These days, lust feels so ubiquitous that it's genuinely refreshing to hear about people who just aren't into sex. Our Fifty Shades fatigue may actually have an upside if the sex-averse and sex-indifferent start getting more media coverage and balancing out the lusty, sexy mainstream.
"There have been many guesses as to what makes a woman 'easy'," writes Dr. Marcus McBroom, at the beginning of his 1963 article "A Clinical Appraisal of Some Sexually Promiscuous Females." Published in the Journal of the National Medical Association, his musings—like many of the other variably absurd, frightening,…
Anyone can misread a friendly conversation as romantic interest, but apparently straight men are far more likely to do this than straight women. Is it basic sexism, or evolutionary psychology? Those are the two dominant theories. You tell me what you think.
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For male spiders, sex often ends with something really unpleasant: Death. Fortunately for at least one species of nope, the males have figured out how they might remain alive to scare the shit out of us another day — they eat out the female spider in order to prevent their own untimely demise.
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This week, Fresh Off the Boat, ABC's groundbreaking Asian American family sitcom, tackled The Sex Talk between father and son. There was also H-Town's "Knockin' da Boots," chatter about black spring break in the '90s and—thanks to Constance Wu's character Jessica's obsession with the nightly news—a brief…
For a long time, the construction of gendered sexual behavior went like this: Men aren't hardwired for monogamy, but women, being more invested in emotional bonds and offspring resources, are. But it's becoming increasingly clear that women aren't exactly thrilled with the same old every night either. Research shows…
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The makers of a female Viagra-type pill are re-submitting their application to the Food and Drug Administration, though it's already been rejected twice. If approved, Sprout Pharmaceuticals' pill would be the first of its kind for women with libido issues.
My biological father wanted to have sex with me from the first moment he laid eyes on me. This I learned two years after meeting him, as I dry heaved over his toilet in a moment of all-consuming anxiety and self-loathing. This was just after the second time we had oral sex.
Malcolm Brenner is the only man on Earth to achieve international fame for having sex with a dolphin. A former investigative journalist who covered the American Southwest, he remains best known for his 1970's love affair—mostly romantic, briefly sexual—with a bottlenose dolphin named Dolly. Their "courtship," which…
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Here's a safer way to get your porn fix at work without getting fired: Audio porn.
Let's face it. There are two reasons you'd want to use a vibrator: because you are a gadget-lover who can't imagine anything, including sex, without a little technology involved; or because you just want to have an orgasm, and fast. But with the Crave Vesper, there is a third possibility.
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A study released Monday reveals rebuked the notion young women who are vaccinated for HPV start having unprotected sex and find themselves laden with sexually transmitted infections. SHOCKING news.
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Emoji: You either love them or hate them. But it's a little bit better if you love them, a new study has found. That's because single people who use emoji allegedly have more sex and women who use certain emoji report that they reach orgasm faster. But what comes first — the orgasm or the emoji?
Last Monday, on the night of the blizzard that talked a big talk but then never came, I was batting around an idea, one of many that had to do with the dating app Tinder, with my colleague Sam.
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Some Jackrabbits finally decided to live up to their name and multiply all over one North Dakota Development. At first the jackrabbits were welcome. "Right away I thought they were real cute," said one resident. "And now they're becoming a big nuisance," she said of the 40 to 50 jackrabbits she sees running across her…
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Carl Djerassi, one of the chemists who enabled ladies to have more control over their bodies by creating "the pill" has died. Bless that dude.
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Rashida Jones doesn't think women are deriving pleasure from amateur porn. "It's performative, women aren't feeling joy from it," Jones said last week on a panel at Sundance while promoting Hot Girls Wanted, a documentary she produced on the amateur porn industry. "This would be a whole different conversation if women…
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With every promise of inclement weather comes a new batch of people just trying to feel something meaningful in this literal cold world. Here are their stories, links included when still available, in case someone strikes your fancy with their cries for sex under the guise that they will deliver you a very special,…
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Ever wonder how it was physically possible for your great-grandparents to have like 10 kids? Well, sperm was better. No, seriously. Apparently sperm just isn't doin' it's damn thing like it used to.
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