Lots of cool details about exactly what happens to our brains during orgasm.

But when a woman reached orgasm, something unexpected happened: much of her brain went silent. Some of the most muted neurons sat in the left lateral orbitofrontal cortex, which may govern self-control over basic desires such as sex. Decreased activity there, the researchers suggest, might correspond to a release of tension and inhibition. The scientists also saw a dip in excitation in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, which has an apparent role in moral reasoning and social judgment--a change that may be tied to a suspension of judgment and reflection.

Playboy is losing money. Another sign the economy is in trouble? Or just a consequence of the changing porn market? Its not like Playboy is a cutting edge company - their models today look very similar to their models 10 and 20 years ago - just with different pubic hair patterns.

New Sex Drive column from Regina Lynn: 7 Reasons Your Boss Should Send You to Sex Conferences.

3. Social-media platforms are built for sex.
If an application becomes crucial to lovers, they will have no problem coming up with genuine reasons to integrate that tool into their work flow. And once corporate users are on board, the paper millions are just an IPO away.

The only thing more disturbing than the fact that there is an ejaculation distance record is that the record distance is 18 feet!

CNN staffer to-do list for off days:
1. Tie rope around next and attach to penis
2. Buy meth, stash in pocket
3. Buy sex toy, stash in boot (pockets were full of meth)
4. Hang around parks at 3am doing research on that crazy Larry Craig story.
5. Get busted by the cops and end my career.

Getting fired from work for viewing porn for 67 seconds is a bit over the top. But not as over the top as suing your former employer for $9 million and claiming that you were just checking to see how well the internet filters were working.

Everything you always wanted to know about octopus sex, but were too scared to ask.

... the males were very picky and discriminating, that the females would have sex with just about anybody, and that male competition for females tended to be violent and frequent.

Yeah, if we are going to track sex offenders with satellites, it might be a good idea to make sure that things like leaves and clouds don't ruin the signal.

Is the Nerve O in your nose really this important to who you are sexually attracted to?

What sexual cues do our scents give off? For one thing, we are more likely to be attracted to people whose scent is dissimilar to our own. Family members often share similar chemicals, so our attraction to differing chemical makeup suggests that sexual cues evolved to protect close family members from procreating together.

Research has also shown that these unconscious cues processed in Nerve "O" can make or break a relationship. Couples who have high levels of chemicals in common are more likely to encounter fertility issues, miscarriage and infidelity. The more dissimilar your and your partner's chemical makeup, the better chance you will have at successfully procreating and staying together.

Folks will find lots of creative ways around sex laws, but a penis mud pack is one of the strangest.

For the service, a sink is filled warm water and wine as these will supposedly improve circulation. Instead of the customer putting his face into the basin, he needs to sit in the sink, allowing his penis and bum to soak. The washing is performed by at least one woman, who's in her 20s, or 30s at the oldest. Once the sink soak is complete, the genitals are covered with mud and massaged, which is supposed to cleanse the skin.

If I woke up from a nap on an airplane to find that a guy had masturbated into my hair, I'd sue for alot more than $200k - though I'm not sure the airline would be my primary target.

Melissa Midwest is being sued by another internet model for taking a domain name and breach of contract. I love a good catfight.

Sperm For Tickets. You need festival tickets - they need your sperm. Sounds fair to me.

Jump to conclusions much? A 'domestic abuse expert' says that kids who were spanked are more likely to coerce partners to have sex, to have unprotected sex and to have masochistic sex.

"The best-kept secret in child psychology is that children who were never spanked are among the best behaved," Straus said.

And their good behavior explains why they were never spanked.

The 'best' length of time to have intercourse is between 7 and 13 minutes. Just like cooking a frozen dinner!

Not surprisingly, internet porn is becoming a big factor in alot of divorce cases.

Whitehead noted that men are often nonchalant about viewing online porn and chalk it up to "boys being boys. Maybe it's [viewing online porn] is the new golf, I don't know."

Amost half of British guys would give up sex for 6 months to get a 50" plasma tv.

If you are going to use electricity during sex, make sure you don't kill somebody instead of just giving them an orgasm .

Would you use a brothel if everything you did was broadcast Big Brother style? What if the brothel was free?

Hey guys, Australia needs you - they are running out of sperm.

Israel will be hosting its first ever sex festival. I'm kind of surprised that its their first, they are usually a little more progressive about things. No doubt, the crazy Muslims in the area will use the festival as yet another reason to blow themselves (and as many others as possible) up.

How scared of YouPorn.com and its ilk are the traditional porn companies? They should be very afraid, but they still seem to be in a bit of denial about how the market is going to work. Its amazing how blind they are to the potential.

"It doesn’t make any sense!" Hirsch tells me a month later. "They're giving porn away. You can't make money on this."

In Germany, a 77-year-old guy has filed an age discrimination lawsuit against a 19-year-old for refusing to have sex with him. Classy.

Rule 1: Don't hitchhike

Rule 2: If you hitchhike, expect to be asked to perform oral sex on the person you are bumming a ride from.

Rule 3: Even if your ride looks like a chick, there will be a penis involved.

If you've ever wondered how the sex scenes in soft-core porn films are made, here comes more info that you could ever want.

