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Dear CNN,

Surely you must remember when gay marriage became legal in California–afterall, you covered it here and here.

So why did your coverage of the Ellen-Portia nuptials over the weekend read ‘Ellen “marries” Portia,’ in quotation marks? That implies the ladies weren’t actually pronounced wife and wife–and possibly even that gay marriage isn’t actually marriage.

Not cool, CNN.  Not cool.

Sincerely,
Protective Ellen Fan

Full disclosure: I’m nowhere near proficient in Spanish.

But, that doesn’t make watching Telemundo’s 12 Corazones (12 Hearts) any less enjoyable. When you take astrology, waaaay above-the-knee hemlines, make-out sessions with virtual strangers and mix them together on television, how could you go wrong?

Based on an Argentinian dating show of the same name, the US version features a spunky hostess, Penelope, who holds court when the frisky participants get out of hand. Her sidekick, named Edward’O, provides astrological insight to the love-seeking contestants, who wear tags denoting their astrological signs in lieu of names.

The show goes something like this: 12 male and female contestants enter the competition (hence the “12 Hearts”), one for each Zodiac sign, and various challenges are completed, generally involving dancing, singing, answering questions or kissing. Then the field is narrowed down to three couples who—upon learning of their match to one another—invariably meet and make out in the middle of the game show set. Audience members then vote for their favorite couple, the results are revealed and the winning duo make out again!

Knowing that locking lips can be a deal breaker or maker, how brilliant is a dating game show that skips all the first-date awkwardness and skips straight to the good-night kiss? Bravo’s Date My Ex, by comparison, has presented a slew of suitors before Jo with but one actual (the Ukrainian) and one attempted kiss (David, ouch). I may not understand it all, but I’d say pre-evening news programming is a lot more fun with the likes of 12 Corazones on the air.

Our friends over at Scanner had a bunch of stories involving nudity yesterday, and we gladly point them out to you today.

First, they told us about Las Vegas TV reporter Jeff Gradey, who was fired from his job at the Vegas ABC affiliate after management saw a Craig’s List ad from him and his girlfriend soliciting “a hot, nasty girl who needs to cum.”  Scanner says that Gradey didn’t get fired for posting the threesome ad; he was drop-kicked because the post included a picture of two people having sex.

Scanner wonders, “So what if the guy put up a teeny, tiny pic of himself, even if he is having sex in the photo? Because he’s a news reporter, it’s an automatic “no no”? And who’s this person who narc’d on him?” Good questions, especially for a city as, ahem, liberal as Las Vegas, but (perhaps surprisingly?) Love Buzz doesn’t think it’s that simple. Sure, private life is personal, and as long as you’re not hitting up co-workers for a little lunchtime supply-closet action your sexual proclivities shouldn’t impact your job performance. But when you’re a public figure who represents a business you gotta know that posting naked pics of you banging your girlfriend on the web is gonna raise some eyebrows. On the other hand, this is Vegas—ABC could have capitalized on the situation and turned Gradley into their swingers and sex party reporter. Or at least let ratings rise as viewers tuned in to ogle this sexually adventurous reporter.

Scanner’s got some other good, naked tidbits (with pics!) as well: New Zealand porn producer and mayoral candidate Steve Crow staged a parade complete with naked film stars. Crow reassured reporters that he would tell the women “to keep the jiggling to a minimum and not to do anything that would be deemed offensive.”

And finally, Scanner reports that a high school party in New Hampshire got out of control and ended with teenagers running naked through the streets.

Thanks for the naked news, Nerve!

If we had to generalize, we’d guess grandmothers would rather not hear us curse. Same goes for rabbis, pastors and parents with young, impressionable children in tow. But what about the men in our lives?

The Frisky asked a number of men, both on a radio show and online: What do you think of women cursing?

While the verdict didn’t come out to a clear “sexy” or “scummy” consensus, most men agreed that swearing, when done poorly, is extremely unattractive on a woman. And, really, the same goes for men. A well-placed curse here or there can add humor or emphasis to a sentence, but, like salt, too much of it begets the appearance of bloat and indulgence.

While none of the men said hearing a woman curse was an absolute turn-off, a lot has to do with the delivery. As one respondent, The Experienced Guy, put it: “Not all people can curse equally. Some people are just better equipped for it — kind of like guys wearing muscle shirts or girls bearing midriffs.”

Guys did agree on one area where cursing is to be encouraged: talking dirty in the sack, it seems, is one area where the more sailor-like a woman’s mouth gets, the better.

“Every guy likes to think he’s so damn good in bed that a woman just can’t contain herself,” the Sensitive Guy explained.

A quick poll to the XYs in our office produced similarly mixed results. One mate finds cursing always unladylike and unimaginative, another tends to think hearing the late George Carlin’s famous seven words from a woman is sexy, and the tenuous agreement seemed to be that swearing is most attractive when used in the right place at the right time.