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The Los Angeles County Department of Health is funding a contest called "L.A.'s Next Sex Symbol," in which any old struggling artist is invited to submit a condom-package design to appear on "1 million and one" free, county-issued condoms this year.

Too good to be true?

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The alarming stat from a West Coast study was published this week for the May issue of the journal Pediatrics.

Researchers looked at 5,348 8th graders and found that ...

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What arouses a woman's libi-don't?

Riding a bike, especially one with low-set handlebars, according to a new study from Yale University.

Anyone who's been on a bike knows that your body weight rests heavily on the seat, which puts pressure on the genital area. So it's not too shocking that female cyclists have decreased sensation in the pelvis area, as the study reports.

The study also notes:

Tressler.

Thank the Lord.

It turns out that super-hottie society writer Sarah Tressler, fired after her not-so-secret night job as a stripper was revealed in Houston, was an intern right here in town -- at the late, great LA CityBeat.

Not only that but, at the time, she readily admitted ...

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Action at the 'Venice Carnevale.'

And those two lovers aren't shy about their patchouli oil or their volume, either. It's like living next to a porn studio.

Yeah.

Turns out the folks at dating site Chemistry.com noticed the noise too.

Its latest "Sex in America" data finds that ...

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That's right, the website SeekingArrangement.com says this capital of sleazy bald men chasing skirt like there's no tomorrow only ranks number five nationally in terms of per-capital sugar daddies. Hmm.

The site's founder and CEO, Brandon Wade, explained it to us, because we were perplexed:

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But who knew that "coregasm," the art of the female orgasm while working out, would be the latest craze?

(Madonna will be all over this).

Yes, the corgasm, a study has just confirmed, is for real:

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A new study found that male fruit flies that were rejected by females prefer alcohol. Sounds familiar. Research published this week in the journal Science discovered that, when presented with a food "mash" soaked with alcohol and one without, rejected man-flies preferred the hooch.

The California-based work was led by ...

Nope.

A survey by the Facebook dating app AreYouInterested finds that a third of respondents admit to checking the Facebook status of their exes determine if they have plans for Valentine's Day.

Sad? When did Facebook turn into the Regal Beagle on a slow night? But wait: There's more desperation in this data:

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Now it wants inside your bedroom for Valentine's Day. Ah, so romantic.

Well, it is "International Condom Day" and, as such, the foundation is, er, rolling out ...

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A new survey by the women's lifestyle site iVillage indicates that two-thirds of married women would almost rather do anything than have sex with their men.

(Way to serve your ladies, guys.)

In fact, according to an iVillage statement, a vast majority of ladies would rather ...

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And we know you all want your investment to pay off. (Yeah, boys think this way. Really).

Well, here's a little intel for you:

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And now the Los Angeles Fire Department must pay nearly $500,000 because officials failed to stop the razzing.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today announced:

The Orbit dirty mouth lady. Yeah.

A new study published this week in the journal JAMA says that seven percent of the folks in the U.S. aged 14 to 69 have the virus that causes genital warts ... in their mouths! (Actually, the exact percentage rate is a apropos 6.9.)

Y'alls some freaky Americans, but here's the upshot:

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Invest in this limited resource.

According to new research, if males believe there is a shortage of women (which is true even at a nail salon), they'll tend to spend more, borrow more and save less.

Huh? Wouldn't guys want to save up for the overstock sale?

Nope.

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We can't show you the rest of this photo.

Been to the Vegas Strip lately?

We're not sure if this falls into that category, or if it's a sign that people are feeling flush enough to get freaky again.

But L.A.'s own legendary lingerie retailer Frederick's of Hollywood is getting down (and by that we mean looking up):

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Yeah, we just unwrapped that mental package of repressed imagery. (You're welcome).

We always equated hot sex with the season of hot-and-sticky weather and less-is-more beachwear.

But apparently we were wrong:

Blake's a gun collector.

Nobody wants half of half. So move over, because there's a new player in town:

Blake Griffin.

The power forward for the L.A. NBA team that everyone's talking about this season, the Clippers, shows off his assets in the latest Men's Health magazine.

The kind folks from the mag sent LA Weekly the cover shot of the January/February issue:

The study associated multi-person sex with, among other factors, "pornography exposure."

The research, obtained today by the Weekly, was just published in the Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. It found that ...

Research unveiled this week concludes that drinking and sex don't mix -- at least not if you want to prevent HIV.

The study headed for the January issue of the journal Addiction says that you for every .1 increase in blood-alcohol level you see you have a 5 percent greater chance of having unprotected sex.

And the research didn't even include ...