While extremely rare, it is believed the first documented case "of a sexually transmitted insect-borne disease" has occurred. Brian Foy, a vector biologist at Colorado State University traveled to Senegal in 2008 and was bitten by a mosquito, whic...
Read MoreFacebook bans the famous "Origin of the World" painting; It's not just another vagina
Apparently posting a picture of the famous painting "The Origin of the World" by Gustave Courbet's (1886) will get you kicked off of Facebook. While the painting hangs in Paris' Musee d'Orsay one of the most well known museums in the world, it has...
Read MoreMusic Taste Linked to Sexual Voracity
Based on a small study of 408 users, Tastebuds, a music site that matches you with other singles who "share your passion for music" has correlated particular performers with "How far you would go on a first date." The selection of bands was determ...
Read MoreThe "Generous" and the "Attractive" Meet and Pay to Date at "What's Your Price"
In essence, Whats Your Price works by allowing beautiful individuals to join for free, while "generous" individuals pay to go on dates. The beautiful people get paid for their time and the generous get to pay for the opportunity to date someone th...
Read MoreMichael Musto Reviews My Nudie Artist Exhibition for Sundance
To read the review: http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2011/04/the-nudie-artist-burlesque...
Read MoreCan Archaeologists Determine if a Caveman was Gay?
Last week a male skeleton found in a Prague suburb in the Czech Republic was labeled as "gay" due to the manner in which it was buried 5,000 years ago. Archaeologists have seen patterns in the way in which various genders have been buried and in t...
Read MoreJared Leto's Visit to the Museum of Sex
A few weeks back Jared Leto, actor and musician, came to visit the Museum of Sex. I was fortunate enough to be able to give him a quick tour and give him a sense of the work we do, our objectives as an institution as well as share some of the incr...
Read MoreGender Color Photography: Jeong Mee Yoon
What happens when we take the stereotypical visual differentiation of gender (pink and blue) to the extreme? What began as a thesis project in 2005 has grown into a much larger endeavor, exploring "the color preferences of children and their paren...
Read MoreAn Art Exhibition of Attraction
New York's Float Gallery has recently opened a photography exhibition featuring several photographers who "capture the themes of sexual desire and attraction, as well as highlighting other photographic works that look to document our global obsess...
Read MoreBotswana Battles One of the Highest Rates of Cervical Cancer
No one talks about cancer in Africa...does it not exist or has the data not been collected? Years ago one of the biggest killers in Botswana was HIV/AIDS, but in 1991 the government made anti-retroviral medications available to over 90 percent of ...
Read MoreFaking a Girlfriend with the Help of Social Media
Cloud Girlfriend is a service that will create the perfect girlfriend for you to appear in all of your social media feeds, the only catch, she isn't real. The Cloud Girlfriend experience is all about appearances, providing the illusion of a partne...
Read MoreMy Latest Exhibition: The Nudie Artist: Burlesque Revived
Last night my latest exhibition "The Nudie Artist: Burlesque Revived" opened at the Museum of Sex. Featuring the work of Luma Rouge, Leland Bobbé as well as footage from Behind the Burly, a film by Leslie Zemeckis and personal artifacts from Mara ...
Read MoreIllegal: A Cambodian Woman Marrying a Foreigner Over 50, Earning less than $31K
In an attempt to curtail foreign men coming into Cambodia to marry "child brides" or to engage in sex trafficking/ mail-order or web order brides, the government has stepped in creating a new law that prevents foreign men who earn less than $31,00...
Read MoreMaps are Sexy: Penis Size By Nation and Where Your Ancestors Had Sex
Follow this link to learn how penis size varies by nation (based on this project): http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=3073 You can work sex into anything...National Geographic has created an interactive map based on plotting last names ...
Read MorePole Dancing for Jesus
In Old Town Spring, Texas, Crystal Dean has opened up her pole dancing studio, The Best Shape of Your Life, to the worship of Jesus. Dancing to upbeat contemporary Christian music, attendees must bring a church program to be admitted to the class....
Read MoreSex Every Day for a Year: A Birthday Present
If you think sex is the best present you could get for your birthday...how would you feel about sex everyday for a year? Charla Muller decided this would be the perfect gift for her husband's 40th birthday and out sprung a book, 365 Nights: A Memo...
Read MoreGay Cure App Approved by Apple, No Longer Available
I have written several times on this blog about Apple's censorship of adult content, which often manifests itself in the type of "apps" that are allowed for use with their products. Not only does Apple regulate adult content it also attempts to re...
Read MoreIs the IRS going to ask for an abortion receipt?
As discussed in a Mother Jones' article, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," which prohibits federal spending for abortions unless in the case of rape, incest or health of the mother (with was being debated earlier this year under the topi...
Read MoreEvolution of the Penis and Our Missing "Penile Spines"
In the natural world there are all kinds of penises. Some animals have barbs and spikes on their penis. Some animals have a baculum or a penis bone to support their erections, and some have a hemipenis, which has two projections (double your fun)....
Read MoreNaked With Pigs
Check out artist Miru Kim's series "The Pig That Therefore I am." Fun to play spot the person... Direct to the artist: http://www.mirukim.com/ Thank Trendhunter for pointing me in the right direction!
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