2, 2006 | - The London School of Economics determined that good-looking couples are 36 percent more likely than their ugly counterparts to have female
offspring.
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| August 1, 2006 | - An English paleobiologist announced that the crests of giant prehistoric flying reptiles signified sexual maturity, much like a “giant cockerel's comb.”
| Source:
BBC
|
| July 28, 2006 | - Mel Gibson was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. “Are you a Jew?” Gibson is reported to have asked a sheriff's deputy. “What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?” he demanded of a female sergeant.
| Source:
TMZ
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| July 13, 2006 | - A girls' softball coach at Beaver Falls High School in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, was in trouble for having sex with a 17-year-old softball player.
| Source:
Beaver County Times & Allegheny Times
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| July 7, 2006 | - New research confirmed that smoking and obesity increase the risk of erectile dysfunction.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Reuters
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| July 6, 2006 | -
Prosecutors declined to press charges against Rush Limbaugh for possession of Viagra.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| June 21, 2006 | - Scientists told women who are interested in having babies to relax.
| Source:
The Australian via Google News
|
| June 21, 2006 | - Men who undergo vasectomies were found to have increased levels of genetically abnormal sperm.
| Source:
BBC
|
| June 13, 2006 | -
Italian
scientists said that they had developed a technique for isolating potent sperm.
| Source:
PhysOrg.com
|
| June 1, 2006 | - It was reported that Umberto Billo, a Venetian hotel porter, had slept with 8,000 women.
| Source:
New York Daily News
|
| May 27, 2006 | - A jury in Illinois awarded a woman $5 million in compensation for her ruined vagina.
| Source:
Daily Southtown
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| May 24, 2006 | - In Ontario, Canada, a man was arrested ten minutes after stealing a hand-held vagina. "He had used it," said a constable.
| Source:
AZCentral.com
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| May 23, 2006 | -
Scientists in North Carolina said that they could grow new, functional rabbit
penises.
| Source:
Fox News
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| May 15, 2006 | - The mayor of Scottsdale, Arizona, was offended by a new restaurant called the Pink Taco.
| Source:
Local6.com
|
| April 24, 2006 | - It was reported that the Vatican might permit people with AIDS to use condoms, if they are married, although abstinence would still be preferred.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| April 19, 2006 | -
Belgian
researchers found that men lose their decision-making skills when exposed to an attractive woman.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| April 3, 2006 | - The First Secretary of Rwanda was briefly arrested in Uganda after he was caught sleeping with the wife of a Ugandan businessman. "This," said a Western diplomat, "will not help matters."
| Source:
CNN.com
|
| March 21, 2006 | -
U.S. Sergeant Michael J. Smith was found guilty of using a dog to terrorize prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison. He was also found guilty of indecency for directing his dog to lick peanut butter from the genitals of a fellow male soldier and from the breasts of a fellow female soldier.
| Source:
The Kansas City Star
|
| March 17, 2006 | - In Chicago a man named Jakub Fik, upset with his girlfriend, was arrested for smashing car windows; he also cut off his penis and threw it at police officers.
| Source:
Chicago Sun Times
|
| March 9, 2006 | - The Sheaf, a University of Saskatchewan campus newspaper, was criticized for publishing a cartoon showing Jesus Christ
fellating a talking pig.
| Source:
The Gateway
|
| February 11, 2006 | -
Vietnam was refusing to allow people to register website names that contained the word "buoi," which, depending on tonal intonation, could mean either "penis" or "grapefruit," or the word "lon," which could mean either "vagina" or "pig."
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
|
| February 2, 2006 | - An Arizona State University student was arrested for masturbating in a school library. "To be honest," he explained, "the Internet connection at my dorm isn't good enough."
| Source:
Web Devil
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| January 29, 2006 | -
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised not to have sex until elections were held on April 9.
| Source:
AP via Forbes
|
| January 18, 2006 | - A two-year, $939,233 study commissioned by the U.S. Justice Department found that inmates who claim to have been raped in prison are usually lying. In prison, the study explained, sexual pressure is not seen as coercion; rather, "sexual pressure ushers, guides, or shepherds the process of sexual awakening."
| Source:
Chron.com
|
| January 4, 2006 | - In Oklahoma City an anti-gay activist Baptist pastor and member of the Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee was arrested after he propositioned a male undercover policeman for sex.
| Source:
Newsday.com
|
| December 22, 2005 | - A study found that good dancers are sexually attractive because they are more symmetrical.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| December 21, 2005 | - The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that swingers clubs do not harm society.
