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Assassin's Creed Glitch: Guard Humps a Wall

You gotta love them naughty glitches. This one has been declared the funniest on PlayStation 3 to date. It's well known by now that Ubisoft's stealth-action title Assassin's Creed is packed full with glitches - one of them even allows players to control two physically existent Altairs and kick the crap...

10 January 2008
06:43 GMT

Orgasm Dictionary: Over 100 Types of Female Orgasm

What? An orgasm is just an orgasm? That's so simplistic... Listen to the British Karen Manning, 41, from Brixham, Devon, mother of two children, who has just come with a sex dictionary describing over a hundred different types of female orgasms! And when you think there are women not experiencing an orgasm duri...

9 January 2008
14:06 GMT

When Mothers Have More Sex, Daughters Are More Fertile

A female should have sex once, fertilize her eggs and that's it. But many researches show that, in the animal kingdom, females have much more sex, even if bouts of mating consume energy that could have been used to produce more offspring. The natural selection should remove such behavior. But a new study publish...

9 January 2008
03:18 GMT

How Do Anorexia, Depression and Childbirth Impact Woman's Sex Life?

Well, a sad woman may not enjoy sex too much. A hungry one may not have energy to do it. And childbirth requires some recovering time... A new research made by a team led by Dr Frances A. Carter of the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University in New Zealand, and published in the Internati...

8 January 2008
14:06 GMT

Megan Fox: Almost Naked, Wants Sex, Sex SEX

Now you see, girls, THIS is how a real Hollywood hottie does it! Megan Fox, that uber-hot Transformers beauty is not afraid to talk about doing the nasty - and get almost naked for an accompanying photo spread. Which in my book makes her a very frank and realistic person - not to mention extremely attractive, too. It...

8 January 2008
09:07 GMT

21 Things About (Old World) Monkeys and Their Sexuality

Old World monkeys refer to the family of monkeys encountered in Africa and Asia. They are closer to apes (thus humans) than the monkeys of the Americas. 1.The main characteristic of the monkeys is their ability to process complex information and make subtle comparisons, taking decisions that help them adapt to the en...

7 January 2008
17:41 GMT

Circumcision Does Not Affect Sexual Sensitivity in Men!

There is a vivid debate about circumcision: is it a violation of the boy's rights? Many say it is a genital mutilation, decreasing penis sensitivity and causing both physical and psychological damage, similar to what they do in west/central/northeastern Africa to women, while others see its benefits. Beyond hygi...

7 January 2008
14:06 GMT

More About Sex with Lohan

I think I'm having a crush on Lindsay Lohan. OK, that didn't come out right - let's try again: what I was trying (and failing, apparently) to say was that I'm beginning to like Lindsay Lohan. No, I'm not talking about her face, the way she dresses or the fact that she really enjoys exposing h...

7 January 2008
06:07 GMT

Soon, Female Viagra!

Viagra boosted sex and life quality. But in men the main issue is impotence and Viagra is an anti-impotence drug. Instead, the main sexual issue for women is the lack of sex drive. This could be solved by a new drug currently in trial at the University of Virginia. Other 99 medical institutions are involved in the tr...

4 January 2008
14:06 GMT

Humans Have Paid for Sex for Millions of Years

We regard prostitution as extremely immoral and as degrading the human beings. But it seems this is much older than we would believe. In our evolutionary history, we could trace this to more than 15 million years ago. A new research reported in New Scientists reveals that even in monkeys males pay for sex. Only that,...

3 January 2008
14:06 GMT

Top 10 Cunnilingus Tips

It is hard to imagine a phD researcher in the science of cunnilingus. It's even harder to believe there would be federal funded researches in the issue. And when you think that this issue can make unhappy so many thousands of couples...In the end, the salvation comes from Internet and specialized sites, where wo...

29 December 2007
03:51 GMT

Why Hot Males Have More Sex?

We already knew this without science. But science now has just proven it: hot males can have more sex. Especially if they are from the ambush bug species. These predatory bugs are famous for their color pattern that camouflage the insects against flowers. This way they can lie in wait to ambush insects stopping on th...

27 December 2007
17:06 GMT

The Story of How It Felt to Be Banging Lindsay Lohan

You gotta love Lindsay Lohan. Really, she's just about the most fascinating celebrity out there. No, I'm kidding, of course she's not - but at least she's one of the celebrities that have managed to keep me guessing over the past couple of months, which is just about the biggest compliment I could...

