Tag: sex
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Better Sex Through Therapy?
Read more: Better Sex Through Therapy?Study Links Empathy, Self-Esteem, and Autonomy with Increased Sexual Enjoyment (jhsph.edu): Sexual pleasure among young adults (ages 18-26) is linked to healthy psychological and social development, according to a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Thousands of Years of Monogamy
Read more: Thousands of Years of MonogamyThere’ve been only thousands years of monogamy, that is–since agriculture got underway–according to the newish book, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. When people started farming, say the authors, they started thinking about things like ownership and where babies come from. Monogamy followed–meaning that lifelong pairing doesn’t necessarily come naturally to us. Here’s Dan Savage…
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Better Sex Through…Trying
Read more: Better Sex Through…TryingA study posted at PsychCentral: Simple Methods Heighten Women’s Sexual Satisfaction New psychological research finds that many women with low sex drives reported greater sexual satisfaction after taking a placebo and participating in a clinical trial…Expectations to improve sex and a willingness to work on sexual problems appear to be key toward obtaining greater sexual…
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Selling “Pink Viagra”
Read more: Selling “Pink Viagra”NYT Business article about the efforts to make and market a female sex pill. Regulators and doctors tend to be less tolerant of side effects in quality-of-life drugs than they are in medicines intended to mitigate life-and-death diseases. Some industry critics, meanwhile, contend that in the quest to find new and treatable quality-of-life problems,…
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“War on Sex”?
Read more: “War on Sex”?PsychCentral: Views on Sex and Drugs Usually Related. While people who are more religious and those who are more politically conservative do tend to oppose recreational drugs, in both study samples the predictive power of these religious and ideological items was reduced nearly to zero by controlling for items tracking attitudes toward sexual promiscuity.