This is huge news! Last year my article and podcast about unsafe sex toys got a lot of positive attention, and since then there have been more articles and studies about unsafe chemicals in sex toys — particularly phthalates, and those “jelly rubber” toys. I also listed the issue as one of the top ten…

* Photo by deconstructed BEAUTY, via sexblo.gs. * Put your fetish model in a box: galleries at Shark, via the interesting new artphoto/porn gallery site It’s Not About Love, by way of Viviane. * Jenna Jameon’s erotica and sex tip books? I bet I know how all the scenes end… And I can’t wait to…

We blogged the most recent the Japanese one last year at Fleshbot without really even lifting an eyebrow, but now there is a sex doll brothel in China. Which is pretty eyebrow lifting when you consider how, um, open-minded they are there. Snip from Sex doll brothel = prostitution? (via digg): “Local media report that…

In my last post I mentioned the Publisher’s Group West bankruptcy issue and linked to the New York Times article about it, the Mediabistro post that provided a little explanation, and the snarky parody site, Radio Free PGW. Then I had a long talk with my publisher on the phone, and realized how serious this…

* Bra Slows Bullet Fired Into Air in Florida (sfgate) Snip: “Bingham, who was in town from Atlanta, said she is thankful for the undergarment, which she said was ‘very cheap.’ ‘I’d love to have a couple more of those bras,’ she said.” * Viviane reminds us of the lack of sex blogs ever nominated…

So, what exactly does a guy have to do to get sent up the river and do life for statuephilia? Snip from Mannequin Fetishist Could Get Life: “Dotson was arrested Oct. 9 after police say he smashed a window at a cleaning-supply company to get at a female mannequin dressed in a black and white…

Isn’t this a great screengrab? Here’s the URL to 67-year-old Spaniard gives birth to twins — dig the awesome text ad links. (Thanks, Sam!)

For this week’s column, I went over the past year in news and blogs relating to sex, and came up with The Top Ten Sex Stories of 2006. There are different than sex memes, in that they were news stories that were developed and told — though a few were underreported, and I wanted to…

Update 12.28.06 12:56pm: Most of these sites are back to their original rankings, all the updates and my response to the situation, the new changes (and my response to a BB reader, the editor of Search Engine Land) are in this Boing Boing post. It’s such a relief to be back in my original spot…

A reader sends me a little inspiration for my grinchy mood this holiday season. Snip from Whipping Up Enthusiasm (with whips): “Russian scientists from the city of Novosibirsk, Siberia, made a sensational report at the international conference devoted to new methods of treatment and rehabilitation in narcology. The report was called ‘Methods of painful impact…