Letter From the Editor

Whether we like it or not, things in nature tend to wander: bees and other insects take pollen from one flower and pollinate a different one with it; female penguins travel long distances to stock up on food to feed their not-yet-hatched young; minds tend to drift in a particularly tedious board meeting; and, eyes travel the path of sashaying hips or an especially curvaceous figure as they stride on by.

Entropy, in terms of chemistry, is tantamount to the second law of thermodynamics which basically states whatever will happen will happen. Hence, anything that defies nature goes against the second law of thermodynamics and thus flouts an entropic state. A good example is not having sex (it won’t be evolutionarily sound not to as all animals, including humans, need to ensure the continuation of species), or having sex with only one partner in one’s lifetime (i.e. monogamy). In other words, the more organized a system is (such as the institution of marriage), the more it defies entropy and thus defies nature—not to mention it requires tremendous amount of energy to maintain what is not  natural.

So go do what nature, God, or whatever higher being intended for humankind to do: wander.

Editor

Out of all the aphrodisiacs noted throughout history over a period of thousands of years, the one that has been singled out as having proven sexual-enhancing properties is good ole’ straight from the breast: mother’s milk! In a controlled study of healthy women aged 18 to 35, who were asked to apply pads laced with a combination of breast milk and underarm secretions collected from mothers who were exclusively nursing their newborns, it was noted that breastfeeding compounds increased sexual motivation by up to 24 percent. The research, which was conducted by the Institute for Mind and Biology at the University of Chicago, found that participants exposed to breastfeeding compounds had a 17 percent increase in sexual fantasies as compared with a 27 percent decline in the desire of women in the control group.

The come-on line of “What’s your sign?”—whether coming from someone you may consider attractive or loathsome—has elicited a number of responses from members of both sexes since its inception. Now, if you’re a believer or choose to admonish astrology signs as not being a real ‘science’ one has to admit that there is a strong following (and perhaps some truth or coincidence in some cases) that our birth signs lend some interesting details to discerning personality traits and social interactions. Astrologically Incorrect for Lovers author is astrologer, editor and writer Terry Marlowe’s follow-up to Astrologically Incorrect.

Totally time to sit down and brace up because Britney Rears 4 delivers some seriously messed up hardcore styles in barely legal gonzo. With all that insanity, it's hard to believe the movie adheres to a classy plot line, but it does! Blame it all on Britney's latest endorsement: the Britney pop. Apparently, whoever eats the lollipop turns into a gonzo sex freak.

Bu-Tay Vodka smells like Tang, looks like antifreeze, pours like cough syrup, and tastes surprisingly good. I was totally prepared to dislike this blue concoction (yes it’s blue, like toilet-bowl blue) but there’s a fratboy-esque charm to its 60-proof citrus flavor. I’m pretty sure it has the worst name of any vodka in the world, and I’m completely positive that said name will prompt hours of uninspired puns at Sigma Chi rush parties across this great nation, but I have to say it’s “bu-tay-licious.”

When this interview was being conducted, Sherri Williams had just recently completed an interview with a Berlin newspaper who was writing a piece on “shock value” as it outlined the stark differences between mentalities concerning sexuality from the U.S. and our European counterparts. “Here’s a woman who’s taken upon herself to go against the state because they banned sex toys; that’s so absurd and unheard of [to them],” said Williams.

More than 65 million Americans are infected with an incurable sexually transmitted infection (STI also known as sexually transmitted disease or STD), while an additional 19 million new infections occur each year. Fortunately, most of the new STIs are treatable with antibiotics. However, not all STIs have a cure available. There are currently four STIs that lack any cure: Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and Human Papillomavirus (HPV).

When it comes to the laws of attraction, Janie Fredell has all the answers the young women of Harvard University are looking for!“Some women get weekly artificial tans and pedicures, revealed faithfully every Friday night by mini-skirts and stilettos,” she wrote in The Crimson, Harvard’s daily newspaper, in March 2007. “[But] I have found a much simpler means of garnishing male attention—abstinence... In addition to preserving health and happiness, virginity is extremely alluring.” Fredell, set to graduate in ’09, is a member of True Love Revolution, an organization based out of Harvard whose website claims to “promote respectful and open-minded discussion of issues relating to abstinence, sex and marriage.”

The romantic notion of finding one partner and mating for life is a fantasy projected on society from the moment we are born. Stories of long-term monogamy have been told numerous times and sometimes can be the basis of a person’s search for their soul mate. The story of penguins’ mating habits has tugged at heartstrings countless times; when penguins find a mate they stay with that partner until their dying day, even if they separate during migration they always return to one another. However, no relationship amongst people can be as simple as the penguins or as plastic as Barbie and Ken.

Stepping out of the hardcore here and now for a little bit of titty time traveling can be very refreshing. After only a few minutes, all of the implant-enhanced cans and perfectly pubeless pudenda of contemporary adult material will seem too sleek and overproduced, especially when pitted against the gravitational pull of natural knockers, the mystery of between-the-knees forests and the costumed-enhanced spectacles that were requisites of the smut that generations of Internet-lacking masturbators once considered scarce and harder to cum by luxuries to lube up to.

The I Rub My Duckie (Travel Paris model) reminds you that everything we needed to know, we learned in Kindergarten. Just take a look at public broadcasting fave Sesame Street. Jim Henson and his crew of puppets taught us about all the important stuff like recycling, racial diversity, spelling. Ernie, one half of S. Street’s same-sex power couple – (hello, you know he was boning Bert during those cartoon breaks) taught us perhaps, one of the most important things: the joys of bathtime with rubber ducky in hand. It could only have been better if this life lesson included an instructional on how to work your shower head.