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Experts Say 'Sexbots' Will Eliminate STIs, Provide Life-Lengthening Orgasms

Experts Say 'Sexbots' Will Eliminate STIs, Provide Life-Lengthening Orgasms | Science News | Scoop.it
Futurists are theorizing that robots will be cultivated to give humans life-extending orgasms, and some suggest that the scenario could be here as early as 2050.
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Why do we play? And why it is attractive?!

Why do we play? And why it is attractive?! | Science News | Scoop.it

Playfulness in males signals that they are not aggressive and would not harm the mother and the offspring. So females would prefer playful and harmless males. And playfulness in females signal health and fecundity, according to Professor Chick. On this basis, adult playfulness seems to be attractive to the opposite sex.

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Asexuals: A Growing Population?

Asexuals: A Growing Population? | Science News | Scoop.it
About 70 million people worldwide belong to what researchers are now calling the 'fourth sexual orientation,' a small but often misunderstood and often overlooked group of 'asexual' men and women who feel absolutely no sexual attraction to other...
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The Eyes Have It: Pupil Dilation Indicates Sexuality

The Eyes Have It: Pupil Dilation Indicates Sexuality | Science News | Scoop.it
The way people's pupils react when they see other people is an effective way to assess sexual orientation, according to a new study.
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The Science behind Why Men Prefer "Dumb-Looking" and Sleepy Women for Flings but Not Marriage

The Science behind Why Men Prefer "Dumb-Looking" and Sleepy Women for Flings but Not Marriage | Science News | Scoop.it
Men have evolved to prefer dumb, sleepy or drunk women over those with charm and intelligence when they're on the hunt for a one-night-stand, according to a new study.
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Female Libido Peaks on Saturday Nights

Female Libido Peaks on Saturday Nights | Science News | Scoop.it
A woman’s sexual appetite peaks at 11pm on a Saturday night, according to a UK survey.
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A Changing Environment As Sex Drive?

A Changing Environment As Sex Drive? | Science News | Scoop.it

Why is there so much sex? This is an evolutionary puzzle. After all, sex is costly. It takes time and energy (find a mate, impress that mate, which incidentally can make you a target for predators, and so on). It halves the amount of genes an organism passes on. And it means producing males. (Ow, sounds harsh, doesn’t it?)

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Researchers Say Facebook Could Be Used to Detect Friends with STDs

Researchers Say Facebook Could Be Used to Detect Friends with STDs | Science News | Scoop.it
Facebook and other social network sites may soon have an app that can determine which one of its users has what sort of sexually transmitted disease, according to researchers.
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A revolution in the scientific study of sexual attraction

A revolution in the scientific study of sexual attraction | Science News | Scoop.it

Two bold young neuroscientists have initiated a revolution in the scientific study of sexual attraction. Before Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, the only researcher to systematically investigate sexual desires was Alfred Kinsey, who surveyed 18,000 middle-class Caucasians in the 1950s. But Ogas and Gaddam have studied the secret sexual behavior of more than a hundred million men and women around the world. Their method? They observed what people do within the anonymity of the Internet.

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Facebook and Twitter more tempting than sex: study

Facebook and Twitter more tempting than sex: study | Science News | Scoop.it

A study arousing interest online Friday found that checking Facebook or Twitter is more alluring than sex for those immersed in Internet Age lifestyles.

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Why your brain sees men as people and women as body parts

Why your brain sees men as people and women as body parts | Science News | Scoop.it
The sexual objectification of women isn’t just in your head—it’s in everyone’s. A new study finds that our brains see men as people and women as body parts.
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Sexism affects robots

Sexism affects robots | Science News | Scoop.it

The Journal of Applied Social Psychology has just pubished a study that is both bizarre and profound. It reports on two experiments that show gender stereotyping extends to robots.

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Sexual Perversion of Penguins Finally Revealed After Nearly a Century of Censorship

Sexual Perversion of Penguins Finally Revealed After Nearly a Century of Censorship | Science News | Scoop.it
A study on the sexual habits of penguins with findings so graphic and...
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People See Sexy Pictures of Women as Objects, Not People

People See Sexy Pictures of Women as Objects, Not People | Science News | Scoop.it

Perfume ads, beer billboards, movie posters: everywhere you look, women’s sexualized bodies are on display. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that both men and women see images of sexy women’s bodies as objects, while they see sexy-looking men as people.


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[VIDEO] Sexy Primes - Numberphile

Sexy primes are prime numbers which differ by six - but what is an "Octomus Prime"??? Featuring Dr James Grime.
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NCBI ROFL: Women’s sexual and emotional responses to male- and female-produced erotica. | Discoblog | Discover Magazine

NCBI ROFL: Women’s sexual and emotional responses to male- and female-produced erotica. | Discoblog | Discover Magazine | Science News | Scoop.it
NCBI ROFL | Whether erotic films made by women are more arousing for women than erotic films made by men was studied.
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Disgust’s Evolutionary Role Is Irresistible to Researchers

Disgust’s Evolutionary Role Is Irresistible to Researchers | Science News | Scoop.it
What disgusts humans is proving irresistible to researchers exploring the evolutionary value of revulsion.
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