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Next-generation space toilet ready in five years

Flavor: Fashion , Japan

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has developed a next-generation space toilet, which they hope to complete within the next five years.

Clean and easy to use, the envisioned space toilet is designed to be worn like a diaper around the astronaut’s waist at all times. Sensors detect when the user relieves him or herself, automatically activating a rear-mounted suction unit that draws the waste away from the body through tubes into a separate container. In addition to washing and drying the wearer after each use, the next-generation space toilet will incorporate features that eliminate unwanted sound and odor.

The developers indicate their next-generation space toilet may also prove useful in earthbound settings — particularly in hospitals with bedridden patients.

The current ISS toilet is a Russian-built, western-style commode that sucks waste away like a vacuum cleaner. Use of that toilet requires practice before heading to space, particularly because an improperly seated user has the potential to create a messy situation.

Via eyebeam reblog.

Image of the day

Flavor: Illustration and Comics

Russian business calendar via rebel:art

His penis belongs to me

Flavor: Law and Order

An Australian woman allegedly set fire to her husband's genitals suspecting his fidelity because she suspected he of having an affair.

"it's just a penis I wanted to burn I didn't mean this to happen," she explained. "I am a jealous wife, his penis should belong to me, I just wanted to burn his penis so it belongs to me and no one else."

Apparently her engineer husband was asleep in their double-storey house when his wife set his genitals on fire after dousing them with methylated spirit. The blaze reduced to rubble the couple's USD 700,000 house and also damaged neighbouring houses. Satish Narayan, 47, succumbed to his burns in hospital last week.

Via jezebel.

I Want To Put You On, Raini

Flavor: Photography

Sean Fader, 2007 (via)

Sex Sells, but a Commitment Can Help

Flavor: Advertising

Sex in advertising is generally thought to be more useful in selling to men than to women. But a study finds that this effect is reversed when emotional intimacy justifies the sex.

In one experiment, the researchers found that women preferred a sexually explicit watch advertisement when the watch had a bow around it and was described as “a gift from a man to the special woman in his life.” But such positioning hurt the ad’s appeal to men. Drawing on previous research in sexual psychology, the authors note that women are more likely to “need the justification of relationship commitment for sexual behavior” and that men “typically felt quite uneasy about having to part with substantial pecuniary resources in a dating context.”

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In another experiment, researchers had women proofread blocks of text (supposedly as part of a separate study), then rate a sexually explicit ad. Women who read about a loving, committed couple rated the ad more highly than did women who read about a couple in which the man was disloyal and philandering

10 most popular posts of 2008

Flavor: Events

Now's the time to have a look back and give you a list of the 10 most read stories of 2008:

Everyone's favourite this year is the inflatable Jesus sex doll, closely followed by the shadow of a penis on the wall.

After that comes the delicacy of vagina lollipops

We are glad to see that needlework keeps on drawing many fans. So do the vintage porn image galleries. Upskirt galleries never fail to please either.

In sixth position is an upscale brothel in Prague offering patrons the thrills of Big Brother.

The last three stories in the top ten are everyday pin-ups, a glimpse inside the sex life of elderly couples. And a sex top ten wouldn't be any authority without a little help from Japan. Here's the slideshow of their First Sex Show.

How to embarrass yourself

Flavor: Advertising

Seriously, stop. Via Jezebel

Anyone remembers Gay Bob?

Flavor: Sex Toys and Gadgets , Transgender , Vintage

Launched in 1977 and sold in his own cardboard closet, Gay Bob was billed as the world's first openly gay doll.

Its creator former advertising executive Harvey Rosenberg described the doll as resembling a cross between Paul Newman and Robert Redford. He looked decidedly manlier than Earring Magic Ken.

The accompanying brochure stated that the doll was not intended for homosexuals alone. "Whether you are gay or straight, Gay Bob can help you come out of your closet." Bob was apparently withdrawn from the market soon after its launch.

See also the much younger Billy Doll, created by artist John McKitterick in 1997.

Via. Image.

Sex babe of the day

Flavor: Vintage

What?! Sean Connery has not spent his whole life being a sex symbol? He used to wear crimson pampers and some kind of hair extension?

Via monkey wrench.

Behind the scene

Flavor: Photography , Porn

Dennis McGrath's photo lens snoops around Porn Valley productions.

Via high on sex and in case you like your behind the scenes to be more explicit.

Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends in Afghanistan

Flavor: How to

For U.S. intelligence officials, Viagra has become a tool to win and fight some crucial battles in Afghanistan. While the CIA has a long history of buying information with cash, the growing Taliban insurgency has prompted the use of novel incentives and creative bargaining to gain support in some of the country's roughest neighborhoods, according to officials directly involved in such operations.

In their efforts to win over notoriously fickle warlords and chieftains, the officials say, the agency's operatives have used a variety of personal services. Cash and weapons aren't always the best options. Guns too often fall into the wrong hands, they say, and showy gifts such as money, jewelry and cars tend to draw unwanted attention.

For some U.S. operatives in Afghanistan, Western drugs such as Viagra were just part of a long list of enticements available for use in special cases. Two veteran officers familiar with such practices said Viagra was offered rarely, and only to older tribal officials for whom the drug would hold special appeal. While such sexual performance drugs are generally unavailable in the remote areas where the agency's teams operated, they have been sold in some Kabul street markets since at least 2003 and were known by reputation elsewhere.

"You didn't hand it out to younger guys, but it could be a silver bullet to make connections to the older ones," said one retired operative familiar with the drug's use in Afghanistan. Afghan tribal leaders often had four wives -- the maximum number allowed by the Koran -- and aging village patriarchs were easily sold on the utility of a pill that could "put them back in an authoritative position," the official said.

Happy fetish

Flavor: Fetish , Photography

Valentina Lasagni is showing her Happy Family series at the Galleria Skin in Brescia (Italy) until January 4, 2009.

Amsterdam's gay Christmas has a Mary in drag

Flavor: Religion , Transgender

Amsterdam hosted a Christmas celebration for its gay community that featured a Nativity tableau with a man in drag playing the part of Mary. A man who performs under the name of Wendy Mills wore a blonde wig and high-heel black boots to play the part of Mary, while the actor playing Joseph wore black leather trunks and a silver shawl. The five-person manger scene was staged in the courtyard of a nightclub and visitors were invited to be photographed with the group.

Frank van Dalen, chairman of the advocacy group Pro Gay that organized the Pink Christmas event, said that it sought to raise Amsterdam's profile as a capital for gays.

Nevertheless, Christians for Truth, an independent religious group, asked the City Council to cancel the event, saying it made a mockery of Christian tenets. "By portraying Joseph and Mary as homosexuals, a twisted human fantasy is being added to the history of the Bible," the group said in a statement.

The Amsterdam City Council did not comment.

Via hfa.

Furry Kama Sutra

Flavor: Photography

Michael Cogliantry sends furries to the Kamasutra school.

Via fluctuat.

Pilosity of the day

Flavor: Images

Must try and convince boyfriend to adopt that look.
Will laugh my way to 2009.

Via dlisted.

The Meth Minute 39: Sex Machine

Flavor: Illustration and Comics , Videos

James Brown's sex machine gets lost in The Matrix dimension.

Via Drawn!