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It's Banned Books Week and time to honor some of the most reviled books in America. While book-banning may sound like a throwback to Victorian times, censoring books continues to flourish in 21st-century schools. What's most surprising is a book can be removed from a curriculum, reading list, or school library with the complaint of just one parent. Violence, racial themes, and the occult are commonly cited reasons, but an even more popular one is sexual content. Check out these nine books that have been removed from schools in the last two years, and tell us if you think there's ever a good reason to ban a book.

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - After a parent complained about a passage that discusses masturbation, the book was removed from the ninth-grade curriculum at a high school in Crook County, OR.
• And Tango Makes Three - Can anyone hate a book about penguins? They sure can if it's about homosexual penguins. After parents said the book's same-sex

Last Sunday on Mad Men, dapper Don Draper has to go to Rome on business, and seemingly on a whim, Betty asks if she can accompany him.
Once they're in Rome, something happens to Betty. She glams it up, flirts with Don, and their stultifying marriage seems to get an erotic adrenaline shot to the heart. It's as if they get to meet each other for the first time all over again. In fact, in one sequence, Betty waits for Don at an outdoor cafe, and when he sees that a couple Italian men are trying to pick her up, he pretends to horn in on their pickup. He sits down, begins chatting with her, and the Italian men, disgusted, leave.

Predictably, as soon as they get back home, Betty stiffens up and rebuffs Don's romantic overtures, telling him bluntly that she hates her life at home. He gives her a gift, a charm of the Roman Colliseum, and her deflating response is, "So every time I look at it I'll remember the time we had in Rome."

It would be wonderful if we could bring home the

In an ideal world, says sex therapist and relationship counselor Dr. Ian Kerner, partners in committed relationships wouldn't hide anything from each other nor be suspicious of the other's activities. But Internet infidelity is such a problem these days, he argues, that sometimes you are justified in snooping on your partner's online activity. You might not find out that your partner's cheating on you in the real world, Dr. Kerner says, but he might be committing emotional infidelity - that is, confiding in someone of the opposite sex, flirting with her, or even sending sexual messages. Research has shown that men don't think about emotional infidelity the same way that women do (most of them think it's not as bad as sexual infidelity), but it is a drain on the relationship nevertheless. If you've ever been with someone who checked out from the relationship and was investing romantic attention elsewhere without technically cheating, you'll know what he's talking about! So when should

About 64 percent of TrèsSugar readers say they worry about how they look during sex. Apparently similar concerns are driving women to drink before they hop in the sack. A new UK survey reveals that one in 20 women never have had sex while they were sober due to insecurities about their bodies. Some other stats (which range from obvious to eye-opening):

• 75 percent of the women said it's easier to go wild after a couple of drinks.
• 40 percent of the women said they were always tipsy when they slept with someone for the first time.
• Almost 50 percent said they enjoy sex better after a few drinks.
• 14 percent of women in relationships said they cannot sleep with their partner unless they've had a couple drinks.

Whether you're single and looking to mingle or getting away from it all with the old ball and chain, vacations can be highly conducive to good sex. But just because Summer travel season is over doesn't mean the fun should be too. Do you get more action on vacation?

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Author Candace Bushnell might be married to a man 10 years her junior, but don't call her a cougar. In an op-ed out tomorrow in More Magazine, the Sex and the City writer laments the fact that women who break out of traditional roles are then labeled with a derogatory term. We have "ballbuster" female CEOs, "bitchy" politicians, and alas, "cougars." Candace believes that people who use the term cougar are simply ignorant of the real appeal of dating younger men. Or maybe they're just jealous. Candace writes: What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs. The fact that a man is open to being with an older woman suggests that he doesn't give a hang what other people think of him. More likely, he's confident, open-minded and willing to make his own rules. All of which just happen to be qualities that, much more than a great six-pack, make for a great relationship. Do you agree that dating younger makes

I remember talking to a friend of mine years ago who told me that she'd never had an orgasm with a man - but that she almost always faked it. It really surprised me because she seemed otherwise like a take-charge kind of woman - confident, beautiful, and certainly not shy. I didn't understand why she'd feel the pressure! (She was an actress, though, so I guess that kind of makes sense.) Most of us are not actresses, or not good ones anyway, and it doesn't make a lot of sense to me to pretend your significant other is doing something right if he's not. Isn't faking something you'd just have to keep doing? And then if you stopped, he'd wonder why whatever he was doing before no longer worked? Have you ever faked an orgasm? Comment below or take our poll here.

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You want to know certain things about the person you're sleeping with - have they ever robbed a bank, hurt a kitten or tipped less than 15 percent for good service. But the debate around whether or not you should ask for (or disclose) the number of partners you've had? I don't get it. I feel like only insecure men - or those looking for trouble - would ask this question. There's nothing wrong with talking about previous sexual experiences if they're going to bring you closer, but I'm not sure giving them a number is a good idea. What do you think - should you tell your partner how many people you've slept with? Share your thoughts in the comments below or take our poll here.

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