| Source:
CBC News
|
| December 15, 2005 | - An increasing number of U.S. women were having their hymens reattached. “It's the ultimate gift,” said one woman who underwent the surgery, “for the man who has everything.”
| Source:
Arizona Central/Wall Street Journal
|
| November 24, 2005 | - In South Korea
geneticist Hwang Woo-suk, who cloned an Afghan hound named Snuppy, resigned as chairman of the World Stem Cell Hub after it was discovered that he had used the eggs of women from his research team in experiments. “We needed a lot of ova for the research,” he explained, “but there were not enough ova around.”
| Source:
BBC News
|
| November 17, 2005 | - A new nasal spray made women want sex.
| Source:
Local6.com
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| November 17, 2005 | - A Swedish study linked oral sex to mouth cancer.
| Source:
News24.com
|
| November 9, 2005 | - In Thailand an official wedding ceremony was held between two pandas to encourage them to mate. “Start making children soon,” ordered Chinese Consul Peng Dong.
| Source:
IOL.co.za
|
| November 3, 2005 | - Dr. Phil said that he had information that Natalee Holloway, a teenager who went missing in Aruba, is alive; he seemed to imply that she might have been sold as a sex slave.
| Source:
WorldNetDaily
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| October 21, 2005 | - A panel of researchers called on NASA to think through issues of astronaut sexuality as it plans a trip to Mars. "If there are instances of sexual conflict or infidelity," said a medical anthropologist, "that may lead to a breakdown in crew functioning."
| Source:
New Scientist Space
|
| October 20, 2005 | - A 14-year-old Washington boy was charged with sexual harassment after hanging around outside a school homecoming dance dressed as a penis.
| Source:
The News Tribune
|
| October 19, 2005 | - A burglar in Spokane, Washington, broke into a house and stole golf clubs, but left a pile of feces arranged in the shape of male genitalia.
| Source:
MSNBC
|
| September 26, 2005 | - A man in Portland, Oregon was calling people, telling them he had kidnapped an 11-year-old girl, and threatening to hurt the girl unless the recipients of the calls engaged in phone sex.
| Source:
The Corvallis Gazette-Times
|
| September 8, 2005 | -
Dick Cheney toured the South. "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney," yelled Ben Marble, a Mississippi physician who lost his home in the hurricane. "Go fuck yourself." Marble was handcuffed and later released.
| Source:
OpEdNews.com
|
| August 27, 2005 | - A judge in Missouri decided a new statewide ban on semi-nude lap dances was unconstitutional.
| Source:
AP
|
| August 14, 2005 | - In Kansas Dennis Rader, the B.T.K. serial killer, was sentenced to ten consecutive life sentences; he will be eligible for parole in 2180. Rader believed that his victims would serve as his slaves in the afterlife, performing roles like "sex toy and boy servant."
| Source:
The Wichita Eagle
|
| August 8, 2005 | - Pfizer patented a drug that cures premature female orgasm.
| Source:
All Headline News
|
| August 5, 2005 | - A Florida man pleaded guilty to beating his wife to death because she wanted to cuddle after sex.
| Source:
Local6.com
|
| July 25, 2005 | -
German
archaeologists reconstructed a 28,000-year-old stone phallus nearly eight inches in length. There was evidence, they said, that the phallus had been used as a tool.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| July 14, 2005 | - In Enumclaw, Washington, after a man died of internal bleeding from having sex with a horse, police were investigating a reputed bestiality farm. “We've got more investigating to do,” said a sergeant.
| Source:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
|
| July 13, 2005 | - Three Texas teens were in trouble for teabagging a fourth.
| Source:
The Star-Telegram
|
| June 9, 2005 | -
Plastic surgery on women's genitalia was becoming more popular; surgeons reported that they were keeping busy plumping outer labias, tightening vaginas, and restoring hymens.
| Source:
MSNBC
|
| June 3, 2005 | -
Berlin police, acting on a kidnapping tip, stopped a car and pulled a man from the car's trunk; it turned out the man, wearing only a thong and collar, was a voluntary sex slave.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| June 2, 2005 | - Zoo officials in Japan were worried that Futa, the red panda that became famous when it stood up on two legs, would be worn out by all of the attention. “His primary purpose here,” said an official, “is to mate.”
| Source:
Canada.com
|
| May 30, 2005 | -
Disney digitally reduced the size of Lindsay Lohan's breasts to make a film called Herbie: Fully Loaded less offensive.
