The city of Los Angeles could lose its unofficial title as the "pornography capital of America" after the local council sponsored a move to ensure male performers wear condoms.

VICTORIAN children as young as five are being referred to specialist programs to address sexually abusive behaviour - and the number of minors exhibiting such behaviour is exploding.

The availability of pornography through portable devices drastically affects a child's understanding of acceptable sexual behaviour, according to experts, and is being blamed for the rapid escalation in cases.

A better start in life makes males more attractive to females - for mosquitofish at least.

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered female mosquitofish prefer males with a strong nutritional upbringing.

The preference is there even when the males are otherwise identical to previously undernourished fish.

The Maldives government has ordered all spas in resorts to be closed after protests by an Islamist party which claimed they were being used as a front for prostitution.

A prostitute has appeared in court in Zimbabwe charged with assault after she bit the penis of a client who refused to pay her.

Record numbers of young Japanese do not have boyfriends or girlfriends, and many do not want one, according to a survey by the country's government.

The MS-13 gang got its start among immigrants from El Salvador in the 1980s. Since then, the gang has built operations in 42 states, mostly out West and in the Northeastern United States, where members typically deal in drugs and weapons.

But in Fairfax County, Va., one of the wealthiest places in the country, authorities have brought five cases in the last year that focus on gang members who have pushed women, sometimes very young women, into prostitution.

A REGISTER for sex offenders would protect children from danger, the West Australian Premier says.

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The State Government has introduced to Parliament legislation to create a three-tiered register of sex offenders.

The first tier would allow the public to see the names, photographs and personal details of sex offenders who have gone underground by failing to comply with their reporting conditions.

Tier two would allow the public to access photographs of repeat or highly dangerous offenders living in the same postcode and adjoining postcodes.

Tier three would allow guardians to make a request regarding a specific person who has regular unsupervised contact with their child.

The inordinate delay on the part of the Congress-led UPA government in enacting laws to prevent sexual assault on women is taking a heavy toll and exposing them to various forms of violence, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Polit Bureau member and MP Brinda Karat said.

Ms. Karat was here to participate in the 12th State conference of the All-India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) which concluded on Wednesday. Later, speaking to journalists she alleged that legislation intended to protect women and girls from sexual assault and abuse were pending for several years due to the government's apathy.

Three weeks after the charges of sexual assault in a New York hotel, repercussions from the Strauss-Kahn affair continue to reverberate across France - as a row over new allegations against an unnamed political figure shows. ...

The privacy v public interest debate blew up in extraordinary fashion this week with the impromptu remarks of a former education minister apparently accusing another former minister of indulging in illegal under-age sex.

US and British papers take a different approach
Luc Ferry, who is also an accomplished writer and media commentator, was trying to make the point that in France - unlike in other countries - there are laws that prevent the reporting of private peccadilloes.

He told a Canal-Plus TV chat show that he had it on good authority that a certain ex-minister had been "caught at an orgy in Morocco with young boys". He did not divulge any names.

The rumour was widely known, he said, but had never been reported because the ex-minister was protected by the law.

A VICTORIAN grandmother who killed her husband after he constantly demanded kinky sex has been jailed for 11 years.

Eileen Mary Creamer, 53, was the first Victorian woman to be found guilty of defensive homicide.

She bashed her husband David, possibly with a South African tribal stick, before stabbing him in the abdomen during a fight at their Moe home in February 2008.

During her trial Creamer claimed her husband made constant demands for her to have sex with other men in front of him and had been violent and abusive to her in the lead-up to his death.

A man accused of murdering his wife told detectives they were working on the physical side of their relationship because she wanted more sex.

Robin Garbutt, 45, denies murdering Diana Garbutt, 40, above the Post Office in Melsonby, North Yorkshire, in March last year.

Mr Garbutt told officers he attended Relate sessions with his wife and that she wanted to have more sex.

The jury has already heard Mrs Garbutt struck up relationships with three men.

