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February 03, 2009

Umm, That's Not The Super Bowl You're Watching?

A Super Bowl mishap if you want to call it that occurred during the game on Sunday night when cable provider Comcast decided to take their 30 seconds of $3 Million dollars in air time and throw some old school porn. This is no joke, as 30 seconds of porn popped up (no pun intended) on TV for the vast Tucson market to see.

Comcast released (no pun intended again) a statement about the incident,

"We are mortified by last evening's Super Bowl interruption and we apologize to our customers. Our initial investigation suggests this was an isolated malicious act. We are conducting a thorough investigation to determine who was behind this."

In this time of recession we are in, it's nice to see some companies giving back to their communities who can't afford some of life's basic necessities.

[TMZ]

January 28, 2009

PETA Wanted To Give GoDaddy A Run For It's Money This Year

Below is a commercial from PETA in which to drive home a point that being a vegetarian will lead to better sex.

How ever, (like every year) the committees that approve Super Bowl ads rejected this ad do to it being too sexually explicit... thus going the way of GoDaddy of years past.

It's not that bad of an ad I mean come on who doesn't lick their veggies before they eat them?

[PETA]

'Veggie Love': PETA's Banned Super Bowl Ad

December 24, 2008

Study: Hot Holiday Loving, No Better Time Than Now!

Most "all the time couples," and even "couples for the night" would assume sex is most prevalent during the hot summer months, but contrary to popular belief we are actually right in the heart of the peak sex season.

This according to biorhythm researchers and makers of sex-related products.

They attribute the increase to holiday leisure and New Year's resolutions to have children. New Year's irresolution fueled by alcohol and partying is another contributing factor.

"Right before New Year's Eve is our highest sales peak," said David Johnson, group product manager for Trojan brand condoms, the leading U.S. seller.

Holiday intimacies aren't just an American rite, according to Gabriele Doblhammer of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. Heavy Christmas-New Year's sex "is characteristic of all Christian cultures in which it has been evaluated," she and co-researcher Joseph Lee Rogers found.

Such festivals, they wrote, are "associated with increased opportunities for socializing and a generally more hedonistic approach to life."

But that's not to say other times of the year aren't as high,

Among partners chronically pressed for time, intimacy flourishes in the rare leisure of three-day weekends, analysts said.

Accordingly, the long July Fourth, Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends also produce spikes in condom sales, Trojan's Johnson said.

So does the run-up to Valentine's Day, he added.

"And before Mother's Day, there's a small peak."

Because nothing says hot sex when on the prowl finding a gift for mom.

Read the full article after the jump.

[CharlotteObserver]

December 16, 2008

New Study: Are Women Really Attracted To A Big Spender?

University of Michigan researcher Daniel Kruger tested a hypothesis that men will overspend to attract women. Sampling adults aged 18-45 he found that the spending habits of men was dependent on the future mating possibilities of those men. However, that was not the case for women.

The 25 percent of men with the most conservative financial strategies had an average of three partners in the past five years and desired an average of just one in the next five years. The 2 percent of men with the riskiest financial strategies had double those numbers.

"Men in the ancestral environment were valued if they were good providers. Now we have this new consumer culture, so basically we show our potential through the consumer goods that we purchase, rather than being a good hunter or providing protection," Kruger said.

"It gives an ultimate explanation for why we feel we have to keep up with the Joneses. Especially for guys, our position in the social hierarchy is based on our resources. Economic success has traditionally been good for men's reproductive success, so men have an incentive to show that they are doing well economically."

So where does the current economic downturn come into play?

"It is partially a result of our economic system and recent financial policies, but I really do think that our evolved mating strategies have an influence. Our competition for economic displays drives our consumer economy and culture of affluence," he said. "In terms of the current mortgage crisis, the findings suggest that one of the reasons why we overextend ourselves is that we're basically in a status race. We have expectations that spiral upward as people make more money and everyone wants to show that they are better than average."

So what this all means in plain terms is that men will spend more if they desire to be with several women over the course of a year. The thought is the more you spend, the more you impress, the more she will want to sleep with you.

