2 Books Detail Sex-a-Day Vows

Lower costs, increase transparency, become a "rabbit"

(NEWSER) - Forget the usual advice on reawakening your love life: more foreplay, sex journals, role-playing. Instead, try economics. Today’s couples can’t afford “excess time and energy,” write Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson in the Daily Beast . Drop the cost, and you’ll increase demand, “as any economist will tell you.” Tell your partner when you’re up for it, and then “make it quick.” More»

New book reveals reasons behind lack of sex in marriage

(NEWSER) - Why does passion so often fizzle in a marriage? Prepare to be shocked: Bettina Arndt’s The Sex Diaries reveals the reasons aren’t what you think, the Daily Mail reports. Included in the nearly 100 couples who kept diaries for a year are many men who love their wives and wonder where the sex went—without turning to cheating or porn—and women who simply don’t have high libidos. More»

(NEWSER) - A celibate monk in Poland has a surprise hit on his hands—a sex guide for married couples that's being labeled a Catholic Kama Sutra, the BBC reports. Poles quickly snapped up the first run of Father Ksawery Knotz' book, which argues that religious couples' sex life should be "saucy, surprising, and fantasy-packed." In fact, it's God's will, he writes in Sex As You Don't Know It: For Married Couples Who Love God. More»

Three very different English translations available to get you caught up

(NEWSER) - Japan is celebrating the 1,000th birthday of The Tale of Genji, a story penned by a woman in an imperial court that is widely regarded as the first modern novel, the Economist reports. The chronicle of an aristocratic aesthete’s sexual adventures is many things to many readers, including conservative commentators who point to Japan’s cultural sophistication over Europe’s and feminists inspired by the female author. More»

Women marrying at 26, men at 28

(NEWSER) - American couples are waiting longer than ever to get married, reports USA Today. The median age for a first marriage is almost 26 for women and 28 for men—the oldest since the US Census started keeping track in the 1890s. The increase holds true for all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. Experts theorize that careers and a drive to first get lives "in order" is behind the delayed walk down the aisle. More»