Court life in the dying days of Imperial China was a hotbed of sex and scandal, according to a salacious memoir by a British sinologist that has lain unpublished for more than half a century.

Entertainment for Peter Rolih's pre-wedding buck's party was inspired by that famous scene of the woman expelling the ping pong balls in the comedy film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. But this time the projectiles were not little celluloid objects but something rather more solid. And when the scantily clad exotic dancer performed her party trick - shooting dildos at the guests from her private parts, best man Darwin architect Jure Skumavc, 31, found himself in the firing line. As the Rupert Murdoch owned Northern Territory News reports this morning, Mr Skumavc was injured by the bullet-shaped, pink, sex toy - measuring about 12cm in length.

Mr Skumavc was still sporting a scar on his forehead at Mr Rolih's wedding nearly three weeks after being dinged by the artificial dong. The darting dildo drama unfolded on December 28 in a rented two-bedroom unit in Brisbane.

Mr Skumavc said about eight other friends joined Mr Rolih for the party. ...

He said the pink projectile was flying an impressive 7m across the room and looping about 2m high.

"It wasn't a strong shot (when it hit me in the head)," he said. "It probably just landed on an awkward sort of angle."

"She was shooting it through the room from one corner to the other," he said.

"Other people got it in their chest and knees. I was the only one bleeding. It was my turn and it landed straight on my forehead.

"She started apologising straight away but I just said it was fine ... then I touched my forehead and there was blood."

Mr Skumavc had difficulties describing the tearaway toy in detail.

"I don't have a massive experience with dildos," he said. The scars left by the offending object have since healed, but Mr Skumavc said the story was still very much alive.

"People keep asking how close my face was (to cause that sort of injury)," he said.

You will find the inspirational scene from Priscilla here.

Italian prosecutors have uncovered a series of properties in Milan that were used to accommodate a stable of young women that were paid to perform striptease for Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, investigators have revealed.

Sexual and civic education in schools in Europe is an "attack" on religious freedom, Pope Benedict XVI said on Monday in a traditional annual address to foreign diplomats to the Vatican.

"I cannot remain silent about another attack on the religious freedom of families in certain European countries which mandate obligatory participation in courses of sexual or civic education," the Pope told the ambassadors.

SEX-starved jewel beetles - usually seen hanging like baubles off native Christmas trees - have been caught trying to mate with beer bottles.

Researchers believe the 20mm insects are mistaking sun-glistened bumps on the bottom of discarded bottles with the female of the species.

Jewel beetles are abundant in WA and are important for pollinating native plants - including the WA Christmas tree (Nuytsia floribunda), which is only found in the South-West.

The insects are most active during the hot summer months, after sometimes spending years living under the bark of trees.

But now the females are being left high and dry as males chase bottle over booty.

Silvio Berlusconi's hold on power looked more fragile than ever after his government was defeated in parliament and new claims emerged of starlets being supplied for parties at one of his mansions.

I attended the UK premiere of the Errol Morris documentary Tabloid and, despite laughing out loud several times, I came away somewhat less than happy.

The subject of the film, Joyce McKinney, was a sad character, and the newspaper saga in which she figured does reflect badly on the popular journalism agenda.

For those who were not around in 1977, those who might have forgotten if they were around and those who never knew, or cared, anyway, McKinney became briefly famous after a young Mormon missionary claimed she had kidnapped him, chained him to a bed and raped him.

McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming who hailed from North Carolina, was arrested by British police. She immediately claimed that the missionary, Kirk Anderson, had been complicit, but also admitted: "I loved Kirk so much I would have skied down Mount Everest in the nude with a carnation up my nose."

Although Americans remain sexually active "well into old age (80+)" only one in five men and one in four women over the age of 50 uses a condom, according to the study, which was published in a special edition of the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Teenagers, meanwhile, are much more vigilant about condom use, if they are having sex at all - which a majority of US teens are not.

