What you need to know about pestorking a toad:

• Male cane toads often wrestle with each other in an effort to grasp a mate.
• Male toads will grasp any female that comes within reach and retain their hold unless displaced by a rival male.
• Females can actually manipulate the outcome of male-male competition by inflating at the right moment.
• A female toad inflates its body to prevent an amorous male from mating with it.

Like we need an excuse to post gratuitous photos of toad sex.

Female toads inflate to avoid sex [BBC, via LuxMentis]

So didj’a see that fancy special effects extravanagnza called Avatar? I bet you did… like basically everyone else on the planet. You probably know that the movie has become the bane of conservatives the blogosphere over because it undermines the notion that people with the most badass weapons are allowed to take whatever the Hell they want from people who still run around in loin cloths and fight with bows and arrows.

But here’s one I bet you didn’t know: were you aware that Avatar had a sex scene that was totally deleted for the feature film release but will be showing up as a special feature when the DVD hits the shelves? Well, yup it did. And if you guessed that the scene probably in some way involves those tendrily thingies that the N’avi have at the ends of their tails then… bingo! You’re spot on. And if this sounds as uncomfortable and cringe inducing to you as it did to me when I first read about it courtesy of Arianna Huffington’s always classy Huffington Post, then you’ll be thankful that I’ll be withholding this deleted portion of the script ’till after the jump. Read more »

While researching the morning doorstop, we stumbled across this campaign photo 1982 Cosmo spread of Scott Brown, winner of their “America’s Sexiest Man” contest, and better known these days as the Republican candidate to replace Teddy as Massachusetts senator in next Tuesday’s election.

“Scott Brown may be peaking or surfacing too early,” says Charles Krauthammer, sparing us the effort.

Senator Is the Centerfold [Cosmo, via RedState]

Like fine wines, some stories are best savored rather than consumed. This is one of those stories:

The elusive erogenous zone said to exist in some women may be a myth, say researchers who have hunted for it.

Now, stop right there. Pause. Sip. Enjoy. It’s the lost episode of Mythbusters or Man vs. Wild, as intrepid explorers go hunting for their elusive prey. And we don’t care whether Woody Allen got there first almost two generations ago. The time is now.

Ready? Let’s continue:

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Following last week’s stunning discovery the men cannot reach adulthood without consuming a server-farm’s worth of pornography, comes this equally paradigm-shattering report:

Young people fuck like bunnies without feeling guilty about it.

In this study to determine if sexual activity outside a committed relationship causes emotional damage to young people, the researchers found no differences in the mental well-being of participants who had a casual partner or a committed partner.

We know, we know — it undermines everything you knew about human nature. In fact, the research is so counter-intuitive, we suspect nefarious tricks were used to massage the underlying data, and expect to report to you next week when ClimaxGate blows wide open.

Casual Sex Doesn’t Cause Emotional Damage [US News]

We’re not sure this qualifies as news, but…

Researchers were conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users.

But their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a single man who had not seen it.

“We started our research seeking men in their 20s who had never consumed pornography,” said Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse. “We couldn’t find any.”

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If you’re ever stuck with jury duty, you could do a lot worse than sit as peers in judgment of The Case of the Perstreperous Pestorking:

A British woman has lost her appeal against a ban on her noisy sex sessions, after a court heard how her marathon romps that kept neighbours awake sounded like someone being murdered.

Caroline and Steve Cartwright’s “howling” lovemaking sounded “unnatural”, “hysterical” and “like they are both in considerable pain”, Newcastle Crown Court in north-east England heard.

A 10-minute recording of their sex sessions was played in court, which also heard how she tried covering her face with a pillow to muffle her cries of passion.

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