The description for AEE's Saturday morning main stage offering was simple, yet compelling: Sex Robot Unveiling. Yes, on the third day of the show, we were invited to watch history in the making, and meet Roxxxy TrueCompanion.

Granted, we'd already seen her sitting on the couch in the TrueCompanion booth—we'd even talked to her creator and learned a bit about her ins and outs (so to speak). But Saturday was the day we got to see her switched on, and actually get a glimpse at what this robot could do...

One of the best kept literary secrets of the decade was revealed last night when 34-year-old scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti announced she was the writer masquerading as call girl Belle de Jour.

The author behind the bestselling books detailing her secret life as a prostitute decided to come out to one of her fiercest critics, Sunday Times columnist India Knight, after claiming anonymity had become "no fun". "I couldn't even go to my own book launch party", she said.

Until last week, even her agent was unaware of her name. But now Magnanti, a respected specialist in developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology in a hospital research group in Bristol, has spoken of the time six years ago she worked as a £300 an hour prostitute working through a London escort agency. Magnanti turned to the agency in the final stages of her PhD thesis when she ran out of money. She was already an experienced science blogger and began writing about her experiences in a web diary later adapted into books and a television drama starring Billie Piper.

Magnanti says she has no regrets about the 14 months she spent as a prostitute. "I've felt worse about my writing than I ever have about sex for money," she said...

People who skip breakfast tend to lose their virginity earlier, according to researchers in Japan.

In a study of 3000 people, those who did not regularly eat breakfast in their early teens said they lost their virginity at an average age of 17.5, versus an overall average age of 19 for all Japanese.

Those who had a morning meal when they were younger had their first sexual experience at 19.4 years.

The study, backed by Japan's health ministry, was aimed at finding ways to curb unwanted pregnancies. It concluded that a stable home life discouraged early sex.

"Those unhappy with their parents - such as for not preparing breakfast - may tend to find a way to release their frustration by having sex," said Kunio Kitamura, head of the Japan Family Planning Association who led the research.

Since July, the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar—usually reserved for statues of kings and generals—has been taken over by One & Other, which invites Londoners to use the space however they wish, one hour at a time.

This morning, One and Other showcased one of its most popular participants of all: Naomi McDonald, a dancer from Stringfellows lapdancing club, spent her hour honing her craft (to the delight of many passersby). Clad only in a pair of panties and heels, and armed with a mini pole, Naomi pole danced her way into the hearts of many Londoners—and crashed the One and Other website in the process...

German brothels are offering customers the chance to sleep with as many prostitutes as they like for a single fee, in recession-busting deals criticised as immoral by politicians.

The "flat-rate sex" promotions, which are based on all-you-can-eat restaurants, have been introduced by brothel owners in a bid to revive trade that has fallen around 30 per cent in the economic downturn.

Other imaginative offers include rebates for pensioners and people on benefits, 10 per cent discounts for men who arrive by bicycle or public transport, and free shoe-polishing for customers who stay overnight.

But it is the flat-rate deals – which are priced as low as £60 (€70) – that have attracted particular controversy in a country where prostitution is legal and generally well-tolerated.

The promotion is popular [with] brothel owners who have to pay their sex workers a fixed daily wage whether or not they have any clients...

You need to give your libido an extra kick for your hot date tonight, but find that popping pills just lacks the proper romance? London dessert boutique The Icecreamists claims to have come up with the solution in its new "vice cream" treat, The Sex Pistol, which will make its debut on September 10th. The Sex Pistol is an ice cream cocktail laced with a variety of substances designed to get you into the mood, including ginkgo, biloba, arginine, and guarana. If none of those herbal treatments do it for you, the Sex Pistol also contains a dose of sildenafil citrate—otherwise known as Viagra. And for that final, decadent touch, a shot of absinthe is poured over the top...

The leader of an Indonesian cult who sermonised in his underpants and demanded that his acolytes perform in sex orgies has been jailed for blasphemy, a judge said Friday.

Agus Noro, also known as Agus Imam Solihin or "leader of the faithful," was found by the South Jakarta district court to have blasphemed against Islam, lead judge Haryanto said.

The court found Noro forced four married couples belonging to his Satria Piningit Weteng Buwono cult, meaning "Chosen Warriors from the Belly of the World," to perform group sex in his house in 2003 while he and two teenage followers watched...

Welcome to the adults only learning centre where wannabe lovers can improve their technique by playing with interactive mannequins, watching "self-help" sex videos, measuring their score on a spank-o-meter or joining a strip class.

