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Some Brains Are Wired for Sex
Some Brains Are
Wired for Sex
study says
May 15, 2014 7:02 PM CDT

Some Brains Are Wired for Sex

UCLA scientists say they have the first data to prove it

(Newser) - UCLA researchers say they've got the first physical evidence to support the notion that some people's brains are wired for sex, reports the Los Angeles Daily News . In the study, they asked men and women how many sexual partners they've had, and they also showed them images...

8 Weird US Sex Laws
 8 Weird US Sex Laws 
May 8, 2014 3:30 PM CDT

8 Weird US Sex Laws

Want to settle your tab with sex? That's a no-no in Alabama

(Newser) - Sex is an intimate act between two people ... except for when government is also involved. Some of the strangest laws of the land relating to the horizontal tango:
  1. In New Hampshire, it's illegal to cheat on your spouse—adultery being defined there, since the early 1800s, as "intercourse
...

17% of Us Would Have Sex With a Robot

Well, 'us' being the Brits who took a poll

(Newser) - Roughly 17% of us would have sex with a robot—"us," in this case, being Brits. A survey conducted by the University of Middlesex asked 2,000 people their thoughts on a range of robot-related questions, and the copulation question in particular is getting a lot of attention....

Woman Busted for Loud Sex on Plane
Woman Busted for Loud Sex
on Plane
May 7, 2014 10:30 AM CDT

Woman Busted for Loud Sex on Plane

Oh, and her parents were also on the Vegas-bound flight

(Newser) - A drunk British woman decided it would be a good idea to join the mile-high club with a man she'd just met on a Virgin Atlantic flight from London to Las Vegas last week ... and the monumentally bad idea ended up getting her in serious trouble. Possibly the weirdest...

In This Country, Women Pick Chocolate Over Sex

French women say they know where happiness lies

(Newser) - French women have apparently found the key to happiness—in chocolate. According to a new poll , French woman say food (chocolate in particular) is the most important factor in happiness, the Chicago Tribune reports. Men chose sex as number one, and gave it a 7.5 out of ten when...

Hubby Mysteriously Dies After Wife Denies 4-Way Sex

They argue, he falls 18 floors to his death, at least in one version

(Newser) - According to Michael A. Ochoa's wife, the 46-year-old had hoped to spend the wee hours of April 25 engaged in a foursome with his wife and another couple at a San Antonio hotel. Instead, he ended up dead, after falling 18 stories from his hotel balcony. Police last week...

13 Celebs Who Are in the Mile-High Club

Latest to admit it: Chrissy Teigen, Miranda Kerr

(Newser) - Model Chrissy Teigen gave a little TMI to Cosmopolitan in the June issue, revealing that she and hubby John Legend once had sex on an airplane. "We were on our way to Thailand to see my parents, flying commercial first-class," she says. "We were under a blanket....

Short Sex Is Pretty Normal
 Short Sex Is Pretty Normal 
new book
Apr 26, 2014 1:40 PM CDT

Short Sex Is Pretty Normal

Ready, set ... oh

(Newser) - It's not exactly the most romantic statistic: Almost half of all men finish sex within two minutes, reports the New Republic by way of Dr. Harry Fisch's new book, The New Naked: The Ultimate Sex Education for Grown-Ups. In an excerpt published on Nerve , Fisch notes that his...

Guys Just Can&#39;t Do Sexy Voices

 Guys Just Can't 
 Do Sexy Voices 
study says
Apr 20, 2014 7:00 PM CDT

Guys Just Can't Do Sexy Voices

But it's easy for women: study

(Newser) - The ability to make one's voice sound hot is, apparently, limited to women. At least that's what a new study finds: Researchers in Pennsylvania asked women to "speak as if they were trying to impress someone with whom they were romantically interested." The subjects did it...

Wild Discovery: Insects With Female Penises

Tiny creatures have sex for 40 to 70 hours

(Newser) - For the first time, scientists have discovered animals whose genitalia seem to be swapped: The female has a penis-like structure while the male has an organ akin to a vagina, LiveScience reports. The animals in question are four species of flea-sized insects from the genus Neotrogla, found in Brazilian caves....

