Now that we’ve got some analysis of the sex survey results from the men who click over at men.style.com (spoiler: methodology, what methodology?), what other beloved online publications would we like to see incredibly scientific sex polls from?
Talking Points Memo
Ars Technica
Pitchfork
The Awl (not the biggest sample)
Kottke
He was approved to use human subjects in his research, which is precisely what UMass Medical School’s Dr. Peter A. Rice claims to have been doing when he was arrested for soliciting an undercover police officer in Worcester, MA:
The author of more than 145 professional publications in the area of infectious and sexually transmitted diseases, [...]
Via Jezebel, the New York Times bookblog has unearthed a precious volume, Group Sex: A Scientist’s Eyewitness Report on the American Way of Swinging, bearing insight into the bygone days group sex in the last century.
Offers its author, Dr. Gilbert D. Bartell, Ph.D.:
Although my wife is not an anthropologist, obviously my investigations would have been [...]
A tidy roundup of where to find sex smart rippling the web right now:
Belladonna discloses that she’s got herpes and is retiring from porn with an announcement on her MySpace, handily deconstructed by the smartypants commenters at Jezebel.
Pandagon takes on Audacia Ray’s Naked on the Internet, in a review that starts (and in what’s [...]
Not only is abstinence-only sex “education” (where’s the education, exactly?) without evidence in reducing STI’s and unwanted pregnancies, now its crooked money trail is starting to unravel, as well.
Out in this week’s Nation, The Abstinence Gluttons tracks the neoconservative anti-abortion, anti-comprehensive sex education agenda, and reveals it for the cashgrab that it is. [...]
A study out of Villanova and Rutgers Universities, conducted by the husband and wife team Patrick Markey and Charlotte Markey, asked a sample of 210 adults about their frequency of sex, sex partners, and rated their personality types, and came to the only shocking to hear it in the media conclusion that:
Friendly, warm people [...]
The Times has been hardcore sexing itself up over the last few days, and their readers are already breathlessly responding:
“There’s a little bit of adrenaline, a puffing of the chest, a bit of anticipatory tongue motion,” said a divorced lawyer in his late 40s.
“I feel relaxed, warm and comfortable,” said a designer in [...]
A few minutes ago, Jackson West warned the twitterverse that qdot, of the premiere teledildonics resource slashdong, would be demo’ing ‘twitterdildonics’ at the Lifehacker party at South by Southwest, like, now, in Austin.
Just in: vibrating pants are go, and now says Scott Beale,
Twitterdildonics shaking things up at Lifehacker. SMS induced orgasims [sic] for all.
(Via twitter, [...]
From a review by Tim Spector of The Science of Orgasm, via Mind Hacks:
Orgasms apparently alter pain perception and increase pain thresholds, and this link may explain bizarre reports of women having orgasms during childbirth.
Bizarre, you say? I don’t think this is science hitting on (right there, yes!) the clitoral truth, so much [...]
Yet another “no, it’s not a female Viagra” study to find a pill to “boost women’s sex drives,” this time in Seattle, and with hot-looking PDA-driven surveys. Scientists on the project say “Sexual dysfunction is not responsive to pharmacologic intervention alone… When we try to intervene, it’s really important to look at the [...]