Schools need to do more to make it clear to teachers that sexual relationships with their students are illegal, a judge has said.

The message must be reinforced that whether or not they teach the student themselves, it is a criminal offence for them to have sex with an under-age pupil at their school, Victorian County Court judge Liz Gaynor said.

Judge Gaynor's comments came during a pre-sentence hearing for country Victorian teacher Danial John Boyce, 29, who pleaded guilty to sexual penetration of a child under 16 in his care, supervision or authority.

Screen icon Humprey Bogart slept with an estimated 1,000 women, according to a new book about his life.

Tourists visiting Western Australia's Pilbara are being told to give mating turtles plenty of space.

The Department of Environment says September is mating season for turtles and it is important they are not disturbed to ensure they breed in their natural surroundings.

Marine turtles travel long distances to breed, with some swimming more than 2,600 kilometres to find their perfect match.

Female marine snails living off the Perth coast are growing male sex organs on their heads after exposure to the chemical TBT, according to local researchers.

Curtin University researchers have revealed the snails are suffering from imposex, a condition that involves the development of a second sex organ after being exposed to the chemical.

Unlike garden snails, which are hermaphrodites, this species of marine snail has distinct sexes.

SNEAKY sex with a male other than your partner makes for healthier young, at least when it comes to the exquisitely plumaged Gouldian finch, Australian researchers have found.

The female Gouldian finch regularly cheats on its mate to maximise the chance of robust offspring, even though the male is more likely to shirk fathering tasks if she is found out, Macquarie University biologists Simon Griffith and Sarah Pyke have discovered.

A CONVICTED stalker with a self-confessed "fetish for children's school shoes" has been remanded in custody for alleged breaches of his intensive correction order.

Errol Lee Guy, 44, was convicted in the District Court in October last year of three counts of unlawfully stalking school boys.
The Kelvin Grove man was placed under an intensive correction order forbidding him to go within 200m of schools and prohibiting him from using public transport from 7am to 9am and 2pm to 4pm.

Guy appeared in the Magistrates Court in Brisbane today accused of three breaches of his order.

THE rise of raunch culture and the ''advanced consumerist'' culture of Western countries are creating new pressures on young women to have sex early and against their will, experts say.
La Trobe University sociologist Anastasia Powell says the sexualisation or pornification of society - the preponderance of sexualised imagery in media, music and other popular culture - has done little to empower young women.

MORE than 300 Queensland teachers are under investigation for inappropriate behaviour as new details emerge of deplorable acts in schools. Documents obtained by The Courier-Mail print edition under Right to Information laws reveal almost all 26 teachers who had their registrations suspended or cancelled in the past year were cited for sexual misconduct.
One state pre-school teacher, who was previously investigated for molesting young children, got his students to strip naked and paint each other while he took photos.
Another had a threesome with students in the back seat of his car after taking them to the Gay Pride march.
A long-term teacher did naked cartwheels in front of 12 year-old students on a school camp and entered their tents dressed in women's underwear.

A MAN who pleaded guilty to his 11th drive unlicensed charge believes his troubles began when he was stabbed in the back while having sex.

NT Supreme Court documents reveal Riddle was stabbed in the back while he was having sex and trying to organise a three-way orgy in November 2003.

Riddle was having intercourse with a woman in a caravan in Stuart Park, when he invited 19-year-old Terri Lee-Anne Roebuck - who was watching - to join in.

She then stabbed him in the back with a kitchen knife. Riddle paused in his sexual activity and noticed the knife sticking out of his back.

The sentencing remarks noted that Riddle, while he was trying to get the knife out of his back, "noticed ... that the female with whom he'd been having intercourse had left".

A brazen couple were caught on camera having sex in the middle of the street in Krefeldin, North Rhine-Westphalia.
The pair didn't even make the effort to find a patch of grass or a bench. They were so horny that they couldn't wait until they got home – they did it right in the road, sex in public.

