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Why Sex Sells, Online or Off

Sometimes you have to be careful not to too broadly apply the results of a study. In this case, I'm not sure if I can help it. Just call me out (as you often do) in the comments if you think I've done so. Two recent studies showed a strong correlation between sex hormones and monetary risks.And that kind of explains everything. Like…

Valleywag Salaciousness A Real Money Shot

A simple formula pays off at the Valleywag corner of the Gawker Media empire: take a mostly male audience in a notoriously sexually frustrated profession, add a dirty-talking scribe, and watch the page views roll on in.

Study: Sex At Work Makes Work Better

Don't let those stiffs from HR tell you office romances are bad for business. No, you just point them right to this Sun article that says as long as you're not sued for harassment (I'm talking to you, creepy, who's going to follow this advice right into a cardboard box and a security escort), sex with coworkers actually results in raised energy levels, better professional capacity, and higher productivity.

Sexy Micro-blogging Ensures Twitter Success

Perhaps it was an eventuality. All roads used to lead to Rome; now all superhighways lead to a crotch-shot. But this development is at least a testament to the power of the Twitter concept: the cybersex crowd has taken it up.If a message on Twitter is called a "tweet," is a message on boobik called a "tw…" –never mind.

Microsoft Silences Santa Sex Talk

Microsoft has had to remove its Santa bot after it was discovered to be using inappropriate language with users.

PR will lose Social Media to Advertising Due to Sex

Okay, not necessarily sex - but advertising does know how to make mundane things sexy.

Facebook Subpoenaed Over Sex Offenders

At first glance, this looks bad: New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram has subpoenaed Facebook and asked that the social network identify registered sex offenders who have become members.  Depending on what happens, “bad” could become an understatement.

Web Surfing Beats Sex And Friendship

A survey by ad agency JWT found many people prefer to click their way to happiness on the Internet rather than seek the company of friends or lovers.

To Catch A Wiki-Predator

A flame war has ensued between the operators of PervertedJustice.com, online arm of Dateline NBC's "To Catch A Predator," and Wikipedia. When Wikipedia users clicked on the Perverted Justice link included with articles about pedophilia, they were redirected to a welcome page naming Wikipedia as a "corporate sex offender."

29,000 Sex Offenders Found On MySpace

The social networking site culled some 29,000 profiles from its userbase after finding they had been created by registered sex offenders.