| Source:
Hollywood.com
|
| May 30, 2005 | - It was revealed that the aviator Charles Lindbergh had seven illegitimate German children by three German mistresses.
| Source:
CNN
|
| May 29, 2005 | - There was a public masturbation festival in San Francisco.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 24, 2005 | -
Japan announced it would close down its fund for WWII-era sex slaves.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| May 24, 2005 | - Officials in Zurich decided that a massive teddy bear in bondage regalia could not be put on display as part of the city's “Teddy-Summer” project.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 22, 2005 | -
New York was reviewing a law that allows convicted rapists to obtain Viagra through Medicaid.
| Source:
AP
|
| May 18, 2005 | -
China planned to launch forty grams of pig
semen into space.
| Source:
News in Science
|
| May 16, 2005 | - A professor of biology at Indiana University claimed that the female orgasm was only for fun.
| Source:
AZCentral.com
|
| May 15, 2005 | - Children in the western world were hitting puberty earlier, often at age seven; researchers suggested that this was due to indifferent fathers, childhood obesity, exposure to pesticides, or watching too much television.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| May 11, 2005 | -
Scientists found that sexually well-endowed fish are slower swimmers, and thus more likely to be eaten (but girl fish find them attractive even so).
| Source:
MSNBC
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| May 5, 2005 | -
Texas lawmakers were trying to stop sexy cheerleading.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 5, 2005 | -
Norway declared striptease an art form.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| April 23, 2005 | - A woman in Afghanistan was stoned to death for adultery.
| Source:
BBC News
|
| April 14, 2005 | - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia refused to answer when asked if he sodomized his wife Maureen.
| Source:
New York Post
|
| April 1, 2005 | - A British
sex festival was cancelled because not enough people wanted to go.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| March 23, 2005 | -
Russian doctors grew a penis on a man's arm.
| Source:
Ananova.com
|
| March 14, 2005 | - A North Carolina
dentist was in trouble for filling syringes with his semen and squirting it into the mouths of several female patients.
| Source:
AP
|
| March 10, 2005 | -
Panda
breeding season began. In Atlanta, zookeepers were watching Lun Lun the panda for signs of ovulation; when she is ready to mate they will reintroduce her to Yang Yang.
| Source:
AP
|
| March 10, 2005 | - An Idaho teenager was in trouble for frosting
brownies with his semen.
| Source:
Sun-Sentinel.com
|
| February 24, 2005 | - An Illinois court ruled that a man could sue his ex-lover for using his sperm, acquired via oral sex, to impregnate herself.
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
|
| February 22, 2005 | - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case challenging the Alabama law that makes it a crime—punishable by a year in jail and a $10,000 fine—to sell vibrators, dildos, anal beads, and artificial vaginas.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| February 19, 2005 | - Two former caretakers of Koko, the gorilla that can speak in sign language, sued for harassment. The caretakers claim they were pressured into exposing their breasts to satisfy Koko's nipple fetish.
| Source:
The Guardian
|
| February 13, 2005 | - A Swedish woman found a “medium-sized” penis in a bottle of ketchup. “I will never buy this brand again,” she said.
| Source:
Mail and Guardian Online
|
| February 1, 2005 | - Teenagers in Texas were having more sex, a survey found.
| Source:
Reuters
|
| January 31, 2005 | - The founder of Habitat For Humanity was fired for sexual harassment.
| Source:
SFGate.com
|
| January 19, 2005 | - Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard, spent the week apologizing for publicly musing that women were innately less capable at science and math than men.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| November 9, 2004 | - A North Carolina doctor gave women orgasms by running electric wires directly into their spines.
| Source:
ABC News
|
| October 1, 2004 | -
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that "sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged."
| Source:
Guardian
|
| September 14, 2004 | -
California banned necrophilia.
| Source:
Scotsman
|
| July 18, 2004 | - Charges were dismissed against a Texas woman who holds "Tupperware-type" parties for housewives interested in buying dildos.
| Source:
Associated Press
|
| July 12, 2004 | -
Condom supplies in much of the world were falling short.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| June 26, 2004 | - Scientists said that they could estimate how many years a woman has left before the onset of menopause by using a technique called transvaginal sonography.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| June 24, 2004 | - A judge in Oklahoma was accused of using a penis pump in court.
| Source:
USA Today
|
| June 15, 2004 | - Scientists concluded that men are less sensitive than women and that testosterone is to blame.
| Source:
Nature.com
|
| June 10, 2004 | - Scientists found that women are more likely to have sex when they're fertile.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| May 28, 2004 | - A Russian museum of erotica announced an exhibit featuring Grigory Rasputin's penis.
