Avi Wolfman-Arent and Cherri Gregg, hosts of Studio 2, a podcast on WHYY-FM out of Philadelphia, discuss sex and romance trends with guests: Debby, Lauren Harris, and Andrew Hatherley. In this episode they talk about the sex recession and why later-life divorce is trending upward. The sex recession is seeing less partnered sex and less […]
EVA AI opens in New York City this month, a physical location with romantic lighting where lonely people can choose a table with an illuminated phone screen showing different AI companions with whom they can pretend to have a date. While this venue could help the socially awkward feel more comfortable being seen in a […]
Pornhub’s annual report yields valuable insight into evolving sexual interests of men and women (who are 38% of Pornhub’s audience), gay and straight, different generations, countries, and US states. Perhaps most remarkable is the rise in appreciation of mature women, now the third most viewed category by men; “MILF” is the second most searched term, […]
Is there a world in which scheduling sex is sexy? A new study by researchers from York University in Ontario, Canada has found that doing so can actually lead to more sex, as well as less obligatory sex, reducing sexual subjects’ overall relationship anxiety. The study consisted of more than 500 participants from Canada, the […]
Liberalized sex work proposals are often associated with the Left, but in France, it is the populist right-wing National Rally party that is pushing this reform, with support from former leader Marine LePen. The National Rally proposal is to make the brothels cooperatives run by the sex workers themselves: legislator Jean-Philippe Tanguy said, they “would […]
Researchers affiliated with the Kinsey Institute have published a study of 3,001 women over the age of 60 in the journal Menopause, finding that a little less than half reported masturbating within the past year, and among those, 56.4% used sex toys, mostly vibrators or dildoes; 26.2% used them almost always or always. Sex toy […]
A survey of 1000 US workers showed that those who have sex before work in the morning report higher levels of productivity, task completion, focus, and motivation than those who do not. Half of them say they have received a raise in the last year, and 19% say they have received a promotion. This result […]
An internet survey of 254 bi-sexual men finds that over one-third of them are not really attracted to men, but to the idea of being treated like a woman by men. They have no desire to penetrate other men, but only to be penetrated in scenarios that are often masochistic. Their conventional attraction to women […]
There are few issues on which Republicans and Democrats appear capable of working together, but one is support of the CREEPER Act (Curbing Realistic Exploitative Electronic Pedophilic Robots Act 2.0). A group of 34 lawmakers sent a letter to the online platform Shein, criticizing it for having failed to prevent the sale of childlike sex […]
A parliamentary report from New South Wales in Australia offers a more nuanced view of pornography than is seen in most politically influenced studies. Although finding that Australian teens first access online pornography at an average age of 13, the report suggests they are more sophisticated consumers than is often recognized: they understand it is […]
