Here’s a surprise: rates of sexually-transmitted diseases are high among performers in the adult film industry.

“A woman is raped every ten minutes” says a press release from the Department of Health today.
 

The Ryder Cup in Wales is over without any evidence of the surge in sex-trafficking predicted by a Welsh Assembly report.
 

There’s going to be a baby boom next month, according to many newspapers – the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Daily Telegraph.

Sex sells papers, so today’s made hay with new figures for sexually-transmitted diseases. “Drunk ladettes fuel a boom in STIs” was the Daily Express headline.

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is claiming that a dirty tricks campaign lay behind the charges of rape and sexual assault laid against him by two Swedish women last week.

Our old friends at the PR agency 72 point, who carry out all those “surveys”

Yesterday’s conviction of two boys, both aged ten, for the crime of attempted rape raises once more the knotty issue of rape statistics.

Here’s an amazing fact, courtesy of our old friends OnePoll, creators of surveys for the PR industry.

Beware round numbers. Especially numbers as round and shapely as 40,000.