Buzzfeed has just released this video recreating commercials you may have seen on your TV (or before YouTube videos; always before YouTube videos) in the past year. There's one twist, though. All of the commercials have had the gender roles switched. And they play side-by-side with the originals, offering a stark…
Most people consider a satisfying sex life to be one of life's key pleasures and often an indicator of a good relationship. Yet defining sexual satisfaction is no easy task. To better understand this elusive concept, scientists have devoted numerous studies to gauge the factors that play a role in how gratified we are…
You can't open an internet browser these days without hitting a loud opinion about how the decline of marriage — or, for less ambitious traditionalists, monogamy — is tearing society apart. Everything from hormonal contraception to gays have been blamed for the falling marriage rate in the US, and marriage proponents…
How many types of orgasms do you think a woman's downstairs business can achieve? One? Two? A THOUSAND? Well, there's actually been a fair share of debate about it in the scientific community, with some arguing that two types are possible (one through vaginal stimulation and the other through clitoral) and others…
America, too exhausted from tracking the daily activities of thousands of Real Housewives to come up with its own novel ideas for shows, is importing another British concept next season: a show called Sex Box. No verbal trickery here — the show literally involves people having sex in a soundproof box on a soundstage…
In an ideal world, a lady chooses to sext because sexting gets her rocks off. The mobile exchanges of I'm hard/I'm wet are an easy, lazy and safe way to test comfort zones and have a good time — and you don't even have to stop watching Roseanne reruns from your couch in order to participate. What freedom! There is one…
A few months ago, my friends went around the table talking about the most bizarre places they've had sex. When was my turn, their jaws dropped at my response. Then someone made a soft, "Awww," — the kind you give a baby after she lets out a burp. It was the first time I admitted to a group of feminists that I was a…
A reader spotted this flyer for a sex tracking app from Nipple.io at SXSW this weekend.
A prisoner at Portland, Maine's Cumberland County jail would do anything for love, including breaking out of her cell and into that of her lover's for a romantic rendezvous. I'm not mad at her.
Last week, a Louisiana Democrat filed a bill in the state's legislator she's calling the "Unsafe Abortion Protection Acts." Like most laws that ostensibly "protect" women from one of the statistically safest medical procedures, the bill doesn't do anything the pretty words in its name suggest. In fact, the way the bill is…
Graphic designer Fernando Sosa has created the most interesting sex toy prototype yet, a 3D-printed Vladimir Putin butt plug that's not quite ready for prime-time use but is an intriguing piece of protest art just the same.
Happy Friday, weekend warriors!!! If you're like me, you're looking to leave the boss-man behind and kick back with the family, a blockbuster hit, and a six-pack of Mike's Hard tonight. And what better way to relax than via the brand new live-action Animaniacs movie directed by Lars von Trier?! Animaniac purists might…
Scientists have finally quit goofing around with all that cancer-research and time travel nonsense and moved on to working on something actually important—orgasms.
Most of us fear that assumption that if you have sex on the first date, then the man won't call you back. Luckily, Sociological Images is here to puncture that balloon.
As Superbad star and Oscar nominee Jonah Hill once said in one of his most criminally underrated performances: You don't want girls to think you suck dick at fucking pussy. You probably don't want them to think you're bad at eating it, either. Problem is, for people who have never attempted performing oral sex on a…
Anyone who has ever watched patrons of a strip club or seen Magic Mike (or completely overwhelmed their sensory receptors by seeing Magic Mike at a strip club) knows that sex — and the desire to have it — makes people do stupid things. Just how stupid, though, depends on a person's gender and their proximity to things…
Once derided as being like plastic bag with the erotic appeal of a jellyfish, the female condom's being reinvented as the next big thing in safe sex. Emily Anthes investigates.
What do you picture upon hearing the name, "The Cocksman Club"? Is it an exclusive Victorian club for gents who enjoy the company of gents, or perhaps a cheeky society for the discussion of rooster breeding? Wrong on both counts: It's a subscription service for condoms.
Come May, many drugstores will be carrying a new brand of sustainable male condoms that is being marketed specifically towards a female audience. The prophylactic — called Sustain — is made from non-toxic latex that has been produced on a fair-trade/fair-wage rubber plantation in India, a fact that company founders…
