Tag: sex
Consensual sex is key to happiness and good health, science says
Shervin Assari, University of Michigan
As we approach Valentine’s Day, it’s nice to celebrate love and, one the best parts about it, sex. As a...
What about young men who are having unwanted sex?
Jessie Ford, New York University
Time Magazine recently featured “The Silence Breakers” as its 2017 “Person of the Year,” a nod to the countless women...
Child marriage is still legal in the US
Nicholas Syrett, University of Kansas
The recent outrage over Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore allegedly targeting teenage girls for sex has elicited reports that...
It’s mostly mothers who pass on mitochondria – and a new...
Arunas L. Radzvilavicius, University of Pennsylvania
Evolutionary interests of males and females do not always coincide. This is known as sexual conflict: male innovations that...
How ‘Germany’s Hugh Hefner’ created an entirely different sort of sex...
Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa
Hugh Hefner’s death has reopened bitter debates about his place in history.
Many obituaries in the mainstream media have described him...
Who’s avoiding sex, and why
Shervin Assari, University of Michigan
Sex has a strong influence on many aspects of well-being: it is one of our most basic physiological needs. Sex...
Why Tinder is so ‘evilly satisfying’
Jeanette Purvis, University of Hawaii
In America, 60 percent of digital media consumption now occurs on mobile or tablet devices instead of desktop computers.
As...
Why sex gets better in older age
Miri Forbes, University of Minnesota; Nicholas Eaton, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Robert Krueger, University of Minnesota
Aging is generally...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
