You remember our do-gooder Melissa Jun Rowley. She’s fighting for votes right now to win a trip to fight water shortages in Africa. She and our editrix have an agreement and our editrix needs your help to make good on this. Now here’s what you do: go to Rowley’s blog post. At the very top [...]
Archive for the ‘Causes’ Category
Participate in Dick Research!
We here at Sex and the 405 think that science is totally hot and sexy. As such, we endeavor to bring you every opportunity we can for you to participate in sexy science yourself. We’re cool like that. So, get this: researchers at McGill University are studying male genital self-perceptions. Th[...]
June 3rd, 2010 - 6:00 AM § in Causes
Call To Action: Support Porn!
On June 12, 2010, a bunch of people are going to gather in Boston to discuss how pornography exploits women, breeds hatred, turns men into monsters and generally destroys lives and civilizations. We here at Sex and the 405 think this is outrageous, of course. We are taking a stance for our freedom t[...]
May 17th, 2010 - 5:13 PM § in Causes
Dance, Love, Drink Like You’re Dying Tomorrow
Los Angeles. City of Angeles, high hopes and broken dreams. Bastion of pollution and filth. Your mortality has never felt more real than it does as your eyes run down the numbers. Total Population: 17,786,419 Pediatric Asthma: 442,040 Adult Asthma: 1,094,827 Chronic Bronchitis: 556,68 Emphysema: 200[...]
May is for Masturbation
We here at Sex and the 405 get so much sex, we made it halfway through May without knowing that apparently, May is National Masturbation Month. Actually, we get so much sex, we made it 15 years without knowing. OK, that’s a lame excuse. We failed you and we’re sorry. So get this, Nationa[...]
February 10th, 2010 - 1:37 AM § in Causes
Nothing Says I Love You Like A Clean Bill of Health
All right, this isn’t sexy. But we here at Sex and the 405 think it’s paramount that everyone maintains their bodies in top shape so they can enjoy the pleasures that sex can bring. With this in mind, we bring you an offer from You Never Really Know, a site dedicated to safe sex. This [.[...]
February 9th, 2010 - 11:36 PM § in Causes
Bid On A Date With A Hot Chunk o’ Hunk for Haiti Relief!
OMG, no way. Remember Jordy, that super guy we told you about last month who won the Hottest Bod in the World contest? He’s trying to raise funds for relief in Haiti (so hot and so sweet!). To this end, he is auctioning himself off on eBay for a chic Hollywood date! Calling all lovers [...][...]
Sex & God: Accepting the Sexual Soul
Sexuality and Christian spirituality have had a rocky relationship: from the Apostle Paul’s reluctant admission of marriage as a way to handle those who unfortunately “burn with passion” (1Cor 7) to medieval asceticism’s sexual renunciation to the contemporary puritanical disdain for sensual[...]
Slippery Slope: Government Regulation of Sex Toys
Last month in Canada, Dr. Carolyn Bennett, a Liberal Minister of Parliament, sent a letter to the Conservative Federal Minister of Health, Leona Aglukkaq, expressing concern about the sex toy industry and asking the government to take action in regulating sex toys. The letter, which you can read in [...]
The Resolution
The word sensual falls from lips like a silk slip slides down a body to the floor. I don’t think “sex” conjures as much pleasure as “sensual.” Sex doesn’t have to be sensual. But sensual can be anything it likes. sen•su•al: adj. : relating to or consisting in the gratification of the[...]