27 December 2007
06:21 GMT

12 Things You Did Not Know About Alcohol

1.Try not to mix beverages; keep consuming the same type of drink all night long. In case you drink cocktails, be sure that you drink the same kind. Consumers say that in order not to get drunk, you should not mix beverages, like whiskey with rum or gin. In reality, the alcohol level in the blood, which determines ho...

21 December 2007
10:54 GMT

Why Do Females Scream While Having Sex?

Now we know why your female partner plays her musical score while having sex: it boosts your fertility. Judging on a lower rank on the evolutionary scale, female monkeys could shout while having sex to help their male partners ejaculate! This is the results of a research carried by a team at the German Primate Center...

19 December 2007
14:06 GMT

Top 10 Weird Beetles

Beetles make the most numerous group of insects. They form the order Coleoptera ("sheathed wing") because of their elytras (thickened outer pair of wings). 25% of all species on Earth are beetles and they make for 40% of all described insects but there may be at least 5 million undescribed beetle species. They live a...

18 December 2007
14:21 GMT

Do Female Sex Hormones Induce Mood Disorders?

Did your beloved sweet honey transform into a tough bitch? Yeah, we all blame it on PMS syndrome or menopause, but contrary to common belief, women were found by numerous studies to be 1.5 to 3 times more exposed to severe depression than men. A new research carried out at the University of Alberta urged for careful...

18 December 2007
14:06 GMT

How Different is Rural Sex?

Rural life is so idyllic and those farm girls are so traditionalist, naive and pure... Is it so? A new research made at Indiana University and published in "Health Education Monograph" shows that single young adults living in rural areas do not have safer sex behaviors than their non-rural counterparts, such as numbe...

15 December 2007
05:32 GMT

Size Really Does Matter!

"Oh, no, honey, it's about technique!" says your girl. Is it so? Some fish come with the pure truth: size does matter!In the case of the swordtail, a common tank fish, the simple sight of a well-endowed male turns off an entire families of genes (about 77 genes overall) in the female's brain, as a team at t...

14 December 2007
03:01 GMT

Better Than a Sex Tape: Pammy's Boobs Live On TV!

It was only a matter of time before Pammy finally got the offer, but now it finally happened, and I can't say I'm too surprised. Pamela Anderson and the sleazy hubby Rick Salomon are reportedly in talks with the E! Network to get their own "fly on the way" reality show, that would air next year. I'm no...

13 December 2007
10:06 GMT

Why Are the Pygmies so Short? Because of Early Sex!

Pygmies make the smallest human race, but they are not dwarfs. Amongst those of pure blood, men have an average height of just 1.45 m (4 ft 10 in) and women of 1.33 m (4 ft, 1in), still they do not represent a dwarf variant of the Black Africans. Their body proportions are the same with those of other humans, that�...

12 December 2007
02:52 GMT

Is Circumcision an Abuse against Boys' Rights?

Religious circumcision is universal in Muslims and Jews and for medical reasons it is also common amongst Christians in US. But while many say it is a genital mutilation, decreasing penis sensitivity and causing both physical and psychological damage, similar to what they do in west/central/northeastern Africa to wom...

10 December 2007
14:06 GMT

Your Penis Has a Boomerang Shape during Intercourse!

The male Australian aborigines were hunting with their penises. With copulating penises. These were the results of Dutch research, published in on-line British Medical Journal, which showed that during sexual intercourse, more specifically the male-on-top "missionary position", the penis took the shape of a boomerang...

8 December 2007
06:03 GMT

Early or Late Sex Leads to Impotence and Other Sexual Issues!

Did your father take you to prostitutes when your first pubic hairs appeared? Or, did the dumb shy in and impede you to approach even an ugly duck to the age of 25? Well, in both cases, this is a high risk factor for your sexual performances and sexual health later in life, as found by a new research, published in t...

8 December 2007
04:27 GMT

Which Is the Biologically Ideal Age Difference Between Spouses?

Any man dreams of being Hugh Hefner, with at least one of his odalisques. It is a fact that men prefer younger women for sex, and women want by their side an older man (well, for sex, we don't really know...). This male preference is universal across cultures worldwide. A Finnish team tried to see if there is a ...

