In this year’s Happy New Year edition of So Last Week, Sex News You May Have Missed. Autistic love. Best cities for dating. Sex story round ups from so last year. Katy Perry, Russell Brand, Sinead O’Connor and, as always, so much more.

so yesterday: BoC with Abby Ehmann

• Love in a time of autism. (NYT)
• Sex education for teenagers, online and in text. (NYT)
• All the single ladies (and guys): Here are our best cities to find a date in 2012. (DailyBeast)
• 10 science stories from 2011 that may make you blush. (LiveScience)
• Sex and tech headlines that topped the list in 2011. (ZDNet)
• Porn actors and mandatory condom use. The battle begins. (LATimes)
• So a little over a week ago: Officer fired for selling sex toys out of the trunk of his whilst in uniform. (CharlotteObserver)
• World masturbation champion prefers anime girls to real girls. (Kotaku)
• An open letter to the old man drying off his balls in a public restroom. (McSweeneys)
• So gossipy: Katy Perry and Russell Brand are getting a divorce despite saying they aren’t a few weeks ago. (MTV)
• Damn Girl: Sinead O’Connor explains her 16 day marriage. (EW)