| Source:
Moscow News
|
| May 23, 2004 | - American researchers found that giving aspirin and other pain relievers to infant rats adversely affects their libido later in life.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| May 12, 2004 | - Trillions of 17-year cicadas were preparing to swarm, mate, and die in the Eastern United States.
| Source:
BBC
|
| May 11, 2004 | -
Australia's treasurer promised to pay $2,000 for every child born in the country; "You go home," he said, "and do your patriotic duty tonight."
| Source:
UPI
|
| April 6, 2004 | - American scientists announced that frequent ejaculation can help prevent prostate cancer.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| March 29, 2004 | - Sex researchers found that impotent men for whom Viagra failed to work were severely distressed.
| Source:
British Medical Journal
|
| February 25, 2004 | - French researchers concluded that oral sex can lead to oral cancer.
| Source:
New Scientist
|
| January 28, 2004 | - A new study found that male dolphins, whales, and seals have been turning into hermaphrodites because of pollution.
| Source:
BBC
|
| December 16, 2003 | - A study found that teens would like to hear more about sex from their parents.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 8, 2003 | -
Prince Charles denied the latest rumor about his sexual proclivities but failed to mention what he was accused of doing. Newspapers in Britain, where libel laws are very strong, have been unable to print the substance of the rumor, though they have repeatedly run the same photograph of Prince Charles standing alone in a field with another man.
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New York Times
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| October 22, 2003 | - Creatures that are capable of changing their sex, it was discovered, typically do so when they have reached 72 percent of their maximum body size.
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Reuters
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| October 14, 2003 | - Men who smoke a lot of marijuana have a lower sperm count and sperm that swim "too fast, too early."
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Science Daily
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| July 16, 2003 | -
British officials instituted a National Foreplay Day after a study found that many Britons were avoiding it.
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Ananova
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| July 16, 2003 | - Australian researchers found that masturbation prevents prostate cancer.
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New Scientist
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| July 11, 2003 | -
President Bush traveled to Africa where he and his family were entertained by the sight of two elephants
mating.
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New York Times, Slate
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| July 11, 2003 | -
Britain proposed giving transsexuals the right to get married in their adoptive sex.
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Daily Telegraph
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| July 10, 2003 | - It was discovered that clown fish can change their sex as they move up in social status.
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New Scientist
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| October 1, 2002 | -
A British sex-toy company recalled its “Rampant Rabbit” vibrator because of a potentially dangerous defect; the vibrator has been selling exceptionally well since it was praised by a character on Sex and the City.
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| September 17, 2002 | -
Archaeologists found a 100-million-year-old shellfish fossil with two penises. The ostracod was described as having “the longest and most ostentatious display of sex in the fossil record.”
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| September 17, 2002 | - Former president Bill Clinton told David Letterman that he has a room at home in Chappaqua where he takes his saxophone, shuts the door, and blows the night away.
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| December 18, 2001 | - A scientist observed wild orangutans partaking in homosexual behavior.
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| December 18, 2001 | - A judge in Philadelphia dismissed charges against a female prison guard who used snack foods to purchase sex from prisoners.
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Hookers in Romania were letting their customers buy sex on credit.
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| November 20, 2001 | - Seven thousand virgins in Tanzania got together and promised not to have sex until marriage.
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| November 13, 2001 | - King Mswati III of Swaziland was fined one cow for violating his recent ban on having sex with minors after he chose a 17-year-old to be his ninth wife; 300 young women cast down their chastity belts and then speared, roasted, and ate the cow.
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| October 23, 2001 | -
Britons were having more sex to keep their minds off the war.
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| October 16, 2001 | - A new survey found that 52 percent of American women prefer shopping to sex; 93 percent of men prefer sex.
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| October 16, 2001 | - Most Germans prefer quickies to slow, gentle lovemaking, a study found.
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| October 16, 2001 | - In Nigeria, a pregnant woman was sentenced to death by stoning for the crime of premarital sex.
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| October 2, 2001 | - The British Potato Council was embarking on an advertising campaign to make potatoes sexy; the ad agency Naked Communication was retained to promote the potato's qualities as an aphrodisiac.
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| September 25, 2001 | - King Mswati of Swaziland imposed a five-year ban on having sex with teenage girls.
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| September 25, 2001 | - A 50-hour sex marathon, which was to have included 1,500 participants, was cancelled in Brazil after authorities determined that the appropriate license was lacking.
