By Mark MacKinnon (Globe and Mail) It’s said that everyone has a secret. What was unique about Shigeo Tokuda’s fib was that everything he wasn’t telling his wife and daughter was on recorded on hundreds of videos, and that thousands of admirers knew exactly who he was and what he was trying to hide. For [...]

On, ‘Bloomsday’, June 16th, the day that the events in James Joyce’s book ‘Ulysses’ takes place, (a book that was once banned in the United States for being deemed ‘obscene’), Apple users will be able to read a censored version of it on their iPads.

Media images of the female body commonly represent reigning appearance ideals of the era in which they are published. To date, limited documentation of the genital appearance ideals in mainstream media exists. Analysis 1 sought to describe genital appearance ideals (i.e., mons pubis and labia majora visibility, labia minora size and color, and pubic hair [...]

By Penn Bullock and Brandon K. Thorp (Miami New Times) On April 13, the “rent boy” (whom we’ll call Lucien) arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123, after a ten-day, fully subsidized trip to Europe. He was soon followed out of customs by an old man with an atavistic mustache and a [...]

Those facing a lonely Valentine day’s may do well to visit a country where the chances of finding other singletons are highest. Flight comparison site Skyscanner (www.Skyscanner.net) introduces the top ten most unmarried populations in the world; places where holy matrimony is low priority and love is free. Maybe. Latin America seems like the place [...]

(The Smoking Gun) Like many educators nationwide, administrators at a Wisconsin high school are aiming to curb risqué moves at an upcoming school dance. To assure that Union Grove High School students do not get too footloose, school brass have issued official dance rules for the January 30 winter formal: “While dancing back to front, [...]

By Julissa McKinnon (Press-Enterprise) After a parent complained about an elementary school student stumbling across “oral sex” in a classroom dictionary, Menifee Union School District officials decided to pull Merriam Webster’s 10th edition from all school shelves earlier this week. School officials will review the dictionary to decide if it should be permanently banned because [...]

By Bob Egelko (SFGate) More than 100 studies have found that “children who are raised by gay and lesbian parents are just as likely to be well-adjusted,” Michael Lamb, chairman of the department of social and developmental psychology at Cambridge University in England, testified at the San Francisco trial of a lawsuit seeking to overturn [...]

(APS) Women around the world spend billions of dollars each year on exotic smelling perfumes and lotions in the hopes of attracting a mate. However, according to a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, going “au natural” may be the best way to capture a potential mate’s attention.

By DeeDee Correll (LA Times) Jebidiah James Stipe, 27, a Carbon, Wyo., native and Marine stationed at Twentynine Palms, Calif., allegedly posed as his ex-girlfriend and placed the ad seeking an aggressive man. Ty Oliver McDowell, 26, from Bar Nunn, Wyo., told authorities that he and the woman exchanged instant messages, and she described what [...]