[Melbourne, September 17. Image via Getty]

• Oh God: It is Spanx for your arms! Or rather, industrial strength tape to hide your excess skin on your upper arms.• More women are entering sports journalism but they are mostly expected to look hot, not to know anything about sports.• Here are some photos of Madonna's rumored Brazilian boy toy, Jesus Luz, who doesn't look a day over 16.• From Yves to Men's Vogue, Refinery29 made a list of the top 50 fashion-related brands/magazines/people that the world lost in 2008.• Don't just wrap up presents this holiday season: Trojan has launched a new holiday campaign where artists create short videos to promote condoms and Trojan donates condoms for every time a video is watched. • The Fug Girls list off the ten things they learned from celebrity fashion this year. Top of their list? Shopping a lot doesn't make you a fashion designer and always do the opposite of Solange Knowles, sartorial-wise.• Racialicious has republished the personal essay "The Not Rape Epidemic" from Yes Means Yes.• Two English women who worked in the Land Girls army during WWII reunited recently only to find that they lived just minutes away from each other.• Stella McCartney is opening up a shop near the Jardins du Palais Royal in Paris.• Craving a Burberry umbrella? Not sure on what is the proper etiquette for umbrella sidewalk-sharing? Read the Bumbershoot Manifesto.• Everything you ever wanted to know about the sexual life of spiders, but were too afraid to ask. • British scientists are working on a "sex chip" to stimulate pleasure centers of the brain with electric shocks.• With the economy going down, will women splurge on simple luxuries like lipstick over previous extravagant splurges? Economists think they will and they are calling it "the lipstick effect."•

Obviously, men can do whatever the hell they want with their facial hair. I would never say that a woman shouldn't do something because men don't find it attractive. But with mustaches, you have to wonder: Why? WHY? Unless you pair your stache with a little chin action, like a goatee or beard (case in point: Orlando Bloom) it's just not attractive. Except to Maria, who says: "I LOVE mustaches. Not flimsy little peach fuzz 'staches but full Sellecks."

Maybe you love John Waters or Don King. Fair enough. But I propose that mustaches can never truly be sexy, because if they don't remind you of your dad, they'll remind you of other dudes with mustaches, and that is not a good thing. The following photos help illustrate why:

1. If he has has curly hair, you'll realize you're kissing the guy from Welcome Back Kotter. Or Gene Shalit. Not sexy.

2. If the dude is blond, you might be tricked into thinking you're hooking up with Westley from The Princess Bride. But you're not. Also, it looks like a broom. And that's not sexy.

3. This style could be called The Keith Hernandez. It is also: Not sexy.

4. Some staches make guys look more mean. America's Most Wanted: Not sexy.

5. Pat O'Brien is up for the Goulet award. But you just can't date a man with a stache like this. He will leave you a voicemail that says, "You are so fucking hot. I am so fucking into you." Not sexy.

6. End of story.

Worst of Playgirl: Trash Staches [Fey Friends]
Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year [American Mustache Institute]

The Times' Julie Bosman thinks it's amusing that the same magazines and televisions that cover the ins and outs of celebrity breeding, fighting, sexing and weight-loss are also covering (some) of the ins and outs of the campaign — and not just where it intersects with celebrity, as was the case in 2004. What's even more interesting is that the editors are all doing it not as a public-service but because its what readers actually want!

It is also because having a woman and a young, photogenic man in the race hits the right notes, demographically speaking — the vast majority of readers of magazines like US Weekly are women. Many of those readers are, for the first time, paying close attention to the presidential primaries, and turning politics into dinner-party conversation.

Anyway, as a woman who writes for two women's sites and almost exclusively about politics, I have to say, I'm not really surprised that women are interested in politics and I don't think it's just because Barack is cute or Hillary's a woman. (Maybe it has something to do with old adage about Washington, D.C. and the town being like Hollywood for ugly people.) I might have approached Anna when I was let go from a certain political website and asked to keep doing Crappy Hour and other stuff, but, interestingly Glamour also approached me talk about writing for Glamocracy. Both of these places pay me to write about politics because both Jezebel readers and Glamour readers want to read about politics and talk about issues and rally for candidates and generally act like responsible citizens of this democracy while they also talk about Rock of Love or Heidi Montag's bad attitude. Many women, in fact, enjoy walking, chewing gum and thoughtfully debating the merits of health care policy and the problems with race in America today while cooing over cute shoes. I just hope it continues after the election because I'll still have bills to pay come December.

Sex? Yawn. Politics? That's Hot! [New York Times]