If any of you follow the Huffington Post on Twitter, you might have noticed their tendency towards unique, attention grabbing headlines. You may have also noticed that sometimes it’s hard to find anything besides HuffPo on your Twitter feed. HuffPo is referred to as the great aggregator for a reason. But they certainly have a knack for finding some fascinating human interest pieces. Some may call it link bait.

Do you know where King Tut’s penis is?

Because it’s missing, and Time Magazine is bringing the story of this “anatomical conspiracy” to its readers today, via a New Scientist report.

The O’Reilly Factor is taping in Los Angeles this week, providing producers the opportunity to cover some less traditional subjects (and show some female skin on their program.) Factor producer Jesse Waters covered a belly dancing conference in Long Beach (for reasons that aren’t ever made clear.) He did note that the rise of belly dancing and interest in “Arabian culture” is a direct result of the 9/11 plot hatched by Osama bin Laden. Yes he really said that.

While not quite on par with the masturbating walrus, Huffington Post’s latest foray into trashy hype fairly drips class, as they announce “Scott Brown’s Wife’s RACY Music Video Uncovered,” complete with an awesome screenshot of the Senator-elect’s wife causing a sunscreen eruption. I realize that we’re using the same exact video and screenshot, but it’s for the criticism, so it’s OK. Right?

Further evidence Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid sensibility is seeping into the Wall St. Journal? Or merely proof someone over there is reading HuffPo?! The former according to Reuters’ Felix Salmon who picked up on this photo and caption in today’s WSJ column by Patience Wheatcroft. Boobs sell!

Porn video stock photos used to sell a strategy game? If it was any game other than Evony, this might be more of a surprise. As many gamers/people who read the Internet know, Evony is pretty widely reviled for its porny ads, but this could be a new low:

So get this: a woman with two vaginas — that’s right, TWO VAGINAS — that’s right, vaginas, which is a naughty word — is appearing on The Tyra Show today, presumably to talk about the fact that she has two vaginas. Wait, why is this not-actually-all-that-rare condition getting so hyped up?

A DC local news station, WJLA, has gotten into hot water in some quarters for airing a bare-breasted, unpixelated guide to breast self-exams. Critics say it’s a salacious ratings ploy, but defenders say it’s a valuable public service. Could it be both?

The sudden downfall of Eugene Robinson‘s career at the hands of his libido (no pun intended!), brought to mind all the other politicians who have suffered a similar fate . Behold, a catalog of the most awesome most absurd ways the most lustful lads have been captured in the media.

Stunningly, it’s not just the American media that blows up titillating storylines with little news value. Lately, the Chinese media has been fixated on a town in northern Sweden called Chako Paul City whose only inhabitants are 25,000 women, many of whom “have turned to homosexuality ‘because they could not suppress their sexual needs.’” It is almost certainly made up.

Is the Internet scummy enough to exploit a 17-year-old tennis sensation’s sexuality to drive traffic? Sex Watch is here to see how our link-baiting friends across the Internet are raising traffic — and eyebrows — on the coattails of young, blonde, U.S. Open star Melanie Oudin.

The grisly murder of Jasmine Fiore and subsequent suicide of her husband and prime suspect Ryan Jenkins is exactly the sort of brutal and sexy story made for sensational coverage. Earlier this week, we wondered about Jenkins being labeled a “reality star”, but equally interesting has been the sex-centric coverage of Fiore’s tragic story, especially her career as a Playboy model and stripper.

To date, the Dr. McSteamy sex tape is pushing over 2.25 mil. page view on Defamer — a refreshing reminder that Internet content consumers (aka sketchy pervs) love nothing more than watching celebs have sex … or watching them lie around naked and smoke crack, as the case might be. Today Sex Watch follows Eric Dane, wife Rebecca Gayheart and crack-smoking ex-beauty queen friend Kari Ann Peniche around the Web to see just how far one sex tape can go.

As part of his recurring Culture Warriors segment, O’Reilly calls on Gretchen Carlson and Margaret Hoover to express their concern over a woman in Oregon who likes to spend time naked outside (“I called the police and they said it was OK, so I just stopped wearing clothes.”). Apparently Gretchen saw a man expose himself on a bus once when she was a child; imagine what this loon is doing to the children of Oregon. Video Inside.

Before Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee had even returned home to America following former President Clinton’s trip to North Korea to secure their release from prison, the news was already making light of the episode with sexy jokes about President Clinton’s notorious appetite.

Men’s websites waxing Shakespearean have decided that one can have too much of a good thing, and AOL man cave men’s blog Asylum has sparked the August 4th web phenomenon known as ‘Day Without Megan Fox’ that will undoubtedly make tomorrow’s RSS feeds 70% less attractive (if my math is correct). On July 28th, the Asylum staff announced:

Every so often (read: every day) we notice how some of our friends across the Internet use sexy headlines and photos to drive traffic. Welcome to Sex Watch! “Kate Winslet’s 34Cs to Hit Jumbo, 3D Screen Near You,” from Newsweek, and “A Terrible Story About Balls,” from Daily Intel … Plus more!

From Bleacher Report: “As men we don’t ask for a lot. we want our beers to be cold, our seats to be comfortable, our wings to be hot, and our sports brought to us by beautiful women.” A Mediaite One-Act.

While doing image search after image search to satisfy the Power Grid’s voracious appetite for photos, we here at Mediaite came upon a rather titillating discovery: a surprising number of media professionals seem to have an odd connection to another seedy profession: pornography!

I’ve been seeing a lot of Phoebe Cates‘ breasts lately and it took me some time to figure out why. However, as I was tooling around the Internet this morning looking to what was what in the media world and it suddenly became clear, I was not in fact seeing double, HuffPo and The Daily Beast are both featuring strangely similar bikini slide shows on their home page. And by similar we mean practically identical.

We’ve noted earlier that Matt Drudge is back, and his news cycle-driving headlines seems to have picked up in recent weeks. Ever since last night, DrudgeReport.com has been leading with a large image of President Barack Obama seemingly sneaking a peek at a junior G-8 delegate. Meanwhile French President Nicolas Sarkozy looks like he’s got some wandering eyes as well. (Not pictured: subsequent bro pound.) But did Obama really sneak said peek?

EXCLUSIVE – CNBC’s porn special – yes, a CNBC porn special – is ready for its Wednesday premiere, but not everyone is turned on. “Porn: Business of Pleasure,” will give viewers who normally want to know about things like oil futures “an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look inside the multibillion dollar pornography business.”

According to multiple sources, one sponsor was so turned off it wanted out.

We here at Mediaite understand one basic truism to all media strategies — sex sells. Every so often (read: every day) we notice how some of our friends across the Internet use sexy headlines and photos to drive traffic. And what better way to celebrate these recession-busting decisions than in a regular feature? Welcome to SEX WATCH!

Says Arianna Huffington: “Looking for hidden political agendas in every article and every photo on HuffPost will lead to some very convoluted conclusions. As Freud said, ‘Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar’ — and a nipple slip is just a nipple slip.”