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NEWS ABOUT: female sexuality

female sexuality stories: 11 news summaries
OPINION

 Porn Doesn't Have to Ruin Sex 

But only if guys remember it's entertainment, not an educational tool

Nov 11, 09 1:57 PM CST
(Newser) - Porn’s been getting a bad rap of late for turning men into bad lovers. But it’s really the guys’ fault, not the porn, writes Cord Jefferson . A Nielsen survey reports that a third of visitors to XXX websites are women, so clearly porn itself isn’t a definitive... More »

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sex • extreme sex • female sexuality • porn industry • battle of the sexes

 Women on Pill 
 Shun 'Manly 
 Men' for 'Boys' 

With fertile days gone, women tend to like more feminine features, caring personalities

Oct 8, 09 4:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Women have been on the pill for so long that its impact on their hormones may have significantly reduced their attraction to "manly men" in favor of more boyish males, say researchers. Forty years of contraception use could explain the change in Hollywood idols from tough guys like Jimmy... More »

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contraception • Brad Pitt • Johnny Depp • birth control pill • sex drive • sex hormone • female sexuality • seduction • Anthony Quinn • Jimmy Cagney

 Why Women Have Sex 

Psychologist discusses female sexuality, and what men can do to get ahead

Oct 6, 09 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Psychologists Cindy Meston and David Buss, authors of the 2007 study “Why Humans Have Sex,” have completed a second go-round, this time focused on women only. They come up with 237 reasons, and though they're not enumerated in the article, Time asks Buss for some highlights:
  • Besides
... More »

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sex • psychology • sexuality • revenge • dating • female sexuality

OPINION

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

'Superstar of four-letter words' hits Guardian's front page, losing its bite

Aug 31, 09 10:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rest assured, Dear Reader: As a respectable organization, Newser won’t publish what Kathleen Deveny in Newsweek calls “the rudest, crudest, most taboo term in the English language.” To be blunt, on this issue we must punt, because, on a family website, that dog just won’t hunt—... More »

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Vagina Monologues • women • taboo • society • female sexuality

 Why Bardot Is Back in Style 


Aug 22, 09 7:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Brigitte Bardot's pouty, carefree sexuality is back, and just in time for her 75th birthday next month. With fashion designers aping her look and London girls imitating her outfit in And God Created Woman—cropped jeans, pumps, and striped top—John Walsh looks back in the Independent at the sex... More »

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fashion • style • Brigitte Bardot • female sexuality

 Men Spend a Full Year 
 Ogling Opposite Sex 

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

Aug 3, 09 4:25 PM CDT
(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... More »

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women • men • Kodak • sexuality • female sexuality • beautiful women • male sexuality

 Not Feeling Sexy? 'Just Do It.' 

New book reveals reasons behind lack of sex in marriage

Aug 3, 09 12:42 PM CDT
(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... More »

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marriage • sex • sexuality • sexual behavior • book • sex drive • female sexuality • Bettina Arndt • male sexuality

(Newser) - A criminal court in the Maldives has ruled that 150 women will be flogged for having affairs in the Muslim country, reports the Independent. Some 50 men face the same punishment. Earlier this month an 18-year-old woman fainted after being flogged 100 times for having sex with two men, who... More »

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Islam • crime • courts • Muslim • Maldives • female sexuality • flogging • caning

(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 »

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China • theme park • extreme sex • taboo • bisexual • anal sex • female sexuality • puritanical • inhibition • love land

tv review

 The Cougar Must Be Put Down 


Apr 15, 09 1:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rebecca Traister is fed up with the concept of the “cougar,” she writes for Salon. She doesn’t “hate the solitary wildcat who feasts on deer,” or “women who have sex with younger men. What I hate is the never-ending cutesy-pie conflation of the two.... More »

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reality TV • sex • midlife crisis • Demi Moore • older women • cougar • female sexuality • The Cougar • younger men

 In SF, a Center 
 for Female Orgasm 

Commune is devoted to female sexuality

Mar 15, 09 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Every morning as the rest of us fight sleepiness and traffic, a group of women at the One Taste Urban Retreat Center lie back and let a fully clothed male "research partner" coax them to orgasm, reports the New York Times. The co-ed commune in San Francisco also offers... More »

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San Francisco • meditation • orgasmic meditation • female sexuality

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