7 December 2007
14:06 GMT

Weeds For Sex

As a man, if you want that thing, you have to spend money on expensive gifts, best wine, finest chocolate and flowers. But, if you enjoy those amazing acrobatic breaches executed by sea dolphins, you should know that many of them are made by males for some 15-20 seconds of underwater pleasure. But the murky waters of...

7 December 2007
05:26 GMT

Pomegranate Juice Boosts Sex Drive and Erection!

Pomegranate appears to be more than just a load of vitamin C. A new research comes to strengthen the results of other studies, showing that men wanting to make their partners happy in between the sheets should drink pomegranate juice on a daily basis. "The juice is rich in antioxidants that increase the blood supply...

6 December 2007
14:06 GMT

More Alcohol, More than 10 Sex Partners

Alcohol is considered by many a sexual stimulant and aphrodisiac. Alcohol "loosens up" a bit, removing inhibitions and making the inter-personal contact a lot easier. Alcohol gives people more (sometimes significantly more) guts to do what they desire, also being less aware of consequences. Frequent bingers engaged i...

5 December 2007
14:06 GMT

Violent Sex Activates Female's Immunity

Biologists thought for long that only vertebrates have complex adaptive immune systems that allow them to fight against many germs after just one infection. But the concept has changed in the last years, as many insects too have been found to have an immune memory that defends them against reinvasion by a microbe the...

4 December 2007
14:06 GMT

Is Lindsay Lohan Dating Heath Ledger?

To answer my own question in the title - God, I hope not. I mean, as much as I love reading hot gossip about how LiLo is doing drugs and how she's broke, I was under the impression that in the "guys" department she would always stick to the kind of men she is used to (that is, recovering drug addicts and married...

4 December 2007
06:20 GMT

How Attractive You Are in the Eyes of the Other is Linked to Your Personality

Well, it seems that being a good girl or boy really makes you more beautiful/handsome, as it has been revealed by a new research, published in "Personal Relationships". Persons displaying positive personality traits (both women and men), like honesty, kindness or helpfulness, are regarded as more physically attractiv...

30 November 2007
03:43 GMT

Why Are Men Reluctant to Use Condoms?

In the end there isn't a more effective method than the condom use to avoid getting infected or transmitting diseases (STDs), like HIV/AIDS. In casual sex, this is also the best way to avoid an unwanted pregnancy: only small amounts of semen can lead to pregnancy or transmit STDs. Men have an increased risk of g...

28 November 2007
07:15 GMT

A Woman's Sexy Gait Is Not Related to Her Sex Drive

The lascivious swing of a woman's hips may fascinate men, but watch out: those are not the kind of women who go out to 'devour' men! A new research at Queen's University, Ontario, and published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior checked the connection between female subjects' walks ...

26 November 2007
14:06 GMT

Why Should We Have Sex? 20 Good Healthy Reasons

Marvin Gaye knew very well what was singing with his "Sexual healing". Sex seems to be more than a hormonal discharge and some short moments of pure pleasure. Scientists show that sex is extremely beneficial for our health, while the lack of an active sex life might have negative effects. And masturbation is not a so...

24 November 2007
06:11 GMT

Girl Gamer Digs Sex Scenes in The Witcher

Anyone who's given The Witcher a go has surely seen at least one sex related scene, cinematic etc. It's not just The Witcher that features these kinds of scenes, but many other games as well. Every once in a while, though, so-called girl gamers make entries on blogs and stuff, showing their total discontent...

23 November 2007
06:07 GMT

Blond Women Turn Men into... Idiots

Men like to make jokes on the stereotype of the dumb blond women. And now, a French team has discovered that men's mental ability plummeted when dealing with blond women, probably as they thought they had a less intelligent interlocutor. The study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology consisted in two...

20 November 2007
14:06 GMT

The Sex of Bees - Controled by the Queen

The bee's universe is a tough monarchy, the proletariat has no say there. The queen honey bee decides the sex of her offspring, points a new research published in Behavioral Ecology, a finding that challenges the belief that queens are just 'egg laying machines' and that worker bees decide if the queen...

19 November 2007
02:48 GMT

Why 300 Orgasms Daily Can be Unhealthy for a Woman

Some women do not even know what it feels like to have an orgasm. Others must exhaust 'a stud', squeezing him like a lemon for one. And some actually have one due to the slightest vibration, even the purr of a hairdryer, or the rhythmic drone of a photocopier. They can have even 300 spontaneous orgasms per ...

