If you have an upcoming appointment to see the Israeli ambassador in El Salvador, you might want to reconfirm it. It turns out he has been recalled to Israel, after being found naked, drunk, bound and gagged, with sex toys lying nearby in the yard of his official residence, according to Israeli media reports.

A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said his behavior was “unbecoming of a diplomat.

Actually, not to put too fine a point on it, but that sounds kind of unbecoming of just about any human being, really. “Look, honey, our crazy neighbor is tied up naked in the yard again! Oh, wait, he’s not an ambassador anymore, so I guess it’s perfectly okay!”

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It turns out a 107-year-old guy in Hong Kong has attributed his longevity in part to decades of sexual abstinence, according to a newspaper report. Chan Chi was quoted as saying he gave up sex when he was 30.

Now, this isn’t going where you think it is. No cheap comments like without sex maybe it just seems like he’s 107 years old, or like if that’s what you have to do to live that long, maybe it’s not worth it.

No, here’s what I find seriously amazing about Chan Chi’s story. It seems that while he was able to give up sex nearly 80 years ago, he still hasn’t managed to give up cigarettes. That’s on his to-do list. It kind of makes you think. Here’s the story:

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Cigarette butts fill an ashtray in a Hong Kong file photo. REUTERS/Paul Yeung

The Catholic Church in Australia, worried that some eulogies for the dead are getting too long-winded, has imposed a five-minute limit on them.

The church also said that certain areas of the dead person’s life are now off-limits in eulogies, notably drinking and sex. Of course, if sex and drinking are now taboo topics, eulogies will probably automatically get a lot shorter. Heck, for some people, the eulogies may just disappear altogether. 

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Barmaid Nikki with customers at Wild West Saloon in The Exchange Hotel at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, in a 2001 photo. REUTERS/Will Burgess

It’s a failing. Sometimes I scoff too quickly.

For instance, we have a video report on a new museum exhibit exploring the world of sexual kinks and fetishes.

We see a woman explaining that most people are familiar with shoe fetishes, leather fetishes, bondage, etc. “We really wanted to expose people to a whole world that’s beyond that,” she adds.

That’s when I scoffed. What could be beyond those things? Then I watched the rest of the report, and my question was answered: you’ve got your plushies, your furries, your sploshing, your adult baby enthusiasts, and believe me, you don’t want to know what’s beyond them.

Cripes, it’s like watching a whole season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in under two minutes. Katie Juhl reports.

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Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
And so are these pills
That I’m getting for you

I guess because not enough men are already taking the prescription drug Viagra, a drugstore chain in Britain is about to start selling the blue impotence pills over the counter, and they’ve chosen Valentine’s Day to begin.

Here’s the possible rub. The pills are expensive - nearly $25 each - so many men may end up having to choose between spending their Valentine’s Day money on red roses, or blue pills. I know where I think the lines are going to be. Here’s the story:

Couples kiss at the annual Lovapalooza Valentine celebration in Manila February 11, 2007. Organisers said  6,124 couples kissed at midnight in an attempt to get into the record books for Most Couples Kissing Simultaneously. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

If Dawn Madden’s breasts were a pair of Danishes, Debby Crombie’s got two Space Hoppers.

Ahem. As this sentence suggests, it’s time again for the Literary Review’s annual Bad Sex in Fiction awards. This time, the top prize went to author Iain Hollingshead, for a passage in his novel Twenty Something, and the award was presented by Courtney Love. Here is The Review’s story, and here are this year’s short-listed passages:

Actress Courtney Love arrives for the U.S. premiere of “Borat” at the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, October 23, 2006. REUTERS/Phil McCarten

Whatever you do, keep this story to yourself.  I see nothing good happening if the masses get hold of it.

Basically, there was this normal, regular guy who fell off of a piece of equipment at work and hit his head, and became transformed and “disinhibited.” His marriage was wrecked as he turned to affairs, prostitutes and pornography, and was finally awarded nearly $6 million in damages.

You can see where I’m going with this. Some guys - not all of them, but some - might be tempted to duplicate this dude’s injury. You can picture whole neighborhoods full of men throwing themselves off ladders and out of windows, hitting themselves with ball-peen hammers and what-not.  It could get ugly. 

People walk in the famous red light district ‘Reeperbahn’ in the northern German town of Hamburg in this photograph taken on March 3, 2006. REUTERS/Christian Charisius

I don’t know if this means you need to be more careful in the kitchen, or in the bedroom.  Maybe both places.  A new survey shows that nearly two-thirds of Brits surveyed think the fiery Italian sauce Arrabiata is a sex infection. 

Perhaps today’s extra publicity will help raise awareness, though, and there will be a run on home diagnostic kits for marinara, bolognese and other such diseases.                      

A pasta dish is seen in an undated publicity photo. REUTERS/PRNewsFoto     

These women have a proud tradition of making fine lace stuff - even a pope got some of it. 

But now there’s something new on their doily cart (obligatory pun for opera buffs), and now you can order their sexy undergarments on the Internet. 

It turns out a new study suggests that women dress to impress when they are at their most fertile. The study, of young college women, showed they frequently wore more fashionable or flashier clothing and jewelry when they were ovulating.   

A model presents this creation by Lebanese designer Elie Saab during his Spring/Summer 2007 ready-to-wear fashion collection in Paris October 8, 2006. REUTERS/Charles Platiau