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It seems I finally have a reason to start gaming again: new Xbox teledildonics. Kotaku tells us that the Xbox 360 now has cameras with video chat, and while chatting there is a command to make your chat-partner’s controller vibrate. Even though it takes holding down both triggers at once, making one-handed enjoyment complicated, it seems like this is just a few tiny hardware hacks away from being consumer-level teledildonics. It’s my theory that not being truly marketed as porn/sextoy/teledildonics will make it adapted by consumers quickly and easily.

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Originally from Boing Boing on August 25, 2006, 4:10pm

The images to your right are composites of 10 women with highest and 10 with lowest levels of oestrogen. Can you tell which is which? Leave your guesses in the comments. See story for answer.

The new study, led by psychologist Miriam Law Smith, could explain the underlying reason why men prefer women with feminine faces. It is the first study to demonstrate that women’s facial appearance is linked to their underlying health because oestrogen is the hormone which impacts on women’s reproductive health and fertility. These effects on appearance are likely to depend on the action of oestrogen throughout puberty. Link

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Via Asian Sex Gazette
They strut their stuff and shake their booties as well as any pop band worldwide, and their infectious dance tunes are taking the Asian music scene by storm. 

But in one crucial respect Lady, the hottest music act to come out of South Korea in years, are not your average girl group. They may have looks that many women would die for - but none of these four singers was born as a lady. Link

Something culturally bizarre is going on in Hong Kong and from what I haven’t read in the western media (with the exception of a 2003 post on Boing Boing)… either the topic is still too taboo or most people aren’t paying attention. For times like these you can count on Asian Sex Gazette to cover the story (again).

To many Hong Kongers, Nazis represent the epitome of desirability. Their tanks were made by Mercedes and Porsche; their uniforms were original Hugo Boss.
Twenty years after the last British skinhead tired of the joke, it’s still not unusual to see a Hong Kong teen in an Adolph Hitler European Tour t-shirt.

This sort of story seems to pop up every few years…

Nasa says out of this world trans-orbital lovin’ could jeopardize manned missions to Mars. Where are the guilt free, pan-sexual astronauts when you need them?

“With the prospect of a very long-term mission, it’s hard to ignore the question of sexuality,” says Lawrence Palinkas, a medical anthropologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, an author of the report. It reviewed NASA’s plans for research to keep astronauts safe and healthy in space – but the plans make no mention of sexual issues in spaceflight.
link via NewScientistSpace.com