Two star-crossed lovers, though this isn’t a Shakespearean play unfolding in fair Verona. It’s Kunduz province in Afghanistan, where local leaders are enforcing a move toward the harshest forms of physical punishment allowed by Sharia, or Islamic law. Per the report in the Los Angeles Ti[...]
Archive for the ‘Crime’ Category
USA Swimming Coach Sued for Sexual Abuse
Today a lawsuit was announced in San Jose accusing the governing body of U.S. competitive swimming, USA Swimming, of negligence for failing to prevent a swimmer from sexual abuse at the hands of her coach. According to reports on MSNBC and ABC, the suit says swim coach Norm Havercroft sexually abuse[...]
You Can Go To Jail for Adultery in New York
Help us! We’ve fallen into a Hawthorne novel and we can’t get out! OK, not really. But get this — a New York woman recently arrested for lewd conduct after she was allegedly caught having sex in a park with her lover is facing an additional charge: adultery. Suzanne Corona, 41, was[...]
Tragic Foreplay
Creative individuals can incorporate a lot of objects into sex successfully — even those not meant for sex at all. It’s important, however, to remember that some objects do involve an incredibly high degree of risk and it’s vital that they be used with care and never under the infl[...]
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 ev[...]
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[...]
West Covina Police Officer’s Self-Help Book Further Incriminates Him
In 2006, a West Covina police officer and sex crime investigator by the name of Tyler Kennedy self-published a 180-page book entitled The Magic Triangle: Coping with the Differences Between Men and Women, to help hapless men seeking “entrance to the magic triangle” (i.e., a woman’s[...]
She Lied About Infecting Over 500 People With HIV
Last week, the interwebz went ballistic over a YouTube video wherein a woman confessed to infecting some 500 people with HIV. “Just because something looks good, it could be dirty on the inside,” the masked woman says, talking to the camera in almost a sing-song voice. “Like a frui[...]
Failed Bomber Was Plagued by Desire
On Christmas Day, 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. He had tailored his briefs to hold a pouch containing 80 grams of pentaerythritol tetranitrate, a powerful, if difficult to detonate, explosive. The New York Post, always[...]
Dr. Evil: Pediatrician Sexually Abused Young Patients
He is more than the Grinch who stole Christmas. He’s stolen something far more sacred for a lot of the patients whose parents trusted him with their children’s well being. Evidence seized from the Georgetown, Delaware, office of Dr. Earl Bradley suggests that he sexually abused many of h[...]