Does More Sex Lead to Greater Happiness?
You want to maximize your happiness? Read the results of two studies that have examined the sex-happiness link.read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 2, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Gad Saad, Ph.D. Tags: Sex happiness keeping up with the joneses positional concerns relative position sex frequency sex-happiness link social comparisons The Consuming Instinct The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption Source Type: news
The Main Difference Between Porn Actresses and Other Women
Hint: It has nothing to do with a history of sexual trauma.read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 1, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Michael Castleman, M.A. Tags: Child Development Happiness Relationships Sex porn actresses pornography Source Type: news
Beware the Beachmasters
Happy Labor Day; have fun on the beach. But remember that Charles Atlases--human and otherwise--do best where 97 pound weaklings are unable to run away.read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 1, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Laura Betzig, Ph.D. Tags: Animal Behavior Evolutionary Psychology Politics Sex Source Type: news
How and Where to Meet Women or Men
Do you want to know how and where to meet someone for a satisfying relationship, connection, or even fling? Are you unsure of the best ways and places to meet men or women? Social science research has the answer. Read on to find what you want too!read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - September 1, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Jeremy Nicholson, M.S.W., Ph.D. Tags: Relationships Sex Social Life Source Type: news
Redefining Sex Education
The average nine- to eleven-year-old boy is watching the most explicit hardcore porn in the history of mankind, and we can’t talk about sexual pleasure in high school.read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 31, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Paul Joannides, Psy.D. Tags: Sex sex education Source Type: news
Just Say No, And Be Sure To Mean It
I hereby state that I have consciously, voluntarily, and affirmatively consented to write this postread more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 29, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Jesse Marczyk Tags: Evolutionary Psychology Gender Media Sex Source Type: news
Why Sex is Sacred?
Indigenous people view all of creation as inherently sacred because it's part of the interconnected web of ecology that sustains life. Sacred is a kind of awareness, not a function of the logical mind, but a direct awareness of patterns running through everything around us. Interesting, then that tantric lovemaking turns on that part of the brain that perceives patterns.read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 29, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Deborah Anapol, Ph.D. Tags: Ethics and Morality Sex Social Life Spirituality bonding deep ecology sacred tantra Source Type: news
“Was I Molested Even Though My Clothes Never Came Off?”
After I posted my last article about childhood sexual abuse for the Psychology Today blog, many of my readers emailed me various questions. Rebecca (not her real name) was a reader who was confused about her experience and trying to put the puzzle pieces together. read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 29, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Susanne Babbel, Ph.D., M.F.T. Tags: Child Development Sex childhood sexual abuse Source Type: news
Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality
An examination of the porn industry and what it means to grow up in a porn-saturated culture.read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 28, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. Tags: Ethics and Morality Gender Sex culture pornography rape trauma violence Source Type: news
Will We Accept Pornosexuals As We Have Homosexuals?
Pornosexuals are people who get their sexual release from porn. People shun them in ways that echo discrimination against gays. Is it the same thing or different? read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 28, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Jeremy E. Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Behavioral Economics Ethics and Morality Evolutionary Psychology Happiness Personality Philosophy Relationships Sex Social Life Source Type: news
Homewreckers Beware: Revenge May Come in an Unexpected Way
The story of how one wife sued another woman for having sex with her husband and breaking up her marriage. . . and won $9 million in court. read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 27, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Ruth Sarah Lee, J.D. Tags: Ethics and Morality Law and Crime Relationships Sex abandonment adultery alienation of affection cheating divorce homewreckers lawsuits love marriage mistress mistresses spouses Source Type: news
Women Need Love for Peak Sexual Satisfaction?
A new study suggests that women need love to have peak sexual satisfaction. But isn't this just another version of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus?"read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 27, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Seth Meyers, Psy.D. Tags: Gender Health Relationships Sex Source Type: news
Squash Rackets
Crush fetishism is a sexual fetish in which an individual derives sexual arousal from watching (or fantasizing about) someone of the opposite sex crushing items (e.g., toys, cigarettes, mobile phones, laptops), food (e.g., fruit), and (in extreme cases) small animals and insects. But what do we know about this rare from of fetishism?read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 27, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Mark D. Griffiths, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Sex Crush fetish Formicophilia Macrophilia masochism paraphilia sadism Source Type: news
How Well Do You Know Your Partnership’s Buzz Kills?
Buzz kill or pet peeves, the little things you do that annoy each other--should you be good at listing them? Should you know them by heart? If knowing them helps you stop doing them, then yes, but what if you can't stop?read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 27, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Jeremy E. Sherman, Ph.D. Tags: Behavioral Economics Relationships Self-Help Sex Sleep Social Life Spirituality Source Type: news
Can a Fight With Your Partner Re-Energize Your Sex Life?
Many couples assume that conflict and fighting are the norm for most relationships, and that they are unrelated to their sex lives. But research and clinical observation shows how they are intertwined in ways that have major consequences for sex, romance, and the relationship for the long-term.read more (Source: Psychology Today Sex Center)
Source: Psychology Today Sex Center - August 26, 2014 Category: Sexual Medicine Authors: Douglas LaBier, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Relationships Self-Help Sex marriage marriage problems Source Type: news
