A Mother's Diet Influences the Gender of Her Future Child
	There are couples give birth to so many babies they could literally form a football team, and all because of their desire of having a daughter. Others end up with a group of cheerleaders but a boy fails to make himself present. The answer is simpler than thought: a new study carried out at the Universities of Exeter and Oxford shows for the first time the connection between a child's gender and the mother's energy intake around t ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Child Sexual Abuse Has Declined by 5%
	Public opinion has no mercy when it comes to this crime. And results of the fight against child sexual abuse can be seen: a 5% decline from 2005 to 2006, summing an over 50% decrease in 14 years, as revealed by an analysis released by the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire and based on data delivered by child protection agencies. Physical abuse decreased by 3% in 2006, summing a decline of 48% in 14 ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Michelle Rodriguez Thinks We'Re All Sex Perverts
	Michelle Rodriguez is not afraid of living up to her "bad bi girl" reputation - although, as some of you may already know, the troubled "Lost" actress has never publicly commented on her sexual orientation except to express her anger at the way the media has allegedly twisted her image and always presented her in a bad light. However, it would seem that former jail bird Michelle's feelings of disgust don& ... [read more >>]
	17 April 2008, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Opioid Drugs Finish Up Your Sex Life
	Addiction is not just only severe issue with opioid drugs. Opioid drugs have been regarded as the perfect painkillers, but with one price: your sex life. These chemicals vary from morphine and heroin to papaverine, noscapine, cocaine and ephedrine. Their name comes from the fact that opioid drugs bind to specific opioid receptors in the central nervous system and in other tissues. The organism produces its own internal opioids, l ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sexual Inhibition: the No. One Factor Involved in Female Sexual Issues
	Women are seen as the passive sex and possessing a naturally low sex drive. But a new research at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction and published in the journal "Archives of Sexual Behavior" reveals that this is a misconception, and sexual issues in some women are the result of a balance play between sexual excitation and inhibition. Most previous researches focused on the role of fac ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sexual Excitation and Inhibition in Men: Debunked Myths
	The man is regarded as a sex machine pumping everything it can reach. A new research made at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University, and published in the journal "Archives of Sexual Behavior," reveals that men’s sexual desire and arousal occur in a different and much more varied manner than previously believed. The subjects revealed how their sex life was intertwined with experien ... [read more >>]
	16 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Testosterone Spray Boosts Women's Sex Drive
	Female body contains the male sex hormone, the testosterone (like the man's body, too, contains estrogen, the female sex hormone). Testosterone is naturally produced in women by the adrenal glands and has the role of boosting sex drive. Based on this principle, researchers have imagined a testosterone spray for increasing libido in women with low sex drive. A new research carried out by a team led by Dr Susan Davis, from ... [read more >>]
	15 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Have Sex with a Flower
	Sex toys may be made not only of plastic; and only by humans. Nature has got its own. For humans, many flowers have an erotic symbolism, like the rose in the Western World (and this, since the ancient Greeks and Romans, who identified the rose with their goddesses of love – Aphrodite, respectively Venus), but also ... [read more >>]
	14 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Great Concern with Sexual Enhancement "Natural Supplements"
	They are presented as "plant products" or "herbal products" that are a healthy alternative to synthetic drugs. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just seized over 14,000 units of Shangai- and Naturale-brand diet supplements. "The supplements – including Shangai Regular, Shangai Ultra, Super Shangai, Naturale Super Plus and Lady Shangai – were valued at more than $100,000," said a FDA spokesman. ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Human Sexual Currency
	In mating rituals of many birds, the male has to offer a food item (like a fish in kingfishers, an insect in the case of bee-eaters or a fruit in the case of hornbills) or a nest building material item (stones in penguins). Hummingbird females mate in order to receive permission for the most productive flowers guarded by larger males. Foxes too can offer food to the males during courtship. In mammals, chimps are known to offer food for sex ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ray J Sings About Sex with Whitney Houston
	When rumors that Whitney Houston is dating Brandy's younger brother Ray J, there were a lot of raised eyebrows and many people wondered at the 18 years gap and the different backgrounds and life priorities of the two singers. Plus, let's not forget that Ray J has quite a reputation for enjoying a little bit of womanizing - not to mention his other remarkable hobby, namely celebrity sex tapes. For those of you who forgot ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2008, 11:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Your Level of Promiscuity Is Easily Read on Your Face
	What's in the mind of a possible mate? Just look well at his/her face. It tells a lot about his/her attitude towards sexual relationships, as found by a new research carried out at the Durham, St. Andrews and Aberdeen Universities and published in "Evolution and Human Behavior." The study made on 700 heterosexual subjects revealed that men generally look for women perceived as being open to affairs, whilst women are more ... [read more >>]
	09 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

