News Stories relating to "sex"

We once scandalized our readers by revealing that sperm is an excellent antidepressant. Now we're going to shock you again by reporting that masturbation may protect men from prostate cancer.

A new study shows that men can reduce their risk of getting prostate cancer if they masturbate regularly, because cancer-causing chemicals build up...

UPDATE - Are women's and men's brains alike or different? Find out what you really know about the subject of sex by taking this sex quiz. UPDATE: To learn all about aphrodisiacs, keep reading.

The brains of men and women may start out different, but once they become a couple, they tend to think alike. And people with...

There's no reason older guys can't still enjoy sex, but in order to perform, they need to be sure to get plenty of sleep! This may sound like a contradiction, but it's true: lack of sleep causes testosterone levels to drop in ALL men.

In LiveScience.com, Robin Lloyd reports on sleep research that measured the testosterone levels in 12...

Does the fact that Greek vases depict figures in the nude mean that the ancient Greeks saw beauty in the human body?as artists have throughout time?or at the Greeks often went without clothes?

In LiveScience.com, Corey Binns quotes historian Jeffrey Hurwit as saying, "In ancient Greek art, there are many different kinds of nudity that...

Researchers have discovered that we can be influenced by sexy ads on TV, even when they are subliminal?in other words, they flash by too fast for us to be consciously aware of them.

In LiveScience.com, Ker Than describes an experiment in which 40 men and women were shown subliminal erotic images that had been manipulated to bypass their...

How can you tell if women are discriminated against, especially in the field of science? One way is to have been both a male AND a female scientist.

Nine years ago male Stanford University of Medicine professor Ben Barres was a woman professor at the same institution who was named Barbara. He definitely feels he had more trouble...

When men and women are asked how many sexual partners they have had, men report having had far more than women, which is statistically impossible?unless the man is an artist. New research shows that professional artists and poets have two or three times as many sex partners as other people.

Men's and women's brains are alike?except when they aren't. Scientists can't seem to agree on whether Mars and Venus are the same or different. Some think that the differences between men and women are vastly overestimated and the two sexes are more similar in personality, communication, cognitive ability than we realize. BUT others say men and...

The beauty of Helen of Troy sent the ancient Greeks to war and now Canadian psychologists have proven it: men become irrational in the presence of female beauty.

Danny Penman writes in New Scientist that animal trainers know that if you want to train your dog, you need to give him an immediate reward. Only humans can postpone rewards...

Now that summer is over, some of us may look in a full length mirror and realize that, as author Gail Sheehan once wrote, "everything is a couple of inches lower than it used to be." This could be due to gravity, but it could also be the case if you played volleyball in a bathing suit, because according to a German surgeon, it can lead to...

In a recent speech, Lawrence Summers, the president ofHarvard University, caused a controversy by suggesting thatthere may be fewer women mathematicians because women havedifferent brain structures than men. Although this speechraised the ire of feminists, it happens to be true:scientists now feel there are "male" and "female" brains,depending...

A new study shows that people with attractive voices aremore sexually adventurous. When researchers asked 149 menand women to rate the attractiveness of recorded voices,they found the most appealing voices belonged to peoplewho'd had sex at an earlier age and had more sexual partners.

Researcher Gordon Gallup says, "?Ratings of...

Would changing your name change the way people think aboutyou? Linguist Amy Perfors put photos with fake names on a"Hot or Not" website and found that some names wereconsidered "hot"?while others definitely were not.

In case you've ever thought changing your name might improveyour social life, Perfors found that men with names that had"...