And if that's all too much to take, visitors to the Amora sex academy can slip into the lounge bar for an aphrodisiac cocktail or have a session with a sex therapist to brush up on everything from hormones to sex exercises, foreplay to fetish, flirting to fantasy.

The Amora academy which opened in Berlin last week welcomes visitors with the slogan, "Finally - an exhibition for those who always have to touch everything"...

A nude saxophone player surprised four similarly dressed violinists in northwestern Sweden to claim victory as the year’s best incarnation of a water fairy, a mythical creature from ancient Swedish folklore.
The winning performance by Martin Norberg marked the first time in the 15-year history of the Årets Näck (‘Water Fairy of the Year’) competition that a saxophonist, or a musician playing anything other than a violin, had taken top honours.

The mesmerizing horn player almost missed the competition altogether, however, making his victory all the more unexpected.

“He just showed up a couple of hours before the competition and asked if he was allowed to play a saxophone,” contest arranger Calle Hernmarck told The Local.

According to legend, a water fairy is a supernatural being that takes the form of a naked man playing the violin on the shores of Swedish lakes and streams...

Teenage pregnancies and syphilis have risen sharply among a generation of American school girls who were urged to avoid sex before marriage under George Bush's evangelically-driven education policy. The Centres for Disease Control says years of falling rates of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease infections under previous administrations were reversed or stalled in the Bush years. According to the CDC, birth rates among teenagers aged 15 or older had been in decline since 1991 but are up sharply in more than half of American states since 2005. The study also revealed that the number of teenage females with syphilis has risen by nearly half after a significant decrease while a two-decade fall in the gonorrhea infection rate is being reversed. The number of Aids cases in adolescent boys has nearly doubled. The CDC says that southern states, ... abstinence and religion, tend to have the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and STDs...

These pictures show the scenes inside a stately home before a masked ball degenerated in to a mass orgy.

More than 350 well-heeled partyogers, who had arrived in a fleet of Porsches, BMWs and Aston Martins, hold lit candles as they watch a mysterious man in a red cloak and two women in lingerie perform on stage.

Everything seemed normal to the owner of the 17th century stately home Halswell House until midnight - when the assembled stripped down to leather pants, corsets and suspenders.

Within minutes, as revealed in the Daily Mail today by columnist Richard Kay, the guests began having sex...

The Upper Floor Lounge is finally finished! To celebrate, slave applicants Bella Rossi, Sarah Shevon, and Savannah West will serve at the Upper Floor's First Cocktail Party alongside veteran slave Cherry Torn.

These survivors of the past month's grueling tests, auditions and training programs finally have a chance to petition the Household in their efforts to graduate from the filthy basement to serve on the luxurious Upper Floor of the Armory. There is only room for one, and the Upper Floor needs member's help to decide who should advance to fill the roster of House Slaves and who needs more training back in the basement.

The live cocktail party will be followed by an exclusive 1-hour pay-per-minute show in which you will get the chance to use the new initiate by making her obey your every command. Prove her worthy and make her submit to your will, just as she has to the house masters.

Typically, fertility is a subject sequestered to females, focusing on ovulation periods. However, sperm shouldn’t be completely neglected. Sperm that suffers from DNA damage may considerably hinder a couple’s ability to reproduce, even if sex is had while a woman is ovulating.

In order to find a way to lessen DNA problems of sperm, Dr. David Greening, a gynecologist and endocrinologist from Australia, studied the effects of daily ejaculations on damage rates. The longer sperm stays inside the testicles, the more likely it is to suffer from reactive oxygen species, DNA’s number one enemy. By ejaculating daily, theoretically sperm should be healthier and more able to achieve conception...

Air New Zealand (AIR.NZ) has hit on a novel way to make sure even the most jaded flyers keep their eyes glued on its flight safety briefing.

The national carrier's safety video for domestic services on its Boeing Co (BA.N) 737 planes show pilot and cabin crew dressed only in body paint...

Sue Williams has been awarded a £20,000 grant by the Arts Council of Wales, to "explore cultural attitudes towards female buttocks". Sue plans to examine racial attitudes towards bottoms in Europe and Africa and create plaster casts of women's behinds to try to understand their place in contemporary culture. And here I've been studying the issue all these years for free like a sucker!

Prostitutes in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have begun taking karate lessons to protect themselves from violent customers and pimps.

The women say they were so fed up with abuse that they approached a local community group for help.

The organizers hope the course in the ancient self-defense technique sends a message that violence against sex workers must stop...