Nudity, sex, drinking dethrones beauty queens
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Billionaire Donald Trump has won the backing of beauty pageant organizers for putting the current Miss USA on warning for reported misbehavior, with the industry keen to protect a sanctified image of beauty queens.
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Comment is free: Xinran: The controversy over the posting of explicit images of celebrities reflects the resilience of old taboos outside the big cities
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The lucrative Los Angeles porn film  industry was reeling on Friday by news that two production  companies had been slapped with the first fines for allowing  actors to perform without condoms.
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In the privacy of her Boulder office, women anywhere from their 20s to their 60s quietly confess that their sex drive just isn&#39;t what it once was, and shrug their shoulders as if that&#39;s just the way it has to be.
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The lucrative Los Angeles porn film industry was reeling on Friday by news that two production companies had been slapped with the first fines for allowing actors to perform without condoms.
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The ritual baths that Jewish women take to fulfill purity requirements are getting a makeover
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The Nu Bra and Nundies shake up the intimates business.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - If not for poor-quality  tattoos on the ankles of some contestants, lack of air  conditioning and the presence of uniformed female guards around  the doors, it would seem like a normal beauty pageant.
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A photographer populates the landscape with tribes of nude women, fertility goddesses carefree in an American Eden.
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Negative public perception has prevented Bratz, the overtly sexy dolls, from blossoming into a full-scale entertainment phenomenon. But that may change.
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The adult entertainment company's results weren't as enticing as its products.
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Instead of selling sex, Amsterdam is trying to sell sexy.
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The world of âHow to Look Good Nakedâ is a happy and optimistic place where no one is overweight, but everyone suffers from a curable form of body dysmorphia.
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From rats on Viagra to senile kitty cats, this is the week that was. In Bodyhack.
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What is risibly termed the adult-entertainment industry has come to permeate many aspects of the culture.
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In the world of fashion, 2007 proved to be the year in which designers finally succumbed to the baser desires of an overheated celebrity culture.
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Spain's top fashion show has turned away a slew of models on grounds they are too skinny &#151; an unprecedented swipe at body images blamed for encouraging eating disorders among young people.