Record buster
Sheyla Hershey, a Brazilian model/actress, may now possess the world record for breast implants, as she recently upgraded to the near-impossible 34FFF. The implants are filled with two quarts of silicone -- more than double the standard. Says the proud record holder, "Everybody's got their dream inside. It's good when you can make your dream come true."
The current Miss Great Britain, Gemma Garrett, is running for a seat in Parliment, hoping to make British politics "sexy not sleazy," according to the Belfast Telegraph. Garrett will be the candidate for the the newly formed "Beauties for Britain" political party. "If women look and feel beautiful it makes Britain a happier place," the candidate noted.
A new tape has surfaced of a young Angelina Jolie filming steamy scenes for an old music video. The clip, which is an Italian version of Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over," features Jolie involved in a series of seductions of different men. While not an official "sex tape," the video shows a wild side to one the world's biggest celebrities, whose sexual antics with ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton made headlines in the past.
Japanese supermarkets and department stores are now offering "breast puddings" -- yes, 3-D pudding cups that are molded in the shape of mammaries. The naughty desserts, available in a variety of creatively designed packages, come in different shapes and sizes, such as "the blonde, European-looking lady [who] has oddly squared-off boobs." Consumers who have tried the new cup jigglers report "they're somewhat milky, sweet tasting, and with a vaguely slimy mouth feel," Investor Spot reports.
Before their game in Toronto Sunday, players from the Chicago White Sox gathered inside the clubhouse with a "pair of inflatable dolls surrounded by bats and a sign encouraging players to 'push,'" the Chicago Sun-Times reports. "The gimmick, called a slump buster, apparently was put together to help the White Sox snap out of a recent losing streak." Despite criticism from some, team spokesman Scott Reifert said that "they were just trying to get the bats going."
After a gut-wrenching 48-0 loss, members of the Austrian national rugby team participated in "a mass striptease" in Lithuania's capital city Vilnius Saturday, "only to find they had been caught on video and put on the Internet," Reuters reports. The video, which was posted on Virb.com (and has since been deleted), "showed a group of 20 men singing and stripping off their clothes...while people in a nearby bar clapped and cheered."
A Philadelphia court ruled that a local club "violated its restaurant permit by providing an area where patrons could openly engage in sexual activity." The multi-level Club Kama Sutra featured "open cubicles with futon mattresses" for participating in and viewing such activities, which judges said "was not a use customarily incidental to a restaurant," Law.com reports.
Chinese people "are among the least likely in the world to have an orgasm," according to a study of 26 countries. While a mere 24 percent of Chinese "climax almost every time they have sex," Spaniards, Mexicans and South Africans "are the most likely to climax, with 66 percent usually managing to hit the spot," reports China Daily.
In Berlin, a promenade was renamed after famous sex researcher Magnus Hirschfeld. Known as the "the Einstein of sex," Hirschfeld was a "pioneer of the German gay rights movement" who worked to decriminalize homosexuality in the early 20th century. Nazis destroyed a bust of Hirschfeld during a book burning in 1933, and organizers plan to resurrect one as part of the monument.
Pierre-Louis Colin, a political speech-writer in France, has published a girl-watching guidebook for Paris. "Area by area, Colin notes the best observation posts -- bars, supermarkets, parks, museums, metro trains -- and the best times of day for the connoisseur to contemplate various Parisienne archetypes," Agence France Presse reports." Guide to the Pretty Women of Paris includes helpful passages like, "You do not find in Menilmontant the sublime legs you see at the Madeleine. But you do find perfectly shameless cleavages, radiant breasts often uncluttered by a bra."
A Silverdale, Washington mother -- who threw her dog at a policeman answering a domestic disturbance call -- attributed her "meltdown" to her disappointing sex life. She said it started when her husband told her "they had three hours to quit smoking, drinking, swearing and engaging in some sex acts because 'they were going to be good Christians now.'" The Kitsap Sun reports, "The man said she had woken him up to have relations, but then became disappointed and angry."
