Naked News: Facebook divorces, rogue sex ed, and diagnosing sex addiction
- Okay, so we know this article was written by a high schooler and all, but we can’t help being fascinated by the statistic mentioned that 20% of new divorce cases in the US include the word “Facebook” in them.
- Australian study shows that despite drugs that sharply reduce the concentration of HIV in someone’s blood, gay men’s risk of contracting the virus during a single act of anal sex has not changed.
- The hot new trend in Canada: “Flitter” parties for Twitter-savvy singles. Also, the hot new trend in media: acting like we’ve cared about Canada all along.
- Sanity reigns at last: Gay marriage will remain the law in New Hampshire, after legislators rejected two bills that would have repealed it.
- Though, alas, not in Texas: Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a motion to block a same-sex divorce before it was entered into the official record.
- A top Palestinian official mired in a sex tape scandal (why are we imagining a reality show that places Paris Hilton in Palestine all of a sudden?) brushed aside allegations he traded his influence for sexual favors, saying he is the victim of entrapment and blackmail.
- Australia’s Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has described sex as “one of life’s great pleasures,” but says it is often difficult to find the time for intercourse on the campaign trail. Remind us again why we don’t all live there?
- It’s been through several owners, legal battles, and even the subject of books, but Sex.com will be sold once again in an auction next month with bids starting at $1 million.
- A Galveston County school board member will keep her job after giving an unexpected speech to middle school girls about sex last month.
- According to a new survey, a quarter of British women over 35 say they never have sex, and the figure rises to 38 percent in Scotland. Why’d the UK make such a big deal about Susan Boyle’s virginity, if more than a third of the population ends up born-again virgins anyway?
- Psychiatrists are proposing that hypersexuality, or sex addiction, get official status as a mental disorder, though critics worry about misdiagnosis.
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