17 November 2007
04:58 GMT

A Gene for Oral Sex!

The penis is a gift of evolution. At least in the case of fish, in which most species have an external fecundation (like we see in most frogs and toads), and a penis would be useless. (the sole exception are sharks, rays, and species of Poeciliidae family and related groups, tiny tropical species, some very common in...

16 November 2007
14:06 GMT

A Stable Family and Low Body Weight Mean Later Puberty Onset for Girls

You may say that, in a stable family, children are less exposed to sex imagery and these more protected girls are less prone to early sex. But a new research, published in "Child Development", shows they really turn later from little girls into little women. The research team at the University of Arizona and the Univ...

16 November 2007
06:27 GMT

The Effects of Drugs on Sex, Health and Social Life

1. Causes of drug consume. There are over 200 million drug consumers worldwide. From "natural" to synthetic ("designer") drugs, they are aimed to induce an excitation and euphoria state; when we talk about stars, actors, famous singers, they usually go on with their addiction being pressured by the entourage (many si...

15 November 2007
14:06 GMT

Why Are Males More Evolved Than Females?

Males change faster than females. Just look at a peacock's tail feathers compared to the plain peahen. In most species, males are brighter and better singers, competing for getting as much as possible mates. This way they experience sexual selection. This overdrive compared to females puzzle the scientists, as t...

15 November 2007
06:19 GMT

Heidi Klum Talks Sex, Seal and Getting Naked

Heidi Klum is either very silly or...well, very silly. OK, I admit, I actually wanted to put "stupid" instead of silly, but I thought it would sound a little rough. But first, let's talk genetics here: are we sure Heidi and that fat-mouthed sex-addicted media slut that is Jordan are not somehow related? Because ...

14 November 2007
08:51 GMT

Female Genital Mutilation: Why Such Practices?

One of the Africa's most horrific traditions persists in the 21st century: "purification", "female circumcision" or, more correctly named female genital mutilation (FGM). About 2 million African girls are mutilated annually, and 135 million women live with the mutilation. The age to be done varies between 2 to 1...

13 November 2007
15:56 GMT

No Link Between Early Sex and Increased Criminal Behavior

In the conservative US, the federal "abstinence only" program has pushed hard and some researches seem to obviously reach the needed cause-and-effect link, as shown by a study released in February 2007 at Ohio State University, which found that losing virginity earlier makes youngsters 20 % more prone to juvenile cri...

12 November 2007
05:46 GMT

Too Much Sugar 'Kills' Your Sex Life

Could you imagine your life without pumping every day countless amounts of sugar in your body? If not, you should at least know that it can affect your sexuality: high levels of fructose and glucose entering your blood can deactivate the gene controlling the amounts of sex hormones in both men and women, as revealed ...

10 November 2007
05:16 GMT

What Causes Pain during Sexual Intercourse?

No wonder some women prefer chocolate or other stuff to having sex. And in some cases, it's not about the unskilled man, as there are women suffering of vulvodynia - up to 16 % (!) (this means one woman in six, aged 18-64), for which sex is definitely not fun and pleasure. Vulvodynia ("vulva pain") causes pain o...

10 November 2007
04:30 GMT

Does Sex Protect You Against Cancer?

Sex is more than physical pleasure: it may bring benefits on a long term. Many philosophies plead for total abstinence and preservation of the sexual energy for a prolonged life, but science comes up with another story. In fact, many researches have showed that sex has a rather healing effect, on both psychical and p...

8 November 2007
16:56 GMT

Your Dandruff Has Sex!

Do you look like a Christmas tree under the strobe light of the club? Covered by "globes" of dandruff? That's because of a fungus that impedes your search for a mate. All this while having sex on your head perhaps even at this moment. A research team at Procter & Gamble Beauty, a subsidiary of the company produc...

8 November 2007
02:40 GMT

Sex War: 90% or 50% Females?

There is a sex ratio of about 1:1 in most species, including humans, meaning that an approximately equal number of males and females are produced. For the first time, geneticists at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, have discovered a genetic mechanism delivering this balanced ratio, at least valid for fruit flies...

7 November 2007
06:42 GMT


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