A physiologist in Russia contends that women's provocative clothing contributes to disease and impotence in men. Leonid Kitaev-Smyk's study cites statistics that men in the Muslim East have the lowest rates of prostate cancer and concludes that "70 percent of impotency is a natural defensive reaction to stresses caused by constant unsatisfied arousal." He told Pravda, "Women dig a grave for men's health with their bare legs and low-cut dresses. Every nice girl going on a date with a sexy top on will make only one man happy and a dozen men on her way will suffer from her revealing looks."
A New Jersey woman reported witnessing a nearly naked lawyer masturbating in a mall parking lot has filed suit against the man. "The suit claims [Gretchen] Furlong was emotionally scarred and humiliated after [Christopher] Daul, 'in full view of the plaintiff, was masturbating in the parking lot wearing only his socks and a hands-free set for his cell phone,'" the Star-Ledger reports.
A man in India allegedly made a sex tape of his wife and threatened to release it unless her family gave him a larger dowry. "The bride's family had already given the groom's family some 400,000 rupees (US$10,000) worth of jewelry," according to the Daily Telegraph. "But the husband allegedly demanded the wife's family pay an additional 8 million rupees (US$200,000) in dowry."
TV journalist Barbara Walters has admitted to having an affair with then-Senator Ed Brooke, the country's first African-American elected to the Senate, in the 1970s. Walters made the announcement during a taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show, telling Oprah that she was "certainly infatuated" with the former Senator, but didn't make the affair public for fear that it would "ruin their careers," reports the Orlando Sentinel. A detailed account will appear in Walter's new memoir, Audition.
The "D.C. Madam," recently convicted of running a prostitution ring catering to Washington pols, hanged herself in Florida yesterday, the Washington Post reports. Deborah Jeane Palfrey was awaiting sentencing for federal racketeering charges. Palfrey maintained throughout her hearings that her clients paid upwards of $250 an hour for "quasi-sexual game-playing" and "erotic fantasy," but not sexual encounters.
A new bill introduced into Ecuador's Assembly calls for a "right to sexual enjoyment" for women, according to the UK Metro. Assembly member Maria Soledad Vela has championed the bill, claiming that it will take away the stigma of the country's women being seen as merely sexual or procreative objects. Notes Vela, "I never asked for the right to orgasm, only the right to enjoyment."
Sexologists concur that women get more satisfaction from sex at different times of the day, Croatian website Javno reports. In the early morning, women "are not in the mood to make love yet," but between 10 a.m. and noon "women's taste buds are very sharp" and it's a prime time for oral sex. At noon is when "women are at the top of their game" for sex. At 2 p.m., they start to feel sleepy again until 8 p.m. when their hormones increase and they're "prone to initiating sex, as well as experimenting."
A sexy supporter for Net neutrality is making an offer to virgins who support her cause. Tania Derveaux is "posing nearly nude online," MSNBC reports and is sending a message to virgins: "I will make love with every virgin who defends the Internet." Tania says that "an unusual amount of today's Internet users are virgin" and it's "a problem I intend to solve." One guy e-mailed with a request that Tania "'come over to make love to him' and also kick and punch him in his genitals."
Germans have better sex -- and more of it -- than the rest of the world, according to Germany's The Local. Results from a survey showed "55 percent of Germans older than 16 years of age have regular orgasms, compared to 48 percent of the rest of the world," and 80 percent of men "said they nearly or always climax during sex, while the worldwide average was 63 percent." Women in Germany are also more satisfied with sex; Results showed two-thirds said they were "satisfied with the intensity of their climax, compared to 54 percent of women across the world."
A Jimi Hendrix sex tape showing the guitar god servicing two brunettes has surfaced 40 years after it was filmed, according to tmz.com. "The tape is up close, personal and raunchy," tmz.com reports. "[D]uring the threesome, Hendrix loses his clothes but never sheds his legendary headband!"
Infamous escort Ashley Dupré is suing Girls Gone Wide honcho Joe Francis for $10 million. The Miami Herald reports, "Turning 23 Wednesday, Dupré was underage -- 17 -- when she ran into Francis' film crew outside Miami Beach's Chesterfield Hotel in March 2003. They got her drunk and filmed her flashing her breasts in hotel rooms, she claims in the suit."
