Getting vocal during sex isn't a crime—unless you live in England and the noises you make are so loud and disturbing, it "constitutes a statutory nuisance." 

Yesterday, an English judge upheld the conviction of 48-year-old Caroline Cartwright, whose aurally intrusive lovemaking got her banned from "making excessive noise" during sex anywhere in Britain. Weirdest Sex Laws

Cartwright had appealed the decision, saying she had a right to "respect for her private and family life" and that she could not help making loud noises during sex. 

According to this May Daily Telegraph article, Cartwright was jailed after repeatedly flouting noise citations regarding … Read More

Sometimes you have a really good idea for a 1,000-word post in your back pocket; sometimes you have to link link to other people's really good ideas. That bein said, I scoured the interwebs (so you wouldn't have to) and here's the best of love and relationships from the ones and zeros:

Do you know what blue balls are? Have you ever experienced so much wanting and wanting and wanting that you just couldn't take it any more? Em & Lo's (at EmAndLo.com) man panel discusses the existence of this particular testicular curricular. (Note: blue balls exist inasmuch … Read More

Two weeks before my 40th birthday, my husband of five years told me he wanted to be with a woman he worked with at Citibank more than he wanted to be with me and our 14-month-old daughter.

I was nearly paralyzed with fear. How was I going to make it as a single parent? What was I going to do? I was becoming thinner by the minute. My size eight clothes hung off of me, but there was no one to care or tease me that there was finally room for my shirt and rear end to share a pair … Read More

According to CNN, about 20 percent of American couples are in a “sexless” marriage, which therapists define as having sex approximately less than 10 times a year.

While this shouldn’t be surprising information to us, as Americans recently ranked third to last on the lovemaking frequency scale... it still is.

Problems in the bedroom often mirror those outside of it, but sickness, children or simply low sex drive in both partners could also account for this sort of dry spell. The therapists that CNN interviewed stressed that infrequent lovemaking is only a problem if … Read More

People, we need to start having more sex. According to a new Global Wellbeing survey by Durex, Americans rank third lowest in the world when it comes to the frequency with which we knock boots. In fact, only the nations of Japan, Hong Kong and Nigeria have less sex. And we know what the former two are doing with their free time: Getting busy developing superior electronics. Anyway.

What to do? Make our work week shorter, like the French? Their President just married a supermodel, so you can bet even he doesn't use "I've … Read More