It seems like every week there's a new study out exploring the manifold nuances of attraction and desire. Just when you begin to think the media is out of studies to run, something new claws its way out of the ether, bellowing "MEN IN ZIP-OFF CAPRI PANTS ARE MORE ATTRACTIVE TO WOMEN ON DAY TWO OF THEIR PERIOD, STUDY…
Hey ladies careening toward age 35 — it's important decision time! You can A.) hit your sexual peak, and, like a remotely programmable robot in a Blade Runner ripoff, suddenly become "switched on" like a sex-crazed lunatic unleashed upon decent society. Or you can B.) reject the still-repressive social and cultural…
Recently I worked myself into a giant, gnarled, spiny tumbleweed of outrage, ranting and raving my way across the Internet and into my social life. The subject of my vitriol was a Facebook page, filed under controversial humor, called "12 Year Old Sluts." It features, among other jokes and memes, the kind of idiotic…
If, let's say, love and sexual desire were personified as Felix Unger and Oscar Madison — two hopelessly mismatched companions who cosmically completed each other — and begrudgingly had to share a tiny, slug-shaped apartment in your brain, which would it be? It's the insula and striatum duplex, silly — everyone knows…
A new study finds that many ladies over 80 don't have a lot of sexual desire, but that doesn't really bother them — even if they're sexually active.
To the highly inflammatory question of whether rape is really about sex or really about power, one blogger offers a new and potentially powerful answer: who cares?
A New Mexico woman has actually been diagnosed with Restless Genital Syndrome, providing a disturbing example of how we think — and write — about women's sexual problems.