Masseuses at Indonesian massage parlors are being required to wear chastity belts. "Drummed up by the local authorities of Batu, a tourist resort to the east of Java, this stern measure was hoped to prevent prostitution and keep up local appearances. Despite strong criticism from Meutia Fardia Hatta Swasono, minister for women's rights, the new measure could even be on its way to the capital," Jakarta, France 24 reports.
Sex workers at a New York City S&M club were arrested by undercover officers "for offering more than the standard whips, chains and ropes that other dungeons offer," Gothamist reports. Six women of Rebecca's Hidden Chamber -- "the polite dungeon" -- "allegedly offered to extend their services to full sexual intercourse for an additional $220."
A Long Island paralegal has filed an intellectual property suit against Victoria's Secret claiming the lingerie company stole her bra patent. "The bra, with its various hooks and eyelets, is something like the Micronaut of the undergarment world. By a complicated series of manoeuvres, it can be worn in as many as 100 ways," Canada's Chronicle-Herald helpfully explains.
In Tunisia, a man who was not physically present is accused of the rape of a 20-year-old woman during phone sex. "The intercourse did take place with all its details but verbally only," the woman's lawyer claims. Although the man never touched her, "a medical examination had determined that the woman was no longer a virgin," United Press International reports.
Oslo is the best city for prostitutes to make a living in Europe. "The average price for a 'number' in Oslo is $100, compared to [$32] in Germany," Norway's Aftenposten reports. This has resulted in a large influx of prostitutes to the city, most notably ones from Bulgaria.
A Canadian man was convicted of sexually assaulting his wife during a round of "kinky sex play." According to the Ottawa Sun, the woman says she didn't use their code phrase "tweety bird," to stop before passing out.
Qom, Iran is considered a modern-day "prostitution hot spot," despite the strict Islamic dress code for women. But determining which women are prostitutes is a tricky task, according to slate.com. "Sometimes a male go-between offers 'introductions,' at which point the prostitutes pull aside their headgear so the potential client can get a glimpse, but the whole process is fairly subtle."
A Tennessee woman may be charged with murder after her husband died in "an apparent bondage session gone wrong." The woman supposedly left him alone in their house for 20 hours in "panty hose with his arms and legs bound, a gag ball stuffed in his mouth -- which had been covered in duct tape -- and his head wrapped. The only opening for air were slits for his nostrils," reports ABC.com.
Harvard University has acquired extensive passages on Norman Mailer's sex life. Penned by the late author's ex-lover, Carole Mallory, "one, written as part of an unpublished novel called When I Fall in Love, was composed as a bet with Mailer that she could stretch an account of their lovemaking to 50 pages long." Mallory told the Telegraph, "It's very steamy. Norman was a real man and he knew what he was doing."
A burglar who broke into a California sex shop failed to open the cash register, but ended up with the lower half of Jenna Jameson instead, the O.C. Register reports. A stolen rubber replica of the porn star, made of "Ultra Realistic skin" and worth $250, is described as "open-ended for easy cleaning." LAist.com quips, "Fullerton Police are interested in anyone with information regarding the burglar -- besides the fact that he is probably broke and horny."
"Brothel visits and adult channels in hotel rooms cannot be claimed on expenses" by employees of Germany's Deutsche Bank, U.K.'s The Independent reports. A memo to senior executives said, "Deutsche Bank does not approve of any adult entertainments, and such expenditures will not be reimbursed." Apparently the bank's credit card expenses were getting out of hand and now all 78,000 employees of the bank will receive the "no-naughtiness-on-the-firm's-plastic missive."
With titles like "Ivy League Egg Donor Wanted," ads are popping up in local newspapers and websites from infertile women seeking intelligent female students to donate their eggs, reports the Yale Daily News. "One Web site, offering $35,000 is looking for a 'Genius Asian donor'... working on a university degree from a world-class university." An ad on EliteDonors.com offers $100,000 for an attractive, athletic, Caucasian donor who is "5'9" or taller."
Stand-up comic Aries Spears, formerly of MadTV, pled guilty to harassment after he "high-fived" a woman's breast at a comedy club in Manhattan's Meatpacking District. The New York Daily News reports that Spears got off with probation but will face jail time if any further complaints are filed against him within the next year. Said the district attorney prosecuting Spears: "You can't high-five a woman's breast."
