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Naked News (06-29-09)

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• The New York Times reports that, Mark Sanford and Jon & Kate notwithstanding, the institution of marriage has become more resilient in recent years, not less so. In fact, after Sanford’s confession-slash-lecture-on-sin last week, we wouldn’t be surprised if he tried to take credit for single-handedly strengthening the institution of marriage. Whadda guy.
• AlterNet rates the greatest GOP sex scandals of the past 20 years. Meanwhile, “hiking the Applachian Trail” wins our award for best euphemism of the year.
• Okay, and just to prove we can be fair and balanced, too, just like Fox, apparently John Edwards made a sex tape with his mistress. Which just goes to show that, when it comes to politicians, blinding idiotic ego trumps party affiliation any day of the week.
• New study shows that, while women are less superficial than men when it comes to rating “beauty” in other adults, men win the “I appreciate inner beauty” award when it comes to babies. Huh.
• A new study claims that women are happiest and have the best sex at age 28, and then at age 30 it all goes downhill when they start stressing about wrinkles and grey hair. Oh yeah, and this new study was conducted by…home hair color brand Clairol Perfect 10. In other words, ah-bullshit-choo! We remember 28, and it wasn’t all that.
• Calvin Klein replaces a steamy threesome ad with an inhumanly-abbed model in a swimsuit, and our lives feel a little emptier for it.
• A Swedish city legalizes topless swimming at public pools with the argument that “It’s not unusual for men to have large breasts that resemble women’s breasts.” But what we’d really like to see is a city mandating bikini tops for man-boobs. Now that would take some, er, balls.

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