If you're wondering which country can boast the population most ignorant about sex -- you're wrong if you immediately thought, "America!" Because while we here in the states may be backwards and puritanistic and thumping our Bibles harder than we're thumping each other, turns out it's the Chinese people who are woefully inept, sexually speaking. And you have to give this a little weight, at least, because the ones saying it are the Chinese themselves. Xi Tianming, president of the China Sexology Society, calls both children and adults in China "sex idiots," being more ignorant about sex than most other subjects....

In what is surely a blow (pun intended) to the online dating world, anti-child pornography regulations put into effect today mean that no one can look at your dangly bits anymore. Designed to protect kids from Michael Jackson, the new rules specify that any images deemed sexually explicit shown in any form must now include proof that the pictures are of an adult over 18 years of age, and that proof is a photo ID on file with the provider, which means that all those digital pictures you took of yourself last week when you looked really thin after your workout...

Scientists with nothing better to do swapped out a single gene in some fruit flies to see what would happen when the altered flies were released among their kind. The gene in question is one of two distinct "master sexual genes" that define how fruit flies court other fruit flies. And you know this wouldn't be news if nothing happened, so what happened was that female flies imbued with the male gene started acting like male flies, persuing other females and acting like males by farting and scratching their non-existent balls and thinking that watching basketball playoffs in their underwear is...

Yoga is hot! And naked yoga is even hotter! Where else but in San Francisco can one get in touch with one's own nude body among a lot of other people also getting in touch with their own nude bodies while not, of course, touching anything else during a 90-minute yoga workout? Sure, gay guys are getting together in L.A., New York, Dallas and Boston for "Hot Nude Yoga," but methinks that's more about hard-ons than hard bodies (but probably they go hand-in-hand, or some other body parts, but whatever!). No, here in San Francisco we know how to separate our hot...

A study from the University of Missouri-Columbia finds that men who associate sex with liquor can get turned on just hearing about booze. 150 male undergrads with wildly active imaginations and probably alcoholic but not really because they only drink when they're with friends or pets or going to take a shower ere shown a series of letters on a screen and asked whether they formed words. What they didn't know was that they were also being shown words like "beer" and "keg" and "I was so drunk last night that..." Then they were shown photos of 21 young women and...

The L.A. Times looks at the mild reality of porn-everywhere and what it means to today's teens and comes away with one answer -- not a whole hell of a lot. Pornography now is so invasive and easy to find that it has become another entertainment avenue, as mild and normal as video games and movie outings. Whether that's a good thing (more comfortable about sexuality in general) or a bad thing (poor self-image issues for girls, lack of understanding concerning the ramifications of sex, subjected to more bad porn by faux celebrity hotel chain heiress) remains to be seen. The biggest...

You know how the Bush administration thinks sex education is a horror and that only by teaching abstinence will we save our precious children from the nightmare of even more precious children? Seems like the teens are getting the message -- though perhaps not in the manner intended. A new study suggests that rather than doing the dirty deed with their naughty bits, high schoolers think that oral sex isn't really sex so it's A-OK! Which is, of course, absolutely true. The 9th graders in the study -- at an average age of 14½ -- say sucking and licking and sucking again and...

To help relieve your stress about whether the Pope is continuing to not die, here's some good news from the east: 73% of single Japanese women are content to remain single Japanese women rather than take on some drunken reprobate of a stressed-out mate who'll die on the Toyota line some day leaving her nothing. Ha! I kid by using out-dated stereotypes! Anyway, with a birthrate among the lowest in the world and the vast majority of women there now saying they'd rather not get married, thanks much, we're wondering what will become of Hello Kitty! if all the Japanese children...

Good news for soft men: Medicare will start covering sexual performance drugs like Viagra starting next year, because they add to a patient's quality of life, even though they are not life saving. Medicare will also start covering high blood pressure and heart disease medicines but still not ice cream, hot sex or convertible rentals for trips through Sonoma -- all of which are also 'quality of life' matters as far as I'm concerned. ...

"The thought of Karl Marx performing cunnilingus is somehow particularly nauseating." One would think that goes without saying, but we're glad someone else said it anyway. ...