A strip club in Russia convinced an Orthodox priest to bless its dance floor with a prayer reading and holy water ceremony. Studio 74's owners "wanted to improve the atmosphere -- just to make things a bit more positive," according to Pravda. Father Nikolay said he was duped into the ceremony under false pretenses, having been told the establishment was "a store."
Insect researchers at Oxford University genetically modified the brain cells of fruit flies so that the females believed they were male. The females demonstrated courtship behavior previously only seen in males, and this leads the scientists to believe that male and female brain chemistry is very similar. The findings may pinpoint what the "master switches" are that set brains on "male" or "female" mode.
"More evangelical couples -- once embarrassed and prudish about sex -- are now leaving their Christian inhibitions at the bedroom door," reports ABC News. Popular Christian website intimateissues.com says, "We discovered that God's word is holy and hot...filled with invaluable wisdom for our sexual relationship." TheMarriageBed.com, run by pastors Paul and Lori Byerly, "covers topics like anal, oral and phone sex; masturbation and role-playing; fetishes; bonding; and spanking."
British rock icon Marianne Faithful plays a grandmother-turned-prostitute in the indie flick Irina Palm, which made its U.S. debut last night at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. Faithful stars as the gifted "wanking widow" who endures work hazards like "penis elbow" in order to buy medicine for her sick grandchild, the Minnesota Daily reports.
A lawyer who made a hand gesture simulating masturbation at the bench in front of an Austin judge faces up to six months in jail for contempt of court. Defense attorney Adam Reposa later explained he "was agitated because a client in a driving-while-intoxicated case wanted to accept a plea bargain," according to the American-Statesman.
Indianapolis tops the list of most sexually satisfied cities, according to a survey by Men's Health magazine. "Researchers analyzed data on condom sales, birth rates from the U.S. Census Bureau and sales figures from two top sex-toy retailers to compile the ranking," Reuters reports.
"Angelle L. Brook," a computer-generated composite based on a survey of British women, has been dubbed "the most seductive woman of all time." According to U.K.'s Telegraph, "Angelle combines [Kelly] Brook's hair and body, [Jennifer] Lopez's nose and [Angelina] Jolie's lips, wrapped up in 'the most seductive dress of all time': Marilyn Monroe's white halter dress from The Seven Year Itch."
Some people get turned on by sneezes. Members of online communities like the Sneeze Fetish Forum "swoon over a delicate 'htchew!' accompanied by a fine mist. Some like the breathy buildup, some like the release afterward. Others prefer them in series, one after another after another, in a phlegmy trifecta," ABC News reports.
A fisherman in Taiwan had his genitals struck by lightning while trolling off a reef on the coast. The man was using a fiber-carbon fishing pole, which can conduct electricity, and the bolt struck the pole and then traveled down into the man's privates. Over 20 percent of the man's body was burned, and it is unknown if his sexual function has been hampered, The China Post reports.
According to a study done by the Kinsey Institute at the University of Indiana, young men aged 18 to 24 are threatened by older, more sexually experienced women, for fear of "measuring up." The study takes a unique closer look at the differences between men, rather than differences between the sexes, debunking myths that "all men find the same things sexy." Among the finds, it was determined that as men get older they get much more picky about their choice of sexual partners, U.K.'s Metro reports.
A lack of sperm donors in South Australia has led to worries that women will turn to turkey basters in hopes of getting pregnant. Fertility clinic director Dr. Trevor Mudge told the Daily Telegraph that "the drive to reproduce would prompt people to turn to less safe methods of getting pregnant. 'They may well be accessing sperm and using a turkey baster.'"
A former Italian porn star is looking to break into politics with a little help from her fans. To get their attention, Milly D'Abbraccio has "plastered images of her derriere all around the Eternal City in a bid to win a seat in Rome's city hall," Reuters reports. D'Abbraccio said voters "don't want to see these politicians' faces anymore," and she is the "derriere of the Socialist party." Although she has no political experience, D'Abbraccio "did play a powerful lawmaker in an adult film called L'Onorevole."
