In a major development in the fight against AIDS, the drug Truvada has been found not only to treat those infected with HIV, but can help prevent infection in the first place.

Researchers at San Francisco's Gladstone Institutes found that the gay men and some transgendered women treated with Truvada were 73 percent less likely to be infected with the virus. The pill had to be taken regularly (for those who took the pill at least half the time, the risk of infection fell 50 percent) and that regularity comes with a cost—currently Truvada costs about $36 dollars per day, adding up to $13,000 per year.

“This is a very exciting, dynamic time in HIV prevention research,” is what Alan Bernstein, head of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, told USA Today. “It couldn't come at a better time. There's clearly a growing realization that we're not going to be able to treat our way out of this epidemic.”

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways … or, I could just leave my cell phone at home for you.

The newest trend in the giving of affection to someone of whom one is enamored is, of course, turning off your phone, according to Time magazine. The phenomenon started when Ingrid Zweifel, a senior at The New School for Design overheard a stranger gushing over a blind date. “She said to me, ‘He left his phone at home for me. I was, like, ‘Oh, my God, that is beautiful.’”

For others who are interested in leaving behind their technological devices so they can focus completely on their paramours, Zweifel has developed the “Phonekerchief,” an innovative handkerchief—when wrapped around your cellular device, the Phonekerchief renders it unreachable. How sweet. Maybe romance isn’t dead, it’s just updated for the new digital age.

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Out of all the mating rituals Isabella Rossellini has depicted on her brilliant short-film series Green Porno: Seduce Me, she says she thinks the weirdest of the weird is not earthworm sex, but duck sex.

Despite the fact that ducks engage in forced copulation with corkscrew penises, it’s the female duck who gets the last laugh. “The duck vagina is very complex,” Rossellini explained. “I was surprised to learn that the female duck can direct the male's penis to do whatever she wants. If she doesn't want to get pregnant, she blocks it. It's her choice.”

And check out the tasteful duck vaginal labyrinth depiction! Sexy and informative. Okay, and a little weird. But mostly informative.



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As long as politicians anywhere keep making their little sexual Freudian slips, the media will cover them—this time, Canadian industry minister Tony Clement told an audience that, “We need more Canadian sex stories.”

He when on to say he meant “success” after the laughter from the crowd subsided. After reporters teased him about the slip, he said that he hadn’t actually been thinking about sex but the word just “blurted out.”

“The male brain is a very strange organ at times, isn't it?” Clement said. Um-hmmm.