In the wide world of dating, there are many options. The following are reasons why I think my fellow females should pay more attention to the quiet geeks and nerds, and less attention to the flashy boys.

Nach dem Skandal kommt auch gleich die Krönung: Kate Moss ist wieder da. Sie prangt auf allen Covern. Denn die Modewelt braucht sie dringender denn je.

The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award - via Literaturwelt. Der Worst Sex in Movies-Award könnte interessant werden.

We are what we buy at the mall, see at the multiplex, and hear on our iPods. And that's a good thing. Author Thomas De Zengotita discusses our new "Mediated" life.

Happy End einer langjährigen Liebe: Prinz Charles wird seine Jugendfreundin Camilla Parker Bowles heiraten. Das wurde heute in London bekannt gegeben.

A new book explores the rich, strange history of the orgasm.

This holiday season.
One family's Christmas.
Will have little significance.
Due, largely.
To their Hindu faith.

Passion Parties is a direct-sales organization based in Brisbane, Calif., that specializes in sex toys, and for the last seven years in a row, Brewer, a high-school dropout who lives in a dry county in the heart of the Bible Belt, has been the top seller in its sales force of 5,000. Roughly four times a week, she drives to the homes of friends and strangers, the Escalade stuffed to the rafters with edible lotions, sex manuals, erotic games, lingerie and, above all, ''power tools'': vibrators with 10 speeds and vibrators with 1; vibrators that hula-hoop and vibrators that glow; vibrators that run underwater and vibrators that run by remote control -- vibrators, in short, that do everything except sort your laundry and file your tax returns.

It is not surprising that a culture that embraces reality TV shows, which find drama in rejection, would find entertainment in rating others and seeing how they fare. "We allow people to do online what they already do every day, all the time," said James Hong, a founder of Hot or Not, the pioneer of the rating sites. What remains striking about the sites, though, is how many men and women are willing to submit their looks and their egos to the scrutiny of the anonymous masses.

Sexologist Ian Kerner talks to Salon about his new book, "She Comes First," and why the well-trained tongue is mightier than the "sword."
Armed with a doctorate in clinical sexology, Kerner has devoted his life to the study and practice of good sex. And awkward as it may sound, Kerner credits his success at home and at work to cunnilingus. Going down helped Ian Kerner get back on top.

In a schizoid world of compulsory chastity and online orgies, how are teenage boys supposed to make sense of sex?