Aussies prefer curling up with books rather than having sex

A new survey has found that most Aussies prefer reading a good book to making love with their partner.

The online poll by Swedish furniture giant IKEA saw one in three Aussies saying that they would rather read than have sex if they had an extra hour in the day, reports Stuff.co.nz.

Nearly 35 percent of the 1057 participants opted for reading, while only 20percent chose to spend one-on-one time with their other half.

However, women take the lead in reading, with 45percent saying they would choose a good novel; only 14 percent said they would opt for private time in the bedroom.

About 26 percent men preferred an hour of romance, with 25 percent favouring reading.

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Paid sex leaves men empty and terrible: Study

As per a study, men who pay for sex are awfully confused people. Many people who go for prostitutes say they don't feel anything except a bad feeling when they have sex with prostitutes. These responses were published in a report in Guardian newspaper. While some subjects said they were unsuccessful getting close to women "through usual ways," half the men were married or committed.

Despite feeling disappointed and lonely after having empty sexual encounters, these men said they will continue to use prostitutes.

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Men prefer less leggy girls, reveals a new study

You can now stop envying women with lengthy legs, for a new study claims that men prefer girls a little less leggy.
In the search to find the most attractive legs, UK researchers asked more than 1000 men and women to rate a series of images of female bodies, reports a news daily.

In each image the legs had been made shorter or longer, to alter the ‘leg-to-body ratio’, but the overall height remained the same.

The men interviewed were asked which pictures they liked the most while the women were asked to predict the men’s thoughts.

While most women surveyed thought men lusted after longer legs, the University of Westminster research found men preferred women of average height - where their legs accounted for half of their overall height

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Sex twice a week cuts heart attack risk

Two sex sessions in a week can reduce risk of heart disease in men, says a new research.

The study showed that men who indulged in regular lovemaking were up to 45 per cent less likely to develop life-threatening heart conditions than those who had sex once a month or less.

In the research of over 1,000 men, scientists found that sex apparently has a protective effect on the male heart but they did not examine whether women benefit too.

Thus, American researchers who carried out the investigation are now calling for doctors to screen men for sexual activity when assessing their risk of heart disease, reports the Telegraph.

Despite sex being considered good for physical and mental health, not much has been scientifically proven about the benefits of frequent intercourse on major illnesses such as heart disease.

In the latest study, scientists at the New England Research Institute in Massachusetts, tracked the sexual activity of men aged between 40 and 70 who were taking part in a long-term project called the Massachusetts Male Ageing Study, which began back in 1987.

Over a 16-year period, each man was regularly quizzed on how often they had sex and then checked for signs of heart disease.

Researchers took into account other risk factors, such as their age, weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

The results showed men who made love at least twice a week were much less likely to have heart disease than those whose sexual encounters were limited to once a month or less.

Analyzing the findings, scientists said the benefits of sex could be due to both the physical and emotional effects on the body.

Men with the desire for frequent sexual activity and who are able to engage in it are likely to be healthier, but sex in some forms has a physical activity component that might directly serve to protect cardiovascular health.

Also, men who have frequent sex might be more likely to be in a supportive intimate relationship and this might improve health through stress reduction and social support.

The study was published in the American Journal of Cardiology.

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Men turn their thoughts to sex 13 times a day!

An average man thinks about sex 13 times a day, according to a new poll.

A website questioned 3,000 people to come up with the finding.

Results showed that comparatively an average woman thinks of sex just fives time a day.

And, even though men think of sex at least a dozen times a day, they have it just twice a week, or 104 times a year.

"Men are well known for thinking about sex a lot but to find out exactly how often they do is staggering,” a news daily quoted the market research firm as stating.

It added, "It seems blokes have sex on the brain whether they are in a dry spell or jumping between the sheets on a regular basis."

However, three quarters of men were happy with the amount of sex they were getting.

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Men who do more housework get more sex

Men who devote lots of time to paid work and household chores get more sex and the same applies to women.

These are the conclusion of a new US study of almost 7000 married couples, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.

Published in the Journal of Family Issues, the study denies the ideology that the time crunch has killed passion stone dead.

"As life gets busier and time gets tighter, a select group of go-getter spouses can successfully balance multiple time commitments," say the authors, Constance Gager, of Montclair State University, New Jersey, and Scott Yabiku, of Arizona State University.