But that Corvette your thinking about buying to impress that chick at the stop light... umm yeah, not gonna work that's cheesy and very 70's. There is also studies about size and the kind of car you drive... and well, we won't go their today.

[UMICH News Service]

December 03, 2008

New Study: America Sucks At Being Promiscuous

When it comes to promiscuity Britain tops all western nations while Americans are sloppy sixths.

According to Yahoo News,

In an index measuring one-night stands, numbers of partners and attitudes to sex, Britain comes out ahead of other industrialized nations such as Australia, the US, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany.

Some 14,000 people in 48 countries filled in questionnaires about casual sex and how many people they expected to sleep with in the next five years.

The results were turned into an index of 'sociosexuality' - a measure of how sexually liberal people are in thought and behavior.

What was also found was each countries willingness to accept sexual promiscuity among women as well as men.

Both sexes are equally liberal when it comes to sex.

David Schmitt, a professor of psychology at Bradley University in Illinois, who oversaw the study told the Times Online,

"Historically we have repressed women's short-term mating and there are all sorts of double standards out there where men's short-term mating was sort of acceptable but women's wasn't,"

That can only mean one thing for us Americans. We must catch up. You know times are tough when even the Brits beat us in bed! Dam them and that Katie Price.

The full list after the jump.

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November 07, 2008

Obama Baby Boom; It's Real!

A new article out by the Chicago Tribune suggests that a large number of people had sex in celebration upon learning Tuesday night that Barack Obama would be the next President of the United States. The Urban Dictionary even defines the term Obama Baby "as a child conceived after [Barack] Obama was proclaimed President by way of celebratory sex."

According to Beverly Palmer, a California State University psychology professor who was quoted in the article as saying,

"Being in a thrilling situation, whether it's one of fear or one of joy—either way—tends to draw people together. You sort of reach for each other in those kinds of situations."

So why not a baby boom? After all on Obama's official campaign site they offer a baby outfit. And just this week a couple in Baltimore named their newborn daughter Sasha Malia Ann Taylor after Obama's two daughters. A couple in Florida Patrick and Sasha Hall Fisher named their newborn Sanjae Obama Fisher.

[Chicago Tribune]

[Fox News]

October 31, 2008

Burton Snowboard Designs Draw Controversy

Burton Snowboards is drawing some heat as this coming ski season is right upon us. Two of the company line's called Love and Primo had protests standing outside Burton's corporate headquarters with signs reading, "Love does not equal porn," "Keep violent images off our slopes," and "Cutting is not cool."

Burton backs it's snowboard's designs and issued a statement from CEO Laurent Potdevin saying,

"Burton supports freedom of artistic expression. Board graphics are artwork, and art can be offensive to some and inspiring to others.

"We are not breaking any laws by creating these boards, and it is our sincere belief that these graphics do not condone or encourage violence towards women in any way."

We feel it's a far cry from some extremists to protest such a design.

[Bennington Banner]

[Fox News]

[MSNBC]

(Photos: Burton.com)

August 14, 2008

Could 'The Pill' Change A Woman's Choice In Men?

Here we go again. Class in session. It's lesson time.

This coming from Live Science.

It involves smell.

Women seek a man with a smell that is opposite theirs. According to a study at the University of Liverpool published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences says that taking the pill could throw off this natural ability of women to sniff out men. One consequence could be that women are more attracted to men it is harder to conceive with if they want kids. Not so fair for all you daddy want-to-bes. A man's sent give clues to his type of gene and ability to fight disease. Of course cologne and after-shave can play a roll in throwing it all off as well.

This process is called Called the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC), different MHC molecules fight different diseases, so it is important to have a mix of MHC types.

Even though humans have a relatively poor sense of smell compared with other creatures, women tend to identify partners with suitable MHC molecules.

What this all means for women:

1. If you take contraception, and you decide to have a baby, the baby may not be able to fight off disease as best you hoped.

2. While contraception is a wonder drug- their is another down side to add to the list besides the usual suspects of it making you fat, crazy, and without question bitchy let alone your now going to procreate with the wrong guy!

You could just tell him to stop using that bottle of Stetson his pops gave him for his 28th Birthday.

[Live Science]