A writer over on the Feministing community blogs went on a trip to the gyno for one of her Gardasil shots and ended up getting a nice lesson in Even People Who Are Supposed to be Experts in Their Fields are Idiots 101 by her nurse.

“The HPV Vaccine prevents four types of HPV.” He lists them, tells me how they cause most cases of cervical cancer and genital warts. “But do you know how many types of HPV there actually are?” I respond with 30-40, having just read the Gardasil brochure in the waiting room. But he disagrees: “Nope. There are actually over 100. So, even though this vaccine prevents four, you have to watch out for ninety-six other ones.” Except, wait, no the brochure is right. According to the American Cancer Society , there are over 100 types, but sixty cause warts on non-genital skin, leaving forty affecting the anal and genital area. Why, then, would he so subtly imply that when engaging in sexual activity I should beware of 96 types of HPV?

Then he basically tells her that condoms are ineffective against preventing  STDs… too bad the International Conference on AIDS and the National Institutes of Health, and every major national health organization pretty much refute that. But then there’s this doozie:

After some more discussion (although by this point, while he was talking, I was mostly just staring at him in shock), after he had led me to the natural conclusion that there’s no real way to be safe from STDs, he told me this: “Women shouldn’t have sex like men. You’re in college, you know what some women are doing….If he’s not Mr. Right, then why are you with him anyways?”

Either he’s some right-wing lunatic posing as a medical guy, or he’s trying to be the sassy gay friend, giving advice, but not actually good advice…

Anyways, read the rest of AJohnson’s story at My Gynecology Nurse Lied

21 people taking part in an oral sex competition were arrested in the Greek island of Zakynthos. Police say that 6 British men and 6 Greek men, and 9 British women were charged in the incident which was taking place on a  beach.

Gross.

The women have been charged with prostitution and the men with encouraging obscene behavior (not for purchasing sex?). The prosty charge is because they were going to be paid. The whole shebang was being taped to then later get posted all over the Internets.

Apparently, this island has an amazing, wild party scene, but this is a bit far from innumerable Jello shots.

AOL/ Black Voices have the list of the hottest women over 40. The interesting part was half of them I had no IDEA they were beyond their 30s, so good for them (not that your skin starts falling off at midnight on your 40th birthday or anything. Besides, that’s what botox is for).

A few of my faves (and a few I have questions about) after the jump :
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This morning’s Emmy noms have people abuzz with all kinds of questions like, “What about the Mad Men Actresses?!?” and “Masterpiece Theater still exists?!?”

All this showbiz talk, (at least for me, I work in LA) is cause for a roundup of all the ish going down in Tinseltown…

The newly-nominated Amy Poehler is taking on a spinoff of the wildly popular NBC show, The Office. This probably means she’ll be ditching SNL, especially with a baby on the way…

Despite everyone being so freaked out about Katherine Heigl “blasting” the Grey’s writing crew, she’s staying on as Dr. Izzie Stevens. She said the writing didn’t really give her a reason to throw her name in the hat for an Emmy, and she’s right. The writing this season was sub-par compared to 2006-2007, and that probably had something to do with the writer’s strike.

Speaking of the Emmys, check out Neil Patrick Harris and Kristin Chenoweth ham up the nomination announcements — much better than the usual fare, and at 5 a.m. no less!
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Katy Perry’s annoyingly catchy, dance-worthy hit “I Kissed A Girl” still tops the Billboard chart, keeping 12 year olds everywhere comfortable with making out with their best friend so they could tell their boyfriends.

And Eugene at Cinematical is worried about adorable little Michael Cera and the film adaptation of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. I don’t blame him.

Do NOT ever, in life EVER call Tila Tequilla straight. Seriously.

KM:  What about the people who say you’re not really bisexual—that you’re hetero and just pretending for the show? Care to set the record, uh, straight?

TT: They can suck my dick.

hehe. Interview with King Magazine (bleh, gross).

Well, if you have yet to see/hear, Miss USA fell at this weekend’s Miss Universe. At least she wasn’t stupid about it. She fell, got right back up, even clapped to acknowledge “Yup, this is going to be on YouTube for the rest of my life” and kept on going.

This was the second year in a row, apparently, that Miss USA fell at the beauty pageant scholarship competition. Miss USA 2007 didn’t do quite as well; she kinda played it safe and cautious.

And because it never gets old, a model falls through a freaking hole, and The Hatian on Heros rescues her. The Hatian people are a rather benevolent bunch…