Sex Race Is Not Always Won by Aggressive Males
	The simple theory of natural selection says that the fittest males will father the next generation. But a new research published in journal PLoS One and carried out by a team at the University of Southern California shows that this is not the real case, explaining a paradox that goes from insects to humans: if the best fighters take the girls, why aren’t all males hyperaggressive? But the mating game is more than fighting. Female [ADMAR ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 04:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Crusaders Had Sex With the Natives
	Those thousands of knights went to the Middle East during the 11th-13th centuries to free the Holy Land from the hands of the Muslims, but despite their religiosity, they found some moments to have some hanky-panky. In the end, their wives from England, France, Germany and Italy were far away and many ended mixing with the inhabitants. In a recent research published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, DNA "forensic ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sex: What For?
	In most other animal species, mating is not by far as pleasant as it is for humans. In our case, the sexual and reproductive behaviors are distinct, as sex has rather the role of bonding and forming social connections. But in some animal species, the male is ‘dying’ to have sex…literally! In praying mantis (Mantis religiosa), soon after mating or during mating, the female starts devouring its partner, head first! The Pacific salmons ma ... [read more >>]
	11 October 2007, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Male Contraceptive Methods
	Contraception has always been considered primarily a woman’s responsibility. Now, men have the chance to ‘help with this task’, so that women can get rid of pills, IUDs and diaphragms...at least if they do not want to hear "Daddy" when they least expect it. Nowadays, men have only two options: vasectomy, which in most cases is permanent, and condoms, which don’t really ‘match’ with a long-term relationship. But new researche ... [read more >>]
	01 October 2007, 15:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Sterilize a Man: Male Contraceptive Devices!
	It's so easy to leave the contraception responsibility to the woman... Still, lately, the scientific research has been providing ideas and concepts for so many products designed for males... Including a male contraceptive device: The Intra Vas Device (IVD), tiny implants that stop the flow of seminal liquid. There are two IVD types tested right now. The American variant developed by the Shepherd Medical Company is made of a pair ... [read more >>]
	26 September 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A First: Different Chemistry in Males and Females
	We know men come from Mars, women from Venus. Now, scientists are on the way to prove they really represent different worlds. Chemically. A team at the University of Illinois at Chicago has found for the first time a chemical in male blue crabs that is absent in females: a whole enzyme chain appeared to be functional in just one sex. "Although hormone level differences are generally accepted as the primary cause of variation betwe ... [read more >>]
	01 September 2007, 11:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Top 6 Male Mothers
	As we all have learned, females produce eggs and males sperm. Females are the mothers and males are the fathers. This has been so ever since the beginning of times. The female takes care of the eggs and eventually of the offspring. And what if not? Nature has many surprises for us. Sometimes males are very devoted moms, while the females are hanging around, eventually fighting with other females to get more sex...This cannot happen in ma ... [read more >>]
	14 August 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

3D Virtual Figure Drawing Studio (Male) Review
	I remember my first human figure drawings used to be a disaster. Whenever I started my drawing with the head, there was not enough paper to draw the feet and again, if I drew the feet first and then the head, I always needed extra paper to finish. Only after a lot of wasted crayons and paper I started to realize that there are some rules that you have to follow in order to draw a proportional character. Now I've discovered 3D Virtua ... [read more >>]
