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Your sex life used to sizzle, but lately the heat between the sheets has turned icy. The two of you may be suffering from a case of lopsided libidos. Find out how to get back in sync sexually. Plus, rate your sex drive with our quiz…

Douglas, a 30-something physician in central Florida, remembers a time in the not-so-distant past when he had rock ‘n’ roll sex with his wife. Before they married and before their daughter was born, sex was not only frequent but inventive.

But about three years into their relationship, he noticed a marked change. Things his wife once enjoyed started dwindling and eventually were off the menu completely.

via 5 Solutions for a Lopsided Libido | Lifescript.com.

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The CSI creators are being sued by two people who were used as models for characters on a episode. Aren’t these kinds of shows “ripped from the headlines” all the time?
—Alicia, via the Answer B!tch inbox

Of course! That episode where a guy feeds his victims to pigs? Based on a guy who made big news for feeding his victims to pigs. Pigs nomming on human remains: That is so a job for the rock ‘n’ roll forensics team.

But the lawsuit you mention is quite different. A real-life realtor couple claims they were used as inspiration for a CSI plotline. The episode “Deep Fried & Minty Fresh” deals with a realtor couple involved with alcoholism, murder and kinky sex, which might be fine, if…

via Could Dirty Details of My Sex Life End Up on CSI? – E! Online.

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“Sexting” has been big in the news of late. In case you’re not hip to the lingo, it’s the practice of sending lascivious and revealing photos of oneself to someone else. Popular among teenagers, it’s been roundly decried as the last step in the complete decay of the morality of the youth of today. It’s even gotten at least one teenager in trouble, branding this poor guy a sex offender (plus a sentence of five years probation) when he forwarded nude shots of his girlfriend to her family after they had a fight.

He’s not alone: According to one recent survey, 20 percent of teens now admit to taking part in the practice. Myriad cases similar to the above are working their way through the courts.

But sexting isn’t such a bad thing, says one extremely brave professor at a Toronto University. Presenting a paper at a Humanities and Social Sciences conference (the after-parties are killer, I hear), professor Peter Cumming said the practice was largely innocuous, essentially an update on “playing doctor or spin-the-bottle.”

via Professor: “Sexting” is harmless : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech.

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In Patpong, one of Bangkok‘s most notorious red-light districts, go-go girls count their livelihood by the number of sex tourists they entertain. “Three inches, three minutes, 3,000 baht ($87),” laughs Goy, a 25-year-old bargirl. Last summer, she and her fellow pole dancers at the Camelot Castle entertained scores of men every night — first in the bar, where they earn a monthly salary, then at the customer’s hotel, where they negotiate their own rates. But as cash-strapped tourists have turned their backs on Thailand — tourism officials say revenues will plunge 35% this year — the ranks of men cruising Patpong have thinned dramatically. On a recent Wednesday evening, just three tourists watched a visibly disgruntled Goy wiggle around her pole. “My base salary was 8,000 baht ($232) a month, but now they are giving me 6,000 baht ($174),” she says. “I haven’t had a customer in five nights, and I’m lucky if someone buys me a drink.”

As the recession continues to bite, sex workers from Bangkok to Berlin share Goy’s frustration. “People just don’t spend that freely anymore,” says Anke Christiansen, co-founder of Hamburg’s Geizhaus (“Das Original Discount Bordell”), where visitor numbers have dropped up to 20% since the crisis began. “Customers who used to come to us two or three times a week now limit themselves to once a week.” That newfound restraint has already forced some brothels to shut their doors. In the Czech Republic, where 14% of men admit to having slept with a prostitute, up to half of all sex establishments outside of Prague have closed in the past year, says Hana Malinova, director of Bliss Without Risk, a prostitution-outreach group in the capital. Others have simply reduced their workforce. “In villages where there used to be 10 girls, there are now two,” she says. America’s working girls have suffered too. The Mustang Ranch in Reno, Nev., recently laid off 30% of its staff after its highest-spending clients started staying away. (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas.)

The world’s oldest profession isn’t about to take the recession lying down. Brothels and bathhouses have launched promotions — including free shuttle buses, senior-citizen discounts and day passes — in a bid to arouse interest among wary spenders. “You have to offer better service these days and special packages,” says Karin Ahrens, manager at Yes Sir! in Hanover, Germany, where revenues have fallen 30% since the recession hit the nation. As part of a new deal, customers there pay $111 to have as much sex as they want (or can) for one hour. At Geizhaus, recent promotions allowed guests to have sex for free on Halloween and Easter if they wore a costume or brought in a decorated egg. And Berlin’s Pussy Club charges guests a $98 flat rate for six hours of unlimited sex, access to a sauna and solarium and an all-you-can-eat buffet.

via From Bangkok to Berlin, Hard Times Hit the Sex Trade – TIME.

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The economy’s down. Still. So what are women turning to? Romance novels, of course! Harlequin Enterprises, the publishers behind those cheesy paperbacks, reported earnings up 32 percent, and romance book sales are up 3.2 percent overall.

Why the hike? The books are cheap, for one. And “people want to escape,” in stressful times, says Laurie Parkin, VP of Kensington Publishing. Dr. Judith Orloff even suggests the stories help people find a place of calm.

