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'Real' Men Hate 'Faggots'

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John Edwards' Embarrassing Endorsement of Obama

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Leonardo DiCaprio & "11th Hour" - Superb 'Green' Documentary

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Really Weird Photos of Scandinavian Bodybuilders

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Middle-Aged Media Hacks Hate Hillary Clinton

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American Misogyny: Hillary Clinton Battered by Media

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Armpit Hair on Women: It Really Rouses Me!

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Porn & the "Cumshot"

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Myanmar [Burma]: The West's Propaganda Campaign for "Intervention"

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The Last Taboo: Sexual Desire for Pre-Pubescent Children

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"Iron Man" - Capitalist Propaganda Movie

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Sex & Art: Jock Sturges - Celebrating Adolescent Sexuality

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Reverend Jeremiah Wright Faces Racist Abuse

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Barack Obama "Whitewashed" by Mass Media

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The American Left Has Lost Its Balls

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First, Iraq; Now, Iran: Are We So Gullible?

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Marijuana: America's Favorite Weed

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Shocking Video of Barack Obama Selling His Soul to the White Man

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Miley Cyrus [Hannah Montana]: Gorgeous Image of Adolescent Sexuality

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Is It Rape? Student Had Sex Without Consent but too Drunk to Remember

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American Jingoism: Patriotic Belligerence

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Fuck Charity! [Helping the Privileged Feel Good about Themselves]

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Facing Economic Collapse: Hedge Fund Managers Jump to Their Deaths

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Is Hillary Clinton the Dominatrix Most Men Secretly Crave?

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Hillary Clinton: The Popular Choice [Only the Effete Hate Her]

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Teenage Births: Pride Replaces Shame

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Using Breast Cancer As a Marketing Tool [Capitalism Knows No Shame]

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FRIDAY 16 MAY

Sex & Science: "Bonking" the Night Away [Explicit Video] [2,332]

John Edwards' Embarrassing Endorsement of Obama [1,236]

Hillary Clinton: Plan B [1,194]

4: Top Five Viral Videos [1,097]

TV Sees Working Class As Buffoons & Bigots [824]


THURSDAY 15 MAY

Sex & Culture: Japan's "Teenage Teasers" [2,944]

America Scares the Shit out of Me [A New "Cold War" with Iran] [806]

Obama, Clinton & America's Class Divide [769]

9: Most Popular Articles [Last 28 Days] [713]

Hype, Hyper, Hyperbole [Essence of Contemporary Culture] [610]


WEDNESDAY 14 MAY

6: Fantasy Five [Explicit Videos] [2,148]

Really Weird Photos of Scandinavian Bodybuilders [1,315]

Triumph of the Rich [We've Been Well & Truly Fucked] [659]

Obama Pacifies the Whites by Papering Over the Race Issue [563]

OMFG! The Rise & Rise of Chat Speak [ROFL] [561]


TUESDAY 13 MAY

1: Top Ten Tasteful Nudes [3,157]

Philly Police Brutality Against Blacks [Video] [1,684]

Jenna Bush Wedding Photos: "The Greatest Kitsch" [Our Satire] [993]

Is Obama Really the "Lesser Evil"? [778]

Screen Actors Strike: Hollywood Grinds to a Halt Again [582]


MONDAY 12 MAY

Look Who Benefits from War: PepsiCo, IBM, Microsoft, Krispy Kreme... [1,882]

Sex, Sweat & Sport: Female Athletes Turn Me On! [1,715]

28: This Week's Front Page Photo Stories [1,479]

Myanmar [Burma]: The West's Propaganda Campaign for "Intervention" [1,072]

Obama's Narrowband Coalition: The Black & White Liberals [844]


SUNDAY 11 MAY

From Lolita to Miley Cirus: Delicious Nymphets [3,258]

Scarlett Johansson & the Cult of Actress Rock Stars [1,319]

Barack Obama & Co Fuck the Working Class [1,147]

Middle-Aged Media Hacks Hate Hillary Clinton [1,060]

Are the Financial Media Downplaying Possibility of a Depression? [883]


MOST READ [4-9 MAY]

1. Fake Lesbian Phenomenon [Explicit Photos & Video] [4,738]

2. Sex Addiction [4,182]

3. More Casual About Sex [Hook-Up Culture] [4,180]

4. 2: Top Five Viral Videos [3,733]

5. 5: Fantasy Five [Explicit Videos] [3,649]

6. 27: Last Week's Front Page Photo Stories [3,626]