I Dance for Sex
	These are the "Chip and Dales" of the crab world: the best performers of erotic dances in the world of the crustaceans. And their dances are extremely efficient, as they send pheromones to lure far-away females out of their dens, as found by a new research published in the "Journal of Experimental Biology." It appears that this is the best chance of the mates to find each other in the dense submarine copse of ... [read more >>]
	09 April 2008, 03:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Sexually Outcompete Bigger Guys
	Do you think that only the big hunks get some humping action? In fact, it is all about strategy adapted to the size, as revealed by a new research published in the journal "Ecological Entomology." In the beetle world, the large males are those winning a direct fight for the mating game, as their large jaws exclude any smaller rival from the competition. But the battle is not lost by the smaller males. In male sap be ... [read more >>]
	08 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How to Skip Sex
	Sex is considered the engine of the evolution. Without sex, we would all be similar clones. Sex brings diversity, but also it can repair the effects of negative mutations. Healthy genes from one parent can counteract the presence of a damaged (mutated) gene from the other parent, resulting healthier offspring. Thus, theoretically, asexual species should accumulate harmful mutations over time, that would doom the species. But some micro ... [read more >>]
	07 April 2008, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sex in the Woods with Sarah Larson
	George Clooney really seems to have found his match in hot girlfriend Sarah Larson. The world's most eligible bachelor, as he has been dubbed, has been dating Larson for practically a lifetime judging by his own standards, that is) and it would seem he's quite passionate and possessive about the former Las Vegas cocktail waitress. In a recent interview, he confesses to the New York Post's Page Six that he tried to ... [read more >>]
	07 April 2008, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sexual Cannibalism: Some Males Lose Their Heads for Sex
	Some males are ‘dying’ to have sex…literally! In praying mantises, soon after mating or during mating, the female starts devouring its partner, head first! Many spider males are in the same peril, so, in order not to fall victims to their sweeties, they deliver a large fly to their partners, which will keep them occupied. In the end, males are just a source of protein for the hungry egg-developing females. Mantises mate in au ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 05:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Males Are Born Machos
	It is largely believed that boys are educated to adopt male values: in movies or video games, the male heroes are killing machines with muscular hypertrophy that solve their problems through force, annihilating their opponents. Boys are punished more harshly than girls are, and parents expect them to be tough, protective while male friends reject those that cry. Whereas, girls are expected to be sensitive. There are so many psychologi ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 03:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sex Boosts Gambling Behavior
	This is the recipe used by most commercials: put a hot babe near the product, everything from cars to pencils, and the men will buy it. Is it that easy? Partially yes, as revealed by a new Stanford study published in the journal "NeuroReport." Men may react like this in case of positive stimuli, especially if they are pressured. "In the immediate aftermath of that stimulation, men are consistently more likely to take bigg ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2008, 15:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Castrations Gone Wrong In Thailand
	Thailand is the realm of sexual tourism, this is a well known fact. Sex for any orientation. The country is famous for its beauty contest of drag queens. And in such a sexually libertine country, some things seem to have escaped control. Thailand's Health Ministry has temporarily banned the performing of castrations for non-medical reasons, signaling that this operation, asked by many transsexuals, requires stricter moni ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Orgasmic Calls Boosting Sperm Competition
	Monkeys have a very pervert sexuality. And one of the kinkiest species is the Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus). A new research published in "Animal Behavior" shows that males spy around in search of other pairs having sex so that they get a chance to copulate. The same team ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Genes of Orgasmic Calls Found
	All is in our genes. From speaking to laughing. Even the sex yells. A new research published in the journal PLos One has even found the first genes of sex calls in male mice. A male mouse on the way of having a hanky-panky session emits ultrasonic delight squeals. These vocalizations are the results of a gene controlling the synthesis of the brain molecules (amphetamines) involved in emotions, both in mice and men. Thus, mice ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Madonna Exposes Her Sex Life
	The media has been on Madonna overload recently, and it probably won't stop any time soon, not until the singer's new album comes out, at least. We've seen the pop queen on the cover of just about every major magazine lately, and read about as many interviews as we could handle, which helped us "discover" lots of interesting bits and pieces, scattered around and mixed with the trademark shameless self-pro ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2008, 09:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Matthew McConaughey Would Like to Pass Away while Having Sex
	Matthew McConaughey hardly has any reasons to complain these days: he's looking better than ever, his career is blooming and his Brazilian model girlfriend, Camila Alves, is pregnant with his baby. Big emphasis on "Brazilian model" in the previous sentence. All jokes aside, the actor who loves showing off nude - or at least half-naked - on every possible occasion seems to have a bunch of very interesting beliefs tu ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2008, 04:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Oldest Sex
	The phrase "sex is one of the oldest professions" has got a scientific proof. A recent research published in the journal "Science" describes the oldest known animal "caught in the act." This ancient sexual encounter occurred amongst 565-Ma-old tubular invertebrates called Funisia dorothea. Funisia fossils were found in 2005 on an ancient seafloor in South Australia. The 0.3 m (1 ft) tall ropelike animals were ... [read more >>]
	03 April 2008, 02:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

