Here are all of our favorite links from last week’s feed.
Beat the heat.
- USA Today illustrated a story on the summer heat wave with this highly suggestive visual aid. (h/t Boing Boing)
- i09 reported on the unusual tradition of “funeral strippers” in rural Taiwan.
- Researchers announced that the drug Truvada may help stop the spread of HIV. In one study, men and women taking the pill cut their risk of acquiring the virus by 78%.
- A new strain of drug-resistant gonorrhea was discovered.
- Sociologists reported that women are more comfortable with “sexting” than men. ORLY?
- A study of female twins suggested that sexual orientation and “gender conformity” are genetically inherited.
- Japanese scientists unveiled a robot mouth that can sing. Your Fleshlight simply sucks by comparison.
- When we discovered that someone had found our blog by Googling “Navajo sex pillows,” we decided to take a closer look at the odd search terms that drive traffic to our site. Bonus: We illustrated it with cats!
- Also last week, a neighbor of ours dropped off a disc of Fantasize a gay porn feature shot in our LA store in 1984! Unfortunately we had to cut all of the naughty bits, resulting in 5 minutes of mostly wordless cruising and personalized customer service.
Dungeons & Dildos?
- The dildos made by Phoenix-based Bad Dragon made us want to dust off our 20 sided dice. Pictured above: the Gryphon. Other offerings include The Tentacle and Razor the Doberman.
- Jim Behrle shared his Kama Zzztra, new ancient sex positions scrawled on Post-it notes.
Sean Connery, art model.
- Not coming soon to Antiques Roadshow: this nude painting of a young Sean Connery and this antique chastity belt. (Save your money, the CB6000 works just fine.)
- Finally, Dangerous Minds wrote about the rare, surreal softcore Japanese anime Belladonna of Sadness and Fleshbot tipped us to this playful pictorial of two Super Gay Mario Brothers.
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