7. Cybersex Games [3,135]

8. Miley Cyrus, "Incest" & America's Culture War [2,952]

9. From Lolita to Miley Cyrus: Delicious Nymphets [2,463]

10. Almost Dead Bush: You Say Asshole; I Say Arsehole [2,099]

11. New Art: "Actress Slash Model" [Martin Maloney] [2,015]

12. Sex & Society: Prostitutes Condemned with Extreme Prejudice [1,914]

13. Sex Lives of Politicians [Don't You Long to Know More?] [1,873]

14. Maureen Dowd Gets Class-Conscious! [1,770]

15. 3: Top Five Viral Videos [1,742]

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OMFG! The Rise & Rise of Chat Speak [ROFL]

Wednesday, 14 May 2008 8:27 A GMT+01
The Pew Research Center study polled 12- to 17-year-olds on their attitudes about writing. A heart-stopping 38% said they let chat-speak - such as LOL (for "laughing out loud"), ROFL ("rolling on the floor laughing") slip into essays and homework.

Really Weird Photos of Scandinavian Bodybuilders

Wednesday, 14 May 2008 8:25 A GMT+01
Popeye biceps, rippling six-packs, and supernaturally dark tans: these pumped-up people have trained for a Scandinavian bodybuilding contest by shaking off every last ounce of fat. It's hard not to recoil in confusion at such asexual specimens
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Jenna Bush Wedding Photos: "The Greatest Kitsch" [Our Satire]

Tuesday, 13 May 2008 8:40 A GMT+01
Really, it's just as awful as every other set of wedding photos you've ever seen: we get the proud papa beaming and posing with his little girl, the photo of both families together with the bride and groom, a solo shot of the bride and her bouquet...

Screen Actors Strike: Hollywood Grinds to a Halt Again

Tuesday, 13 May 2008 8:37 A GMT+01
Enormous wealth is celebrated as the ultimate marker of talent in Hollywood. It's considered bad form to state the obvious. Grotesque levels of income inequality are at the root of the industry's current labor troubles. Marxism comes to La-La Land?

Scarlett Johansson & the Cult of Actress Rock Stars

Sunday, 11 May 2008 8:48 A GMT+01
Johansson's decision to record an album, when she's barely started as a movie star, seems capricious. Making it a record of Tom Waits songs, with help from David Bowie, adds a thin veneer of credibility, though the "vanity project" remains strong.

From Lolita to Miley Cyrus: Delicious Nymphets

Sunday, 11 May 2008 8:42 A GMT+01
Remember the then 16-year-old Britney Spears in 1998, bright-eyed, confident and lithe, gyrating sensationally in her school uniform while singing the ambiguous lyrics: "Hit me baby one more time". Suddenly, ogling schoolgirls was out in the open.

Superhero Costumes: Kitsch Clashes with Fashion

Thursday, 8 May 2008 8:39 A GMT+01
As you enter the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Great Hall, you're confronted by three superhero figures looming nearly 20 feet high -- Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman -- made of high-density foam and painted to resemble monumental sculptures.

American Idol: Dumbed Down & Out

Wednesday, 7 May 2008 8:44 A GMT+01
Fox and the "Idol" judges can make money by the ton if they keep squeezing more all-but-unpaid work out of their young performers. It's the consummate capitalist enterprise. It should be renamed "American Slave Plantation - We're Here to Exploit."

"Iron Man" - Capitalist Propaganda Movie

Wednesday, 7 May 2008 8:42 A GMT+01
Iron Man represents Stan Lee's adolescent dog-eat-dog version of capitalism, one that appeals to our "might makes right" ape brains: Innovation is good; monopolies rock when we run them, suck when we don't; and big corporations need millionaire CEOs.
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Fake Lesbian Phenomenon [Explicit Photos & Video]

Wednesday, 7 May 2008 8:38 A GMT+01
On some level, all porn is ridiculous, even the really excellent smut. But it's something that helps us masturbate, and orgasms are pleasurable, and pleasure has value. There's a line, however. I really hate all this fucking fake lesbian porn.

Miley Cyrus, "Incest" & America's Culture War

Sunday, 4 May 2008 11:24 A GMT+01
There's a shot showing Miley lying entwined with her dad in a pose suggestive of two lovers. She?s wearing low-cut jeans with her midriff exposed. He?s wearing a dark strappy T-shirt. There's an incestuous feel to it. Nice fathering there, Billy Ray.

