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​For its latest listicle, "Where the Hot Babes Are," Men's Health Magazine asked all the single ladies in the U.S. to put their hands up, and counted the 10th most in fair St. Paul.

According to their calculations, the Saintly City beat Minneapolis by a long shot for the number of well-educated, gainfully employed hotties living la vida sola.

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North Dakota has a bar and three women. Legendary.

​By now, you've no doubt heard about North Dakota's new "Legendary" ad campaign, which markets No-Dak as a state of skanks ready to have sex with any Tucker Max-clone willing to sit in a window and drink beer.

But that's not the only thing Legendary about North Dakota. You don't get a nationwide reputation as The Sexiest State in the Union™ just by rounding up three trollops in pastel dresses willing to stand outside the window of the only beer garden in town.

Which is why the North Dakota Tourism Board has taken the logical next step in its marketing campaign and released this list of the sexiest, most erotic -- dare we say, "Legendary?" -- sights to see in North Dakota.
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Since when does romance involve buttocks gels and blindfolds?

​Apparently we north-country hipsters are middle of the pack when it comes to romance.

That's because Alice.com pegged the Twin Cities as the 15th "most romantic" city in a recently published study.

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Joseph Peschges was arrested in a sex sting after a cop encouraged his groping.

​St. Paul has been cracking down on public stranger sex in recent years. Trolling public parks, they've nabbed dozens of men who were down for a little of this and a little of that.

But one judge just ruled that the cops have been using inappropriate tactics in their sting operations. Namely, the cops are pretending to be, you know, into it.

Duane Hodges, a St. Anthony man arrested last summer for indecent exposure in Crosby Farms Park, was acquitted last month when a judge ruled that because Hodges had exposed himself in the privacy of an undercover officer's car, and the officer had portrayed himself as a willing participant, Hodges wasn't guilty of anything.

In other words, if two men park in a relatively private spot, and one man asks the other to pull down his pants, there is, to paraphrase George Constanza, there's nothing wrong with that.
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Vita.Mn: May contain semen

​Be very, very careful when you're reading a sex column. You might accidentally read something about sex.

That's the lesson "True North," a local conservative blog, is attempting to teach readers after one writer was scandalized by what he read in Vita.MN's last issue.

The question posed is not for the faint of heart, or stomach. But True North writer "Ism" was so offended she's trying to start a campaign to get Vita.mn banned from every grocery store and restaurant in town.

Good luck with that.
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​Sex toy company Adam & Eve is giving the University of Minnesota an endowed chair.

Wait, let's rephrase that. Adam & Eve, a company that specializes in pornographic movies and sexual aids, is helping University of Minnesota administrators with a certain position.

Sorry, once more. Adam & Eve is giving tens of thousands of dollars to the U, to help sponsor the Joycelyn Elders Chair in Sexual Health Education at the University of Minnesota Medical School. There, that's better.

The chair, named for former U of M Medical School intern Jocelyn Elders -- the U.S. Surgeon general for  Bill Clinton who was forced to resign after saying sex education should encourage masturbation as a healthy activity -- will receive around $50,000 from Adam & Eve, which touts itself as a longtime proponent of safe sex practices, according to the Star Tribune.

The one-of-a-kind faculty spot, which also received more than $2 million from 274 less-interesting donors, will open in five years.
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Abstinence now, insanity later.

​Teenagers can be stupid. Which is why, conventional wisdom says, they ought to keep it in their pants until the hormonal seas have ebbed enough for sane and safe sexual decisions to be made. Right?

Well, according to a new study, our sexual IQ is probably set long before "the talk," and it seems we're doomed to lives of regrettable sex whether we like it or not.

"Nobody has actually tested whether early sexual initiation actually causes sexual risk-taking," says psychologist Marina Bornovalova, who started the study at the U of M. "There's an association--that doesn't mean one causes the other."

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​In the latest issue of Time magazine, sex columnist Dan Savage calls on former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty to record a video for the "It Gets Better" campaign.

When the alt weekly sex columnist is asked who should record a public service spot against gay suicide, he named Pawlenty along with longtime antagonist Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin.
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This is the face Katherine Kersten makes when she thinks about Sasha Grey having sex.

​Subscribers who read the Star Tribune opinion section Sunday might well have wondered if they'd been delivered the Yale Daily News by mistake.

In a lengthy, sex-phobic screed, resident Republican schoolmarm Katherine Kersten got the vapors over Yale Sex Week and how it sends a mixed message to frat boys, who are also being told not to rape fellow co-eds.

But the worst part is, it isn't the first time Kersten carved out precious local newsprint to weigh in on Yale's biennial Sex Week. It's almost like she has an unhealthy fixation.
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A parent was evidently hot for teacher.

​Cityview Community School didn't have a great week last week. First it learned that its very existence is threatened. Now it has to deal with allegations that one of its teachers was caught with her pants down during the school day.

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