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The folks at OKCupid have been busy these past few months data mining to help us figure out what works and what doesn’t when it comes to luring lovers on dating sites. Their findings, which appeared last week on their official blog reveal all kinds of fascinating things, the most shocking of which I present…continue reading.

You guys must think we’re a bunch of geeks obsessed with alien sex. Congrats! You’re totally right. Anyway, check out what we found during a cursory stroll of teh intarwebs: The scene was created by Harry Partridge. His comments regarding the project as they appeared on NewGrounds: I wanted to make this due to the…continue reading.

And because you can always trust Craigslist to bring you the best of the best when it comes to our innermost desires, I present to you The Power Glove Handjob: I can’t think of anything nerdier–but no nerds may apply! From GamerCrave: The Nintendo Power Glove, released in 1989, was an early Nintendo attempt at…continue reading.

“It’s not the business of all sex writers everywhere to solve the world’s sex problems.” Written by tech and sex writer and sex educator Melissa Gira Grant, this statement would become the premise of the book Coming & Crying: real stories about sex from the other side of the bed. Using crowdsourcing to fill the…continue reading.

It looks like marriage is a sweet deal after all–for dudes. A new Pew Research Center report has uncovered that a larger share of today’s men, compared with their 1970 counterparts, are married to women whose education and income exceed their own, and a larger share of women are married to men with less education…continue reading.

I can count the number of times I accessed porn online in 2009–it’s under 50. The number of tweets I sent out, on the other hand? I’m going to guesstimate around 4,000. And that’s just Twitter. Social media is my porn. And I’m not the only one who thinks so. A few months ago Reuters…continue reading.

Sean Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, did a playful revisit of his parents’ iconic Rolling Stone with his lover Charlotte Kemp. The original image was shot by Annie Leibovitz in December of 1980 and appeared in Rolling Stone in January 1981. The Sean version was shot by Terry Richardson for Purple magazine…continue reading.

I’m betting on the web. I overshare more now on Twitter than I ever did while I drank. The digital is a powerful disinhibitor. When it comes to online interactions, it’s incredibly easy to let go and share ourselves. What is it about sitting at our computers, or with our phones in hand, that makes…continue reading.

For your Friday lulz: Where, oh, where would we be without Craigslist? Image via Lalawag.

Milan-based footwear designer ainsley-t has taken a literal approach to “fuck me shoes.” At first glance, these shoes look like many heel-ornamented pairs we’ve seen on the runway in previous seasons. But closer inspection reveals something spectacular: the heels are butt plugs. Take a look: “Shoes are the only items of bondage gear that absolutely…continue reading.