By Bob Tourtellotte (Reuters) A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday shows 57 percent of Mexicans would be either very likely or somewhat likely to tolerate the sexual indiscretions of stars and politicians. They were followed by Belgians at 55 percent. In the United States, the tolerance factor was 48 percent. France, in fact, was way [...]

By Brian Rogers (Houston Chronicle) Thomas Jason Fortenberry, 30, is accused of choosing two 15-year-olds and two 17-year-olds for a church game that ended with the girls being covered in honey. According to court documents, Fortenberry recently admitted to the two older girls that he hid a camera at the Greater Harvest Community Church in [...]

By Melinda Wenner Moyer (Scientific American) Contrary to what many people believe, recent research shows that moderate pornography consumption does not make users more aggressive, promote sexism or harm relationships. If anything, some researchers suggest, exposure to pornography might make some people less likely to commit sexual crimes. “There’s absolutely no evidence that pornography does [...]

(AFP) Romantic novels threaten women’s sexual and emotional health, according to British author and relationship counselor Susan Quilliam, who blasts the books for defining the success of a relationship as the ability to crank out babies, while failing to promote safe sex and encourage patience in achieving female orgasm. Ms Quilliam, writing in the Journal [...]

(ScienceDaily) The latest research from the University of Missouri shows that BPA (a common ingredient in plastics) causes male deer mice to become demasculinized and behave more like females in their spatial navigational abilities, leading scientists to conclude that exposure to BPA during human development could be damaging to behavioral and cognitive traits that are [...]

By Rupert Neate (The Guardian UK) Last month when BeautifulPeople.com was attacked by a computer virus, some claim standards slipped and around 30,000 new members gained admittance. Now, in a move which has made those rejected “apoplectic” with rage, they have been unceremoniously booted off at a financial cost of more than $100,000 (£62,000) to [...]

By Jules Siegel (Moronia) Anthony Weiner’s wife came home and told him to quit. He immediately complied. I can get behind that. If he persisted, she would have had to share the consequences. She would have it on him forever. This way, when she gets annoyed about his hanging around in his underwear surfing the [...]

(Caller Times TX) A man died while raping a 77-year-old woman in Refugio County, a sheriff’s investigator said. Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez, 53, complained to the woman that he wasn’t feeling well and stopped having sex with her so he could rest. He then went back to fondling the woman before he rolled over and died, [...]

By Michelle Garcia (The Advocate) When Esquire rejected a science-fiction short story by Charles Beaumont that depicted a world where heterosexuals were in the minority, Hefner accepted the piece and published it in a 1955 edition of Playboy, then still a relatively new publication. After letters of outrage at Beaumont’s “The Crooked Man” poured in, [...]

By Jules Siegel (Moronia) In case you missed it, a Democratic congressman named Anthony Weiner sent a picture of his bulging briefs to a female college student who had invited him to add her to his private Twitter harem. Unfortunately he inserted the wrong code and sent it to all his zillion followers, none of [...]