Liz Langley

The Anthony Weiner scandal was so disheartening, especially coming on the heels of so many other sex scandals, that I couldn't help wondering why in the world do these guys even bother getting married? If your sexual appetite is greater than 'one' shouldn't you know it by marrying age? Here's the question, considered in my SeXis column:  Sex Cult: A Confederacy of Sexual Dunces  with input from author  Bella DePaulo . Enjoy!

I didn't post all my Sex Feed pieces from yesterday due to busy-ness and the notion that  National HIV Testing Day  merited a post all it's own. That means we have a few to catch up on from yesterday like  A Very Brady STD ...a  Swedish School Seeking to Minimize Gender Stereotyping ...an illuminating book about  what the sex lives of married people in the early 20th century were really like ....and the GM of a Chrisitan Radio Station gets a charge...or three...out of  driving around with no pants on. Today we have the  World Testicle and Aphrodisiac Cooking competition  (they're dedicating dishes to Wills & Kate...how sweet!) and  Hef's new girlfriends...plural. OK, the Very Brady STD is about Florence Henderson writing in her new book about a particularly unhappy escapade in the late 60's, but since I have such happy memories of the Bradys, here's the Brady Bunch Variety Hour Disco Medley. Enjoy!

I'll probably have some other posts today but this one, I thought, merited a note of it's own: today is  National HIV Testing Day , so please check out this post and if you don't know where there is a site near you or think you can't afford a test go to the testing site locator  - I was surprised at how many places in Orlando do free testing and I hope you can say the same for your city. If you've been postponing this, don't: a lot of other people will be out there with you today and it's important for your peace of mind and your health.

(Right: Me leaning against a column looking like Jane Velez-Mitchell is pointing me out, outside the OC Courthouse on the Casey Anthony line. She wasn't.)         I wrote Crazy Little Thing: Why Love and Sex Drive Us Mad partly because I'm endlessly intrigued by what keeps some people away from the edge while others go over it. Craziness, it's triggers and components, can always be closer than we think...not sweet, endearing "Your so crazy!" crazy but lost it, out-to-lunch, Screw-Loose-LaTrek, dropped neuro-stitch crazy, the kind where people are often just functional enough to keep up appearances...until one day something goes horribly, horribly wrong.          The Casey Anthony murder trial is not about a crime of passion, but it is a pu pu platter of crazy - everyone connected to it either started out crazy or could sadly be driven mad by its Sophoclean weight- and since it's going on so close to my house I thought I'd try to get in. The anarchi

My two stories on SeXis' Sex Feed today were: 1) a Bloomberg story on some reasons  same-sex households increased at 6x the rate as straight-lead households  - one of which is really quite morale boosting,  and  2)  how to avoid getting hurt by your stupidly high heels.  Having a wicked fetish for the footwear equilvalent of  the 'bad boy' I needed this. My colleage Rayne Millaray's also did a wonderful piece on a Tampa clergyman who has the glorious nerve to talk about sexual health and safety from the pulpit: "Before we can save the soul, we have to save the life." Now THAT is inspirational.

Today's Sex Feed:  Planned Parenthood Indiana closed 27 facilities  temporarily due to slashed funding (a blow to the poor, women's health AND  two jobs lost! I guess that's right wing victory). Also a bizarre body modification out of Japan wherein you get your forehead filled with saline to produce bulbous knobs. The wearers are called : Bagelheads  (though I think of them as Salt Water Daffy) I've written a lot of disgusting stories but rarely do I get as nauseated as I did by that one. I mean, of course, the one about Planned Parenthood having to close.

Pejazzling: it's the delicate art of encrusting your male bathing-suit parts with sparklies. You've never heard me say this before and you'll never hear me say it again but for once - and only for one - I think natural might be better. Check it out on SeXis:  Pejazzling: Gilding the Willie .