Apparently, if your DNA is non-African derived, you’re also part Neanderthal:
…all non-Africans – be they from France, China or Papua New Guinea – share the same amount of Neanderthal DNA, suggesting that interbreeding occurred before those populations split. The timing makes the Middle East the likeliest place where humans leaving Africa and resident Neanderthals did [...]
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Is there any exercise-type activity that is more fun than fucking? I didn’t think so. Ever wonder how you can beef up your bod while you bone your honey? Now you can check out this article. It’s pretty penetration-focused, but it does have this delightful tidbit of advice at the end for solo sex:
If You [...]
March 15, 2010 – 12:22 pm
Thanks for being awesome, NPR.
Listen to this All Things Considered episode called “Thank Sex for Making the Internet Hot” featuring Violet Blue.
A tidbit:
Breaking news: Sex is popular online.
“Sex had played a major role in driving many technologies,” says Jonathan Coopersmith, a technology historian at Texas A&M.
The example most people are familiar with, he says, is [...]
Holy crap, you guys. You HAVE to read this article. It’s on the OKCupid blog, and it amasses all the data they’ve collected by the people using their dating service. There are graphs, people. There are graphs where you can move the toggle to change the results.
And you will find that there are some fascinating [...]
January 7, 2010 – 2:42 pm
I’ll admit it — I’m a sucker for New Years’ resolutions. Love ‘em! Can’t get enough of ‘em! Usually make wayyyy too many of them, become demoralized by mid-February, drop 99%. But this year will be different! At least that’s the hope of the new year, right? That things will be different, and better, and [...]
December 21, 2009 – 12:15 pm
Fascinating article about how biological sex is potentially reversible… and how it seems to rely on the behavior of a single gene.
In mammals, males have XY chromosomes and females XX. The new research shows that another gene is responsible for switching women into men.
If the FOXL2 is switched on then the body [...]
October 13, 2009 – 12:26 pm
A new website apparently lets you log where and when you’re getting nasty… on a Google Maps interface! I wouldn’t know, as the site won’t load for me, but what a hilarious waste of time.
Of course, as far as I can tell from telegraph.co.uk, only hetero couples can log their whoopie time, and the only [...]
Is there nothing the internet can’t do? Now it can make a list of all the “best” places to have sex. #2 on the list - “in a cave”. Obviously.
Check out the top 20 here, and if you’re daring, you can follow the link to the top 102.
Or come up with your own. Some of [...]
What kind of a sex blog would we be without the occasional nod to the sexual practices of other primates? Yes, friends, here is another installment of “Bedroom Habits of Great Apes”!
As it turns out, male chimps that share meat with female chimps get laid way more often:
“By sharing, the males increase the number of [...]
March 30, 2009 – 12:05 pm
Don’t you love when science corroborates what you already know? It makes me feel so much more legitimate.
In any case, the Journal of Sex Research has a brand new article about how paying attention and focusing during sex can affect a person’s level of sexual arousal. The thesis is that sexual arousal is a feedback [...]