Brooklyn-based contemporary artist Spencer Tunick is looking for 2,008 soccer fans to strip down for the Euro 2008 soccer tournament. Tunick, well-known "for photographing thousands of people in the nude" from Amsterdam to Australia, wants to get 2,008 naked fans to pose in Vienna's Ernst Happel Stadium, The Daily Observer reports. The national railway in Austria even offered "free travel to the first 2,008 men and women who sign up to bare it all for the May 11 spectacle."
A home in Apopka, Florida where a reality show titled Pauper to Princess was being filmed was previously used for the broadcast of "live streaming sex acts for an adult-entertainment Web site," the Orlando Sentinel reports. A police commander said the house "was being peddled on the Internet as the X-Rated Dream House." A contestant for the new reality show discovered video of their chaperone "having sex with another woman on the kitchen counter." Zambouros said the girls were shocked and replied, "Oh, my God, that's where we eat breakfast."
Students at Virginia's Randolph College took a field trip to the Chicken Ranch, the famous legal brothel outside Las Vegas. The trip was part of a course on American consumerism, and included a tour and Q&A with two of the Ranch's prostitutes. The head of the school's American Culture Program told FOXNews.com that students were granted "the option to either opt out or express reservations," but none of the students -- or their guardians -- did.
Nearly half of Italian couples aren't having sex, according to a new study. The head researcher says Italian men's sex drives have declined "threefold during the past decade," adding that there's been a large increase in men choosing the services of prostitutes or "virtual encounters on the Internet" over having intercourse with their partners.
The silent, 15-minute, black and white sex film that appears to depict a clothed Marilyn Monroe performing oral sex on an unidentified man has been sold for $1.5 million. The reel's broker contends that in the mid-'60s the FBI tried to prove JFK was the unseen man. "The FBI agent that I interviewed said J. Edgar Hoover was completely obsessed," he told Reuters. "A team of nine individuals were analyzing the tape inside a lab. J. Edgar Hoover brought in a few prostitutes who allegedly had been with President Kennedy and they tried to ... see if that was really President Kennedy."
In an effort to curb STDs, the U.S. Army is distributing 2,000 free condoms at certain army gyms and clubs in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Stars and Stripes reports "Clear plastic bins began showing up late Friday afternoon with stickers that read: 'Readiness doesn't end when the uniform comes off.'" A spokesman for Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation said, "If we can stop at least one [STD case], we've made a difference."
Tera Patrick, Jesse Jane, Ron Jeremy, the Bang Brothers and dozens more adult personalities will be on hand for the third annual Exxxotica adult entertainment convention this weekend at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Activities include a PFL pillow fight exhibition, the Nearly Nude Mechanical Bull Riding Championships, a Ms. Exxxotica pageant and The Screaming O contest.
A United Kingdom farmer plans to open a swingers' club in his barn. "Later this month Roger Stanbury is launching Club Vanilla, a monthly adult party in a converted barn on his caravan park in Horsewell, Devon, complete with Jacuzzi, dance floor and 'play areas'. For a £45 entrance fee, adventurous couples can enjoy a cocktail and watch an "exotic floor show," avail themselves of free condoms and make use of large double beds in public rooms," the Telegraph reports.
Drinking coffee or orange juice could lead to immediate sexual arousal warns Thailand's Pavena Hongsakula Foundation for Women and Children. "One young woman, nicknamed Bee, told the foundation that a man she first met over the internet and then in person at his house offered her a cup of instant coffee he said was a new formula health drink. 'Bee drank the coffee and shortly afterward felt a surge of arousal and an instant desire for sex,' said Pavena Hongsakula, who leads the foundation," according to the New Zealand Herald.
Television shows with a focus on sex -- along with game shows -- remain the most popular programs in most countries. "Sex and science, sex and spirituality and sex for the sake of sex -- anything goes, according to International Medias Consultants Associes (IMCA) and Mediametrie, a French television audience monitoring firm, which produced the survey," Agence France Presse reports.
A person's facial features can influence the perception of their sexual proclivities, according to a study from the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. Seven hundred men and women were shown composites of different faces, and were broadly correct in "judg[ing] someone's sexual strategy simply from looking at their face," for instance which faces were interested in commitment, and which were just after a fling. It is unclear how the attractiveness of each face played into this judgment.
