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Cat-Calling: Guys Performing For Guys
Men catcalling a woman
Women don’t catcall men. Well, rarely if ever. Now, why is that?
Maybe because no one really catcalls for the reason that would seem most obvious: to express appreciation for beauty or sexiness.
Turns out, guys are often just performing for other guys. Read the rest of this entry
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Care-Less Sex
Couldn’t care less sex
Hook-up sex should be careless. You’re not supposed to:
- carefully think about whether to have sex
- choose your partner carefully
- care for your partner
Ideally, you could care less in hook-up culture, says sociologist, Lisa Wade, who has studied sex on college campuses. Read the rest of this entry
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Sexual Fluidity & Emotional Connection
Sexual Fluidity by Lisa Diamond
Women seem to be more sexually fluid than men. Why?
One reason might involve the way we tie sex and emotional connection together for women.
Not to mention that women are more likely to become deeply connected to same sex friends. Read the rest of this entry
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Casual Sex Distresses Women?
The double standard
Women who do casual sex are, on average, more distressed than other women.
Men who do casual sex are, on average, more confident than other men.
That’s what sociologists, Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker, found as they researched their book, Premarital Sex in America.
That means the double standard is neither good nor bad. It just is. They say. Read the rest of this entry
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Sex-Negative Societies & Non-Orgasmic Women
Sex-positive societies create easily orgasmic, and multiply orgasmic women.
So it’s no surprise that sex-negative societies do the opposite.
In some places women’s pleasure is deliberately cut by damaging or removing the clitoris. In other places something more akin to a psychological clitoridectomy is performed. Let’s take a look at how that can happen. Read the rest of this entry
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Repression Shutting Down Sexuality
Repressive forces can shut down sexuality.
But how?
I’ll start with my own experience. Read the rest of this entry
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Sexual Orientation and Sexual Abuse
Gays and lesbians are a bit more likely to have been sexually assaulted than others.
Are abusers more likely to target them? Or does something about the attack affect them, or how they see themselves? Read the rest of this entry
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Average Bust Size Is DD?
Bra inflation?
The average American cup size has gone from 34 B in 1983 to a whopping 34 DD in 2013.
This story was widely picked up.
But is it true? Read the rest of this entry
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Biology + Environment = Gay or Straight
Most researchers believe that both genetic and environmental factors (biological and social) play a role in forming sexual orientation.
They are not quite sure how it all comes together.
A variety of things point to someone being “more likely” to be gay, but none of the following are determinative: Read the rest of this entry
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Women Dress Sexy To Wield Power Over Me
Men sometimes complain that women walk down the street, lookin’ sexy, just to gain power over them.
I can see how sexy ladies gain the power to get a man of her choosing. But I suspect that’s not what they mean. So I asked: What sort of power is that, exactly?
The answers goes something like this: Read the rest of this entry
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