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Nov 6th 2009 By Brian Childs

The Great Asylum Roundup -- Virgins, 'V' and NYC

Sex: Nearly 10 percent of the adult population are virgins.

Hotties: The best Playboy covers from the 1970s.

Masterclash: How to confront friends who like weird porn.

Women's Perspective: Bisexuality.

Games: The best video game trailers of all time.

Politics: Does "V" have a right-wing agenda?

Events: Watch Fedor and Brett Rogers square off with the Asylum crew in NYC.

ComicsAlliance: Craziest international bootleg superheroes.

StreetLevel: SwineFlew toy.

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Guests attend the 2009 Urlesque HallowMEME costume party in New York City on October 30, 2009.

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Porn star Sasha Grey strips down and dresses up as Wonder Woman in an exclusive photo shoot for Asylum.

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The New York Yankees celebrate after the ninth inning of Game 6 of the Major League Baseball World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in New York. The Yankees won 7-3.

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A competitor drives a truck during a Monster Jam event at Lluis Companys stadium in Barcelona.

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In a "Zombies Against World Hunger" campaign, The Living Dead Girlz lead hundreds of New Yorkers dressed as zombies to Whole Foods in Union Square for the gathering of canned goods for donation.

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Asylum is gearing up for Movember, and some of our editors are already rocking the staches for Mustaches vs. Cancer.

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Porn star Sunny Leone Asylum strips down for an exclusive photo shoot at the Asylum offices.

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Asylum Correspondent Brian Childs sends nerds and toddlers cryin' to their mamas after winning first place in the Second Annual Big Wheel Race in Central Park.

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Marcos Antonio da Luz, 34, "washes" his face with broken glasses during a street performance in the Florida neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Men get ready to start a swimming competition using inflatable sex dolls during the Rubber Baba Challenge (Rubber Women Challenge) near Novosibirsk, Russia.

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Nov 6th 2009 By Nicholas Nadel

'The Men Who Stare at Goats,' 'The Box,' 'Precious' and More New Movies

Most American Youths Are Unfit to Serve in the Military

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Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.

Only 25 percent of those between the ages of 17 and 24 are eligible to enroll in the military, according to a Pentagon report.

The biggest culprit is obesity, which is the major reason 35 percent of all 17-to-24 year olds can't meet the military's medical and physical requirements. Illegal drug use knocks out another 18 percent; 9 percent don't have a high-enough IQ for enrollment; 6 percent have too many dependents; and 5 percent have a criminal record.

To deal with this shrinking pool of potential recruits, the military has increased the number of waivers given for asthma, past marijuana use and too many dependents.

In happier news, 100 percent of America's youth remain eligible to play "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2."

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Nov 6th 2009 By Brian Childs

Mayhem Miller Ready to Fight and From Russia With Love

Hot Girls, Cool Jobs -- Weird Science Edition

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If there's one thing we're about at Asylum, it's service. Which is why we've decided that instead of only providing you with pictures of beautiful women, we're giving you pictures of beautiful women you could actually date. (And they're smart too!) Check out the latest crop of hot girls with cool jobs, this time in what could be classified as "nerdy" fields.

adventurebound99 Computer Geek (Fairport, N.Y.)
In addition to knowing how to fix your RAM or ROM or whatever, this lovely lady might also want to ROW. (She likes kayaking and other outdoors activities.)

LOving_Life Database Analyst, Mississagua, Ontario, Canada
This brainy beauty not only loves video games, but she's a fan of Batman and Catwoman comic books. She said she's been described as a guy's girl who occasionally likes to eat junk food, aka as a "dream girl."

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Nov 6th 2009 By Emerald Catron

Robot Hands Are the Wave of the Apparently Terrifying Future

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Robot hand gripping plastic bottle ... for now.

It was a tossup between awesome and horrifying, but we're going to go with horrifying on this one: Scientists have created a robot hand that can be attached to the human body and controlled by the brain.

The SmartHand, which can be attached to the nerve endings at the end of an arm-stump, was developed by scientists in Europe and has an interface that not only receives messages from the brain, but it also sends them back in the form of sensations.

Let's repeat that -- the robot attached to the end of that dude's arm is sending messages to his brain. We are all going to die so very soon at the hands of robot hands.

Presently the SmartHand looks like a terrifying robot hand, but scientists are working on a way to make synthetic skin for it that would help deliver more sensations to the brain and presumably allow a man to walk up to you unnoticed and effortlessly squeeze the life out of your body.

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Nov 6th 2009 By G. Xavier Robillard

Laptop Steering Desk Ranks Five Stars for Awesomely Reckless

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Like good, liberal stay-at-home parents, we were listening to NPR and heard the story of an item we had to pass on. The Laptop Steering Wheel Desk, offered on Amazon for $19, is a flat plastic attachment you can put around your steering wheel so you can work on spreadsheets or download movies while you drive -- and according to its customer reviews, how would that be anything but perfect?

The customer-generated reviews include five stars for "Recklessness," four-and-a-half stars for "Heck Yes" and "The Shizzle," and a respectful four for both "Chick Magnet" and "Stupidity."

Several photos show the object in use, but we especially like the one featuring a multi-car pile-up and a dinosaur. This review has to be our favorite: "Also, i am now dating a midget and she fits nicely on the steering wheel desk which allows us to experiment sexually while driving."

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Nov 6th 2009 By Tommy Christopher

Does ABC's New 'V' Miniseries Have a Right-Wing Agenda?

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There's a lot to love about ABC's remake of "V," from the re-emergence of everyone's favorite "Firefly" companion (Morena Baccarin) to the amped-up special effects, but the show's political underpinnings seem designed to appeal to a pretty specific crowd.

Like its "Beastmaster"-aided predecessor, this "V" also contains heavy doses of political allegory, but in the original, the villains were analogous to the Nazis. Although ABC downplays the connections, in this update, the alien visitors share a lot in common with the Obama administration. Many town hall protesters might ask what the difference is.

Check out the parallels between the new "V" series and a right-wing fever dream, and see an extended preview of the first episode.

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Nov 6th 2009 By Matt Glazebrook

Nevermind the Lumberjack Shirts, Here's Kurt Cobain's Grunge Done Right

The Best Playboy Covers of the 1970s

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There's something about Playboy covers from the 1970s that just seems a little swankier than your modern-day cover. Perhaps we're overly nostalgic, or maybe we have a fondness for the more natural physiques exhibited on these vintage covers, but either way we had a great time rounding up the very best of Hef's picks from the freewheeling decade.

Playboy kicked off the very weird '70s with this July 1970 cover, featuring an upside down woman swimming in the nude. Experts praised Hugh Hefner's magazine for moving beyond the tiresome "Naked Girl Up Against a Dry Wall" cover style. Of course, the '70s were all about the water, with "Jaws" becoming the most successful movie of all time until that space film came along and ruined everything.
Keep reading for Raquel Welch, the first cover twins and the first cover where a woman gets, er, "handy" with herself.

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