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Yoga instructor Sadie Nardini and her husband wanted to quit cigarettes and chocolate, so they decided to have sex every day for the entire month of December, hoping the activity would assist them in overcoming their cravings. Not only did sex help, but the couple began experiencing other benefits as well: they slept better, they…continue reading.

“Women everywhere have read or heard that they may possess a secret pleasure zone inside their bodies that, if stimulated correctly, yields intense pleasure and even orgasm,” CNN reported yesterday, adding: “But this so-called G-spot has never been precisely identified as a concrete biological entity. Scientists are still arguing over what it is and whether…continue reading.

The Sydney Morning Herald has compiled an entire alphabet of things that are good for you. Unsurprisingly, a few of them deal with sex and sexy things. Surprisingly, one of the pieces of good news was actually very bad news. KISSING University of Zurich researchers studied 51 German couples for a week and found those…continue reading.

Einstein said it best when he explained relativity: “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours.” Yes, everyone knows that time slips away at light speed when you’re having fun. But is the…continue reading.

Sex doesn’t sell–we’re too jaded. That’s what a recent study titled “Sex Doesn’t Sell — nor Impress! Content, Box Office, Critics, and Awards in Mainstream Cinema” is saying, after analyzing the box office success of movies containing explicit sex scenes between 2001 and 2005. “Sex did not sell, whether in the domestic or international box…continue reading.

Patricia Brennan has been interested in the weirdness of duck genitals for years. Why are drake penises corkscrew shaped? Why are they so long? Discovery’s Carl Zimmer reports: As Brennan dissected duck penises, she began to wonder what the female sexual anatomy looked like. If you have a car like this, she said, what kind…continue reading.

Sexual addiction–if dinner parties had trending topics, this would rank first this holiday season. We told you about Dr. Drew’s new show Sex Rehab, about eight people dealing with issues stemming from their addiction to sex, last month and just recently one of our writers wrote a scathing critique of the classification of Tiger Woods’…continue reading.

So get this–a team of German researchers has discovered that staring at boobs is not just fun for men, it’s actually healthy and increases their life expectancy. Dr. Karen Weatherby, a gerontologist and the author of this study, said the practice provided almost the same benefits of an intense exercise regime, which prolongs the lifespan…continue reading.

British scientists think that tinkering with the sex lives of mosquitoes could go a long way in helping put an end to the spread of malaria. A study of Anopheles gambiae, the species of mosquito responsible for the transmission of the disease in Africa, revealed that these insects only mate twice in their lifetimes–what’s more,…continue reading.

Caffeine does more than wake you up–it wakes up your sperm. That’s right. A group of Brazilian scientists has found that men who drink coffee have sperm that moves better than the sperm of those who turn down the cuppa joe. Lead researcher, Fabio Pasqualotto, said: “Sperm motility was higher in patients who drink coffee…continue reading.