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Hugh Hefner's 'Viagra Ring,' first Playboy issue sold at auction in LA
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner embraced a hedonistic lifestyle of smoking jackets, multiple "girlfriends" and lavish parties at his legendary mansion. Now, hundreds of fans have paid big bucks for a piece of the myth. Items from the late publisher's personal collection — from his typewriter ...
Syphilis infections in Japan top 6,000 for first time since 1970
Cases of syphilis infections this year totaled 6,096 as of Nov. 18, exceeding an annual amount of 6,000 for the first time since 1970, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Wednesday. The number of syphilis patients stood at 1,548 in Tokyo, the highest among ...
Percentage of Japanese university students with dating experience falls to record low
The percentage of university students with dating experience stands at around 70 percent, the lowest level since surveys by a sex education body began more than 40 years ago. In the nationwide survey conducted in 2017 by the Japanese Association for Sex Education, 71.8 percent ...
Adultery is no longer a crime, India's top court ruled Thursday, declaring a colonial-era law that punished the offense with jail time unconstitutional and discriminatory against women. The more than century-old law prescribed that any man who slept with a married woman without her husband's ...
India's top court has struck down a colonial-era law that makes homosexual acts punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The court gave its ruling Thursday on a petition filed by five people who challenged the law, saying they are living in fear of ...
Breaking social taboo, Tokyo cram school gives children chance to learn and talk about sex
On a recent Tuesday in August, a group of preschoolers and elementary school pupils in Tokyo listened carefully to their cram school teacher's explanation about what would normally be a taboo subject for kids this age — sex. "Sperm, ovum, sexual intercourse, fertilization," the children ...
Men who want to become dads advised to wear boxers instead of tight-fitting briefs
Men trying to become a father are better off wearing loose underwear, according to a study published Thursday. Compared to men who favor snug briefs, wearers of boxer shorts had significantly higher sperm counts and concentrations, researchers reported in the journal Human Reproduction. The sperm ...
Amid Beijing's push to turn the country into an artificial intelligence (AI) powerhouse and embed the technology in all facets of life, some Chinese entrepreneurs are taking the expertise to a new frontier: sex dolls. WMDOLL, one of China's biggest sex doll makers, which is ...
'Get me a Coke!' What's in the Trump-Cohen audio, what's not
Here is a look at the audio recording of U.S. President Donald Trump and his then-lawyer Michael Cohen, including what it reveals and what it doesn't: Casual, related to the campaign Trump's lawyers say the three-minute recording was made surreptitiously by Cohen during what seems to ...
The nipples of women are far more varied than those of men, according to a study that challenges conventional theory. An axiom in evolutionary biology says the more important a body part, the less it will differ from person to person. We can't live without a ...
