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Independent:

Strewth! Australia rocked by ‘lesbian’ koala revelation
By Roger Dobson
Published: 25 February 2007

Female koalas indulge in lesbian “sex sessions”, rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers.

The furry, eucalyptus-eating creatures appear to develop this tendency for same-sex liaisons when they are in captivity. In the wild, they remain heterosexual.

Scientists monitoring the marsupials with digital cameras counted three homosexual interactions for every heterosexual one.

“Some females rejected the advances of males that were in their enclosures, only to become willing participants in homosexual encounters immediately after,” say the researchers.

“On several occasions more than one pair of females shared the same pole, and multiple females mounted each other simultaneously. At least one multiple encounter involved five female koalas.”

There’s No-One Quite Like Grandad

This salacious story from Ananova does dent Poland’s reputation as a nation of uber-Catholic prodnoses a bit.

Pensioner sues over sex marathon

A retired Polish teacher is suing the organisers of a world record sex session after they forgot to pixelate his face.

Leszek Szwerowski, 61, was spotted standing in line to take part in the contest organised as part of the World Sex Championships in 2003.

The contest involved three young women having sex with as many men as they could over the course of several hours.

But Szwerowski, from Warsaw, said the company behind the event, Pink-Press, reneged on promises to keep his identity secret and hide his face on film.

He said he was left embarrassed when his young nephew saw him on a later DVD of the event and told the rest of his family.

He said: “I was told that the faces of the participants would be blurred on the computer on which the film was saved. But this was not the case.”

Szwerowski is demanding £2,500 in damages.

But he’s not at all embarassed to be seen having sex in front of lots of other people or being filmed doing so? And he was a teacher?

Why was his young nephew watching a DVD of a public sex marathon anyway?

There are so many issues tucked away in this story it’s hard to know where to start.

Unfortunate Sexual Bibelots

No doubt this coming weekend will see a cascade of “Best/Worst/Whatever Of 2006” posts, so I’m getting my dibs in early with this list of Weirdest USB Gadgets of 2006, from The Register, not the least weird of which is Number 7, the USB pole dancer:

7. USB pole dancer For the man who likes his desk to have a classy vibe. She’s an eight-inch bikini-clad blonde, who dances on a lit-up podium. Nice. Read more

Oh dear, how very sad. I somehow doubt those who bought this little bit of masturbatory desktop heaven felt the need for item Number 10, the Spray-on condom.

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