‘sex’ Archive

Dubious link forged between sexy TV and teen pregnancy

Researchers at the RAND Corporation tell us today that “adolescents who have high levels of exposure to television programs that contain sexual content are twice as likely to be involved in a pregnancy over the following three years as their peers who watch few such shows.”
This is another example, in my opinion, of the backwards [...]

Beta males have idiosyncratic taste

Hello all you beta males out there! I hope you’re having a fine day in the hell that you don’t realize your life is. Despite your not knowing it, it turns out you’re currently in a state of delusion about how attractive your girlfriend is. That is, if you even have a girlfriend! Ha, ha, [...]

But, the contraceptive pill won’t help in this regard

Whether it could be regarded as common wisdom or an old wives tale, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a few authoritative-seeming sources claim that one of the dangers of the female contraceptive pill is weight gain.
Turns out that this isn’t true.
A recent press release tells us that the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in [...]

Want more sex? Get fat!

According to some clueless researchers in Oregon and Hawaii, women who are overweight seem to be having more sex than their slender cousins.
Prima facie, and following deep thought in the case of our friends at the University of Hawaii, this seems counterintuitive. After all, shouldn’t one’s sexual fitness, especially in the case of women, be [...]