Brazilian reality TV contestant-turned entertainment reporter Sabrina Sato is, I guess, a pretty big fan of Justin Timberlake. Either that or giving people plastic models of her own ass presented in gift boxes.

Fertility declined in rural villages in India and Brazil with cable TV access — because, according to two studies, women are inspired by the relatable childless ladies on soap operas (but not, apparently, to kill/cheat/impersonate their twin sister).

Over on BuzzFeed, Copyranter has posted a series of ads from Brazil. Star Models is that country's branch of Ford Models* and the ads involve a glamorous fashion sketch placed side by side with a model Photoshopped to appear painfully thin. The tagline:

Last Saturday, an American woman and her French male companion were trapped on a public van in Rio de Janiero by three men. For six hours, they beat both and raped the woman as the suspects took turns driving the van. Finally, the couple was taken to an ATM at the outskirts of town to withdraw money before being…

It's possible to write a lengthy tome on hair and gender. In King Charles' day, it was totes cool for a dude to have long, lustrous locks; in the late '60s and '70s, counter-culture hippies and rockers from David Crosby to Lynyrd Skynyrd let their hair grow long and wild and free. In the '80s and '90s, we had Fabio,…

In case you missed it, for almost a week now there's been a jolly olde shitstorme a-brewing between a couple of British feminists and a whole lot of angry trans activists and allies. It started off innocuously enough—it could have begun and ended with a whimper if certain parties hadn't been such unyielding, bigoted…

The first rule of business? Know your customer. Brazilian sex workers are on it: The Association of Prostitutes is offering free English classes, since the Confederations Cup takes place in Brazil this June and the World Cup takes place in Brazil in June 2014. (Prostitution is legal in Brazil.)

A fleet-footed black-and-white cat was captured back on Dec. 31 by prison guards in Brazil's northeast Alagoas state after it was caught sneaking around with a little parcel of tools strapped to its body, which is both the cutest and cleverest jailbreak plan ever devised. It's also reason enough to take a long, hard…

At 6'8", a 17-year-old Brazilian girl named Elisany de Cruz Silva—we wrote about her back in 2010—has a rare form of gigantism caused by a benign tumor in her ptuitary gland (which doctors have since removed). Since the age of 13, she's suffered from severe joint pain and migraines, and her lifelong aspirations of…

So, that virgin auction just ended, and we have a winner. And by winner, we mean enormous loser, because what grown man buys a virgin off the internet? He's obviously not looking for a great sexual experience, and if it's for the novelty of having sex with a woman with an intact hymen, that's iffy seeing as that…

In "Nothing Good Ever Came From or Happened At a Beauty Pageant with the Exception of Alana Thompson" news, a Brazilian beauty queen hopeful has allegedly confessed to plotting the murder of her perceived #1 competitor. It's like Drop Dead Gorgeous came to life but super sad because it's real (but also kind-of less…

As part of its Fashion Week Internationale series, Vice has made a documentary that explores the various tensions that currently surround race, gender and body type in Rio de Janeiro's burgeoning fashion industry. As the city sits poised like an extremely fashionable ocelot to become the fifth of the preeminent…

If you dislike the idea of the Olympics being represented by logo that looks like a puzzle some mischievous housecat has broken into pieces, then you probably didn't like the London 2012 logo. The great thing about the Olympics, however, is that every four years, new graphic design teams and ad agencies have the…

Brazil, the land of talking exotic birds, is wrestling with a childbirth culture that has, in recent years, relied on interventionist procedures such as C-sections. More than half of all babies born in Brazil are delivered via cesarean, a figure, according to the Associated Press, that rises to 82 percent for women on…

You know it, you love it, you want it, so come and get it, doggystyle. That's what the in-flight magazine ad for a new Brazilian "love hotel" for dogs would say if dogs could read and make decisions about where they took their vacations. As it happens, no such ad currently exists, which is why it is my solemn duty to…

This week, an armed man entered a Brazilian luxury sex toy shop, tied up the clerk, and made off with a $4,000 18K gold-plated vibrator. Tragicomically, he didn't manage to swipe the vibe's charger as well, so whoever ends up with the high end play dick will have difficulty gilding her lilly.

This weekend's episode of Big Brother Brasil featured a disturbing scene: a female contestant apparently being touched by a costar while she slept. Now she thinks she may have been raped, and many are criticizing the show's producers for quite literally standing by and watching it happen.

People dance to the rhythm of samba in the 'Samba Train' in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday Dec. 3, 2011. The Samba Train, which normally is a commuter train, takes revelers once a year to a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro to attend music shows in commemoration of National Samba Day, which officially fell on Dec. 2.…

"Macaco Gordo" — or "The Fat Monkey" in English — is a 45-foot long, florescent-colored monkey that resides in the middle of a park in Sao Paolo, Brazil. This monkey statue is different, though, because he isn't made from bronze, stone, or even plaster of paris — he's made from 10,000 pairs of flip flops. The…