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Sex toys have gone mainstream. It only took almost half a century.
The New York Times reports that 40 years after the so-called sexual revolution, vibrators are now approaching common household item status.

According to the first academic, peer-reviewed studies of vibrator use, 53 percent of women and nearly half of all men report having used a vibrator. And the vibrator — which The Times said was dismissed as a “masturbator machine” for “sexually dysfunctional females” in The Journal of Popular Culture in 1974 — is being used now for shared pleasure.

Eighty-one percent of women and 91 percent of men who’ve used one report having done so with a partner. “What this tells us is we’ve reached a tipping point,” said Indiana University’s Debby Herbenick, a co-author of the vibrator studies.

“Something once regarded as exotic has become more commonplace.” The age group that reports the most vibrator use? That would be ages 23-44. In that group, vibrator use was reported by 59.5 percent of women and 51.5 percent of men. Bzzzzzzz.

No, John Edwards. We haven’t forgotten
Just when we’ve moved onto the next political sex scandal (could the saga of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford be any stranger?), now comes news that there could be a sex tape featuring former presidential candidate John Edwards and his former mistress, Rielle Hunter.

The New York Daily News reports that former Edwards aide Andrew Young, who is shopping around a book, says he found a videotape of the two getting busy.

The Daily News says the tape shows him “taking positions that weren’t on his official platform.” [Pause for second-long chuckle here.] Young’s book does seem juicy. It reportedly discusses how Edwards frequently clashed with 2004 running mate John Kerry and that Edwards told Young that Barack Obama promised he’d make Edwards attorney general if Obama didn’t pick him as his running mate.

footballer sex? let them pay for therapy
What do you do when you sleep with 200 Australian Football League players? Get them to fund your counseling session.

Australia’s Herald Sun reports the AFL Players’ Association is funding therapy for a woman who claimed to have sex with up to 200 players. The woman in her early 30s — called “Amy” — said she had a sex spree with AFL footballers for nearly a decade, when she worked at several AFL clubs.

Apparently, this kind of stuff happens not just in porn movies. But possibly just in Australia.

nasa not interested in interstellar sex
Last summer, Japanese firm First Advantage and U.S.-based spaceflight firm Rocketplane Global, Inc., said they could host weddings in space for about $2.3 million a ceremony.

But what about space sex? Looks like that’s not even on NASA’s radar, examiner.com reports. “We don’t study sexuality in space, and we don’t have any studies ongoing with that,” said NASA spokesman Bill Jeffs.

Look into it, NASA! It has got to be more interesting than anything else we got going on up there right now.

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