In a March 15th New York Observer article, journalist Nate Freeman penned a piece called "Sexless and the City: Web Warps Libidos of Coked-Up Careerists." While the article itself is worth a read, it essentially states young New Yorker are no long...
Read MoreBecause Sometimes You Can't Resist a Pair of Knitted Breasts Made By a 91 Year Old
Why breasts? Coral Charles-Dunne has been knitting all her life, but this project is for a good cause...educating women about breastfeeding. Working along side a volunteer organization, Coral has been making these knit breasts as an educational to...
Read MoreVanity Fair Apologizes for Dropping the Three Letter F-Bomb
GLAAD's website says it best, "Words and Images Matter." So when major publications such as Vanity Fair use the word "f*g" to describe the characters Kurt and Blaine on the television show Glee, even if written by the openly gay writer Brett Berk,...
Read MoreFacebook Friends with Benefits: Pick Yours Now
iWould is a new and private application that allows you to create a list of up to ten the Facebook friends you would like to have a "friends with benefits" relationship. If someone on your list feels they same way about you, both parties will be n...
Read MorePhilematology: The Science of Kissing
A kiss can say a lot. There is even an entire field dedicated to the science of kissing, also known as philematology. where a kiss is not called just a kiss, it is called osculation. Sheril Kirshenbaum, a researcher at the University of Texas has ...
Read MoreA Spider Bite Can Kill and Give You An Erection
Often called the Brazilian Wandering Spider, Armed Spider or Banana Spider, found in banana plantations throughout Central and South America, it's official name, Phoneutria nigriventer, is thought to be the new future in erectile dysfunction aids....
Read MoreAn Assembly Line of Online Workers Turn Your Sex Fantasies Into Art: Laborers of Love/LOL
Laborers of Love/LOL, co developed by Jeff Crouse, Michael Schieban and new media artist and educator, Stephanie Rothenberg, is an exploration of how desire and pleasure are mediated, fragmented and abstracted through online social media tools suc...
Read MoreJames Bond Demonstrates the Gender Gap: Happy International Women's Day 2011
Every March 8th we celebrate International Women's Day, a celebration that has been taking place for 100 years. "International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to ...
Read MoreUsing Senior Sex to Sell an Equal Pay Day
As Trendhunter reported, the motto of EqualPayday is, “The less you earn, the longer you work. Close the wage gap.” This commercial created by ad agency Mortierbrigade is an attempt to make the viewer uneasy. "This unease in their life is parallel...
Read MoreFlirting Aggressively: Cold Born Female Butterflies Switch Gender Roles
We have many misconceptions about the natural world, and many of them are in regards to gender. Yale University researchers have identified that female caterpillars raised at cooler temperatures grow into adult female butterflies who "court" in th...
Read MoreHIV Pills Stolen and Turned into Street Drug: Whoonga
In South Africa over 6 million individuals are infected with HIV with an estimated 700,000 of them on ARV or anti-retroviral treatment. In addition to the lack of funding and access for these life prolonging treatments, a new barrier has emerged, ...
Read MoreA Scoop of Breast Milk Ice Cream, Please?
The Icecreamists, a London based ice cream salon founded by Matt O'Connor, recently began selling a new flavor of ice cream called the "Baby Gaga" made out of 75% breast milk enriched ice cream that sells for 14 (almost $23) a serving. The recipe...
Read MoreRoyal Couple Condoms..a little something to remember the big day
To celebrate the April 29th wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, a new line of condoms called Crown Jewels will be sold. These condoms are meant to be a souvenir crafted of "heirloom quality" of the historic wedding.The company's slogan i...
Read MoreBDSM in Music Videos; Rihanna sued by LaChapelle for "S&M" images
Thank you Flavorwire for putting together this video list of "SM" in music videos, after the controversy surrounding Rihanna's new video "S&M" began. Artist David LaChapelle has recently launched a lawsuit against the singer for using his iconogra...
Read MoreWhen Children of Celebrities and Harvard Meet: "Pussy Breath" is Born
To learn more:http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/02/harvard-educated_children_of_c.html?mid=372622&rid=399861235
Read MoreMy 100th post: An Ode to Sex and Social Media
At 29 years old I am the generation of social media's origination and if I hadn't started this blog 100 posts ago, I fear I would have become a dinosaur of this space, unable to truly understand the incredible power of these resources in my effort...
Read MoreWill You Wear the Silver Ribbon?
From January 22-February 22, is the celebration of "Trust Women Month" which is intended to be a call for American women to tell their stories in regards to reproductive rights access and to "stand by each other and claim our rights to the legal h...
Read MoreIs your dog a porn star?
As a dog owner myself, I get the allure of making irrational purchases for your pet. My seven month old Shiba Inu puppy, She-Ra, a name taken from my childhood favorite the Princess of Power is sometimes the beneficiary of these moments. But if yo...
Read More"Incoqnito": Where Sex Toys and Jewelry Meet
I love it when sex can be subtle and implied, as in the case of Incoqnito a new line of "discreet, high quality instruments of pleasure" that can be also be worn as jewelry. Two of my favorite from the current collection are: Razor: Razor contains...
Read MoreLondon Does Animal Sex
It is said imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and I would like to thank the Natural History Museum in London for bestowing that honor upon me and the Museum of Sex. A new exhibition called Sexual Nature created by Tate Greenhaugh will be...
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