[NYer]

"She could have gotten him an inflatable doll,"

Or she could have practiced abstinence in the first place.

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[Sender]

"She could have gotten him an inflatable doll,"

A man walks into an adult novelty store and tells the clerk he wants to buy an inflatable sex doll.

"Male or female?" asks the clerk.

"Female, of course" answers the man.

"What ethnicity do you like?" asked the clerk. "We have the Saucy Swede, the Naughty Nigerian and the Asian Venus for $29.95, and there's the Palestinian Princess for $59.95."

"How come the Palestinian Princess costs so much more?" asked the man.

"She's the only one who blows herself up."

[x5452]

Extremely good point.

[The Brush]

Now sixth grade teachers can give their students a proper sex education

[Victoria Delsoul]

Though long popular among women in the Middle East and Latin America, where being chaste is important on one's wedding night, hymenoplasty is experiencing new-found popularity among women in the US.

One clinic boasts on its Internet site that its practitioners "can repair the hymen as if nothing occurred". Many who undergo the procedure, which costs between US$1,800 ($2,900) and US$5,000, also ask that their vaginas be tightened, doctors say.

How ironic that those who easily, willingly, and carelessly lost their virginity and probably made fun of those for keeping it, are now paying big bucks for having a fake one.

[little jeremiah]

I'll try to ping this one out.

Unbelievable. It's just madness, and this isn't the nadir.