For the men - The Sock
For the women - The Patch

I knew about the sock. It only makes sense that the penis would need to be bound up somewhat to keep it from flopping around and ending up in the frame where its not wanted. But I didn't have any clue about the patch - and the idea of a giant bandaid over the girl's cooch is going to take some getting used to.

The Onion sure is hitting the topic of sex alot lately - Casual Sex Only Rewarding For First Few Decades.

And in what should be fake news but isn't: Emails promising nude celeb pix caused 80% of computer viruses last month. Gosh people, use Google!

Strippers make more money when ovulating.

Dancers made about $70 an hour during their peak period of fertility, versus about $35 while menstruating and $50 in between.

Finally, a scientific study that I can use: Flirting Makes Up For Antisocial Tendencies.

"I don't think women like bastards," Clark says. "I think antisocial men who behave flirtatiously are either fooling women into thinking they're not really so bad, or they're actually demonstrating that they're not so bad."

Slate asks itself the important questions like:

For an article titled Five Shocking Stats About Men and Sex, I really didn't see anything even remotely shocking mentioned.

10 Zen Monkey's has an interview with Jessica Cutler (The Washingtonienne up. I don't understand why she continues to get attention. She comes off as a little pompous to me, and she's 'famous' for all the wrong reasons.

What are conditions like in the brothels of Nevada? Probably not like we see on 'Cathouse' on HBO

"I saw a grated iron door in one brothel," says Farley. "The women's food was shoved through the door's steel bars between the kitchen and the brothel area. One pimp starved a woman he considered too fat. She made a friend outside the brothel who would throw food over the fence for her." Another pimp told Farley matter-of-factly that many of the women working for him had histories of sexual abuse and mental ill-health. "Most," he said, "have been sexually abused as kids. Some are bipolar, some are schizophrenic."

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is warning women to be wary of the vaginoplasty surgeries being offered on late-night TV. Seems there aren't any real standards for this type of procedure so a doctor could do just about anything they wanted.

Neither vaginal rejuvenation nor designer vaginoplasty have been adequately described or evaluated, according to critics. Practitioners say they tighten women's internal genitalia by making incisions and stitching muscles more firmly together.

"What are the doctors doing? We're not really sure," said Dr. Steven Sondheimer, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania and vice chair of the ACOG committee. "We have doctors contacting us and asking, is this something now being taught? And we have to say no."

Its amazing that any couple can stay together given all the apparent differences we have with regards to perceptions surrounding sex and affection. The latest is that kissing is way important to women, and not at all to guys.

While we are just using it as a way to grab some ass while the girl closes her eyes, she's testing our technique to make sure we still love her.

According to Obsessed With Film, the Wachowski Brothers (The Matrix) are no more as Larry has completed his gender re-assignment surgery and is now known as Lana.

Previously: Larry Wachowski's Gender

A new 'scientific' study shows that despite what men may say about their preferences in a woman, they usually pick the hot ones when given a choice.

Good to see that old folks are still having sexy time even late in life. The numbers on oral sex surprised me a little bit.

Among the survey's many discoveries was that about half of those 57 to 75 years of age who remained sexually active reported engaging in oral sex.

Oral sex wasn't nearly as common with folks in that age bracket with they were in their younger years, so I'm surprised to see that they've taken it up as they've gotten older.

Durex is looking for 500 condom testers. Thailand has all the cool jobs.

The sex appeal of a guy is apparently determined by the shape of his face.

Research carried out at the Natural History Museum found that, at puberty, the height of the upper face - the area between the lip and the brow - develops differently in men and women. Men have evolved short faces between the brow and upper lip, which makes their jaws appear larger, their cheeks more flared, and their eyebrows more pronounced.

Unlike other facial features, however, the difference "in upper facial height" cannot be explained in terms of men being bigger than women. Researchers believe men have evolved the features because they appear more masculine.

The NY Times is looking to add to the 237 reasons for sex, and they also mention that there is work being done on reasons not to have sex.

Does that hooker you like have her tonsils removed? Better hope so because they are a passageway for HIV during oral sex.

No wonder the tradition of smoking after sex started: Smoking could ruin your sex life.

A scientific study has found that women who don't use condoms are happier than those that do.

Semen contains hormones including testosterone, estrogen, prolactin, luteinizing hormone and prostaglandins, and some of these are absorbed through the walls of the vagina and are known to elevate mood.

The 'Girl Guides' (what appears to be a UK equivalent of the Girl Scouts) want to add a safe sex merit badge. I'm sure the 'Boy Guides' will be very eager to help them out with that.

Travelodge is dropping its porn channels from its in-room TV service. I wouldn't look for this trend to spread because the hotels make quite a bit of profit off of the pay-per-view porn.

It is somewhat troubling though because porn consumption in hotel rooms has been used by courts to help establish a 'community standard' when obscenity cases arise. If this were to spread, it would make obscenity prosecutions a bit easier in some of the more conservative states.

A study on sexual motivations turned up 237 different reasons to have sex. Some of them are pretty good:

I wanted to keep warm.
It seemed like good exercise.

Funny "I'm so crafty" breeder button.

The Feds published some proposed changes to the 2257 laws. Seems like this continues to move in the wrong direction as they are expanding the definition of explicit sexual content and sticking to their claim that secondary producers have to comply.