Smart Women Make the Best Lovers

I admit, I totally lifted this. But it is cool and interesting and bears repeating. Here is the oirginal link.

Educated women have more orgasms, says survey

Updated Wed. Oct. 4 2006 2:22 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Women with graduate degrees are more likely to reach orgasm than their less educated counterparts, a new Australian study suggests.

The survey, which interviewed more than 9,000 women, claims that higher levels of education and income are associated with a greater prevalence for orgasm among women.

“The association between orgasm and demographic characteristics suggest a social-effect, with better-educated, non-immigrant women more likely to have orgasms,” the researchers wrote in their report.

Researchers said factors such as becoming sexually active before the age of 16, the number of past sexual partners and looking at porn had little association with a woman’s ability to have an orgasm.

However, the study said women were more likely to reach orgasm if they used sex toys, or had sex more than twice a week in the month before they were surveyed.

“Use of sex toys and orgasm in women may indicate a link between orgasm and sexual interest or adventurousness.”

The research also found that men were far more likely than women to experience an orgasm during their last sexual encounter — 98.4 per cent and 68.9 per cent respectively.

And while men in their late teens were less likely to report having an orgasm during their last sexual encounter, women were substantially less likely to have an orgasm if they were in their late teens or in their 50s.

Aside from age, researchers said there was no significant association between a man’s ability to climax and his income, occupation, education or religion.

Men were less likely to have an orgasm if they had been sexually active for two years or less, were uptight about sex or if they were engaging in casual sex, rather than with a regular partner.

The telephone survey was conducted by researchers from Sussex University, England, and the universities of Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.

More than 10,100 men and 9,100 women aged 16-59 across Australia participated in the survey.

The study, “Sexual Practices at Last Heterosexual Encounter and Occurrence of Orgasm in a National Survey,” asked respondents what practices they engaged in during their last sexual encounter and whether they had an orgasm as a result.

Exactly what I thought

“Sex saturates our media, drives new technologies, enters the economy in creative ways and heavily influences who we choose as mates and parents of our future children. It’s a basic human need. But we can’t teach it with any kind of thoroughness because someone might get offended, and woe betide the teachers who stray from reproductive biology into more complex questions of relationships, gender, politics or pleasure.”

You would think this was written about the United States,.but it’s actually about England.

I picked this out because it so aptly reflects what I have thought and been saying for years.

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Devil Music Made Me Have Sex

This made me laugh and remember high school all at once. That almost4 never happens.

Devil’s Music Made Me Have Sex!

This just in: Raunchy lyrics make teens all hot ‘n’ bothered. Led Zeppelin sighs

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Friday, August 11, 2006

Let’s just say it outright: AC/DC is God’s most beautiful and significant gift to humankind.

Hey, it’s a fact. I personally spent upward of 3.6 billion hours (give or take) as a happy rebellious well-fed surly middle-class teen pounding my delicate eardrums and grinding my nerves to this glorious Aussie rock band’s dizzy brain-churning music, shaking my pale fist to their monster arena blues and soaking my burgeoning id in deeply profound lyrics of songs like “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” and “What Do You Do for Money Honey” and “Big Balls.” To their giant slab of hot divine truth, I hereby testify.

Around the time of my initial AC/DC affection, I also had sex. It’s true. And like many of the young male teen persuasion, I enjoyed it quite a lot. So much so that, also like many of the young male teen persuasion, I became passionately enamored and reverential of the female species, not to mention convinced that the overwhelming mind-altering time-space-bending force of my newfound enjoyment of this wondrous activity might somehow cause me to levitate and spontaneously combust and go absolutely insane. Simultaneously.

The rest of this is here.

Sex and Taboos in the Islamic World

By Amira El Ahl and Daniel Steinvorth

Sex is a taboo in conservative Islamic countries. Young, unmarried couples are forced to seek out secret erotic oases. Books and play that are devoted to the all too human topic of sex incur the wrath of conservative religious officials and are promptly banned.

This is really super-long, so you can find the whole story here.

Why I always try to have sex before work

– Sex before stressful events keeps you calm

• 26 January 2006

GOT some public speaking to do? Here is a tip to keep stress at bay: have sex beforehand. But make sure it’s penetrative sex - the magic vanishes if you pursue other forms of sexual gratification.

Stuart Brody, a psychologist at the University of Paisley, UK, compared the impact of different sexual activities on blood pressure when a person later experiences acute stress. For a fortnight, 24 women and 22 men kept diaries of how often they engaged in penile-vaginal intercourse (PVI), masturbation or partnered sexual activity excluding intercourse. After, the volunteers underwent a stress test involving public speaking and mental arithmetic out loud.

