September 23, 2011 – Larry Flynt has placed ads in Texas asking, "Have you had a gay or straight sexual encounter with Governor Rick Perry? Can you provide documented evidence of illicit sexual or intimate relations with the governor?

September 23, 2011 – The facts: Roughly half of adult males in the US are infected with HPV. Some strains, passed along to women through sexual contact, can cause cervical cancer. More »

September 23, 2011 – Recently, I learned that someone had given a paper at MIT on Scott Baio's Twitter beef with this very site. It was meant to be presented orally — More »

(Jezebel.com ) September 23, 2011 – [Gawker]

September 23, 2011 – A prime job opens up, and the person who's discussed as an excellent choice happens to be on maternity leave for the next four months. She gets passed over. More »

September 22, 2011 – HP is apparently about to name former eBay CEO and failed California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman their CEO. Just in case you needed to understand the crapfests that led us here, a brief recap. More »

September 22, 2011 – Copyranter draws our attention to these ads out of Singapore in opposition to sex trafficking. (There's also one against exploitative domestic employment agencies).

September 22, 2011 – Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman was invited to speak at St. Francis University — until the college was criticized by the Cardinal Newman Society for having a pro-choice speaker on campus. More »

September 22, 2011 – "My hair is called an Afro," says Isis Brantley in the video above. The Dallas hairdresser hasn't cut her hair since she was 12 years old. She says it was that hair that led her to be chased down by a TSA guard and subjected to an extra patdown. More »

September 21, 2011 – A study to be published in the Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care says that the standard days method of natural family planning, using "beads" to tell you when you're fertile, is more than 95 percent effective in avoiding pregnancy. More »

September 21, 2011 – I was sure all the men in suits in the lobby knew what I was doing. I hadn't expected it to be in an office building, or to have to choose from a list of what felt like a million names to find it. More »

September 21, 2011 – Sarah Palin still gets asked about running for president, and since she doesn't have to officially declare til the end of October, she might as well soak up whatever attention she can in the process. More »

September 20, 2011 – Los Angeles County once had 36 clinics testing and treating sexually transmitted infections. That was in 1996; today, thanks to budget cuts, there are only twelve. More »

September 20, 2011 – According to news reports out of Saudi Arabia, Saudi women are outraged that the government plans to allow Moroccan maids into the country to replace Filipina and Indonesian women, out of the belief that Moroccan women will seduce their husbands. More »

September 19, 2011 – Slutwalks started after a Toronto cop suggested women could avoid rape by not dressing like sluts. They went way beyond Toronto, but it appears that the women of Jakarta had a more local example for their miniskirted march. Recently, after reports that a 27-year-old woman had been gang-raped in a... More »

September 19, 2011 – Last night, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart won its ninth Emmy in a row for outstanding variety, music or comedy series. The show also won a writing award, the acceptance of which prompted New Yorker television critic Nancy Franklin to tweet, "Jon Stewart's writing staff: More »

September 16, 2011 – Here is a video of a man dressed like Spongebob Squarepants dancing on Hollywood boulevard — until he's beaten on by two young women with dyed red hair. More »

September 16, 2011 – Michele Bachmann is continuing to all-out make up stuff about the HPV vaccine, but she never said she's a scientist. As it happens, one of them just bet her $10,000 to prove that there is a real person who developed "mental retardation" from Gardasil. More »