Debunking gay stereotypesA fascinating look at gay dating profiles from the OK Cupid site. That whole “gays are promiscuous” stereotype seems largely a myth, with statistics showing sexuality doesn’t affect a person’s number of sexual partners.
Sex
The original Playboy
He may have become a cartoon-like stereotype of himself, but Hugh Hefner has been a critical player in the last 50 years of sex and culture. He helped create the concept of “manhood” in America, says a new doco on the Playboy founder.
Question over new sex drug for women with low desire ‘disorder’
The first ever women’s viagra style drug is up for approval in the US. Yet in the trials, the drug offered women just an extra 0.7 satisfying sexual events per month, writes Ray Moynihan.
Raquel Welch: The Pill is toxic to society
Yes, The Pill — 50 years old this week — gave women the ability to control their fertility. But by encouraging sex without consequences it has destroyed the institution of marriage, writes “aging sex symbol” Raquel Welch.
Bug of the week: f*cking flies
All the rain that has been dumped on central Australia over the past few months has given a stimulus to all sorts of things to go forth and procreate. Cue the flies getting busy, writes Bob Gosford.
History’s greatest sex lives
From Genghis Khan — a direct ancestor of 8% of Central Asia — to the LA basketballer who claims to have slept with 20,000 women, Nerve uncovers the most influential sex lives in history.
Why do men use prostitutes?
A huge international research project is attempting to uncover the reasons men pay for sex (aside from the obvious). Amongst other surprising findings is that many “believed men would ‘need’ to rape if they could not pay for sex”.
Getting into bed with pharma: does it bring pleasure or profit?
Is the medicalisation of sex, thanks to drugs like Viagra, distorting our views on sex and sexuality just to sell drugs? As the hunt continues for a female version of Viagra, it seems like a timely debate.
Nookie in your nineties: when are you too old for sex?
At age 71, Jane Fonda declared her sex life ‘better than ever’. But admit it: plenty of people in their 60s actually find sex rather a bore. All those positions? With arthritis? No thanks.
The sex diaries of the city that never sleeps
Thanks to Craigslist, GPS enabled social-networking iPhone apps and a host of other technological developments, sex has gone digital and nowhere more so than in NYC. NY Mag examine their anxiety filled Sex Diaries series to find what Sex in the City really means.
Anaphrodisiacs: foods that kill your sex drive
So everyone knows what foods are supposed aphrodisiacs — oysters! chocolate! — but what foods are rumoured to stop sexual desire? It’s not exactly scientific, but the list does make sense: corn flakes aren’t raunchy.
237 reasons women have sex
A pair of US psychologists spoke to 1000 women around the world about their sex lives, and have come up with 237 reasons ladies choose to get down and dirty in the bedroom, including weight loss and to boost self esteem. Oh yeah, love features in there somewhere, too.
Sexy letters to the Pope
Wanda Poltawska was a good friend of Pope John Paul II; they wrote letters to each other for decades — sometimes about sex. Now she’s published them and the Vatican are furious.
Insects in flagrante
Great images of insects doing it like they do on the Discovery Channel.
The Johns pack-sex saga: the media can’t lose
Pack sex is working class males’ one-fingered salute to the sexual myths the media has immersed them in since childhood.