Barbara Pocock, the director of the Centre for Work and Life at the University of South Australia, in a study of Australian working women found resentment over housework killed libido.

"Women's feelings about their husband were shaped by perceptions of fairness around housework," she said. "If the resentment factor was high that's when their sex life was not great. The best sex aid a man could use was a vacuum cleaner.''

The US researchers said: "The much-lamented speed-up of everyday life does not appear to have adverse effects on sexual frequency."

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How men and women respond differently to sex

When it comes to sexual responses, men and women are poles apart, concludes a new study.

Led by Queen's University Psychology professor Meredith Chiversk, the study found that men's reports of feeling sexually aroused tend to match their physiological responses, while women's mind and body responses are less aligned.

"We wanted to discover how closely people's subjective experience of sexual arousal mirrors their physiological genital response – and whether this differs between men and women," said Chiversk.

Although a gender difference has been reported in individual studies of sexual arousal, until now there has been no systematic analysis.

In the study, researchers analysed 134 studies, published between 1969 and 2007, involving more than 2,500 women and 1,900 men.

Participants were asked how aroused they felt during and after exposure to a variety of sexual stimuli.

This subjective measure of arousal was compared with physiological responses—changes in penile erection for men and changes in genital blood flow for women.

The men's subjective ratings more closely matched their physiological measures than the women's; men's brain and bodies were almost always in agreement, while there was more often a reported inconsistency between women's bodies and minds.

"Understanding measures of arousal is paramount to further theoretical and practical advances in the study of human sexuality. Our results have implications for the assessment of sexual arousal, the nature of gender differences in sexual arousal, and models of sexual response," said Chiversk.

The study will be published in the international journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior.

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Men’s minds and bodies more in sync sexually than women`s

When it comes to sexual responses, men and women are poles apart, concludes a new study.

Led by Queen`s University Psychology professor Meredith Chiversk, the study found that men`s reports of feeling sexually aroused tend to match their physiological responses, while women`s mind and body responses are less aligned.

"We wanted to discover how closely people`s subjective experience of sexual arousal mirrors their physiological genital response – and whether this differs between men and women," said Chiversk.

Although a gender difference has been reported in individual studies of sexual arousal, until now there has been no systematic analysis.

In the study, researchers analysed 134 studies, published between 1969 and 2007, involving more than 2,500 women and 1,900 men.

Participants were asked how aroused they felt during and after exposure to a variety of sexual stimuli.

This subjective measure of arousal was compared with physiological responses—changes in penile erection for men and changes in genital blood flow for women.

The men``s subjective ratings more closely matched their physiological measures than the women``s; men``s brain and bodies were almost always in agreement, while there was more often a reported inconsistency between women`s bodies and minds.

"Understanding measures of arousal is paramount to further theoretical and practical advances in the study of human sexuality. Our results have implications for the assessment of sexual arousal, the nature of gender differences in sexual arousal, and models of sexual response," said Chiversk.

The study will be published in the international journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior.

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Here is why powerful men most often cheat

Tiger Woods, David Letterman, former senator John Edwards and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford—these are some of the men who recently came into the limelight for their philandering ways. And now researchers are trying to figure out why power and cheating go hand in hand for men.



Researchers have pointed out that despite the genetic propensity to sleep around, cheating remains a choice, not a DNA-bound destiny restricted to men.

They said that men who cheat might not have been thinking consciously about their acts at all.

"I’m guessing these things don’t happen at the forefront of their brain. They aren’t things he sits down and calculates out. It’s in the background," Live Science quoted Scott Reynolds, assistant professor of business ethics at the University of Washington in Seattle, as saying.

Even if their brains did register the infidelities, high-profile philanderers have so much power and control over their lives they couldn’t imagine getting caught, say scientists.
Scientists have said that even the most upright, squeaky-clean person can have an extramarital affair, and perhaps they are more likely to do so.

"People don’t necessarily practice what they preach. It’s not clear to what extent people’s ethical values are actually running what they do or don’t do," said Lawrence Josephs, a clinical psychologist at Adelphi University in New York.

Whatever the cause of each extramarital act, mistresses and multiple romantic partners are here to stay, say scientists.
From an evolutionary perspective, men are here to sow their seeds—they desire more sexual partners and even lower their standards when it comes to one-night stands, studies have shown.

"Guys would naturally be more promiscuous if given the opportunity," said Daniel Kruger, a social and evolutionary psychologist at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.

