It’s after midnight, you’re leaving your favorite nightclub, but you’re alone. Riding high on the energy of the night — and probably a little booze as well — you suddenly realize that going home and hitting the sack is exactly what you do not want to do. In a desperate attempt to fill this void of loneliness you decide to start text messaging random members of the opposite sex in your address book, hoping that someone will heed your call to shack up for the night.

Up until recently this has always been referred to as a “booty call,” as in order to coerce someone into spending the night — or allowing you to spend the night — you actually had to make a phone call. However, in this digital age in which we are living the preferred method of contacting these people is no longer a phone call, but rather a text message. Enter: sex messaging.

An About.com poll this week found that 17% of mobile phone users mostly use text messaging as a way to arrange sexual encounters, while 28% said they mostly use it to communicate with family members, 32% said they use it to keep in touch with friends, and 15% said they text mostly to exchange messages with a loved one.

Reasons why this sex messaging phenomenon has exploded and continues to grow are based mostly on convenience and the lack of any rejection embarrassment. For example, there’s no need to reply if you get the message. On the phone there can often be the awkward moment where one party wants to but the other one really doesn’t want to. But in a text message no feelings are hurt, as unanswered text messages are a common and normal occurrence. A second reason is that it invokes a sense of anonymity, not between the two parties, but between them and everyone else. If you’re at a party and you are making phone calls to arrange a booty call, people will notice and overhear you. But if you’re text messaging you’re being private and not making your business known to the world. And a final reason, according to the study, “what is more enticing than getting an unexpected erotic message from a friend?” I’ll leave you to ponder that last one.

Given the high ratio of the number of people you have to text before getting a positive response, it’s a blessing for many that most carriers now offer unlimited text messaging plans.

Great clip about a guy calling up a restaurant pretending to be Christopher Walken coming in for dinner that night.

Let’s throw in the towel on the 2008 presidential election as it’s pretty much in the bag now for Hillary Clinton. Jenna Jameson, who unless you’ve been living under a rock for 10 years you know is the most famous porn star in the history of pornography, is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.

In a recent interview PR.com entitled: Jenna Jameson - Portrait of a Mainstream Sex Icon, Jameson discussed how having a democrat in office would be better for the industry and for the nation, and why she prefers Hillary:

The Clinton administration was the best years for the adult industry and I wish that Clinton would run again. I would love to have him back in office. I would love to have Al Gore in office…. I look forward to another democrat being in office. It just makes the climate so much better for us, and I know that once all our troops come home, things are going to be better and I think that getting Bush out of office is the most important thing right now…. I love Hillary. I think that in some ways she’s pretty conservative for a democrat, but I would love to have a woman in office. I think that it would be a step in the right direction for our country, and there would be less focus on war and more focus on bettering society.

OK, obviously I’m kidding about the election being in the bag for Hillary Clinton, but I found it interesting that porn stars have earned such a level of acceptance that their political thoughts (who knew they had them) are published on a national level. This whole situation reminds me of the P. Diddy “vote or die” fiasco in 2004, and we all know how that turned out. No offense Jenna, but I don’t think your experience of excessive sexual activity with both men and women will bode well with influencing the American public — sans all of the attendees of AVN, you’ve got them in your bag.

Yes, you read that correctly: Paris Hilton, one of the world’s most famous “socialites” — whatever that means, is going to jail. Last Friday Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer sentenced Hilton to 45 days in jail for violating her probation by knowingly driving without a valid drivers license.

Hilton’s defense team tried to argue that she was unaware that her license was suspended. Hilton even testified on the stand that her publicist had told her she was allowed to drive for work-related reasons after the initial 30 days of license suspension in November 2006, and that she believed him.

Sauer wouldn’t be had. He said he didn’t believe Hilton was telling the truth because she had received a notice from a police officer during a traffic stop in January of this year, and had signed that notice. According to Sauer, Hilton “completely ignored” the notice, as well as another license suspension notice sent to her office by the DMV. As a result, he sentenced Hilton to jail and told her to report on June 5.