GTA IV Details Leaked
	The British Board for Film Classification, which also handles the ratings for videogames in the United Kingdom, has leaked information regarding ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2008, 05:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Unusual Complex Sex in Octopus Species
	Octopuses may be the brains of the sea, but not the sea lovers. They really give a new perspective to the phrase "the male is just a tab of the penis." A new study made at the University of California, Berkeley, and published in the journal "Marine Biology," shows that at least one species of octopus& ... [read more >>]
	02 April 2008, 05:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Madness Can Change the Sex
	If men and women differ behaviorally, this has an anatomical base. More specifically: the brain of the man differs from that of the woman. The differences are slight, but the impact is great. This explains why men have higher ability to visualize objects in three dimensions or read maps, labyrinths a ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 15:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Heart Does not Affect Sexual Satisfaction in Women
	Women experience lack of sexual satisfaction for various reasons: sex placed at the very bottom of their priorities list; lack of emotional implication; complexes about how they look; timidity or some drugs and antidepressants. But do not add the cardiovascular disease to this list, as signaled by a new study pub ... [read more >>]
	29 March 2008, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Want Your iPod Back? Give Me Sex
	The Quad-City Times is reporting that a 14-year-old Davenport Central High School student is charged with "theft, extortion and sexual exploitation of a minor," as he allegedly stole a female student’s ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A 5-Month Pregnant Man
	Remember the movie "Junior" featuring the current governor of California in the main role? It reached a subject of ethic and religious debate. Well, in an era when many SF movie devices turn into reality, you should not wonder about this next piece of news: there is a pregnant man. Legally, he is classified as male, but in fact, this five-month pregnant Oregon man is a transsexual. Thomas Beatie said he kept his female reprod ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Years of Viagra
	For ten years, the blue pill has been changing the lives of 35 millions men and women. Viagra is the result of an accident at Pfizer Laboratories. "Originally, we were testing sildenafil, the active drug in Viagra, as a cardiovascular drug and for its ability to lower blood pressure. But one thing that was found during those trials is that people didn't want to give the medication back because of the side effect of having ere ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 17:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

No Sleep, No Sex
	There is a flow of researches showing how the lack of sleep impacts your brain functions, from learning to memory. But the impact on people's life is much more severe than it could be guessed, plummeting productivity, safety, health, relationships and... sex. Too much work and too little sleep resulted in the fact that 20% of the Americans have lost interest in sex. This is the result of a research made by the National Slee ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Sophisticated Cultural Display for Sex
	A man will spend money on expensive gifts, best wine, finest sweets and flowers. But in the murky waters of the Amazon, boto or the Amazon River dolphin (Inia geoffroyensis) (which also inhabits the Orinoco River) males offer branches, rocks, weeds and lumps of clay to their females, in a parade also intended to chase away sex competitors. The art of conquering a dolphin girl and keeping the other males at bay seems to be a learned cultur ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Weak Sex: Newborn Boys Are More Likely to Die Than Newborn Girls
	This is real. Girls learn to read before boys, get better marks in college, and even their brain contains more gray matter. Moreover, boys are medically clearly weaker than girls, as showed by a new research carried out by a team at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Southern California, and published in PNAS: newborn males in developed nations are more likely to die than their female counterparts. The team analyzed the ... [read more >>]
	25 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

"Tudors" Star Thinks Sex Drives Our Lives
	The androgynous-looking, dark haired "Tudors" protagonist Jonathan Rhys Meyers proved he has little inhibitions when it comes to addressing the rather tricky issue of sixteenth century sex – in a recent interview for NY magazine. Although mostly labeled a professional heartbreaker with a trouble-making streak, Rhys Meyers comes off as more down-to-earth than originally expected when asked to address the issue of the sex ... [read more >>]
	25 March 2008, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Men Cannot Distinguish Between a Friendly Woman and a Sexually Interested Chick
	Any friendly gesture from a woman turns a man into a horny beast. And this is not an issue of movies: a new research to be published in the journal "Psychological Science" shows that this is the rule in daily life. Men were found not to be able to make the slightest difference between a friendly greeting, like the smile of a woman, and sexual advances. They appear to be blind to non-verbal clues. "Young men just find it ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 14:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Depressed Women Have More Sex
	Looking for a hot babe? Then go directly to the sad girl at the party. The sexual tigress lurks inside her. A new research published in the British Medical Journal shows that women who experience from mild to moderate depressions have with up to 30% more sex than women with a more balanced psyche. The study was made on 107 female subjects, depressed and non-depressed. Depressed women had more sex no matter if they were in a c ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