MELISSA Febos teetered in borrowed 18cm stilettos, towering over the body of a naked middle-aged man.

ebos, whose dungeon name was "Mistress Justine" (after the Marquis de Sade's submissive heroine), began her S&M double life in 2002. By day, she was a top-earning dominatrix; by night, a university student majoring in English.

"I didn't end up at the dungeon out of financial desperation," writes Febos in her upcoming memoir Whip Smart. "I was not a tourist but a member of that world, with reasons for being there similar to those of everyone else: an obsession with power."

the reality of sex tourism is anything but tender. Today beach resorts in developing countries such as Kuta in Bali, Negril in Jamaica and Boca Chica and Sosua in the Dominican Republic have become Third World pick-up spots for women tourists. Tour companies even market package deals as sex holidays for single and unaccompanied women. Forget Shirley Valentine, these women - who range from grandmothers to teens - don't want a long-term relationship. And there's plenty of live flesh on sale.

PUTRAJAYA: Three Muslim women became the first in the country to be caned for syariah offences.

Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein told a post-cabinet press conference on Wednesday that the three were found guilty of having illicit sex.

Older philandering men are a major cause of unsafe abortions among young girls in Central Province.

A study by researchers from Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya found that although older men were responsible for unwanted pregnancies among young girls, they also threatened to kill their daughters who got children out of wedlock.

A MAN who admitted having sex with a sleeping woman has been found not guilty of rape after a jury agreed he was sleepwalking.

Trent John Pobar, 29, and his family all began crying as the foreman read out the unanimous "not guilty" verdict after three hours and 10 minutes.

Mr Pobar admitted to having sex with the woman at Katherine, but said he had a history of parasomnia - performing complex motor behaviours in his sleep - and had not done it voluntarily.

Sex romps at a Queensland resort are giving nudists a raw deal, say more serious naturists.

The White Cockatoo resort at Mossman in north Queensland hit the headlines last week with reports of poolside sex and partner swapping, and that was from its owners Tony and Lenore Fox.

The timely free exposure hasn't hurt their advertising campaign aimed at selling the resort for $1.5 million, with a flood of prospective national and international callers.

Sex may not be all that it's cracked up to be, according to some Australians at least, who have revealed in a survey they prefer curling up with a good book rather than their lover.

Among the alarming increase in child pornography cases to strike Japan in 2009 are a number of particularly disturbing incidents: Child porn made and sold by the children's own mothers.

In many cases, mothers or other relatives agreed to sell nude photographs of their children to men they met on Internet underwear shops. So far this year, at least 12 guardians have been arrested on child porn suspicions related to their own children.

A TWEED Heads pastor who preached "no sex before marriage" will fight to remain head of his church after being accused of having relationships with three women in his flock.

Bill Pryor, 69, board chairman with the Lakeside Christian Centre, was confronted by his fellow pastors last week after it was alleged he had relationships with younger women in his congregation after his wife died.

Mr Pryor announced to his congregation last weekend that he had been approached to resign and admitted he had strayed and should be forgiven.

Boys are being taken as "wives" by men in the Central Methodist Church in exchange for cash and the promise of a better life.

As the world marks the World Aids Day, the gay community in Kenya is at the centre of the theories about new HIV infections.

While there is a general concern over the high cases of new HIV infections among married couples, the fact that 60 per cent of men having sex with men (MSM) in Kenya are also having sex with women, appears to make them vulnerable to two sources of infection.

"These are married men, perhaps with a girlfriend, but are also involved in sexual relations with men," explained David Kuria, manager of the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALK).

The Bad Sex in Fiction Awards include some of writing's biggest names. So, do authors find it difficult to write about sex?

There is still a high demand for prostitutes in Malaysia — if official figures on the arrests of foreign call girls are any indication.

And one of the reasons for this steady demand is apparently busy, career-chasing wives.

