Dating & Sex
As you'd expect, the OBC staff loves a good booty call. In and out in half an hour and free to go on with your nightly business is generally our preferred method, but there are other fun types -- morning hookups, cruise ship flings, and foreign country sexcapades are pretty high up there on the …
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Frigidity: Marriage Murder
Sometimes I think the 1930s were a better time. I mean, sure they didn't have iPhones or free downloadable porn and the Great Depression was in full effect, but hey, the cars were badass and the dancing was... okay fine the cars were badass. And when a piece of literature this fine comes around, you …
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Why Facebook Shouldn't Be a Dating Site
There are few things on the internet that give us as much pre-teen giddiness as a flirty Facebook chat. If you're like me, you're generally repulsed everytime you hear the little *clink* of a Facebook chat message, because 99.9% of the time it's the LAST person you want to talk to (i.e. the most boring …
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Top 5 Craziest Ex Moments
You know how sometimes you have those moments when a little voice in your head that tells you to do weird, creepy stuff? Like open your neighbors mail or look in someone's window? But you don't do it because that would be really creepy and would probably get you arrested? Sometimes, when you've been broken …
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BeautifulPeople.com Creates Sperm Bank
It's been a while since our last post regarding the openly douchey dating site BeautifulPeople.com. If you recall, they were slammed by critics everywhere (including yours truly) for expelling some 5,000 members for putting on weight after the holidays. Which is SUPER douchey. Apparently, Founder Robert Hintze said, “Letting fatties roam the site is a …
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Trojan's Fire and Ice Condoms: Yea or Nay?
Back in my day, condoms were made of discarded snake skins! I had to watch 5 miles, in the snow, uphill BOTH WAYS, to pick them up from a witch doctor with a lazy eye! ON TOP OF THAT, you had to rubber-band them around your junk! If you were LUCKY, the snake skin wasn't …
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Durex Does it Again
Sure, Trojan is the best selling condom company, but let's be honest, Durex takes the cake when it comes to ad campaigns. I guess Trojan's pig commercial was okay, and those ones from the 90s that showed couples in the throes of ecstasy were like the first porn you ever saw which was AWESOME, but …
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One in Seven Women are Virgins on Their Wedding Day
Hooray, it's time for BCU's weekly Obviously Obvious news! Despite right-wing attempts at promoting abstinence only education, downplaying the effectiveness of condoms, and using fear tactics to scare kids into thinking everyone has AIDS, many people are still having sex before marriage. And by many, I mean a lot, and by a lot, I mean …
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So, Apparently Getting Engaged Can Kill You?
Talk about signs from the heavens -- Richard Butler, a Knoxville, TN man recently decided that he was going to take a big, ill-fated step when he purchased an engagement ring and planned a trip to a local mountaintop with his girlfriend to propose to her. Bethany Lott was a nature-lover, enjoyed hiking and even …
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Best Use of Fridge Magnet Letters... Ever.
Teaching first-graders to spell, grocery lists, reminders to throw the trash out- these were the uses for magnetic alphabet letters when I was a kid. Somewhere around age 13 my friends and I turned to trying to spell "penis" even though the only letters left were W, R, M, and a number 4 (how'd that …
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