New Art: "Actress Slash Model" [Martin Maloney]

Sunday, 4 May 2008 9:05 A GMT+01
It was through Charles Saatchi's "Sensation" and "New Neurotic Realism" (1999) that Maloney's faux naïfs paintings of the London club scene and fuck-rooms, where boys did more than play with their cocks behind a bike shed, really came to prominence.

Sex Addiction

Sunday, 4 May 2008 9:04 A GMT+01
The readiness with which men – it is usually men – with money or influence will turn aside from their business affairs to engage in extra-curricular dalliances is all too familiar. What we didn't know is that it may qualify as a medical disorder.

Grand Theft Auto IV: Controversial Sex Scenes [Video]

Thursday, 1 May 2008 8:06 A GMT+01
The new release is not surprisingly full of sex and violence all mixed together in a thug stew. A short video showing the most extreme bits of sex and violence mixed together is at the center of the controversy. It's called "Ladies of Liberty City."

Miley Cyrus [Hannah Montana]: Gorgeous Image of Adolescent Sexuality

Wednesday, 30 April 2008 6:57 P GMT+01
The portrait, due to run alongside a full-length interview in the June edition of Vanity Fair, shows the 15-year-old Miley Cyrus seemingly naked from the waist up, a satin sheet artfully wrapped to cover her chest while leaving her back bare.
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Crack Cocaine Is Cool [At Last]

Tuesday, 29 April 2008 11:20 A GMT+01
As pop-culture aficionados know, many things are the new crack in media circles. "Burgundy is crack for the middle classes." "Xbox is crack for the playground." But among some self-indulgent elements of the affluent classes, crack is the new crack.

Politicians Embrace Pop Culture {Anything to Avoid the Elitist Tag]

Sunday, 27 April 2008 8:54 A GMT+01
Elitism is to the 2008 campaign as communism was to 1950s politics: a career breaker. And pop TV is the antidote, a free platform to rub shoulders with viewers who only glancingly pay attention to the news. "Look, simpletons, I'm one of you!"
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Sex & Blasphemy: Oh My Fucking God!

Friday, 25 April 2008 8:53 A GMT+01
The CW is launching a provocative new campaign for "Gossip Girl" using an image of two characters having sex. One version is branded with the letters "OMFG," which is online slang for "Oh my fucking god." The image is taken from the show's pilot.

"Zombie Strippers" - Clever Horror Flick

Friday, 25 April 2008 8:51 A GMT+01
The undead. The unclothed. George W. Bush. Eugene Ionesco. Jenna Jameson. "Zombie Strippers" throws all these and more into the meat grinder, churning out an overtly political and philosophical exploitation horror comedy. This is smashing schlock.

Marilyn Monroe Vintage Porn Tape

Tuesday, 22 April 2008 8:50 A GMT+01
This is not the ancient sex tape supposedly sold for $1.5m recently. This one looks ancient [very grainy, but that could be have been doctored] and consists of Marilyn Monroe performing various sexual acts. But is it really her? I think it might be.

"Dancing with the Stars" or "The Botox Horror Show"

Monday, 21 April 2008 9:07 A GMT+01
We're supposed to be watching "Dancing With the Stars" to see whether professional athletics or Broadway provides a better foundation for dance. But we're too preoccupied wondering if Priscilla Presley has had the first successful head transplant.

Mariah Carey: THE Pop Diva

Wednesday, 16 April 2008 8:58 A GMT+01
The Post-Emancipation era has given way to the most relaxed, self-assured, and uninhibited Mariah album ever released. E=MC² concretely establishes Mariah Carey as a living legend nearly twenty years into her career and still at the top of the game.

Madonna: Well Past Her Use-By Date

Tuesday, 15 April 2008 8:35 A GMT+01
Remember, this is a woman with so much time on her hands that she can spend four hours a day working out. I know I'm fat, but I have to say that if I spent four hours a day working out, I'd want to look a damn sight hotter than Madonna does.

Sex & Culture: Islamic Erotica

Friday, 11 April 2008 9:09 A GMT+01
What do you get when you combine symbols of misogyny in the East and the West? As Iranian artist Makan Emadi imagines it, a Muslim woman clutching at her black chador as it blows above her knees, à la Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch."

Top Tarts: Sexually Mobile Career Women

Monday, 7 April 2008 8:44 A GMT+01
It's been a few days since we've read anything about a hooker, huh? We're sort of beginning to miss them. That?s why we?ve compiled a comprehensive list of the greatest tarts in New York City history, for your titillation and edification.

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