	31 July 2007, 12:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Smaller Guys Can Have More Sex!
	Hunks can eliminate their rivals in direct confrontations. But 'shorties' can sneak faster in a woman's world: nature too comes with its example of sex machine dwarfs. At least in the already dwarf world of the beetles. A team led by University of Kentucky evolutionary biologist Charles Fox wanted to see if little males might outcompete the buffs in the mating race. For example, "smaller males are pres ... [read more >>]
	25 July 2007, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Females Invest More in Offspring Conceived with Sexy Males
	Sex and economics seem to be connected: animals tend to invest in their offspring according to their expected payoff. A team of behavioral ecologists at the National Museum of Natural History and the Laboratory of Evolutive Parasitology, Paris showed that, in the peafowl (Pavo cristatus), when females mated with attractive males, they invested more resources in their eggs than females paired with less attractive males. In the first case, ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2007, 04:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Handsome Males Have Less Fertile Daughters
	Take a look at Bruce Willis' case: how can the father be so hot and have a daughter who looks like a wack? But this does not apply only to humans. Genes that enhance the manhood in males are not necessarily a beneficial heredity for the daughters, too. At least in red deer (Cervus elaphus), the best hunks that will beat all the other males, copulating with the entire harem, tend to have rather unsuccessful daughters. Thi ... [read more >>]
	28 June 2007, 04:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New At-Home Test Tells A Man's Fertility in 80 Minutes!
	Male vanity hardly copes with the fact that in 50 % of the cases, the couple's infertility is the man’s fault. It is even trickier to get him to see a doctor for a fertility evaluation. The new at-home screening test, called Fertell, has solved this. This is the first at-home device to test the concentration of motile sperm, and women's hormone levels as an indicator of egg quality. The two-in-one test signals that both me ... [read more >>]
	12 June 2007, 15:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The First 8 Health Issues That Kill Men
	This is the way men are: they take care of their car more than of their health. That's why men die earlier than women: their lifespan is 7 years lower than that of the females. In the western world, 70 % of men aged 30-50 are overweight and 40 % are stressed. These are the 8 factors threatening men's life in the western countries: 1.Prostate cancer. It is not linked to diseases, lifestyles, or alimentation, but to age and ... [read more >>]
	09 June 2007, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Are Less Males Being Born?
	Many proud fathers insist on passing their family name on their sons. In the Chinese culture, it is considered that only the male offspring can celebrate the cult of the forbears. In India, having a daughter could mean the ruin of your family when you have to pay her dowry. Sadly, in China, India and other Asian countries, the parents' wish to have a boy has triggered a massive slaughter of the female embryo and severely unbalance ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2007, 14:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Want Sex? Protect the Lady!
	Sex can be dangerous. And in some cases the females are the ones putting themselves at risk. In the case of the fiddler crabs females have to expose themselves to the predators to get some loving moments. That's why they seem to take very seriously the sexual signaling as discovered by a mix team from Seoul National University, in Korea and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. The female crabs guid ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2007, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Homosexual and Bisexual Fathers Make ... Better Mothers
	In the field of sex, nature got very imaginative with the plants. Sexual organs of the plants, or flowers, are extremely diversely organized: they can be male or female, or have a hermaphrodite structure. Depending on species, an individual can carry hermaphrodite flowers, or only males, or only females, or a combination of two-three types at the same time. Even the famous cannabis has female and male individuals, and ... [read more >>]
	01 May 2007, 10:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Males? What For!?...
	There is a general concept that sex is needed for organisms to diversify. Sexual reproduction would be necessary for speciation because interbreeding triggers variation. This concept is challenged by a group of organisms that has never had sex in over 100 million years of existence and has nevertheless managed to evolve into 400 distinct species. Asexual species like the bdelloid rotifers were thought to be all identical, and the d ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2007, 07:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

"Fat Talks": What For?
	There's no way we can witness a women chatting without the subject to divert towards how much they got fat or slimmed, the last diet they heard about, the best gym in the city and so on. A new research discovered that the “fat talk”, occurring between women of all ages, is a socially mandatory conversation. “We have found in our research that both male and female college students know the norm of fat talk—that females are supposed ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2007, 13:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hot Baths or Jacuzzi Induce Sterility in Males
	About 7 % of American couples are sterile. 30 % of the cases are attributed to the man, 30 % to the woman and the rest to both partners or to unknown reasons. Drugs or surgery can treat 85-90 % of infertility cases; less than 3 % require in vitro fertilization (IVF), a costly procedure. "Couples really prefer having kids at home and not with technology", said professor Dr. Paul J. Turek, lead investigator who is director of the D ... [read more >>]
	02 March 2007, 07:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia