Worried parents are waiting to hear if their children are among the alleged ­victims of the nursery school worker Vanessa George after she appeared in court yesterday amid violent scenes.

Naomi Wolf thinks so. But what would she be without the boobs and lips?

Rock stars don't have anything on Silvio "Papi" Berlusconi, a.k.a. Italy's Prime Minister. Weekend parties at his Emerald Sea Villa Certosa feature 30-50 party girls, dancers, naked swimming and his very own 18 year old model mistress.

Model Sara Ziff has made a documentary about what really happens behind the cameras. This is the ugly, sleazy side of the modeling industry, the side few insiders like to talk about.

I know it seems strange to eulogize what was basically an online red light district, but in my experience there was a brief moment when Craigslist Erotic Services transformed both the meaning and the means of being a sex worker.

Bloggers and Internet safety experts quickly discovered that one of Bing's "features" is that it takes only a few clicks for anyone - of any age - to view explicit pornographic videos without even leaving the search engine.

When it comes to the ever so popular topic of who the hottest women are, Megan Fox dominates the online debate. So here we pay tribute to Ms. Fox as our first ever Hottest Woman on the Net.

The inaugural US Pole Dance Championship was held at Bleecker Street Theater in New York City. Around 300 enthusiastic pole fans from all over the US attended the show to watch the nation's elite pole dancers live on stage.

CollegeHumor is on an epic quest to find the hottest college girl in America. They've weeded through thousands of applicants and narrowed them down to the 64 hottest. Now, we turn to you. With your votes we can find the hottest college girl of them all.

Onion News panelists debate whether TV programs like A Double Shot At Love and The Bad Girls Club depict unattainable levels of skankiness. Check out the Reality Skanks in action and cast your vote in the Skankiest Reality Show Poll.

"Agent Terry Watson has come out in support of Brandon Spikes with regard to sex tapes that have surfaced on the Internet involving the Patriots [team stats] rookie linebacker. Watson, who represents the team’s second-round draft pick, said he was aware of the situation, and had spoken to his client last night. “It’s an embarrassing situation for Brandon,” Watson said when reached today. “It certainly doesn’t reflect the kind of person that he is.”" Tags: Sex Scandal Sexual Relations

Bald, brave and beautiful: Those words can’t begin to capture the remarkable Eve Ensler. She sat down with me last week, in the midst of her battle with uterine cancer, to talk about New Orleans and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Eve, the author of the hit play “The Vagina Monologues” and the creator of V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls, told me how “cancer has been a huge gift.” Eve’s moving essay “Congo Cancer” begins, “Some people may think that being diagnosed with uterine cancer, followed by extensive surgery that led to a month of debilitating infections, rounded off by months of chemotherapy, might get a girl down. But, in truth, this has not been my poison.” The poison, she went on, was the epidemic of rape, torture and violence against women and girls in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Tags: Sexism

Gay couples legally married in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 5th Texas Court of Appeals ruled that a Dallas district court judge didn't have the authority to hear a divorce case involving two Dallas men who married in Massachusetts in 2006. Republican state Attorney General Greg Abbott's office had appealed after Judge Tena Callahan, a Democrat, said she did have jurisdiction and dismissed the state's attempt to intervene. "Today's court of appeals decision overruled the district court's improper ruling, confirmed the constitutionality of Texas' traditional definition of marriage and correctly found that Texas courts lack the legal authority to grant divorces to same-sex couples," said Abbott spokesman Jerry Strickland." Tags: LGBT Relationships

"The “ex-gay” movement, which purports to save religious men and women from their unwanted same-sex attractions, will resort to any method to scam its unfortunate adherents. Earlier this month, Truth Wins Out, an organization run by ex-gay-group watchdog Wayne Besen,* released an exclusive video of two men describing how ex-gay life coach Alan Downing had encouraged them in separate counseling sessions to stand before a mirror, undress and touch themselves. A significantly older life coach, who also admits to being attracted to men, making 20-something men strip naked in his office? In the unscientific, unregulated underworld of ex-gay therapy, frauds and hacks of all stripes are getting away with any kind of "therapy" they can think up." Tags: LGBT

