A group of Canadian women are suing the makers of Bayer’s popular oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin, saying they were not adequately warned about the pills’ adverse side-effects. Some women using the popular contraceptives report racing hearts, strokes and, in some cases, serious gallbl[...]
Porn: Decreases Sex Crimes?
Porn — does it lead to sexual assault? The question continues to fascinate us. A recent piece in The Scientist puts the data together to show a picture few of us were expecting: that as pornography becomes more available sex crimes decrease — or, at least, stay the same. What follows is [...]
March 9th, 2010 - 6:34 AM § in News, Politically Erect
Anti-Gay Senator Comes Out
Senator Roy Ashburn, a staunch anti-gay marriage Republican representing Bakersfield, whom we told you about yesterday, has acknowledged that he is gay. “I am gay and so those are the words that have been difficult for me for so long,” he said on KERN Newstalk 1180, the LA Weekly blogs r[...]
Under Surveillance
Sir M sent an email to me with a subject line that made my heart leap: “New Rule.” The message explained that I am to keep on my webcam on at all times when I’m at home so he can see if I’m there when he logs onto his computer. This way, he can easily drop [...][...]
Texting Is Dangerous? She Crashed While Bikiniscaping
“Crashes Car While Shaving Vag” was a trending topic on Twitter in the United States last night and our commitment to informing you here at Sex and the 405 prevents us from ignoring it simply based our distaste for the term “vag” and out undeniable urge to projectile vomit e[...]
Anti-Gay Marriage Senator Is Gay — And His District’s Paper Knew It
In case you’ve been living under a rock or having the kind of epic sex we’ve been having, you know that Roy Ashburn, a Republican senator from Bakersfield was arrested last week for a DUI after leaving a hip Sacramento gay haunt with a younger man. Ashburn “has a flawless record of[...]
It’s Never Too Complicated To A Cartoonist
Relationships are complicated! Every time we look at the stuff from which to pick on Facebook, we practically get nosebleeds. To this end, we submit the following cartoon by Rob Cottingham as a guide for the next Facebook overhaul: You laughed, admit it. Cartoon by Rob Cottingham, via Jalam1001. [...]
March 8th, 2010 - 9:00 AM § in Opinion
Women’s Day
As a man, I felt somewhat slighted when I saw the top ‘trending topic’ on Twitter this morning: “Happy Women’s Day.” Huh? This must be some sort of Twitter in-joke, like when everyone tried to fool their friends into thinking that some balloon-faced Canadian kid named &[...]
Swami Sex Tape Scandal
No one is immune to sex tapes! Not rockstars, actors, heiresses, politicians or spiritual leaders! Swami Nithyananda falls into the last category. According to his ashram, he’s “attending the Kumbh Mela” right now, which we’re pretty sure is the Indian version of skipping to[...]
Minx of Dreams
While we were in Manhattan up to absolutely no good, we happened to meet Andrea Grant, creator and writer of the comic MINX. Immediately drawn to the complex plot line and sexy heroine (based on Grant herself), we knew we had to share her with you. So we asked her to take a time out [...][...]
Adventures in Decreased Productivity: Mahalo Answers
Our editrix was over at the Mahalo offices last week where she did a few more things than simply scandalize the employees there. Their answer site has a NSFW (Not Safe For Work) category! Check out some of the stuff we stumbled across. OK, fine, we didn’t — Mahalo’s newest acquisi[...]
Make Your Own Dildo!
“Every single holiday, a dick in a box,” sang Justin Timberlake. And boy, do we like the idea of taking that beautiful cock of yours with us. Well, guess what — we can. Introducing the Make Your Own Dildo kit. That’s right, now you, too, can have your manhood immortalized i[...]
Florida: Outlawing Abortion?
A Florida legislator wants to outlaw abortion in Florida. “I just felt like we’re destroying a lot of Florida’s children, and we need to stop,” said State Rep. Charles Van Zant, R-Keystone Heights. The bill he filed in February would make nearly all forms of abortion a first-[...]
Traffic Is For Lovers
As denizens of Los Angeles, we spend more time on the road than we do anywhere else (seriously, we don’t know why L.A. bothers with foursquare. Locales? We’re either on the 405 or the 10 — stuck. Make us mayor of that). Anyway — it makes perfect sense that we would find a s[...]
Getting Married? Go To Vegas, Bachelor!
OK, so you’re getting married. Vegas is right next door — why not? Our buddies over at CasinoGuide have some activities for you to consider. Our top five: Marry a Stripper Face it, the little lady back home is a shrew. “Blah blah blah equality”. “Blah blah blah me me m[...]
Sex by Numbers
60 to 100 million: Number of condoms that are improperly disposed of each year in the U.K. 7/8: Ratio of sex toys tested which contained phthalates (in concentrations ranging from 24 to 51 percent), to all toys tested, in a study conducted for Greenpeace Netherlands. Almost 50 percent: Number of pr[...]
March 3rd, 2010 - 8:12 PM § in Advertising, Culture
Love Thy Neighbor!
Most of the time, our editrix shuns the “go green” movement as a tool of evil to guilt us out of private jets and into commercial aircraft that treat us like cattle. Every once in a while, though, a company will harness our fear of destroying the planet into a clever marketing campaign.[...]
An Auto-Delete App for Safer Sexting
Text messages. We’re willing to bet that eight times out of 10, these are the reason cheaters get caught — not that we have any experience with this or anything here at Sex and the 405. We never get caught. Anyway, our dahlias of decadence and depravity, technology is smiling upon us ag[...]
Dear Bank: Get Out of Our Blogs and Bedrooms
Last week, TechCrunch reported on something terrifying: Citibank had blocked the business account of the brand-spanking new startup fabulis due to what they were calling “objectionable content” on the fabulis company blog. What’s objectionable? Fabulis is a soon-to-launch social network se[...]