That’s all nice and good but c’mon, ladies. We all know why women really buy romance novels, and it’s true it can help you “escape” and “find calm.” Read the real reason behind this trend after the jump.

via Are Romance Novels Soft-Core Porn for Women? – Lemondrop.

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It’s no secret that Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is the Darth Vader of fashion. (Remember that “60 Minutes” segment where she fessed up to telling Oprah to drop twenty pounds for her 1998 Vogue cover and then called chubby Minnesotans “little houses.”) But Anna has reached a whole new level of meaniness. According to Rihanna’s close friend, Wintour had been talking to Rihanna about doing a Vogue cover for weeks. At the Met Costume Gala on May 4th, Wintour supposedly told RiRi that Vogue “absolutely loves her and really wanted to work with her.” But as soon as nude photographs of Rihanna (maybe?) were leaked on the internet, Wintour stopped returning Rihanna’s calls.

Obviously, Rihanna is super disappointed as the cover would have been a huge deal—and not just for her career, but because so few black women (i.e. six) have graced Vogue‘s cover, including Michelle Obama, Jennifer Hudson, Halle Berry, and Beyonce. [Celebitchy]

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Blame it on Spring Fever: Today’s news is chock full of weird sex stories. I had to read ABC News’ headline about three times before actually confirming that it did, in fact, say, “Teens: Oral Sex and Casual Prostitution No Biggie.” Of course, as Amy Benfer mentioned earlier today, the media has been crowing for years about randy high schoolers’ oral fixations. The latest teen-sex tempest in a tube top centers on Sharlene Azam, a Canadian journalist who has written a book called — no joke — “Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss.” Packaged with the provocatively titled tome is a documentary by the same name revealing, in the words of “Good Morning America”‘s Robin Roberts, “what your kids could be doing without your knowledge.”Actually, according to Canadian coverage, the book seems to be about teenage prostitution rings in Canada — a shameful practice, indeed, though much more specific than your son or daughter’s overactive libidos.

Meanwhile, Atlanta’s Fox News affiliate reports on a very adult version of last year’s Barbie v. Bratz showdown. Matt McMullen, who owns the company that makes Real Dolls, is suing  Matt Krivicke, who left McMullen’s business after two years to begin manufacturing the strikingly similar Lovable Dolls, for stealing his ideas. The litigation is a response to Krivicke’s original lawsuit claiming that McMullen owes him $30,000 to $100,000 in back pay. Lonely dudes (and dudettes) the world over may want to start praying the sex doll manufacturers settle their difference before any impounding and/or destroying takes place.

And if you thought academics wouldn’t lower themselves to debating this year’s biggest teen sex controversy … well, you’d be wrong. At Canada’s 78th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor Peter Cumming, of York University in Toronto, presented a paper claiming that “sexting” is nothing more than a contemporary equivalent of playing doctor or spin the bottle. But the NY Daily News doesn’t let this shocking dose of sanity stand on its own. The newspaper also presents an alarmist counterpoint in “author and Hollywood media expert Michael Levine”: “If you ask a kid what percentage of her top ten friends sex-texts,” he says, “they’ll say 100 percent.”

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Janice Dickinson appeared on FNTM last week as a guest judge. Attempting to give modeling advice over dinner, she instead exhibited erratic behavior, downed a glass of red wine in a matter of seconds, fell down the stairs, then screamed that the contestants are “all so fucking dumb.”

After she landed at the bottom of the staircase she began crying, screaming and ranting, saying “Do something you stupid models! Call a fucking ambulance! You’re so stupid! Call a fucking ambulance! Figure something out! All you do is pose. You’re all so fucking dumb!”

The screen then went black and a bunch of Finnish text appeared that is roughly translated as:

A quote from the first aid report: The patient fell down the stairs, complains about her right foot/leg and her head. Is shouthing, resists to be checked. No visible injuries. Insists a ride to the hospital because she says she’s a sex symbol. In the hospital Janice wants special treatment. The requests is refused as unnecessary. Janice has recovered and wants to meet the girls.

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The traditional striptease is not for everyone: some consider it the ultimate display of female sexual power, reducing male viewers to quivering bowls of jelly, while others find it embarrassing or even demeaning. One thing’s for sure: many a man truly enjoys the visual, so an erotic dance can be a generous gift. This is not to suggest that the ladies don’t like to look too. Or that a striptease can’t be a joint effort or a male endeavor — we think it should be, and often. Therefore a woman should feel free to tell her fella, “You first” or “Now your turn!” But for the sake of simplicity, the following tips are written assuming the lady in the relationship wants to be the first to perform. By the way, don’t think you need the body of a model or stripper to dance suggestively for your partner. He’ll be focused on the show, not on your so-called imperfections.  You go-go girl!  (Just please don’t install a pole in your bedroom.)

via Top 10 Striptease Tips | Em & Lo: Sex. Love. And Everything in Between..

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They don’t give their names, but viewers can see their faces plainly and what these teens are saying is shocking parents.

“I ended up having sex with more than one person that night and then in the morning I was trying to get morning-after pills,” one of the girls said. “I was, like, 14 at the time.”

It’s just one of dozens of stories from teenage girls in a new documentary by Canadian filmmaker Sharlene Azam that aims to shed light on the secret, extremely sexual lives of today’s teens.

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