Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey reported a 4 percent increase in vasectomy claims from 2007 to 2009. Nobody wants to bring a child into a world where they will never qualify for a sub-prime mortage. [NJ.com]

A sad day in the history of free love: Yale has formally banned faculty members from having sex with undergrads. Well, what the fuck is the point of teaching at Yale now? "Harold Bloom joke." [Typical Yale pic via]

Why are women underrepresented in science and math-related fields? According to a new report from the National Science Foundation, it's probably because they're so sensitive about every little thing.

The ad below for some Australian beer explains exactly when you know you need a beer: when your balls tingle. Yea, maybe in Australia.

As if men didn't have enough to worry about, with all the sports viewing: prepare for "the biggest array of product launches for men in nearly a decade and maybe ever." Translation, fellas: corporate America's comin' fer yer balls.

It's true because science just told us. Some bored British academics recently determined that fellows of higher intelligence "are more likely to value monogamy and sexual exclusivity than less intelligent men." Or are they just better at not getting caught?

A controversial new book by a Harvard-educated lawyer weighs in on American society's most hotly debated sociological quandary: Should black ladies date people who are not black? The year now is 1955. Oh, it's not?

Men concerned about anal health realize the importance of prostate exams. Dr. Oz drives this point home by getting one brave soul to drop his drawers and let a doctor jam a finger up his butt on national television. LIVE!

Nick Snider was charged with "offering sexual favors to Arkansas cops" after being arrested on a drunk-and-disorderly call, allegedly saying, "I'll suck your dick and balls if you let me go." Deliverance was in Georgia, Nick. PS, nice shirt. [TheSmokingGun.com]

In a new survey, male and female business professionals both agree that entry-level jobs are gender-neutral—but about twice as many men as women said executive-level jobs are equally open to both sexes. Among those men: your boss. [WSJ]

Notable trend noted by the New York Times news-paper: Transgender individuals often choose to change their names along with their sex. And New York City is a popular place to do so! The more you know. There used to be a law that name changes had to be advertised in the news-paper, which had the fringe benefit of helping transgender people to make new friends:

Are US Army wives "doing all they can" to help win the War on Terror, if you know what we mean? (We mean are they being strippers, at home, enough??).

Isn't it time for you to devote some thought to America's single least important issue? Yes, the "Should college bathrooms be co-ed?" debate is still boiling, and we will now force you to consider this thoroughly ridiculous question. Consider it!

Today's big news about Tiger Woods, besides 14 new hookers coming forward: His wife wants him to quit golf! According to a probably made-up UK tabloid story. But it raises the larger point: Why is golf so sexist? And dumb?

Sure, everybody loved ol' Bob from Fight Club and his giant set of bitch tits. But in real life they tend to be not-so-appealing.

Every once in a while, a trend piece is groundbreaking in identifying a movement in a zeitgeist. The other 99/100 are inherently ridiculous. This is no exception. The Wall Street Journal has penned an investigation into "Heavage." Yes: men's cleveage.

If you want to write an article that gets the people talking, one good way is to just start classifying women in random groups, related to age and hot sexxx. Hot sexxxy cheetah ladies cannot resist this delicious media bait!

What is on the agenda of Philadelphia's most popular hero, Arthur Kade? "I need to practice riding horses, spear fighting, and sword fighting." Just like Napoleon Dynamite! But did Napoleon fend off thrown vagina with the ease of Kade?

It took a punch to the face to make newspapers edgy again. Could a drunken punch to the face (of a woman), after an argument about racism, make the Ivy League edgy, too? One Columbia prof is testing that theory!

Here is how fake trends turn into troubling fake trends: Wooed into masculine complacency by male body lotion ads, men become metrotextual and start signing their text messages with "Kisses." Next thing you know, grandpa's sexting.