I’m sure the trial was entertaining yet interesting, however the biggest fireworks didn’t come until after the trial had ended, and they came not from Paris, but from her mother, Kathy.

Hilton wept and her mother, Kathy, yelled at the prosecutor, “You’re pathetic,” as the packed courtroom cleared.

This is one of my favorite celebrity quotes in a long time, and is up there will the best of them like when Jenny Lee said “I’m cooler than you” to another female contestant on Beauty and the Geek last season, but let’s not get into that. What this quote by Kathy Hilton shows is the sheer magnitude of arrogance and “elitism” within the Hilton family and celebrities in general. Sure, a mother will protect her child, but to call a prosecutor pathetic for doing his job after your daughter had been given several mulligans is childish and shows a real lack of character, especially when this is supposed to be someone from our society’s elite. People like Paris Hilton stroll around the world every day with nothing better to do, and often break laws thinking they can get away with whatever they want, and I commend Judge Sauer for putting his foot down and saying you are not above the law.

Today is a sad day to be a man. Victoria’s Secret CEO Edward Razek announced today that Gisele Bundchen, one of our favorite supermodels, will be parting ways with the lingerie company.

“The long and fruitful relationship between Gisele Bundchen and Victoria’s Secret has reached a conclusion,” the lingerie brand’s CEO, Edward Razek, said Tuesday in a statement.

She will continue to be a part of the world’s most famous line of risque clothing for the remainder of the year, then she will be gone in 2008. Bundchen, 26, is known internationally for strutting catwalks, appearing in print and tv ads, and even starring in a few motion pictures.

She will be missed…

Back in January we had AskMen’s Top 99 Women 2007, today, almost exactly three months later we get FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2007. All-in-all I can’t say there are really too many surprises here, there is a lot of overlap between the two lists.

One notable exception is Beyonce, who AskMen listed as #1 but FHM put all the way down at #25. Apart from that, Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Alba are in the top 3 on both lists, with Alba getting the top slot from FHM. And as to be expected, the three Brazilian Victoria’s Secret angels are all in the top 15 again.

Here are the top 15 according to FHM:

15. Jessica Simpson

14. Jennifer Love Hewitt

13. Kate Beckinsale

12. Mayra Veronica

11. Maria Sharapova

10. Marisa Miller - wonder if her iPod helped

9. Keira Knightley

8. Angelina Jolie

7. Adriana Lima

6. Jessica Biel

5. Alessandra Ambrosio

4. Gisele Bundchen

3. Scarlett Johansson

2. Katharine McPhee

1. Jessica Alba

So overall a bit different from the AskMen list, but definitely a lot of overlap. What do you think?

When we think of Britney Spears we think rehab, uncontrollable, poor mother, etc. When we think of Leonardo DiCaprio we think humanitarian, global warming activist, well-rounded, etc. We thought wrong.

Reports state that in 2005, Britney Spears donated $590,000 to various charities, including $350,000 to programs that went toward Hurricane Katrina relief and $175,000 alone to Habitat for Humanity. Leonardo DiCaprio, on the other hand, only donated $48,025 in 2005.

This is pretty shocking to me. I always pictured Leo as Al Gore’s poster boy, parading around in a hybrid car preaching saving the planet and fighting global aids. It’s interesting to see he’s not putting his money where his mouth is; at $12-$15 million per film he’s certainly not lacking in the funds department.

I have to tip my cap to Ms. Spears, although her personal life is a mess she seems to definitely care about helping others. If only more celebrities (who have more money than they know what to do with) had hearts…

While I’m not big on celebrity gossip, especially when it comes to this blog, there are those every-so-once-in-a-while occasions where I will break down and make a pop culture-related post. This is one of those occasions.

