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Thomas Roche

Sex With Strangers and Other Lies from Captain Obvious

13 September 2011
A new study in Archives of Sexual Behavior claims men are more likely to accept sexual propositions from women unknown to them than women are to do the same with strange men. The author is Nicolas Guéguen, a French social psychologist. In truth, however, it may be helpful to know that Guéguen […]
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Is Sinead O’Connor Horny, Bipolar, or Both?

4 September 2011
In case you've missed the frequent reposts of Sinead O'Connor's claim that she's about to have sex with a truck, well...let me catch you up. Part I: 1987. I thought Sinead O'Connor was the second-hottest bald chick in the world. (The first was this punk girl named Steph from Modesto). […]
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Online Semen and Robo-Sperm

1 September 2011
Have you been buying fresh semen off the internet? "Stop that!" says the Canadian Federal government in a press release, at least if you're doing it for reproduction -- if you're just, you know, into that, then carry on. Health Canada, the Federal Canadian health agency, "issued" the semen "release" on […]
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Vatican Pundit Attacks Sex Ed With Bogus Cross-Cultural Comparisons

1 September 2011
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 […]
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Conspiracy Watch: Just Who Canceled Russia’s Blow-Up Doll Swimming Race?

27 August 2011
In case you're just now catching up with us on the exciting sport of blow-up-doll swim racing, I'll have you know that Violet's article on the St. Petersburg Bubble Baba Challenge 2010 was one of the unquestioned high points of Tiny Nibbles' late-August sports coverage just about a year ago. […]
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Would Some Hot Man-on-Man Erotic Orgasm Denial Help New Zealand Win at Rugby?

20 August 2011
  Telecom New Zealand has cancelled an ad campaign asking fans of New Zealand's national rugby team, the All Blacks, to abstain from sex for six weeks in order to help the team win the rugby World Cup in Auckland next month. Promised black rubber rings in return so they can proudly […]
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Did British Spies Try to Feminize Hitler?

15 August 2011
If you watch search terms closely, web sex memes become evident pretty quickly. Because of the tendency of many sites -- including "reputable" news sites -- to republish crap from dubious sources with nary a web search to determine its bullshit value, it's tempting to call this brand of meme […]
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Indian Man Has a Hysterectomy: What Does That Mean?

8 August 2011
The Telegraph reported last week that after a man in India was admitted to a hospital near Bhopal with stomach pain, exploratory surgery on what was thought to be a routine hernia revealed a "complete female reproductive system" in his belly. According to the Telegraph, this included a "female uterus, […]
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Casey Anthony Nude! Did The Purveyor of “Chester the Molester” Finally Go Too Far?

8 August 2011
In case you're just tuning in, a little over a week ago, Hustler publisher Larry Flynt publicly offered Casey Anthony, a woman just acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter, $500,000 to pose nude for Hustler. Furthermore, he promised he'd make her even richer if she'll work with him. The stunt […]
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Marilyn Monroe Stag Film?

6 August 2011
Don't get too excited, you Burlesque-era raincoaters and grizzled Arthur Miller wannabes out there. Don't get excited, 'cause I'm excited enough for all of us. There's a Marilyn Monroe sex tape out there. Unfortunately, it appears to be a fraud. The promised Marilyn Monroe Sex Tape, according to a story on Moneywatch, […]
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Hooray for San Francisco Slutwalk!

6 August 2011
Being sequestered up here in the valley, I was unable to attend Slutwalk San Francisco, which happened today. I would say I was there in spirit, but that's just a little too Victorian for me; my tables don't knock unless I'm knocking them. As of this writing, there's no Tweets at […]
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Suquamish Tribe Approves Same-Sex Marriage

4 August 2011
The Suquamish are a Native American tribe living in Kitsap County, Washington, west of Seattle, where the Port Madison Reservation has about 6,500 residents. Monday, "The Suquamish Tribal Council formally changed its ordinances to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples," making it, as far as I can tell, the second […]
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Bonobos, Barnacles, and Evolution’s First Blowjob

2 August 2011
In an eerie example of synchronicity, Australian scientist Vanessa Woods' book Bonobo Handshake (great review here) just showed up in my inbox the day I spotted her post over at Psychology Today on who invented the blowjob. Now, the last time I discussed Psych Today, the veins on my forehead were […]
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Zimbabwe Senator Calls for Mandatory Inection of Drug to Curb Male Desire

22 July 2011
A Senator in Zimbabwe wants the government to do research “into a substance that will make men lose appetite," to curb men's "insatiable greed for women," because, the Senator says, when designing "these parts we use for mating" God didn't know about HIV. Zimbabwe is a landlocked East African country of 12.5 […]
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Men Who “Buy Sex” Commit More Crimes; Newsweek, Trafficking, and the Lie of Fabricated Sex Studies

20 July 2011
An old-school radical anti-porn, anti-prostitution activist known for criminal antics is in the news again, portraying a heavily biased anti-sex-work survey as science, when in fact it's the same message Melissa Farley has been screaming her entire career. Sadly, press outlets like Newsweek, Reuters, Jezebel and the Sydney Morning Herald […]
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Florida Criminal HIV Transmission Law Overturned in Same-Sex Cases

18 July 2011
Remember back in mid-May of this year when Florida lawmakers finally passed that anti-bestiality law they'd been working on for three legislative sessions -- partially because of the legislators' reluctance to discuss the bill because children sometimes attend legislative sesions? Remember more recently, when (according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune) "a […]
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California School Claims Its Own Yearbook is Child Porn

17 July 2011
At Big Bear High School in San Bernardino County, somebody waited until the yearbook had been distributed before pointing out that one of the book's photos featured a high school boy with his hand up his dance partner's dress. Rather than doing what school administrators would have done back in my […]
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Sex Dolls für Schicklgruber: Hitler’s Non-Existent “Nazi Love Doll” Project

12 July 2011
A bogus story about Nazi sex dolls from 2005 or before has surfaced again...and it's ladling out the dopamine with lots of croutons. And, dopamine-drunk, the blogosphere keeps reposting it. A report in the New York Daily News references as fact the urban legend that during the Nazi occupation of France, […]
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Naomi Wolf in Al Jazeera: Blame the Internet!

10 July 2011
I had already written off Naomi Wolf's most recent wave of anti-porn nausea, but every time I turn around, someone new is uncritically reposting it. In light of Erica Jong blaming the internet for motherhood today in the New York Times, I have to say something about Wolf's transparently pseudoscientific anti-porn, […]
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Erica Jong in the NYT: Blame the Internet!

10 July 2011
I'm willing to cut Erica Jong, author of the landmark feminist classic Fear of Flying, lots of slack -- after all, she invented the zipless fuck. She's an O.G. of women's sexual liberation, and in many ways a personal hero of mine. But that only gets you so far, in […]
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