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10. Americans rent 711,000,000 hardcore sex films.

11. A Crunch Gym in Chicago offers showers with frosted glass doors that can be viewed from the entire gym, to the rousing approval of members.

12. Big fat hairy men become sex symbols.

13. In March, the Supreme Court rules that cities can order "nude dancers" to cover their nipples in private clubs.

14. In June, the Supreme Court refuses to block Spencer Tunick from documenting a writhing mass of naked people in a public park.

15. Strippers in England volunteer to let blind men feel their breasts.

16. Posing for Rolling Stone in clinging khakis, Al Gore displays what looks suspiciously like a plank for the Democratic platform.

17. Wizened ass-kisser Liz Smith comes out as bi.

18. Wizened ass-kicker New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani comes out as an adulterer.

19. Sex-poz play The Vagina Monologues becomes a platform for pissed-off women — including Giuliani's estranged wife, Donna Hanover.

20. Elderly women in Rylstone, England raise charitable funds by posing for a genteel nude calendar, naughty bits masked by teapots and sunflowers.

21. Vermont legalizes gay unions.

22. Ellen & Anne, Julie & Melissa dissolve theirs.

23. Researchers announce that homosexuality can be measured in the right hand's index finger length. (Americans everywhere discover they are gay.)

24. "I am a sexomatic Venus freak all over you / and I will stop it — only when you tell me to!" (Afro'd love machine Macy Gray, singing on the make-out album of the year.)

25. Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, holds sperm races and lets spectators bet on the winner.

26. The puzzle of the human genome is solved; one man's every secret is revealed.

27. The FDA gives the thumbs-up to abortion pill RU-486, making the "RU pregnant?" question a little less daunting.

28. Sex And The City provides McLaughlin Group-like meditations on everything from "funky spunk" to the appeal of the fireman's hose.

29. Turned on by the monster success of Viagra, pharmaceutical companies come on to frustrated women, pumping out suction cups, Vulva creams and everything except a mechanical slow hand/easy touch.


                    


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