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| September 4, 2001 | -
India decided to subsidize televisions for poor people in the hope that increased viewing would cut down on sex and thus the swelling population.
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| August 28, 2001 | - A poll found that eight out of ten Swedish women don't get enough sex.
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| August 21, 2001 | -
Scientists working for a Peruvian pharmaceuticals company found that eating maca, an Andean plant similar to a turnip, can increase a man's sex drive by 200 percent.
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| August 14, 2001 | - After hiring a plane in order to have sex in mid flight, an elderly couple attempted to hijack the plane and force the pilot to fly to Cuba.
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| August 7, 2001 | - The American Bar Association was thinking about revising its ethics rules so that lawyers would no longer be bound to keep their clients' secrets but would be permitted to have sex with them.
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| July 31, 2001 | - A British
study found that 80 percent of women fake orgasms during intercourse.
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| July 24, 2001 | - A British judge was trying to decide whether a ban on public cavorting with inflatable sex dolls contravenes European Union human-rights legislation.
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| July 17, 2001 | - President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya told his compatriots that they should refrain from sex for two years to stop the spread of AIDS.
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| June 26, 2001 | - Iain Duncan Smith, who hopes to become the leader of Britain's Conservative Party, has written a novel that includes descriptions of gay sex; according to his agent the book is “quite fruity, although not pornographic.”
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| June 26, 2001 | - A new study claimed that one fifth of all children who use the Internet are solicited for sex at one time or another.
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| April 24, 2001 | -
Singapore was paying cash to couples who have second and third children as part of its “Baby Bonus Scheme” to reverse its falling birthrate; a local newspaper printed instructions for having sex in the back seat of a car.
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| April 10, 2001 | -
Researchers in Texas found that men who sniffed T-shirts in a laboratory were able to tell whether they had been worn by a woman who was fertile; the men described such shirts as smelling “pleasant” or “sexy.”
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| March 20, 2001 | - An appeals court upheld the Texas antisodomy law in a case involving two Houston men who were arrested for having sex in their own home.
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| February 20, 2001 | - Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia demanded that sexy women be banished from Cambodian television.
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| February 20, 2001 | -
San Francisco announced that it would pay for the sex-change operations of municipal employees.
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| January 23, 2001 | - A woman in Wisconsin was facing up to fifteen years in prison and a $10,000 fine for failing to prevent her thirteen-year-old son from having sex with his fifteen-year-old girlfriend.
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| January 23, 2001 | - South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges was upset that prison inmates, including child-killer Susan Smith, who were supposed to be doing chores at his home were instead having sex there; the prisoners assured investigators that they did not have sex while Hodges' children were at home.
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| January 2, 2001 | - A maker of “crush films” was sentenced in New York to 280 hours of community service for depicting women in spike heels speaking in seductive tones while stepping on guinea pigs.
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| December 26, 2000 | - A new survey showed that teenage boys in America were getting more oral and anal sex.
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| November 28, 2000 | - The Vatican denounced homosexuality as “a conception of love detached from any responsibility.”
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| October 24, 2000 | - Vice President Al Gore was still mad at President Bill Clinton for getting oral sex from an intern and lying about it.
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| October 24, 2000 | - Amnon Chemouil was convicted in a French court of raping an eleven-year-old girl in Thailand while on a “sex holiday.” Greenpeace claimed that it had caused two biotech companies to withdraw plans to patent embryos for a human-pig hybrid; both companies denied making “mixed species embryos,” though one did admit to introducing a human nucleus into a pig cell.
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| October 10, 2000 | -
Britain's new Human Rights Act went into effect; conservatives were concerned that the new “bill of rights” would permit gay sex in the schools.
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| October 3, 2000 | -
Scientists claimed to have found a gene (called V1RL1) that might have something or other to do with pheromones, molecules secreted by humans and rodents, among other mammals, to stimulate sex and violence.
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| September 26, 2000 | - Right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan, having recovered from his gall bladder operation, said that his enemies were “abolishing America”; he was particularly upset about the growing tolerance of homosexuality, which he called “the love that will not shut up.”
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| August 22, 2000 | -
Russia's Orthodox Church rejected genetic engineering, homosexuality, euthanasia, and abortion while reaffirming private property and the church's close ties to the Russian military.
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| August 15, 2000 | -
Malaysia's former prime minister Anwar Ibrahim was sentenced to nine years in prison for sodomy; his brother, who was also convicted of committing sodomy, with the same chauffeur, was sentenced to six years in prison and four strokes with a rattan cane.
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