Most of the focus on Hollywood love triangles tends to relate to “in the now” type of affairs. Tinsel Town gossip reporters are constantly doing whatever they can (quite often illegally) to get the latest scoop in celebrity X’s love life. Not surprisingly then, it has become pretty easy for fans to find out who their favorite celebs are shacking up with.

But what about the past? I stumbled across a site called Who’s Dated Who that focuses on identifying which celebrities other celebrities have dated, and making connections to other celebrities throughout the industry. Here is the top 10 celebrities who have dated (defined by the site as marriage, relationship, or sexual encounter) other celebrities:

• 10. Mamie Van Doren (25)
• 9. Lindsay Lohan (25)
• 8. Alyssa Milano (28)
• 7. Madonna (30)
• 6. Howard Hughes (31)
• 5. Leonardo DiCaprio (33)
• 4. Paris Hilton (36)
• 3. Frank Sinatra (37)
• 2. Terri Garber (44)
• 1. Warren Beatty (49)

Some surprises on this list but also some usual suspects. After perusing through them I think Leonardo DiCaprio has had the best love life of all of the celebrities listed here. His past love life includes actresses, models and singers, with names such as Alicia Silverstone, Natasha Henstridge, Sara Foster, Virginie Ledoyen, Claire Danes, Demi Moore, Bridget Hall, Carmen Electra, Eva Herzigova, Helena Christensen, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Amber Valletta, Paris Hilton, Gisele Bundchen, Bar Refaeli (current girlfriend), Christina Aguilera, Emma Bunton, and Mariah Carey. Clearly Leo emerges victorious.

Let me state for the record that I am unsure where this site gets their information from, but even if only half of those are true he’s still cleaning house. To see the complete list of “Who’s Dated Who” visit the Player List.

In honor of my recently acquired iPod Nano, I figured it necessary imperative to post this picture I stumbled across this morning. The picture is from the most recent Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and features model Marisa Miller wearing an iPod and only an iPod. No wonder she was #12 on AskMen.com’s Top 99 Women of 2007. Imagine how many products Apple would sell if they ran advertisements like this instead of the commercials with the Windows geek and Apple fanboy?

We’re all familiar with the beer goggle phenomenon. You know, you go to a bar and have a few liquor drinks, next thing you know you’re playing tonsil-hockey with that man/woman you previously found horrifically unattractive.

Scientists at St. Andrews University and Glasgow University have been able to show that alcohol actually stimulates the part of the brain that judges facial attractiveness.

In 2002, researchers at St. Andrews University and Glasgow University in Scotland took 80 college students and had half of them drink a “moderate” amount of alcohol — between one and four servings, depending on gender and body weight. The other half, the control group, remained sober. Scientists showed each subject pictures of people of the opposite sex. In all cases — male and female alike — the experimental (tipsy) group rated each picture an average of 25 percent more attractive than the sober group did.

They concluded that the effect could be traced to an area of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, the area that decides how attractive a human being’s face is. When you look at someone you find attractive your brain fires neutrons in this area that stimulate you. Coincidentally, alcohol also stimulates this area of the brain and makes the neutrons fire.

Researchers at Manchester University came up with a mathematical formula in 2005 to calculate the effect that beer goggles would have on a given individual. They contested that alcohol isn’t the only factor that affects the drunken perception of beauty. Other factors, they argued, are as follows:

• How brightly lit the area is
• The observer’s eye-sight quality
• The amount of smoke in the air
• The distance of the observer from the observed

Their complete formula is as follows:

β = (An)² x d(S + 1) / √L x (Vo)

Where:

• An is the number of servings of alcohol
• S is the smokiness of the area on a scale of 0 - 10
• L is the lighting level of the area, measured in candelas per square meter, in which 150 is normal room lightning
• Vo is Snellen visual acuity, in which 6/6 is normal and 6/12 is the lower limit at which someone is able to drive
• d is the distance between the observer and the observed, measured in meters

When β = 1, the individual is seeing everyone as he or she would see them in a sober state. But if the person drinking reaches 100+, everybody in the room becomes Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt.