Tag Archives: sex research

Butt sex and lube: the plot thickens

June 5, 2010 – 12:15 pm

You may have seen the alarming articles in the media over the past couple of weeks, proclaiming that Science has discovered that using lube during anal sex is a non-refundable one-way ticket to an STI. As is often the way with media outlets, genuinely useful (though inconclusive) research gets distilled down into quick and sensationalist [...]

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G may or may not mark the spot, depending on what study you’re reading.

January 11, 2010 – 12:34 pm

Some of you may have read the recent research “indicating” (oh yes! Scare quotes!) that the G-spot does not exist. One of my favorite bloggers, Dr. Petra, does a nice thorough analysis of the limitations of this sex study (such as, for example, its reliance on self-reporting and its intentional exclusion of queer women) and [...]

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