And added with status and power, extramarital affairs are an easy bet.

"These people are not only high in power, but also somebody like Tiger Woods is going to be traveling a lot and have a lot more opportunities to meet women. Women fawn over these guys," said Kruger.

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Sex' makes men spendthrift!

Promise of sex makes men open their wallets like nothing else, American researchers have claimed.

A study by researchers from the Arizona State University in Tempe and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque showed that thinking about mating influences men's decisions about spending and giving.

In the experiment, the team led by Vladas Griskevicius and Josh Tybur, invited college students to the lab in small groups. Each was randomly assigned to one of two conditions: "mating" or "non-mating", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reported.

The mating subjects looked at three photographs of people of the opposite-sex on a computer screen, picked which one they thought most desirable, and spent a few minutes writing about an ideal first date with that person.

The non-mating subjects looked at a street scene photograph and spent the same amount of time writing about the ideal weather for walking around and looking at the buildings it featured.

Then, all subjects were asked to imagine that they had a modest windfall of money, such as a lottery win of a few thousand dollars, and must choose how much they wanted to spend on a variety of conspicuous luxuries - such as a new watch, European vacation or new car - and how much they would save in a bank account.

The results were dramatic: men in the mating condition said they would spend much more money than men in the non-mating condition.

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Do all men watch sexually explicit material?

Naturally all blokes don`t watch pornography, but when scientists recently launched a search in Canada for men who had never looked at such sexually explicit material -- believe it or not, they couldn`t find any.

In fact, an international team was conducting a study comparing the views of men in their 20s who had never been exposed to pornography with regular users. But, their project stumbled at the first hurdle when they failed to find a single man who had not been seen it.

"We started our research seeking men in their 20s who had never consumed pornography. We couldn`t find any," The Daily Telegraph quoted the team`s leader Prof Simon Louis Lajeunesse as saying.

Although hampered in its original aim, the study examined the habits of those young men who used pornography -- which would appear to be all of them.

The team interviewed 20 heterosexual male university students who consumed pornography, and found on average, they first watched pornography when they were 10 years old.

Around 90 percent of consumption was on the internet, while 10 percent of material came from video stores. Single men watched pornography for an average of 40 minutes, three times a week, while those in relationships watched it 1.7 times a week for around 20 minutes.

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Women find fitting into older jeans better than sex!

Women in the UK find fitting into an old pair of jeans better than sex, says a study.

More than a quarter of surveyed confessed they stored a pair of "trophy" jeans they used to fit into.

As many as 35 per cent said they kept the pair hoping they would slim down and get into them again, reports the Scotsman.

And when quizzed how would trying them on again make them feel, 29.1 per cent rated it would be better than sex.

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Sex for one night does not affect the psyche

casual sex does not put young people at increased risk of any mental condition, according to therapists, University of Minnesota / USA /. Although the study focused on the psychological impact of such relationship, doctors warn that we should not forget about the physical risk “sex for one night”.

The review was conducted among 1 thousand 311 sexually active young people with an average age of 20 years, which surveyed about their intimate life and emotional state, said AMI-TASS. In 55% of sexual partner was a man with whom the young people met in a long time, 25% – fiance / fiancee or spouse. Far fewer respondents reported that their most recent sexual partner / in 12% of cases / in their lives was an acquaintance, but not close, while in 8% – just a casual acquaintance. The men reported casual sexual relations twice as often as young women.

While in psychiatry has long considered the question of potential harm neromanticheskih sex between casual acquaintances in his youth, physicians found no differences in psychological well-being among young people, who long ago met with his companion / companion of life and were faithful to him / her, and those who adhered to casual or short-term sexual relationships. Despite the findings, experts still tend to believe that we should not forget about the educational programs aimed at sexual education of youth.

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Lingerie gets men's pulses racing!

Women's lingerie gets male shoppers' pulses racing, a new study has revealed.

But, when it comes to women, it's the sight of sparkly evening dresses or a glamorous pair of shoes that do the trick.

The study, which was conducted by Debenhams in a bid to establish in which department customers get the most enthusiastic, used monitor devices to track the heart rates of 1,000 shoppers, reports The Daily Express.

And the study of customers aged 20 to 40 revealed stark differences between what gets the pulses racing for the two sexes.

Lingerie topped the list of goods that boosted men's heart rates, followed by high-tech TVs and sound systems.

