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Morning Links: Sex With Smart Women Is Worth Less, Say Authors


Goodbye, Minimalist – After over 13 years, Mark Bittman is leaving his “Minimalist” cooking column at the New York Times. Check out this video gallery of his greatest hits to commemorate his last week. (New York Times)

This Is Why You’re Sick – Avoid these 7 germiest public places to keep your sick day count from soaring. (Shine!)

Sex Is Getting Cheaper – Women’s success costs them sexual bargaining power, according to new book “Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate and Think About Marrying.” (Salon) … More »

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Morning Links: Sex With Smart Women Is Worth Less, Say Authors

Morning Links: Regulations Limit Organic Wine Production


It’s Hard to Find a Good Wine – Ever wondered why more wine isn’t organic? The USDA forbids sulfites from anything labelled organic, but winemakers say sulfites are what make a good wine. (LA Times)

Cancel Your Tickets to London – Hospitals in England are canceling operations to make room for flu patients in their intensive care units, and there’s a shortage of vaccines and medicines in many clinics and hospitals. (The Telegraph)

Yoga Makes Everything Better, Including Sex – If sex toys aren’t your bag, try these yoga tips for better sex. Mind over, er, dildos? (Elephant Journal) … More »

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Morning Links: Regulations Limit Organic Wine Production

Morning Links: Abstinence Makes Relationships Last


Whole Foods Gingerbread Houses – The health food superstore had to recall its gingerbread houses due to outbreaks of staph food poisoning. (SlashFood)

Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder – Study shows that waiting for sex improves long term relationships. Add that to your New Year’s resolutions. (Asylum)

Hangover Helpers – Eat these pre-party meals to control your hangover on New Year’s Day. Nothing like preventative medicine, eh? (Daily Mail) … More »

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Morning Links: Abstinence Makes Relationships Last

Sex Causes Blindness and Hand Sanitizers Cause Allergies: Morning News Roundup


Sex Blindness is Real — Apparently some people temporarily go blind after orgasm., giving Hootie & The Blowfish new material for a sequel to their hit single. (Vitamin G)

Europe Insists on Going Deep — European fishers continue trawling, despite criticism of their deep-sea quotas. (New York Times‘ Green Blog)

Antibacterial Soaps Could Cause Allergies — Studies link hand sanitizers and soaps to allergies in children. (TIME) … More »

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Sex Causes Blindness and Hand Sanitizers Cause Allergies: Morning News Roundup

Stressed Out and Boring in Bed: Morning News Round-Up


Puritanical Pillow Talk — Americans aren’t quite as wild in bed as they’d like to think. (via AlterNet)

Waistline Woes — A study suggests that watching TV makes you gain weight. (via Mercola Blog)

Crystal Clear? The newest diet fad could be sprinkling flavor-enhancing crystals on your food. (via The Daily Mail)

Appealing Produce — Researchers are trying to figure out how to make healthy foods more attractive to shoppers. (via NPR) … More »

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Stressed Out and Boring in Bed: Morning News Round-Up

10 Things We Want to Do This Weekend


It’s time for the weekend, folks. We’ve got some idea of what we want to do over the next couple of days — do you?

Ditch the energy drinks.

Sometimes we think we need a little extra oomph, but not even the ones that claim to be natural are good for us.

Watch the ING New York City Marathon.

But we obviously aren’t running in it, so we don’t need to act like we are.

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10 Things We Want to Do This Weekend

Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Blisstree’s Guide to Sensation Play During Sex


By Helen “Girly” Brown

They say there’s a thin boundary between pleasure and pain, which may be why activities that blend the two can often seem so exciting.

The ancient art of BDSM (Bondage, Discipline/Dominance, Sadism/Submission, Masochism) — also known as “Sensation Play” — includes spanking, tying up your partner, handcuffing, and using various “instruments of pleasure” to create pain and other feelings of varying degrees.

“People ask me if spanking is painful,” says Babeland sex educator Cristen Kennedy, who recently started teaching a class on BDSM at one of Babeland’s New York City locations. “Everyone processes pain differently. The goal is not to beat the crap out of someone.”
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Blisstree’s Guide to Sensation Play During Sex

Freeze Your Ovaries and Have Graham Crackers Instead of Sex: Morning News Round-Up


If You’re on Your Phone at Dinner — People will think you’re annoying. Shocker. (via The Globe and Mail)

Get a Helmet — That literally stinks when it’s time to buy a new one. (via Ecouterre)

Did You Remember to — Freeze your ovaries? (via The Independent)

Graham Crackers — Were invented to control lust. (via The Straight Dope)
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Freeze Your Ovaries and Have Graham Crackers Instead of Sex: Morning News Round-Up

Is Your Birth Control Green?


The Huffington Post has a nice little poll up about green birth control.  Actually, birth control is just not all that green. As the poll points out, no one is recycling condoms (obviously – and PS don’t try), the birth control pill may release excess estrogen into the water supply, and while copper IUDs may [...]

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Is Your Birth Control Green?