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Until fairly recently, American network television was a pretty inhospitable place for characters (not to mention real people) whose sexualities deviated from the standard of heterosexual monotony. Now, though, the TV landscape is much safer for gay characters, and so Comedy.com is outing 15 Gay TV Characters Who Never Came Out, including, obviously, Waylon Smithers [...]

Whereas we recently praised a listicle of anti-smoking advertisements, we’re generally pretty skeptical about anti-porn messages. More often than not they seem motivated by an even more harmful anti-sex agenda rather than actual concern for the inequities and injustices of the pornography industry and predatory Internet users. That’s why we invite you to laugh at [...]

In all the madness over swine flu that has swirled into a veritable apocalyptic storm of disaster predictions, nobody seems to be thinking of small-scale, simple yet universally applicable solutions. Nobody, that is, except Listicles. For a flu strain that leaps borders, cultures and languages, what could be clearer than pig-shaped soap? Now, right after [...]

We almost let March slip by, dear readers, without having a very serious talk with you. This month is National Talk With Your Teen About Sex Month (seriously), so we feel it’s our obligation to explain a few things. You see, life comes from, well, it’s hard to explain, but this thing happens where, when [...]

Today is International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, and in honor of the various events taking place on this day of action (check out the Sex Workers Outreach Project’s website for events near you) we’ve rounded up some DIY sign suggestions should you find yourself in a city holding a sex workers rights parade. Here, then, [...]

By the time you read this post, New York Governor David Patterson will have announced his pick to replace Hillary Clinton as New York Senator. The winner, after Caroline Kennedy dropped out, is Kirsten Gillibrand (pictured at right), an upstate Democratic Representative. Though we see Patterson’s fixation on finding a female replacement for Clinton in [...]

We never thought we’d see the day that e-cards became anything more than corny substitutes for regular cards (which are already, in most cases, quite corny). While trying to dodge Obamaguration stories in yesterday’s New York Times, we ran across a fascinating article in the Health section on the growing trend of using e-cards to [...]

Amid the flury of Obamaguration-related posts, we came across a terrific entry from Gawker detailing the small yet rich body of related craigslist postings by people hoping, very naturally, to combine political and sexual bliss. With all the revelers flocking to D.C. – some of whom are planning an Orgy for Obama apparently – it’s [...]