SACRAMENTO, CA — On Friday, California Attorney General Jerry Brown urged the state’s Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8, which adds a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. The move represented an about-face for Brown, who immediately after voters...

AUSTRALIA — While it may well be true that plenty of women weren’t in their right mind when they became pregnant, a recent study insists that there’s nothing wrong with women’s brains when they are pregnant — regardless of old wives’ tales to the contrary.According to...

BOWNESS, CUMBRIA — Calling a simulated sex scene between two men “pornography,” a chunk of the audience at a recent performance of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays walked out in the middle of an act.The theater company at The Old Laundry Theatre in Bowness,...

WASHINGTON, DC — The latex male condom is one of the least expensive and most effective forms of disease and pregnancy control – but it also has some of the most uncharitable things said about it. When the polyurethane female condom came along, both birth control users and...

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — The New South Wales Supreme Court has ruled that even though cartoon characters are not flesh and blood, they are people.The news came as something of a shock to Alan John McEwan and his defense team. McEwan was convicted on child porn charges in...

CAMARILLO, CA — Someone has a particularly sarcastic sense of humor, and the owner of the Christian-oriented movie-review site MovieGuide.org doesn’t think they’re funny.“This is a criminal attack on our ministry,” Dr. Ted Baehr said after an email purporting to be from him...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Imelda Marcos, one-time “Steel Butterfly” and widow of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos may have owned hundreds of pairs of shoes, but if recent raids by the Manila police department are any indication, she didn’t own any sex toys.More than $2,000...

WASHINGTON, DC — Once upon a time, the online menace could proudly proclaim at least a million people screwed – but thanks to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Internet denizens of all security levels may soon be able to say “thank you, please drive to jail!”Most loathed...

NEW DELHI, INDIA — A just-released report from India’s National Crime Record Bureau says the country’s cybercrime rate increased by more than 50-percent during 2007 — and porn was among the chief culprits.“Crime in 2007” indicates 99 porn-related cybercrime cases were...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Men always have been preoccupied with their sexual equipment. Now, though, an Australian researcher is convinced women are equally concerned about how what’s “down there” measures up to an elusive ideal.According to University of Sydney PhD candidate...