This morning's Washington Post examines the horrifying rash of "drive-by porning" incidents that are plaguing that city's subways, highways and even the airplanes flying overhead. And while most Washingtonians seem to respond prudishly and passive aggressively to the public porn (what New Yorker wouldn't realize that there is no better time to mug someone than while he is watching Cock Smokers 10 on the 4 train?), bartender Sandi Benedetti knows exactly how a situation like this should be handled.

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Have you ever overheard people in the next room getting some while you lay there alone in your cold, baron bed? It's happened to the best of us. Usually the reaction is a pair of headphones, a polite bang on the wall or perhaps a passive-aggressive note taped to the offender’s door. How does a filing for a noise abatement order to legally stop your neighbors from ever ''shouting, screaming or (making a) vocalization at such a level as to be a statutory nuisance” sound? One British couple is facing the possibility of arrest if they should get too passionate in their own bedroom.

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If you had to sum up Playgirl’s plan for Levi Johnston’s pending photo shoot in one word, it would be cheap. Two words? Cheap and classy—or at least that’s what the magazine editors would have you believe. But the cost of class was just too high for the legendary skin mag—plans to shoot Bristol Palin’s baby daddy at the Hotel on Rivington penthouse this Friday were dashed when, as The Post reported, the magazine couldn’t cough up the cash for the space. Fortunately for Johnston, a bevy of New York’s sexiest minds were glad to offer advice on extending his 15 minutes of fame.

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On Friday we reported about a male erotic massage demonstration in the windows of The Chelsea Blue we knew would surely draw a crowd. Well we were right—though it doesn’t take a genius to figure out nearly naked men massaging each other in a store front might catch an eye or two. Not only did the event attract the attention of passersby, but also that of the boys in blue, who shut down the man-on-man masseuse show!

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There has been plenty of animal sex happening lately; just this weekend we saw countless bodies wriggling out of their creature costumes to better grope. Now BuzzFeed passes along the news that bats love blowjobs. That isn't one we spotted happening in our travels on Halloween night, but the science sounds convincing...

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Porn icon Robin Byrd has cast her vote for Senator Chuck Schumer. The star of the classic adult-film Debbie Does Dallas and host of the famous The Robin Byrd Show recently donated $500 at an event for the sitting New York Senator.

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The innovators behind Ace Hotel know nothing says full service like a good gay porn selection, which is why the hipster hotel turned to BUTT magazine to curate its new gay porn on demand service, and the editors at BUTT were more than happy to put their talents as connoisseurs of vintage porn to use.

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Sure, the New York Times might be getting rid of 100 newsroom jobs, but that doesn't mean that there's no good news coming from the paper these days.

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Tell us what you think! What do you think the best "Hotel Experience" is? Have a favorite place to take a date? It's your chance to make your opinion count. Take the 2009 Best of Manhattan (and Beyond) Readers' Poll available here. 

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Cold, corporate suits greedily deprive woodland critters of their only home. This cliché Disney plot line is playing itself out here in New York, where the Standard Hotel—the big hulking hotel that straddles the High Line in the Meatpacking District in one of the most masculine (and ballsy) stances in NY's built history— is busy chasing away all of the poor bears who gather for the West Village Leather and Bear Street Fair.

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