Women's Aid Organisation vice-president Vicky Alahakone said in some cases, the wives were partly to blame for their men straying as they had unwittingly "abandoned" their husbands while trying to juggle careers and the household.

"Some husbands seek prostitutes to escape the dreariness of their daily lives by injecting some excitement into their mundane routines.

"It's like going out for dinner and having an exotic meal. Then, feeling full and satiated, they go home to the wife and kids.

FEMALE redback spiders eat male mates who do not spend enough time on foreplay.

To keep cranky females happy, their partners have to spend about 100 minutes on courtship, doing things such as vibrating their webs and rubbing their tummies.

But once the fickle babes are brought to a peak of amorous and receptive behaviour, they will let a stray male mate with them even if he hasn't done any courting at all.

If he's quick, he can do the business and then run off before she gets a chance to eat him.

Research by Maydianne Andrade and Jeffrey Stoltz of the University of Toronto in Canada found Australian redbacks chose males based on a courtship duration threshold.

F YOU happen to have been depressed by the past year, stand by for some good news - we're all going to be having more sexual intercourse in 2009.

The reason is that women's growing economic power around the world will give them more choices, and one of those choices, apparently, will be to have more sex.

The prediction is contained in The Futurist magazine which every year compiles the forecasts and predictions of assorted visionaries. It is now out with its Outlook for 2009 and Beyond.

He is such a thing of beauty I thought his photo should be preserved on Newsvine.
Thanks to Ombra for the suggested headline.

It's all about scent. Hidden in a man's smell are clues about his major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, which play an important role in immune system surveillance. Studies suggest that females prefer the scent of males whose MHC genes differ from their own, a preference that has probably evolved because it helps offspring survive: couples with different MHC genes are less likely to be related to each other than couples with similar genes are, and their children are born with more varied MHC profiles and thus more robust immune systems.
A study published in August in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, however, suggests that women on the pill undergo a shift in preference toward men who share similar MHC genes.

modeesty

And the sales pitch is not only heating up along the beach. In nightclubs, on the streets and at the racetrack, flesh is in fashion. Women, and increasingly men, are opting to dress down to the bare essentials when possible, often believing the more flesh they expose the sexier they become. Once, the mere sight of a naked knee was thought too prurient. Now, nearly every body part is on show and the fashion is about how low can you go — or how high, in the case of short-short skirts. Modesty is in short measure, as are T-shirts, skirts, dresses and swimsuits.

Laurie Nowell writes that the Australian sex industry is launching a new political party to counter the increasing influence of religious groups in politics and government. The Australian Sex Party hopes to be up and running by Friday, having secured 500 signatures and registration with the Australian Electoral Commission.

Authorities in China say almost all cases of top-level corruption involve sex.

State media says out of the 16 recent cases where high-ranking officials were sacked for corruption, 14 of the offenders had illicit lovers.

President Hu Jintao, who is currently in Australia for the APEC leaders' conference, has called the fight against corruption a matter of life and death for China's ruling Communist Party, which holds its key five-yearly congress next month.

A group of New Zealand vegans - people who do not eat any animal products - are shunning sex with meat eaters, claiming their bodies are made up of animal carcasses, a researcher said in a newspaper today.

A recall has been issued for batches of the "Top Gun for Men Herbal Extracts" pills after it was discovered to contain compound similar to the erection-enhancing drug Tadalafil.

Tadalafil is commonly referred to the "weekend pill", due to its long-lasting effect on men.

Fire has damaged an adult cinema in Melbourne's CBD.

the last person I performed the procedure on. In fact, it was actually for a couple in their 50s who'd seen the movie where the breaking of Aizome's hymen was filmed," the surgeon says. "They were really settled and had grandchildren and they were getting ready to go on the honeymoon they couldn't afford to take when they were young and first married. The husband asked me to put a hymen back on his wife for the trip.

A NSW north coast woman has been charged with bestiality and offensive conduct after allegedly being involved in an indecent act with a horse.