Bethenny Frankel and Michaele Salahi both donned bikinis and talked about their restrictive diets for the tabloids last week, but they aren't the first 'Real Housewives' to show off their bikini bodies. Teresa Giudice and Gretchen Rossi even did so for paid ad spots. Who wears a bikini best? " Tags: Sexy Women Reality TV

Once The Change has finished, and the body moves into its "advanced" stage, the female brain gets a second wind. While men start to show increased interest in relationships as they age, the mature woman becomes ready to risk conflict ¾ especially if her nest is now empty. She may continue to feel motivated to help others, but her focus might shift from her immediate family to local and global communities. She may also feel a strong desire to do more for herself, and her career, after decades of caretaking, explains Brizendine. Whether she sows her newly wild oats with whirlwind travel, going back to school, or by playing the field depends on the individual, of course. But for many 50-plus women the twilight years are characterized by an increased "zest" for life and a hearty appetite for adventure. " Tags: Relationships

One in five prisoners are raped on their first day in prison. Let me repeat that. One in five are raped on their very first day of incarceration. And that doesn’t even begin to tell the whole story of prison rape. For example, contrary to popular myth, more prisoners reported sexual assaults involving prison staff (2.8 percent) than other inmates (2.1 percent). And women are more likely to be victimized than men. Tags: Prison Sex Laws

Forget the Dow and the GDP. Here's the latest economic indicator: The U.S. birth rate has fallen to its lowest level in at least a century as many people apparently decided they couldn't afford more mouths to feed. The birth rate dropped for the second year in a row since the recession began in 2007. Births fell 2.6 percent last year even as the population grew, numbers released Friday by the National Center for Health Statistics show. "It's a good-sized decline for one year. Every month is showing a decline from the year before," said Stephanie Ventura, the demographer who oversaw the report." Tags: Economic Death Squad birth rate

"A North Dakota man is facing felony charges for hatching the most harebrained scheme to get his ex-girlfriend to have sex with him. Ryne Anderson, 18, dated the woman for “a period of time and then broke up,” according to a Grand Forks Police Department report. Over the subsequent months he told the woman, now 18, that his “life was in danger and that he needed help.” He claimed that drug dealers were watching both of them and that their lives were in danger unless “certain demands weren’t met within a specific timeframe.” “It turned out that some of the demands were sexual in nature,” reported cop Travis Jacobson, who added that the victim was told that if “she didn’t go through with these demands that people would be hurt or even killed, including her and her family.”" Tags: Sex Laws Sexual Relations

A German pop star was found guilty Thursday of causing grievous bodily harm and attempted bodily harm for failing to tell sexual partners that she was infected with HIV. Nadja Benaissa, 28, former singer in the girl band No Angels, was given a two-year suspended sentence. She was also ordered to complete 300 hours of community service with people who are HIV-positive. The trial has been taking place at a court here in Darmstadt, south of Frankfurt." Tags: HIV

The 2010 World Bodypainting Festival was held in Seeboden, Austria last July and judging from the pictures and video, it was pretty wild. They even held a ball! The painting is almost impossibly elaborate and intricate, and the styles range from the glamorous to the strange to the downright scary. For more info on the festival (including the 2011 event), check out their website here and their YouTube page here. View a slideshow of some of the winning contestants below (via the festival's website). More pictures at BuzzFeed." Tags: Sexy Women

Two months ago, the State Department released its 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report (TiP Report), laying out a picture of human trafficking across the globe. In it, the United States reaffirmed its commitment to ending this scourge -- and for the first time, included an evaluation of anti-trafficking measures in our own country. Our duties, however, do not end at our borders. Currently, more than 50,000 Iraqi women in Jordan and Syria are trapped in sexual servitude and have no possibility of escape. The burgeoning sex industries in Syria and Jordan are thriving because of instability produced by the Iraq War -- laying responsibility directly at the feet of the United States." Tags: Iraq Sex Laws

Alaskans on Tuesday approved a controversial voter initiative requiring parents to be notified before their teen age 17 and younger receives an abortion. Ballot Measure 2 was one of the most fiercely contested items in the primary election, with total spending by both sides combined nearing $1 million. Tuesday's vote marks the first time Alaska voters confronted the abortion issue at the polls. " Tags: Abortion