Of the 800 men tested by Switzerland's military service, more than half of them had low-potency sperm, reports Swissinfo. The results came from examining the number, mobility and speed of the men's sperm. Disrupting environmental factors may be a possible cause, but so far researchers can find no explanation for the disappointing results.
Gossip blogger Perez Hilton has sued gossip blogger Jonathan Jaxson for defamation after Jaxson claimed online that Hilton "solicited sexual favors in exchange for help promoting [Jaxson's] nascent website," reports The Smoking Gun. In addition to the allegedly slanderous claims, Hilton notes that Jaxson invaded his privacy by posting Hilton's personal cell phone number online, and caused him "shame and mortification." Counters Jaxson, "I have not lied about him. What Perez did to me was hurtful."
Christina Aguilera's new neighbors are complaining that the singer and her husband make too much of a ruckus when "skinny-dipping by moonlight" in the backyard, according to Star magazine. The website reports the couple "can be heard loudly frolicking in the pool of their $11.5 million Beverly Hills mansion around midnight." One source told the Star, "they don't just splash around -- they laugh, scream, swear and make sexy noises."
Sex offenders in Louisiana are one step closer to being sentenced to castration in addition to jail time, after a ruling by a Senate committee. The author of the bill said these procedures "can help sex offenders lower their sex drive and possibly keep them from committing future sex crimes." If the bill passes through further Senate debate, judges will have the authority to order first-time offenders to undergo chemical castration, but "the offender can opt for physical castration on a first or second offense," the Times Picayune reports.
Cab drivers are promoters of safe sex in Leigh, England, a town outside of Greater Manchester. As part of the "Be Safe" campaign with Bluestar Taxis, "men and women using taxis at night will be given condoms on request by the driver," the Leigh Reporter reports. The goal of the campaign is to protect against STDs, in particular chlamydia. The cab drivers will distribute the condoms that come in a "special pack" with instructions for use and information on the local Chlamydia Screening Programme.
A new book debunks the notion that married men crave more sex than their wives. The author of The Sex-Starved Wife: What to Do When He's Lost Desire found that 60 percent of women she surveyed "wanted at least as much, if not more, sex than their husbands." In an interview with Time.com, she says, "Low desire in men has got to be America's best-kept secret."
A condom factory promising to "preserve the Amazon rain forest" has opened in Brazil. "The latex will be drawn from towering jungle trees in the sprawling Chico Mendes forest reserve by small time rubber tappers who protect their trees -- and thus the rain forest -- to ensure their livelihood, the Health Ministry said in a statement." The estimated 100 million condoms produced each year will be distributed for free by the government, according to the International Herald Tribune.
Size doesn't matter -- at least as far as male beetles in Japan are concerned. Smaller beetles "stay at feeding sites with big males and then sneakily attempt to have sex with females behind the backs of the other males," MSNBC.com reports. With generally larger testicles, the tiny beetles emit "more competitive" sperm than large males.
A charter fishing boat service that offers topless women as mates has been booted from the city marina in Fort Pierce, Florida. The co-owner of Smokin' Em Charters told the Palm Beach Post, "The women come to the boats fully clothed. They wait to undress until away from shore, and those going topless wait to take their tops off until the boat is three miles out and in international waters." Smokin' Em has since moved next door to the Harbortown Marina.
After her husband died having sex with two prostitutes in a Belgian brothel, the widow is suing for £1.1 million. Her lawyer claims "the vice girls gave him electric shocks with a sex toy before he died of a heart attack" and "encouraged him to drink champagne and take ecstasy tablets," Scotland's Daily Record reports. The "wealthy businessman" was reportedly visiting the brothel as a Christmas treat.
It was a frisky weekend for the residents of the usually sedate Saginaw, Michigan. "Three times last weekend, Thomas Township police answered calls to interrupt nude couples in cars in the throes of passion," the Saginaw News reported. A police sergeant marveled, "We might get one call like this a year, but we had three in one weekend. Maybe it's the warmer weather or kids on spring break, but whatever it is, they're getting eager."