Debenhams spokesman Ed Watson said: "It seems men enjoy buying something special for their loved ones."

Said Watson: "Women appear to embark upon an emotional roller-coaster when they step into a shop, with heart rate peaks throughout the experience. The shopping climax comes late for men – it's all about closing the deal at the till."

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Men`s guide on how to spot single women!

Wondering how to discover if the women you are interested in is single? A news channel has come up with several hints.

- She`s full of eye contact

If her eye contact is darting all over the room as if looking for potential mates, you may be able to approach her because usually people who are already in a relationship don`t bother to look around much.

- She`s making eye contact with you and smiling

Eye contact is usually one of the first signs of interest, and if she`s making intense eye contact with you from across the bar, then chances are she wants you to head on over and give her a try.

- She`s talking to every guy in the bar

If you see her talking to many guys from a distance, it may mean that she`s open to conversation.

- She looks at other couples with sadness

If you`re observing her from afar and you notice her looking at other couples, she could be longing for the days when she was once also attached.

- Her body language says it all

Body language says a lot about a person. If she`s not single, then chances are she won`t be twirling her hair and touching other men ever so casually. Try to observe what her body language is saying:

- Arms crossed, standing back: "Get away or I`ll kick my heel in your face."

Touches your arm or leg subtly, or her own arm (she wants you to touch her): "Let`s keep talking."

- She`s a chatterbox

If you start talking to a woman you work with, for example, and in one conversation she tells you that she has a dog named Max, does a lot of cooking, goes to the gym every week, and takes art lessons, chances are she doesn`t have a man to come home to.

- Out with the girls... again

Single women tend to go out and have fun with their girlfriends. If you see the same girl out with her friends more than once at the same bar, within a short period of time, chances are she`s solo.

- She dances with other men

If the two of you frequent the same club and she`s often seen dancing with different men (but you know she came with the same group of female friends she always comes with), it`s likely that she`s dancing to her own tune, unless her and her boyfriend have a very "open" relationship.

- She`s overly friendly

Generally women who are not single tend to be less friendly with other men. If you notice that a woman is very sweet and friendly with most men she encounters, it`s possible that she`s single.

- Spot a Single Woman With Stealth

You can always find out whether a woman is single by approaching her and asking for her number; she may say she already has a boyfriend, and whether or not that`s true is a toss up - but it`s always worth a try.

Although it`s difficult to directly approach a woman, you can use the aforementioned hints as clues to her status.

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Woman craves sex 24/7 after car crash

The accident damaged a nerve in her pelvis which controls desire, leaving it permanently switched on

A mother has told how her life has become "unbearable" after a car crash injury left her with a medical condition giving her an insatiable libido.

Joleen Baughman (39) was hurt in a collision two years ago, which damaged a nerve in her pelvis which controls desire, leaving it permanently switched on.

She now becomes sexually aroused by the slightest movement while sitting, bending over, or even simply walking across a room.

The mother-of-two from New Mexico, USA, said, "It's unbearable. Just my clothes rubbing against me gets me so aroused I can hardly think straight. It's very embarrassing and it's impossible to concentrate."

Baughman has been diagnosed with a rare condition called Restless Genital Syndrome, or Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome.

In the accident in April 2007, Joleen was in a pickup truck with her husband Brian (39), a plumber, when a man high on drugs crashed into them head on.

The ophthalmologist, who had just recovered from brain surgery, suffered severe injuries including a broken spine, and was in hospital for several weeks. Six months later, she began suffering the unexpected side effect.

"I started getting these intense sexual urges. They would come out of nowhere and completely engulf me.

It would last for most of the day. I was really shocked because normally I have practically no sex drive at all," she saidInitially she and her husband of 20 years were pleased about her new-found sex drive.

She added, "Brian was ecstatic. He was like, 'Wow for once in our marriage, she is the one who wants all the sex'."

But she soon discovered that having sex could not cure her urges and that it started becoming painful.

"We would have sex once and I would feel no release at all," she said. "So we would go again and then it would start really hurting but I would still want sex, even more than before.

If my husband managed to go for a third time it would be agony, but I would still feel no release."

Not Psychological

She sought medical help and was told that her condition was triggered by damage to her pudendal nerve, a nerve in the pelvis, close to the genitalia.

"I was very relieved to find out my condition was not psychological," she said. "For a while I thought I was going crazy or that it was somehow my fault.

