In a post from Psychology Today, sex educator and therapist Niki Davis-Fainbloom explains how sexual fetishes develop. Some may come from repeated exposure to ordinary objects in contexts where they are connected with sexually alluring figures (classical Pavlovian conditioning), but often they emerge out of a single first-time sexual experience that is particularly exciting when […]
Consent Confusion, Male Shame, and the Sex Recession
The murky circumstances around the recent Cornell group sex scandal, which featured conflicting statements about consent from the victim and evidently false assumptions about the intoxicated victim’s availability to all from the young men, suggests to some the urgent need for more sex education about consent. But could the way consent education is already taught […]
More on the Orgasm Gap
Hard Copy reported a Swiss study regarding the orgasm gap between cisgender men and women in our last edition. A new Italian study looks at the same gap. Study author Cristina Civilotti of the University of Turin and her colleagues examined how often people experience orgasm and which factors are associated with it in a […]
Pro-Family Group Claims Religious Couples Have More Sex
A new report issued by the Christian conservative Institute of Family Studies aims to counter the common perception that religion and sexual satisfaction are antithetical. Drawing on data from both the General Social Survey and a survey the Institute itself administered to 3,125 married respondents aged 18 to 54, they found that 62% of those […]
New Data on Sexual Pleasure
The HUD App, a dating service, has published statistics from their “pleasure census,” a survey of 2,183 users in 63 countries, mostly young females, about a third of them identifying as something other than heterosexual. 88% of men and 76% of women report getting less sex than they desire; most cite inhibitions about communicating their […]
Hunting Unicorns
A new study published in Psychology and Sexualitysurveyed 80 members of a couple, at least one of whom is bi-sexual, who had sought or were seeking a “unicorn,” i.e. a third partner to share sex and/or romance with both of them. Females are more often sought than males, which is unsurprising inasmuch as women are […]
Adolescent Experiences Create the Libido Gap in Adults
It has long been recognized that men have stronger sexual desire than women, and this discrepancy is often attributed to innate biological and evolutionary causes. However, an article recently published in the Personality and Social Psychology Review argues that the difference in sexual desire is a learned behavior with its origin in adolescent sexual experiences: […]
Half of Gen Z Frenchwomen Think Sex is Unimportant
The French Institute of Public Opinion surveyed 1,011 women aged 18-29. Only 38% felt that sex was very important, compared to 62% in 1990, and half said it was not that important in their lives. 62% of women aged 20-24 said they sometimes felt bored during sex, compared to only 42% in 1996. The authors […]
Till Money Do Us Part
A British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal has ordered a woman to reimburse her former fiancé more than $5,000 for an engagement ring after finding she likely kept or lost it following their breakup. The ring, worth about $4,860, was given during a 2020 engagement that ended in 2022, after which the applicant repeatedly asked for […]
Snake Oil?
Drug and supplement companies are preying on people’s insecurities and lack of knowledge regarding their sexual health. There is currently a proliferation of vaginal probiotic supplements and suppository capsules being marketed to women promoting “vaginal health”. Dr. Caroline Mitchell, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School said the evidence of […]