image from nDevilTV Clandestine, commenting on a study that showed women orgasm about 80% as often as men do in close relationships but only 32% as often in first hookups: I’d suggest that a broader explanation [for the orgasm gap] may be that our definition of sex is very intercourse-focused, and we conventionally define sex [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 29, 2011
photo via flickr Studies have long shown than men cheat more than women — and not just in politics, either. As recently as the ’90s, research showed that 10-15% of women reported being unfaithful. But new research out of Indiana University in Bloomington (home to the esteemed Kinsey Institute) finds that this gender gap may [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 23, 2011
We’re often asked what’s “normal” when it comes to sex frequency, and we always decline to answer — we hate to use the word “normal” when it comes to sex, period. That’s something that you’ve got to figure out on your own time, and we refuse to judge you (unless you like to do it [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 17, 2011
photo via flickr In a recent article for the New York Times, statistician Nate Silver hooked up with OkCupid’s Nate Rudder to determine which day of the week is best to meet someone at a bar. They came up with something called the “sexual availability index,” and found that you’re most likely to get laid [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 3, 2011
photo by Flickr Sex chat at the water cooler can lead to depression and low productivity, study finds. A Florida boy is pulled from class for wearing high heels. Massive study details top ten Internet sex search terms. Let’s hear it for MILFs and cheating wives Read the rest of this post on SUNfiltered
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 20, 2011
photo of Old Faithful by Chuck Martin Dear Em & Lo, So last night my wife experienced one of her orgasms from G-spot stimulation and, as is usual for her, did not ejaculate. In fact, there is never really a detectable increase in her lubrication during orgasm. I was wondering if this means that she [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 24, 2011
Whether you’re not really into porn and only enjoy the occasional romance novel sex scene or you’re an addict whose love of Barely Legal Asian Sluts is jeopardizing your career and family life, there are three researchers who’d love to hear from you. Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood and Martin Barker have put together an online [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Northwestern University human sexuality class has live demonstration by a kinky couple (we’d feel better about that if the guy had been naked too and hadn’t been wielding a modified power tool). HuffPo has a DOMA “for Dummies” rundown. Egads: half of US men have HPV! Along with consensual sex within an adult, monogamous, committed [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 1, 2011
photo by e.esders It may not be news to any of you ladies out there who’ve enjoyed the thrill of a no-strings-attached hook-up, but for those who buy into the evo-psych pop notion that women are only interested in high-status resource providers rather than hotties (i.e. the opposite of men’s supposed eternal motivations) there’s a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 14, 2011
image via OKTrends Regular readers of this blog will know that we are mildly obsessed with the dating research blog OKTrends (it’s attached to the dating site OKCupid) — check out our past coverage of OKTrends on the myth of gay evangelism, the (consistent, predictable) way we lie online, misconceptions about online profile photos, and the [...]
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