"I think a lot of people go through those thoughts with this condition. Being aroused pretty much 24 hours a day is exhausting."

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Footie ace in soup over sex orgy

English-born Turkish football ace Colin Kazim-Richards and three other players have reportedly been put up for sale after reports emerged that they had organised sex marathons at an Istanbul hotel.

According to The Sun, Sunderland, Blackburn and Hull are all on red alert to grab the former Sheffield United winger, who has been a big hit since moving to Fenerbahce and who has played for Turkey in Euro 2008.

Manager Christoph Daum said there is no way back for Kazim-Richards, Vederson, Fabio Bilica and Santos.

He said: "Sadly, I have to confirm that the rumours are true. I`m absolutely shocked to find out these kinds of things are happening."

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Dread talking to your kids about sex?

Parents often wait too long to discuss sex with children, with the result that a significant number of kids become sexually active before the chat, says a new US study.

Researchers at Harvard University questioned 141 teenagers in the ages of 13 to 17 and their parents to come up with their findings. It was found that 40 percent of boys and 46 percent of girls had already become sexually active before their parents could talk to them about sex. Two-thirds of the boys reported they had not spoken to parents about condom use before having intercourse.

"I think parents today want to talk to kids but they don''t know where to begin," the New York Daily News quoted Dr. Mark Schuster, co-author of the study and chief of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital in Boston, told ABC News.

He added: "They're afraid they'll make mistakes or don't know the facts, afraid to admit that their kids are growing up. They avoid the topic altogether."

Alan Hilfer, director of psychology at Maimonides Medical Center in New York, told US News and World Report: "It''s a hard subject for many parents to broach, but the level of sexual activity in many kids has moved up in terms of initiation. It''s younger…talking about it is very helpful in terms of disease prevention, unwanted pregnancy and even issues around relationships."

Megan Beckett, co-author and a social scientist from the Rand Corp, has called upon parents to kick off the "talk", "earlier than (they) think."

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Exhibition reveals ancient Greeks’ sex life

The ancient Greeks are till date the unbeaten heroes when it comes to love and lust – and now an exhibition featuring eye-popping art in Athens has exposed the practice of sex in the classical times.

"The Greeks were anything but prudes," said Nicholaos Stampolidis, director of the Museum of Cycladic Art, where the show will run for six months. "Theirs was a society of great tolerance and lack of guilt."

Stampolidis was able to narrate the story of love in antiquity after amassing around 272 objets d`art, including masterpieces from more than 50 international museums which date from the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD.

"The concept of Eros – love – was very broad in ancient times," the archaeologist said. "Sexual desire was, of course, a component but it was also a unifying force that encompassed the desire for anyone or indeed anything."

"It wasn`t an easy task," The Guardian quoted the professor, as saying.

He went on: "It`s easy to write about love in either poetry or prose. It`s much more difficult to represent it visually

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Casual sex ‘doesn’t cause damage

Casual sex does not cause emotional or psychological damage in young people, says a new study.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota found that young adults engaging in casual sexual encounters do not appear to be at increased risk for harmful psychological outcomes as compared to sexually active young adults in more committed relationships.

While this study focused on the psychological impact, researchers warned that the physical risks of casual sex should not be overlooked.

Study author Marla E Eisenberg and colleagues used data from Project Eating Among Teens (EAT), an ongoing study that assessed a diverse sample of 1,311 sexually active young adults.

From 2003-2004, 574 males and 737 females in Minnesota with a mean age of 20.5 were surveyed regarding sexual behaviours and emotional well-being.

Of the sexually active respondents, 55 percent reported that their last sexual partner was an exclusive dating partner followed by 25 percent whose most recent partner was a fiancée, spouse, or life partner.

Much lower percentages reported that their last sexual partner was a close but not exclusive partner (12 percent) or a casual acquaintance (8 percent). Over twice as many males as females reported that their last partner was casual.

Although there has been speculation in public discourse that sexual encounters outside a committed romantic relationship may be emotionally damaging for young people, this study found no differences in the psychological well being of young adults who had a casual sexual partner verses a more committed partner.

"While the findings from this study show that young adults engaging in casual sexual encounters do not appear to be at increased risk for harmful psychological outcomes compared to those in more committed relationships, this should not minimize the legitimate threats to physical well-being associated with casual sexual relationships, and the need for such messages in sexuality education programs and other interventions with young adults," Eisenberg said.

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