OK, so we took Friday off and never got around to wrapping last week’s best sex links. Here they are…

This is your brain on orgasms.

• A study in the American Psychological Association journal Emotion reported that women find brooding and proud men more sexually attractive than happy ones. Supposedly, it works the opposite for dudes, to whom happy and confident women are a turn off. Really? The good news for gender parity is that both men and women find shame sexy.

• Scientific American (!) reported on a new consumer website, which makes shopping for safe sex toys even easier.

• Scientists also reported that orgasm is an altered state of consciousness. Kayt Sukel of New Scientist masturbated during an fMRI to demonstrate! Oh, the things we do for science.

• More masturbation news: Photographer Shilo McCabe at the Sex Positive Photo Project is celebrating National Masturbation Month, with photographs of sexy folks, caught in the act of self pleasure. (h/t Eve Minax)

• On SNL, two bros went ambiguously gay for Lady Gaga.

• And, proving that unambiguous gayness still threatens the mainstream, Gaga has been caught censoring the lyrics of “Born This Way” during TV appearances.

• It’s not just Gaga. Any fan of hip hop has heard the expression, “No homo.” Sketch comics Retar Crew went viral with this video on the gay panic in music.

• People.com editor Janet Mock came out as a transgender woman, and told trans teens that it gets better for them too.

• Also out and proud, Autostraddle presented their Hot 100: Real Gay Ladies.

• A fan of the indie band Bad Lamps made this music video entirely from non-XXX scenes from porn movies. We think it’s kinda sweet.

• Utah made it illegal to act like a hooker.

• It’s still perfectly legal, however, to do this on a subway in New York City.

• Hot, right? Rachel Rabbit White wonders why some women still find male bodies gross. And Jezebel asks why women’s bodies are sexualized in Hollywood movies, while full frontal “dudity” is usually a punchline.

• Giving us fond memories of fetish subcultures before the advent of the interwebz (yes, we are that old), Dangerous Minds dug up some flyers from the Mary Tyler Moore Masturbation Society.

Got milk?

• Speaking of fetishes, we learned a new word last week: inflatophilia. And the costumes are so cool, we’ve got fetish envy!

• A fan with a serious Star Trek fetish made a tribute to the Next Generation porn parody trailer, using nothing but action figures. Sorry there’s no hot Picard action. These dolls are not “fully functional.”

• The severed head of St. Vitalis of Assissi, the “patron saint of genital disease” went up for auction in Northern Ireland. Is there a patron saint of safer sex?

• Finally, we don’t know if there’s a Grammy category for best song about anal sex, but we think Sherry’s Vine’s Adele parody deserves some kind of prize.

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