Man Jailed for 6 Months Over Loud Sex

12 neighbors complained about the Italian man's romps with his girlfriend

(Newser) - There's a noisy romp between the sheets and then there's sex so loud it's considered "stalking" your neighbors. That was the charge an Italian man apparently faced in court, after a dozen of his neighbors filed a civil suit complaining of his loud lovemaking sessions. They...

4 Women Get Lab-Grown Vaginas
 4 Women Get
Lab-Grown Vaginas
Apr 11, 2014 2:00 AM CDT

4 Women Get Lab-Grown Vaginas

Patients now have normal sexual function

(Newser) - Four young women are experiencing normal levels of "desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction" and pain-free intercourse after having lab-grown vaginas implanted, doctors say. The implants—created in a US lab with tissue samples and a biodegradable scaffold—were used in teenage patients starting eight years ago, but this is...

Faking It in Bed? Your Partner Probably Knows

Study finds couples are more perceptive than you might think

(Newser) - If what you and your partner do between the sheets is no longer doing much for you, but you're faking satisfaction for appearances' sake, you may be fooling ... no one. A study of 84 heterosexual couples by researchers at Canada's University of Waterloo has found that men and...

For Better Sex, Lower Your Cholesterol
 For Better Sex, 
 Lower Your 
 Cholesterol 
STUDY SAYS
Apr 7, 2014 1:53 PM CDT

For Better Sex, Lower Your Cholesterol

Researchers find men taking statins reported improved erectile function

(Newser) - Drop your cholesterol before dropping your pants, or so suggests a new study out of Rutgers University. Researchers there analyzed 11 studies on erectile dysfunction and statins, which are prescribed to lower cholesterol along with heart attack and stroke risk. What they found was that in addition to lowering those...

Survey: Left-Handed People More Satisfied in Bed

According to LELO, 86% put themselves in the 'extremely satisfied' category

(Newser) - If the results of a survey by a Swedish "intimate lifestyle product" manufacturer are to be believed, the left-handed among us are vastly more satisfied with our sex lives. As part of LELO's 2014 Global Sex Survey of 10,000 people, the company distinguished between righties and lefties,...

Couple Doomed to Bad Sex Life Awarded $28K

It all started with a car accident

(Newser) - It's not your everyday court decision: An Italian couple has been awarded $28,000 in relation to their bad sex life. But the case isn't quite as crazy as that might seem. Some two years ago, the female half of the couple was hit by a car while...

Ill-Advised Tryst Ends With Woman at Bottom of Well

As her not-terribly-valiant lover flees...

(Newser) - It's tough to imagine an outdoor tryst ending much worse than this: at the bottom of a well, with hypothermia setting in. But firefighters say that's exactly what happened in Ciudad Real, Spain, on Friday night, when a 21-year-old woman and similarly unidentified man decided to have sex...

Women Fake Orgasm for &#39;Selfish Reasons&#39;
 Women Fake 
 Orgasms for 
 ... Pleasure 
study says
Mar 30, 2014 6:16 PM CDT

Women Fake Orgasms for ... Pleasure

Study shows some women are faking it for themselves

(Newser) - Thanks to Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally, even guys know that women fake the big O—but who knew they did it for pleasure? A study published in the Journal of Sexual Archives says women will fake orgasm not just for the relationship or their own insecurity, but...

In Marriage, Equal Roles Means Less Sex

Egalitarian couples are often happy but have less sexual chemistry, experts say

(Newser) - Marriages in the US are more egalitarian these days when it comes to work, household chores, and even extramarital affairs, but that may not be good for married people's sex lives, writes Lori Gottlieb at the New York Times Magazine . She took a year of marital-therapy training and learned...

'Bad Sex in Fiction' Winner Apparently Likes Science

Manil Suri's 'The City of Devi' takes the prize

(Newser) - Let's see how hot this gets you:
  • "Surely supernovas explode that instant, somewhere, in some galaxy. The hut vanishes, and with it the sea and the sands—only Karun's body, locked with mine, remains. We streak like superheroes past suns and solar systems, we dive through shoals
...

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