“Gooning” has become a popular trend especially among Gen Z males who came of age during the COVID isolation. For those who have never heard of it, this phenomenon entails hours of uninterrupted solo masturbation while watching heterosexual porn, sometimes on multiple screens, usually accompanied by hard-pounding techno music, and always with the goal of […]
When Referring to Your Lady Bits, Words Matter
A new study examined the terms women use to name their genitals and their associations with genital attitudes, sexual pleasure, and genital health behaviors across both non-sexual and sexual contexts. The findings of this study provide the first empirical evidence linking genital naming to women’s GSI, sexual-, and health-related well-being, affirming that the words women […]
Another Good Reason to Workout?
Women can experience exercise-induced orgasm (EIO) and exercise-induced arousal (EIA) during exercise or physical activities that are vigorous, repetitive, or demanding of core abdominal muscles, usually apart from sexual situations and without direct genital stimulation. In a qualitative study based on interviews with 21 adult women, researchers aimed to understand women’s lived experiences with EIO/EIA. […]
Fresh off the press: Sex Beyond “Yes”
Georgetown philosophy professor Quill R Kukla’s most recent book Sex Beyond “Yes”: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone is a much needed treatise on sexual pleasure. Sex, for many sexual subjects, is afflicted with a variety of contemporary concerns. Specifically, trauma, abuse, guilt, shame, and moral confusion are part and parcel of many a sex life. […]
Magnetism Improves Female Sexual Arousal
A double-blind randomized control trial by Chinese researchers at the hospital of Xinjiang Medical University has shown the effectiveness of trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex for improving female sexual arousal in response to erotic stimuli, and increasing sexual desire at least short-term. TMS is a medical treatment that uses magnetic pulses […]
What would Jesus do…with sex dolls?
Are sex dolls Immoral? Researchers at UK’s Nottingham Trent University have developed a scale to measure public attitudes toward the use of sex dolls, which have in recent years become highly realistic and are being purchased by a growing number of mainly male users. Men who obtain such dolls are commonly stereotyped as immoral, sexually […]
Sex toys: overpriced commodities or radical tools of resistance?
Pop star Harry Styles is not currently touring, but he has found a new way to monetize his sex appeal by marketing a double-sided vibrator (adapted for both external and internal use) and his designer lubricant. His “Pleasing” brand previously specialized in female lifestyle products such as cosmetics and candles, but has now opened a […]
Men with Vaginas Who Attract Gay Men
“Chicks with dicks” is an infamous straight male sexual taste (scientifically known as gynandromorphophilia), but less explored is the corresponding phenomenon of gay men’s attraction to dudes with vaginas (androgynomorphophilia). Not all transmen are – or were – lesbian, and some identify as gay men themselves, with or without a vagina. Sometimes known as “autoandrophilia,” […]
Sink your teeth into Slutty Cheff’s new memoir
There are lots of parallels between sex and food, and I’m surprised the two don’t cross over in the news more often. For one, both require an appetite, and appetites need to be sustained. Slutty Cheff is an anonymous chef from London, England, who writes about her experiences in the restaurant industry – the Orville […]
Can I choke you?
The increasing normalization of choking as part of sexual play is causing some sexual subjects alarm. We reported on this in a past sex news load, but the United Kingdom has in fact announced that it will ban the depiction of strangulation in pornography, primarily to safeguard women against violence. As BDSM styles of sex […]