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[...]
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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[...]
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[...]
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-[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Live-Tweeting An Abortion
Last week the web went up in flames when a woman, by the name of Angie Jackson, began live-tweeting her medical abortion. Jackson discovered she was pregnant the week prior, following the failure of her method of birth control. A single mom with a little boy, Jackson claims that she was was told th[...]
Not In The Mood? Hit The Gym
According to Sex & A Healthier You, a site dedicated to sexual health, metabolic syndrome is one of the greatest enemies of the libido. Why? Your cholesterol level and how well your body uses insulin are linked to your sexual health. [Metabolic syndrome] is marked by high blood pressure, abdom[...]