Everything you know about sex is true.

Johannesburg Zoo plans to artificially inseminate a pair of lesbian birds to help boost dwindling numbers of the endangered wattled crane species.

Staff at the zoo assumed Cherry and Amazona were lovers when they arrived earlier this year and charmed visitors with typical mating rituals - including dancing, serenading one another with song and tossing sticks into the air.

Due to a shortage of male wattled cranes and the species' faithfulness to one partner, the zoo decided to artificially inseminate the birds so they could reproduce.

The British Royal Navy has paid for two sailors to have cosmetic breast surgery: a man had breast reduction surgery and a woman implants.

Ministry of Defence sources confirmed the operations, adding that any cosmetic surgery was carried out for clinical reasons only.

The man, an able seaman in his twenties, had lost weight and was left with excess skin. The woman's circumstances were not known. It was recently disclosed that the ministry spent £38,000 on cosmetic surgery last year. Four soldiers had nose operationsand six women had breast enhancement or reduction surgery.

A senior military source was quoted as saying that the scheme was intended to improve morale in servicemen and women who were "stressed" about their bodies.

originally posted by Fleshbot

We should've known a cultural bellwether like Playboy would jump on the iPod Porn bandwagon sooner or later, even if their take on the concept isn't quite what we were hoping for: its new iBod promotion capitalizes on the popularity of the iPod Photo and allows you to add "some of our sexiest girls next door ... right to your portable player". Translation: a free portfolio of cheesecake .JPGs which aren't particularly iPod-related (except for their horizontal format) and which you can just as easily view on your computer desktop, even if your preferred personal listening device is a 1988 Sony Walkman. Maybe they'll let some of those sexy girls next door actually pose with iPods for version 2.0?

originally posted by Engadget

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The British prize for the year's worst sex writing, awarded by Literary Review magazine, has been given to Tom Wolfe for some overheated passages in his latest novel, "I Am Charlotte Simmons".

One of Wolfe's nominated passages reads:

“Slither slither slither slither went the tongue. But the hand that was what she tried to concentrate on, the hand, since it has the entire terrain of her torso to explore and not just the otorhinolaryngological caverns — oh God, it was not just at the border where the flesh of the breast joins the pectoral sheath of the chest — no, the hand was cupping her entire right — Now!”

The winner receives a statuette and a bottle of champagne if they appear at the ceremony. In the 12-year history of the awards, Wolfe was the first winner to decline the invitation.

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In some British schools, teachers wrestling with a banana and a condom in front of pupils are being replaced by teen magazines and TV dramas after a research found that many young people preferred to get information on sex and relationships from the media.

Youngsters between 12 and 15 are studying titles including Bliss, Sugar and Mizz - which have in the past been criticised for their overtly sexual content - as part of a course which has been trialled in several schools and will be available to teachers next spring.

It doesn't appear that the over-inflated look of collagen enhanced lips will be going away anytime soon, and now the New York Times reports that "labiaplasties" are also becoming popular.

Genital plastic surgery is a growing specialty and often euphemistically referred to as "vaginal rejuvenation". One of the most popular procedures is the labiaplasty, a reduction of the labia minora. Enlarging, reducing...why can't we just leave all our lips as they are?