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The newest episode of Stuff Mom Never Told You tackles a question that my mama certainly never discussed with me: Does semen make you happier? And by you, I mean heterosexual women who are sexually active. Though potentially blush-inducing, Molly and I didn’t cull this question from some crude bathroom humor source…
(Please excuse the subject matter; this post is on media criticism, not really on illegal and corrupt sex acts.)
Infrequent, it is when the topic of zoophilia makes the news cycle. Which is what makes the news cycle during the second weekend in May 2011 remarkable. Zoophilia, the clinical term for the more vulgar term bestiality (vulgar being a less common term for common), was all over the place in the last news cycle.
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about Kitty D’Alessio, advertising brain behind Maidenform’s iconic “I Dreamed…” campaign. By the time these ads debuted in the early ’60s, images of lingerie-clad w0men weren’t exactly scandalous. After all, sex had been selling products in American advertising since 1917.
You probably don’t want to think about your childhood dinosaurs getting it on, but the sexual lives of prehistoric creatures is an important area of paleontological study. But just how did they get it on? And what were their naughty bits like? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I look at our best guesses regarding sex in the land before time.
Testosterone, Sex and the Polyamorous Woman
by Cristen Conger | April 20, 2011
If you’ve listened to the Stuff Mom Never Told You episode on polyamory (recorded LIVE from SXSW), you know what polyamory looks like on the outside. Sometimes referred to as “committed nonmonogamy,” polyamorous setups revolve around multiple partners engaging in emotionally committed relationships. In a monogamy-centered society, that idea can come across as oxymoronic and [...]
Depressing bedroom news alert! Confirming our worst fears about how the romance slowly fizzles as relationships plod past the seven-year itch and beyond, a new study from Australia finds that a lot of people in long-term heterosexual relationships are unsatisfied with their sex lives (via NYT).
Last week I wrote about the risqué Ubisoft title “We Dare.” A couple of people brought up the point that even though the game is rated 12 in Europe, it’s clearly not marketed for tweens and teens. This is completely true, and I definitely wasn’t trying to insinuate anything along the lines of, “A game company is going after the innocence of our youth, oh, think of the children!”
‘We Dare’ Tries to Prove You’re Never Too Old for Spin the Bottle
by Tracy V. Wilson | February 24, 2011
Full disclosure: As a giant, giant nerd, I never played spin the bottle. I’m actually not sure whether spin the bottle is a real thing, or if it’s only something that happens in tween movies and Judy Blume novels. But spin the bottle and the juvenile appeal thereof is what I thought of when TechStuff’s Jonathan Strickland sent me a link to the video below. Warning: It’s safe for work, I suppose, but it’s suggestive. And awkward and embarrassing.
Bizarre Human Mating Behaviors #5 – How women can get free drinks at a bar
by Marshall Brain | February 15, 2011
If you are interested in how human relationships work – especially sexual relationships between men and women and the courting rituals that lead up to them – then this article is fascinating: 13 Ways to Score Free Drinks The article offers a field guide to social engineering in the social topography of a typical American [...]
Why is online porn the trend piece du jour?
by Cristen Conger | February 11, 2011
So far in the world of online (and print to some extent) journalism, 2011 is shaping up to be the Year of Porn. It’s everywhere, people. Porn in The Atlantic, porn in Salon, porn in New York magazine, and onward. No, the reputable publications aren’t trying out some new profit model based on Adults Only sections or anything like that; they simply can’t stop talking about pornography — especially Internet pornography.
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