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The reason space sex has been on my mind lately is that since last weekend, the internet has been packed chock-full of “Sex in Space” articles that, unlike classic space sex hoaxes and zero-G porn, have no sex. While I’m thrilled to see space sex headlines, all the articles seem to move right into pregnancy and interstellar propulsion. Where’s the sex? It’s all in the wake of a public symposium held for the Hundred-Y...

Like every proud American who has sexual fantasies about green-skinned Orion Slave Dancers, I was crushed when I found out the secret NASA mission to test sexual positions in space (strictly for the good of humanity, of course) was in reality a a Bigfoot-in-a-freezer-sized hoax. Maybe NASA just hasn’t gotten the memo that the world’s most popular social lubricant is a guaranteed way to turn any boring space flight into a zero-G Nude ...

A Shibari-related death in Italy has prompted some American bloggers to show their blatant discomfort with sexual variation, with the result that bad information about bondage is being coupled with a grotesque and sensationalistic disregard for what really happened. It’s bad enough when Erin Elzo at “Jerk Magazine” headlines a September 24 article “Maybe They Set the Shibari Too High,” but after all, that’s Je...

I'm sure you've heard this before: "Everyone is basically bisexual." Is it true? My simple answer: No. And if you define your terms in any useful or commonly-understood way? then no. Is Everyone Basically Bisexual? (Greta Christina’s Blog) Spanish researchers have completed the first human trial of a new vaccine against HIV. It has been successful in 90% of the HIV-free volunteers during phase I testing. This 90 Percent Successful Vacc...

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Courtesy of the English Broadside Ballad Archive (with a huge shout-out to The Stockroom for tweeting it) we learn about Shameless Joan of Finsbury, who apparently combined cast iron hands and knees with drunken bravado and a reckless disregard for hot candle wax on the tender parts in and around her buttocks: Shameless Joan Or The Old Woman of Finsbury WHO Went through the City upon all four, with a lighted Candle in her Back-side, and fear&#...

A trade group notifies porn studios on Monday that a porn performer tested HIV positive and urged them to temporarily halt filming until further testing can be done. BREAKING: Once Again, Into The Breach We Go: ANOTHER HIV Porn Scare??? + Porn production halted in L.A. area after performer tests HIV-positive (Blog of Pro-Porn Activism, LAT) While we’re over here getting excited about the fact that we have any mandatory sex ed at all, f...

According to the US-based Catholic News Service, former feminist and unwed mother Lucetta Scaraffia uses some copiously wonky reasoning to argue that government-mandated sex ed programs are the cause of rampant casual sex, disease and unwanted pregnancy among America’s teens in an August 30 piece in the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Scaraffia, a contemporary history professor at Rome’s La Sapienza University a...

My goal here is to proceed with care around judgment and sexuality, and to handle cultural sexual differences with grace and an open mind. And occasionally humor. Enter: the Dick Blender. Okay, maybe you won’t want to enter anything I’ve named Dick Blender, but I can’t help but think about Will It Blend when I watch the video for the R-1 A10 Cyclone. It’s not new, but it is new to me and that is enough to keep me up at ni...

A trade group notifies porn studios on Monday that a porn performer tested HIV positive and urged them to temporarily halt filming until further testing can be done. BREAKING: Once Again, Into The Breach We Go: ANOTHER HIV Porn Scare??? + Porn production halted in L.A. area after performer tests HIV-positive (Blog of Pro-Porn Activism, LAT) While we’re over here getting excited about the fact that we have any mandatory sex ed at all, f...

According to the US-based Catholic News Service, former feminist and unwed mother Lucetta Scaraffia uses some copiously wonky reasoning to argue that government-mandated sex ed programs are the cause of rampant casual sex, disease and unwanted pregnancy among America’s teens in an August 30 piece in the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. Scaraffia, a contemporary history professor at Rome’s La Sapienza University a...

My goal here is to proceed with care around judgment and sexuality, and to handle cultural sexual differences with grace and an open mind. And occasionally humor. Enter: the Dick Blender. Okay, maybe you won’t want to enter anything I’ve named Dick Blender, but I can’t help but think about Will It Blend when I watch the video for the R-1 A10 Cyclone. It’s not new, but it is new to me and that is enough to keep me up at ni...