You may have heard that, in 2009, a Federal appeals court overruled a ban on sex toy sales in Texas. You would think that ruling would open the door to sales in all states, but tell that to Alabama, which is stuck in the Dark Ages when it comes to personal lives. Just one year later, 'Bama upheld the ban on selling sex toys, but the suit, brought by the shop Love Stuff in Hoover, continues.

eHarmony didn't always permit gay matchups. According to SFGate.com, the company settled a class-action suit in 2008 over its policy of sending users who wanted to meet same-sex partners to a separate site. The agreement means eHarmony is now required "to display its gay and lesbian dating services more prominently."

In January 2012, the Journal of Sexual Medicine published a shocking scientific quote from a Yale surgeon: "Objective measures have failed to provide strong and consistent evidence for the existence of an anatomical site that could be related to the famed G-spot." The jokes about Amichai Kilchevsky, that Yale urological surgeon, must have been mericless, as men (and women) have been finding it since Day One.

Prior to Obama's arrival to the Summit of the Americas in early 2012, at least a dozen members of his personal security detail were allegedly involved with (alleged) Colombian hookers. The incident made news after one of the prostitutes went to the cops for not receiving her paid dues. One Senator expressed concern that the call girls might have been Russian spies looking to acquire sensitive information. Regardless, all the men have been suspended pending the results of an ongoing investigation, which has already revealed the rumor that DEA agents may also have enjoyed the Colombian hospitality.

Newt Gingrich, John Ensign, John Edwards just because they accused Bill Clinton of being a philanderer, it doesn't mean they were innocent of marital indiscretions themselves. Are all politicos adulterers? Some conspiracy theorists — and just average Americans — think so.

"A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed." That may be from Deuteronomy 22:13-21 in the Old Testament, but it kind of calls into question the validty of the Bible's supposed "stand" on gay marriage, doesn't it?

Like HTML sex tapes, nude photos are often carefully leaked by the stars themselves. Of course, we don't want to accuse anyone of doing it themselves, but you know some of them have to have done it themselves.

According to Snopes.com, the admittedly-hilarious rumor began in the early 1990s, when a prankster made up a story that Richard Gere had been admitted to the hospital because a gerbil, placed in his rectum as part of some elaborate foreplay, had become lodged inside him. And so the weirdest sex rumor of all time was born. (Gere, for his part, dismissed the long-running hoax as an "urban myth" in a 2008 interview.)

In 2008, teacher Susan Clements-Jeffrey bought a laptop from one of her students. Unbeknownst to her, that laptop had been stolen from the same school district and was equipped with remote-recovery LoJack For Laptops. Parent company Absolute Software evidently pulled information and images from the computer to aid the police in recovering the stolen merchandise, which included text messages and sexually-explicit pictures the 52-year-old had shared with her out-of-state boyfriend. Clements-Jeffrey's sued Absolute for breach of privacy and won, though not before her private life became public news.

If one searches Google using the above headline, you won't find anyone arguing that they do, only what we should do about the fact that they don't. From restrictions on gay adoptions to anti-same-sex marriage amendments, America's most hotly controversial issue these days may be civil rights. If it's not #1, then abortion (still) is, which means America is obsessed with sex, even in its politics.

If you're a 17-year-old boy with a 15-year-old girlfriend, some might just say, "Ah, young love." No one would think twice about those two going to the senior prom together no one except, perhaps, a state prosecutor. Genarlow Wilson, 17, was convicted of child molestation for engaging in a sex act with a 15-year-old girl at a 2003 party and given the mandatory minimum ten-year sentence. (The case was overturned a year later on appeal.) Above, a 19-year-old man, who is forced to register as a sex offender because he has a 16-year-old wife

Backpage.com, a unit of Village Voice Media, got a bad rap after it was revealed that underage girls had been pimped out in ads hosted on their website. Attorneys general from 48 states issued a letter to the company, accusing them of "being a hub for child sex trafficking," and cited the $23 million a year Backpage had made from running the personal ads. But the company defends itself by saying that it employs over 100 people to monitor for illegal sexual solicitations and that credit card information is attached to all accounts. This, they say, makes it easier to monitor illegal activity and can help cops catch the bad guys more easily.

Where do we start? The blog Turoks.net compiled a classic list, which includes these gems:

-a husband cannot curse during sex (Willowdale, OR) -no sex while standing in a meat freezer (Newcastle, WY) -no sex during the daytime, in socks or with the lights on (VA) -and believe it or not, you can't legally engage in oral sex in Oklahoma!