Do the chemical signals we send out through our smell affect the hormone levels of other people? If you ask most people what attracts them to one person instead of another, they will most likely respond with the usual answers like: personality, looks, similar likes and dislikes. But aren’t you sometimes curious when you see an unlikely couple, why they’re together? What about when you meet someone who isn’t so sexy to look at, and yet you’d bed them in a hot minute? Or what about the opposite: You meet someone who might have stepped out of the pages of a magazine -- and they even have a brain -- yet you feel not the slightest sexual spark. James V. Kohl, author of the award-winning treatise: “The Mind’s Eyes: Human Pheromones, Neuroscience, and Male Sexual Preferences and co-author of “Human Pheromones: Integrating Neuroendocrinology and Ethology,” who is considered by many to be the foremost internationally known authority on human pheromones, says, “The chemical signals we send have a direct effect on hormone levels in other people.”" Tags: Sexual Health

The world has a new Miss Universe: Mexico's Jimena Navarrete. The 22-year-old beauty queen was crowned during Monday night's pageant in Las Vegas, hosted by Bret Michaels and Natalie Morales, beating out 82 competitors. Watch clips from Miss Universe 2010 During the competition, Navarrete strutted on stage in a violet bikini, as well as a long, red gown before she discussed the importance of the Internet and monitoring children's usage of it during the Q-and-A part of the program. Navarrete — who beat first runner-up Yendi Phillipps of Jamaica and second runner-up Jesinta Campbell of Australia — is Mexico's second Miss Universe. She replaces Miss Universe 2009 Stefania Fernandez of Venezuela." Tags: Sexy Women

Finally, science steps up to prove what my generation, and the generations before us, have been saying all along: Hookup culture isn't killing relationships. University of Iowa sociologist Anthony Paik's survey of 642 adults in Chicago initially found that "average relationship quality was higher for individuals who waited until things were serious to have sex compared to those who became sexually involved in 'hookups,' 'friends with benefits,' or casual dating relationships," according to a press release. But when he controlled for people who had zero interest in having a relationship, that difference disappeared. "Couples who became sexually involved as friends or acquaintances and were open to a serious relationship ended up just as happy as those who dated and waited." Says Paik: We didn't see much evidence that relationships were lower quality because they started off as hookups. The study suggests that rewarding relationships are possible for those who delay sex. But it's also possible for true love to emerge if things start off with a more 'Sex and the City' approach, when people spot each other across the room, become sexually involved and then build a relationship." Tags: Relationships

Ninety years ago, a young man named Harry T. Burn, at the insistence of his mother to “be a good boy,” changed his vote from “nay” to “yea,” and the generations-long struggle for women’s suffrage was at last won. It is easy to catalog the progress of the last nine decades. Women can vote, own property, earn a paycheck and keep the money in their own bank accounts, go to college and play sports there, and yes, run for and hold elected office. Three of the last four Secretaries of State have been women. The Speaker of the House is a woman. Three of the nine Supreme Court justices are women. And let us not forget that a woman very nearly won the Democratic nomination for president in 2008." Tags: Sexism

More than 200 people, including about two dozen topless women, marched on the Venice Beach boardwalk Sunday afternoon to protest state laws that bar women from going bare-chested in public. Participants obtained a permit in advance and agreed to obey the law by covering their nipples with red tape, Band-Aids and other makeshift pasties. Los Angeles police hovered at the periphery as the group marched nearly a mile from Navy Court to Windward Avenue on Sunday afternoon, but did not arrest anyone for indecent exposure, a misdemeanor." Tags: Sexism

Casual sex and one-night stands are almost always framed as damaging to women, particularly young women. In recent years, writers like Laura Sessions Stepp and Wendy Shalit have issued dire warnings about the alleged dangers of sex outside of committed relationships. Let's call this rhetoric what it is: a tired repeat of the sexist double standards that have haunted women for centuries. (The subtitle of Shalit’s second book, “It’s Not Bad To Be Good,” clearly articulates the regressive notion that chastity and sexual restraint renders one “good.”)" Tags: Sexual Relations

We're not sure if this is a satire or not, but from the looks of things no one really knows. We picked 9 of our favorite "commonly accepted" signs and paired them with equally ridiculous stock photos to show our readers how silly this article really was. Visit the site to see the REST of these hilarious-if-satirical, scary-if-not reasons your husband might be gay. Don't forget to vote for the most ridiculous!" Tags: LGBT Relationships