My main regret about the end of the show was that I had already left the mic before the earthquake hit. And while I do not in any way want host Tiffany Granath to feel fright or pain, I’ve got to say, my first thought upon seeing her turn white and hearing her trying to keep her panic attack under control, was, “This is GREAT radio.”

It’s that writer thing, y’know? Just as everyone you love is going through the most horrible of things, there’s a little part in the wayback part of your brain – at the base of your spine – that’s going I could write this….

It was fun to be the techie in the room, ’cause I was looking it up on USGS before the aftershocks even stopped, and there it was: a 5.6 epicentered in Chino Hills. We were able to reassure Tiffany that her house/dogs/husband were okay, that the quake was even further from her home than the studio, and after about two minutes of music filling the air she was able to get back on. And I think her listeners will spend the next couple of hours calling to offer support and love and she’ll be okay.

But! Before all the excitement, we had Sex in the News.

We started with a shout out to Stroker Serpentine and his company Eros, which has just opened up a virtual Las Vegas inside Second Life, and celebrated by offering some free time with the SexGen playthings.

Boston College researchers found a direct relationship between quality – respectful, attentive, joyful – family time and teenagers practicing safer sexual activity. The opposite also holds true: the less secure a young person’s environment, the more likely they engage in sexual risk. I’m sure this pertains to drinking, drugs, tagging, gang membership, crime, and just about every other rebellious / risky behavior. Not a surprise finding, but nice to have evidence, and nice to see people looking beyond the “are they/aren’t they” into more complex questions.

Meanwhile, grown-up people are having more sex and more importantly, enjoying it more. Why? Combination of things. We have better treatments for physical issues that make it more difficult to do teh sex as we retire, like arthritis, and for sexual function, like Viagra and prescription estrogen vaginal lubricant creams. I also think the social changes have helped; the boomers came of age expecting to have and enjoy sex even if they were – gasp – female. But they’ve got to catch up on the whole safer sex thing.

National Orgasm Day is July 31, this Thursday, so we urged listeners to practice their Kegels, Pilates, Yoga, etc. and get their pelvic floors in shape for the big day.

A fun little utility over at MikeOnAds.com analyzes your browser history and guesses whether you are male or female. It’s just for fun, not for market analysis, but I was surprised that it nailed me at 99 percent probability as female. I do realize that last week I worked onsite at my day job all week, and the column before that I covered the Adult Novelty Expo, so in the past 30 days I haven’t done as much tech-and-sex browser research as usual. But a male friend of mine came out 51 percent probability of male and another came out 74 percent probability of female (this is a correction, btw, as on air I said male instead of female, oops).

I chose not to deal with the Lifestyles claiming they’ve asked Mylie Cyrus to rep their message of ’safer sex.’ Maybe I’ll write about that later, as I have some fledgling but strong opinions on it. Mylie’s publicist claims Lifestyles did no such thing. Here’s the article I saw.