2007: The Seventh Year of Syphilis Raise
	Maybe some people believe syphilis is something from the past, but this would be a big mistake: a new research published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases shows that our negligence enabled the old deadly sexual bug to have a spectacular comeback in developed countries, boosted by drug consumption and high-risk sexual behaviors. The infection was well under control in the '90s, but a steady rise started with the year 2000. ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Circumcision Does Not Protect Men Against Sexually Transmitted Diseases
	Besides the issues concerning penis sensitivity loss (or not), circumcision is regarded by many as being a hygienic operation. Some like to see in it as an anti-HIV weapon. But despite the myth surrounding circumcision, it appears that the procedure does not protect men against common sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the developed world, as revealed by a new study published in the "Journal of Pediatrics." "While ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

One Quarter Of the Japanese Couples Do Not Have Sex
	They may watch hentai and go every year to the Kanamara (Penis Festival) to kiss the holly phalluses, but no sex means no children. 25 % of the married Japanese couples had no sex in 2007, as revealed by a survey made by Nihon University's Population Research Institute and World Health Organization. This is a worrying issue in a country where natality has plummeted. Sex is especially a neglected aspect as people grow older, since ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Love Shuts Down Cheating Instinct
	The world is full of temptations. Sexual temptations. But evolution invented something that self-restrains us from biting the bait when opportunity arises. A new research published in the journal Evolution and Biology explains why people in stable relationships often ignore the chance for a little sexual diversification, even if they can get away with it. Psychologist Gian Gonzaga, an eHarmony research scientist, put 60 heter ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Women Are Turning into Sexual Predators
	Biological rules say the male is the active sex in humans. They look for fertilizing as many females as possible for the maximum biological effectiveness, being real sexual predators, always ready for some hanky-panky, while women look for quality and a partner for a monogamous relationship, who is able to deliver and care for the children. But all these are blown up in modern society. A comprehensive survey carried out by th ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

This Is the Time to Become a Male: 8-14 Weeks of Pregnancy
	We all start as egg cells. And after being fertilized, based on the information of the sex chromosomes, the new developing organism must turn into a male or a female. A new research published in "Journal of Clinical Investigation" shows that testosterone, the male hormone, is responsible for turning an embryo into a male during a window of time before male genitalia begin to develop, and that impeding its action in that time peri ... [read more >>]
	18 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A History of the Sex Chromosomes
	It seems simple: XX sex chromosomes make a female, XY sex chromosomes make a male. But sex is an evolutionary achievement which did not appear just like that. A new research published in the journal "PLoS" points to the great similarities between the DNA sequences that determine the sex of plants and animals and the DNA that encodes the mating types in certain fungi (fungi do not have differentiated sexes, but matin ... [read more >>]
	18 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

First Sex Chromosome Gene Connected to Meiosis and Male Sterility
	Just having a XY sex chromosome formula won't make you a man. Nor the XX formula makes you a woman. Increasing evidence shows that human sex is not caused by sex chromosomes, but by genes placed on those chromosomes. Over 50 genes involved in sex expression have been found so far. 7 operate in the brain even before the gonads are formed. Now add a new one: a team at the University of Pennsylvania has detected a gene, TEX11, ... [read more >>]
	15 March 2008, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Garos Sexual Behavior Inventory: Your Sex Issues
	You can be a sexual maniac, a hidden pervert, a sado-masochist or a serial sex killer and not even know it! Now, that's solved: here comes the Garos Sexual Behavior Inventory. It is the result of over a decade of research and observations made by a Texas Tech psychologist. Sheila Garos has gathered 70 sex questions in order to make a test that can enable more precisely the diagnosis of sexual issues, and even addictive a ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pterosaurs Had Teen Sex
	These were the first flying vertebrates, and the largest: some had a wingspan of over 10 m (33 ft). But pterosaurs were precocious also from other points of view: they had teen sex, before reaching full size. These are the results of a research published in the journal Biology Letters, which analyzed the growth rings in hundreds of bones belonging to the species Pterodaustro guiñazui that inhabited Argentine 100-million years ... [read more >>]
	13 March 2008, 04:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sex, Marijuana and Cancer
	Sex, drugs and ... cancer, not violence! More specifically, sex, marijuana and head and throat cancer. The human papilloma virus (HPV) has been connected to throat cancers most often in younger, married college graduates by a study carried out by a team at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. HPV is sexually transmitted and can induce some cervical (uterus) ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia