Newspaper stories from the good old days say the darndest things. So every week on the Sexist, let’s take a ride on journalism’s way-back machine, to a time when beach-bound girls were sexy, confident, and refreshingly childlike!

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And now, from Mount Laurel, New Jersey, your daily dose of toddler-used-condom-swallowing news! According to the Philadelphia Daily News, the family of a 22-month-old boy is suing a Mount Laurel “Homewood Suites” hotel after the boy “choked on a used condom” he found in the room. By the time Amy Wolfe heard her son “chewing and choking on the condom” (ugh -ed), he had already “ingested the contents (euughhh -ed), possibly exposing him to a “sexually transmitted disease” (aaaghhh -ed), “including HIV [euuGHHH -ed] or AIDS [AUGUGHGHHHHH!!! -ed], or some other, potentially life threatening, potentially fatal illness” (God, ugh -ed).

UPDATE: Check out this sensitive anonymous comment left on the story! “LOL HE FOUND SOME PLASTIC BUBBLE GUM OH MAN THIS MADE MY DAY BUT I FEEL BAD FOR THE LITTLE KID CHOKING.” [ :( -ed]

Photo (ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh -ed) by Mandi Gaga

A New Jersey Council Member was arrested and charged with simple assault this weekend after “patrons at a Northwest Washington nightclub complained that someone had urinated on them from the balcony,” the Washington Post reports. Steven Lipski, a Jersey City council-member, was arrested at a V Street club the story doesn’t name after two people complained he peed on them “while they watched a concert Friday night at the nightclub.” Hmm. Are there any other V Street venues that this could be?

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