Sex

Apparently, according to a study, sex makes us happy….but there is a catch:

Sex makes us happier as long as we think we’re having more than our neighbours, according to a new scientific study.

The research suggests sex is like salaries, in that people are generally happy if they keep up with the Joneses and are even happier if they get ahead.

However, those who feel they are having less sex than their peers tend to feel more miserable.

The study, carried out by sociologists at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, found we feel happier the more sex with have.  Read more »

via Andrew Sullivan

This series of videos from John Corvino is very interesting.

In support of his new book, John Corvino has produced a series of video that provide succinct versions of his core arguments. The first tackles a common trope in debates about gay people, “Love the sinner, hate the sin”:

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It used to be fun to be a muslim. Unfortunately like with all religions it is the fundies that ruin everything.

The Arab world today is widely criticised for its sexual intolerance. Women hide their charms under dark billows of fabric; girls have their genitals mutilated by elders determined to keep their desires in check; gay men are arrested and then raped by their jailers.

Once upon a time things were different. The Prophet Muhammad urged his followers to satisfy their partners in the bedroom. Prudish medieval Christians despised his detailed advice on the ins and outs of sex as “a cunning ploy to win converts”, which undermine their own faith’s fixation on virginity, chastity and monogamy. When Gustave Flaubert travelled to Egypt in the 19th century, he spent hazy days watching bawdy skits on the streets of Cairo about “whores and buggering donkeys”, and fleshy nights enjoying the local prostitutes.  Read more »

David Bowie apparently nearly missed his wedding because he sure as hell wasn’t going to miss out on a threesome:

David Bowie almost missed his own wedding after a threesome with his soon-to-be bride and a mutual friend.

His now ex-wife Angie has opened up about their shocking love life and claimed they nearly missed their special day because of their habit for introducing other people into the bedroom.

Speaking to The Sun Sunday newspaper, she said: “The night before our wedding it was a mutual friend of ours. We went out for dinner, back to her place and had plenty of lively sex.  Read more »

Most men instinctively know this, sex beats panadol for curing headaches, for some reason women are slow on the uptake…and they are the ones that always have the headache. Even though this is a good sales technique any proper bloke can tell you it has a poor success rate.

In fact sex is the cure for many illnesses and maladies.

A team of neurologists found that sexual activity can lead to “partial or complete relief” of head pain in some migraines.

The study, from the University of Munster, Germany, suggests that instead of using a sore head as an excuse to refuse sex, making love can be more effective than taking painkillers.

Their research, reported in Cephalalgia, the journal of the International Headache Society, found that more than half of migraine sufferers who had sex during an episode experienced an improvement in symptoms.  Read more »

I’ve always suspected that the rumours of Australians preferring sex with animals were true. All the jokes about sheep shagging…they had to come from somewhere. New Zealanders will find this latest antigay censorship decision from Australia’s Office of Film and Literature Classification perversely hilarious, given all the mutual sledging that goes on between our two nations over which country has the greatest propensity for zoophilia.

Now the Aussie censors have banned a gay movie because it depicts…shock horror…gay sex. The funny part is the censors allowed a movie that had blokes shagging donkeys.

This movie isn’t banned:

Real depictions of gay sex are apparently more shocking than real man-on-donkey action as Australian censors ban a gay movie that was due to screen at LGBT film festivals across the country this year.

Australian film censors have banned a movie that contains real sex between two male actors less than a year after they allowed a documentary that contained actual depictions of bestiality to screen at festivals.  Read more »

A reader emails the following txt exchange. Apparently the txt was received the day after a night out. It was a oncer, and a never again.

Please note….the “Me” isn’t actually me.

I’m not sure that there is even a scale…surely it is a binary question rather than a scale. Yes or No…not I’ll give you a 5 because I only gave you half a load?

I mean WTF?

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Nothing sells like porn sells, and an old Pommy porn book, once banned, is no exception:

A once-banned book on sex and pregnancy from the 18th century is expected to fetch up to £400 when it goes on sale in Edinburgh next week.

Aristotle’s Complete Master-Piece is a manual which is thought to have provided information for amateur midwives and young married couples about pregnancy and sex. It is up sale at Edinburgh auction house, Lyon & Turnbull on 9 January, where it is expected to reach up to £400.

Sounds fascinating, but what exactly is in this 18th century book of porn?

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Really, really stupid…but seriously? I mean how?

Alcohol and driving are known to be a deadly mix but a man in the US has now added sex as another deadly driving combo.

Mark Anders Chalin was apparently having sex with his girlfriend while driving and slammed into another vehicle killing both his girlfriend and the driver of the other vehicle.

In a plea deal last week he admitted two charges of criminal vehicular homicide due to negligence in the US state of Minnesota.

TwinCities.com reported that witnesses who had passed Chalin’s car had told police that his girlfriend, Amber Menezes, 23, was straddling him, blocking his view of the road, when the car slammed into another, killing 35-year-old mother of four, Jonna Martin.

Chalin claims he can not remember anything of what led to the crash in August 7, 2011, and had pleaded guilty because he understood the jury had evidence to find him guilty on the charges.

Arnie is full of class:

It’s hardly going to ingratiate him with his estranged wife, but it may not surprise her: when Arnold Schwarzenegger’s scandalous affair hit the headlines, he believed that if his marriage to Maria Shriver broke down, he would find himself a “20-year-old honey”.

The admission is part of explosive revelations that detail the former California Governor’s reaction to the demise of his 25-year marriage. His relationship crumbled after Shriver learnt of his secret relationship with his housekeeper and the couple’s illegitimate child.

Newsweek reports that the Terminator star allegedly refused to attempt to work at saving the marriage, and when news of the extra-marital affair and lovechild broke, Arnie reportedly told a friend: “I have the money, the power, and the plane, and I will have the friends.”

But it is perhaps his apparent refusal to comprehend the gravity of his affair that is most alarming. “I think things will work out OK with Maria, but if they don’t, I’m getting me a 20-year-old honey”, the 65-year-old is said to have told his neighbour.

Writing for the magazine, Laurence Leamer details the star’s odd relationship with sex, describing intimacy with women as a “wilful assertion on the world”.