The C-Word Ain't What It Used to Be

Nervous systems shut down, making it harder to feel pain

(NEWSER) - Orgasms are nice—so nice that, for women at least, they kinda make you invincible. Neuroscientists studied women pleasuring themselves while in MRI body scanners, to see what happens inside the brain during orgasm. They found that 30 different parts of the brain light up with pleasure so strong that the nervous system begins to shut down—making it more difficult for a woman to feel pain, the Sun reports. More»

Animated movie is based on young Palestinian who died

(NEWSER) - A heart-wrenching Gaza cartoon inspired by a real-life case follows the story of a young Palestinian woman in a refugee camp who dies of breast cancer because of cultural squeamishness about female bodies and difficulty obtaining health care. One doctor in the animated film Fatenah tells the woman, who's worried about a breast lump, to loosen her underwear, while another counsels that it will disappear once she's married. More»

Gender myths, unreported cases allow problem to persist unchecked

(NEWSER) - A mother’s love is supposed to be sacred, which may explain why Britain is struggling to face up to child molestation at the hands of women, Charlotte Philby writes in the Independent. Stats are hard to come by, but one UK abuse organization says 11% of callers in 2004—more than 8,600 people—complained of abuse by a woman. "I dread to think of the true scale of the problem," says one psychologist. More»

Males ogle women for a solid year of their lives, study finds

(NEWSER) - Men check out 10 women every day, spending an average of 43 minutes with their eyes fixated on a member of the opposite sex—adding up to a full year over a lifetime, researchers tell the Sun. A Kodak Lens Vision study found that the wandering eye is not unique to men—women spend 20 minutes a day on six men, a total of 6 months of their lives. More»

(NEWSER) - China is about to topple taboos big time with giant plastic genitalia and sexual technique workshops at a new sex theme park, reports the BBC. "Love Land" is slated to open in Chongqing in October. "Sex is a taboo subject in China but people really need to have more access to information about it," said the park's manager. "But I have to pay attention and not make the park look vulgar and nasty." No rides planned yet. More»