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Yesterday the health clinic that conducts the testing of Los Angeles’ porn industry, Adult Industry Healthcare Foundation, said that the database holding tens of thousands of patient records had been compromised and that this information had been made available online.

You know it’s bad if YouTube commenters unanimously decree: “DON’T STICK YOUR DICK IN CRAZY, RYAN!” But we concede that you have every right to decide for yourself, so here you have it.

The romances in the game are not for “the straight male gamer”. They’re for everyone. We have a lot of fans, many of whom are neither straight nor male, and they deserve no less attention. You can write it off as “political correctness” if you wish, but the truth is that privilege always lies with the majority. They’re so used to being catered to that they see the lack of catering as an imbalance.

You guys remember Forever Alone, right? It’s essentially the emo version of Rage Guy, featured widely in a comic wherein the protagonist faces his loneliness and despair. Good stuff. But not good enough for some 4chan and Reddit users, who want to see the meme come to life.

The internet is no stranger to educating by shaming, and the new site Hollaback SoCal is no different. In this case, the goal is to combat sexual harassment. Here, people from all over Southern California can come and share their stories, to bring some awareness of how this behavior can make its victims feel and to try to persuade legislators to make a change so residents can walk the streets safely.

It was only a matter of time before someone ran with the pr0n Tumblr idea and tried to monetize it. Witness Is Anyone Up, a blog dedicated entirely to the nudes we send off to partners and potential partners with no concern as to where they may end up.

Marriage is in trouble in this country, that much we know. But how does that affect us individually? Using information from various surveys, the blog Promotional Codes has come up with a nifty infographic to help you figure out the odds of failure.

The geeks at OKTrends, the OKCupid blog, have put some numbers behind a suspicion that until now had had very little basis: the more men seem to disagree on whether a woman is hot, the more attention she gets from men.

Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourcing site that provides the web with definitions to commonly and not-so-commonly used slang and expressions, has selected its word of the year. Or, more accurately, its expression of the year.

Somewhere out there, a journalist is crying. She probably suffered through years and years of media law, communications theory, belligerent editors, a seemingly endless series of obits, the most mind-numbingly boring local beats — all in the hopes that she’d get a column one day. Has she a column? Nah, but our favorite porn doll just landed one.