Volunteers who’d had PVI but none of the other kinds of sex were least stressed, and their blood pressure returned to normal faster than those who’d only masturbated or had non-coital sex. Those who abstained had the highest blood-pressure response to stress (Biological Psychology, vol 71, p 214).

Brody also made psychological measurements of neuroticism and anxiety in the volunteers, as well as work stress and partnership satisfaction. Even taking these factors into account, differences in sexual behaviour provided the best explanation for the range of stress responses. “The effects are not attributable simply to the short-term relief afforded by orgasm, but rather, endure for at least a week,” says Brody. He speculates that release of the “pair-bonding” hormone oxytocin between partners might account for the calming effect.

From issue 2536 of New Scientist magazine, 26 January 2006, page 17

Oh, thank God for this!

Thank GOD for this. I always thought it was true!

Old folk are still having sex: US study

Thu Aug 23, 1:29 AM ET

Aging people in the United States are still having active sex lives, unrestrained by age-related sexual problems affecting around half of them, according to a major nationwide report published Thursday.

“A majority of older Americans are sexually active and view intimacy as an important part of life, despite a high rate of ‘bothersome’ sexual problems,” the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said in a report on the new study.

The research found that sexual appetite declines only slightly between the ages of 50 and 70, with many men and women practising vaginal intercourse, oral sex and masturbation well into their 70s and 80s.

Researchers at the University of Chicago surveyed 3,005 people aged 57 to 85, said the NIH, part of the US Department of Health.

The study “suggests a previously uncharacterized vitality and interest in sexuality that carries well into advanced age,” said Richard Suzman of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) which took part in the study.

Half of those surveyed up to the age of 75 admitted to having oral sex, said the summary report released here Wednesday on the study, which is published in Thursday’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

More than half of men and a quarter of women admitted masturbating.

Nearly three-quarters of those aged 57 to 64 said they were sexually active. The figure dropped to just over half of those in the 65 to 74 age range, and a quarter of those aged 75 to 85.

Sexual activity was more common among older men than among older women.

The survey sheds light on the impact of physical health on people’s sex lives, including sexual problems related to conditions such as arthritis, diabetes and hypertension, the report summary said. Overall health, it found, was more important than age in boosting a person’s sex life.

The research may also help promote health education efforts to prevent sexually transmitted disease in older people.

“Sexual activity among older adults poses risks for new cases of HIV, as approximately 15 percent of newly diagnosed HIV infections are among Americans over age 50,” the summary said.

About half of the sexually active older adults reported at least one “bothersome” sexual problem. More than a third of active men said they had erectile difficulties, and 43 percent of women reported “low desire.”

American men spend more than a billion dollars each year on medications to improve their sexual function, the researchers said, with 14 percent of those surveyed taking medicine to boost their performance.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070823/ts_alt_afp/ushealthsex_070823051758&printer=1;_ylt=ApgvPXRsym87SpHaGlPgisjZa7gF

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Gay Flamingos Pick Up Chick

I found this here. Isn’t this cute? I had read about some penguins in New York who adopted an egg. I guess homosexuality is sort of common in the animal kingdom. Here’s one in the kisser for all those people who go around saying that homosexuality is unnatural or some sort of sin against God. Simply more evidence that those religious know-it-alls don’t really know as much as they think.

Mon May 21, 12:03 PM ET

LONDON (AFP) - A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British conservation organisation said Monday.

Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family, even chasing other flamingos from their nests to take over their eggs at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge near Bristol.

But their egg-sitting prowess made them the top choice for taking an unhatched egg under their wings when one of the Greater Flamingo nests was abandoned.

The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats.

“Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple who have been known to steal other flamingos’ eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves,” said WWT spokeswoman Jane Waghorn.

“They were rather good at sitting on eggs and hatching them so last week, when a nest was abandoned, it seemed like a good idea to make them surrogate parents.”

Gay flamingos are not uncommon, she added.

“If there aren’t enough females or they don’t hit it off with them, they will pair off with other males,” she said.

Nude Car Wash Gets Police All-Clear

I found this here.

The Bubbles ‘n’ Babes car wash in Brisbane prompted a flood of complaints with a topless car wash for A$55 ($45) and a nude car wash with X-rated lap-dance service for A$100. “If it was approved for a car wash then I can’t imagine how we can stop them,” Lord Mayor Campbell Newman told a council meeting with worried local lawmakers.

Professional car washes have boomed in most cities with drought-stricken Australians banned from washing their own cars due to tough water restrictions.

Queensland police denied any cover-up in a state where their image has been dented by past accusations of police corruption and involvement with organized crime.

The raunchy wash, set up by a strip-club owner, was screened from the public and used recycled water to avoid breaching water use restrictions, they said.

“We don’t want any traffic accidents caused by people looking at the girls instead of looking at the road,” Superintendent Colin Campbell told local media.