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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 5:41pm By Chris HallThis is a good time of year to be thinking about what human rights are and how to best protect them. Last Thursday, December 10, was the 61st annual celebration of Human Rights Day in commemoration of the United Nations' adoption of the Universal...
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Friday, November 6, 2009 - 8:06am By Matthew LawrenceResearchers at Duke University have caused something of a flap after one behavioral economist advertised last month for study subjects. The study, a look into home sex toy parties, sought female students "view sex toys and engage in...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 8:29am By Matthew LawrenceAre everyday chemicals turning boys into girls? Yes, in a way, according to research released Friday by the Danish government. That country's environmental protection agency issued a 326-page report indicating that the average two-year...
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Monday, August 3, 2009 - 11:55am By Chris HallA 62-year-old Cameroonian woman living in Paris has tested positive for a new strain of HIV that is related to a virus generally found in gorillas. Up until now, there have been three identified variations of HIV, all of which are believed to have...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009 - 2:52pm By John PettittNew research helps explain why even an apparently healed Herpes (HSV-2) sore increases the risk of HIV infection. In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, scientists have discovered that an immune-cell environment conducive to HIV...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 2:14pm By Liz FarsaciMigrant sex workers in the UK have spoken out about their lives as part of a research project whose findings have just been released. Here, in the first of a two-part feature, we look at the relationship between the industry and immigration law....
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 12:45pm By Chris HallWhen the good folks in the family values crowd just can't say anything else to convince you that homosexuals will bring about the end of civilization as we know it, they can always pull out their ace in the hole: "But it's UNnatural!!!"...
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Monday, June 8, 2009 - 4:26pm By John PettittSome researchers clearly have way too much time on their hands. In this case, they filled that time deducing the sexual preferences of James Bond based on the 98 female characters he had sexual contact with and the 97 he didn't in the first 20 Bond...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 11:01am By Chris HallIf a new book is correct, William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the pioneering team who studied sexuality in the sixties and seventies, may have faked some of their most troublesome research. In 1979, Masters and Johnson published their book...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 11:36am By Chris HallRecently, we posted an item about Benjamin Edelman's study that concluded that more Internet porn is being viewed in the conservative, highly religious states that form the core of the Republican Party's base. Erotic filmmaker Tony Comstock has...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 11:59am By Chris HallOne of the standard assumptions of modern gender theory is the stud-slut divide: men can fuck around with absolute impunity, even being admired for their virility; women who do the same thing are sluts. A Canadian study, however, shows some gray...
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 10:52am By Chris HallThe British Home Office released a study this week showing that 1 in 7 people believe that in some circumstances, it is okay for a man to hit his wife or girlfriend for wearing "sexy of revealing clothes in public." People also considered it...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 11:07am By Chris HallLast Friday, we posted an item about Benjamin Edelman's recent study that concluded that more Internet porn is being viewed in the conservative, highly religious states that form the core of the Republican Party's base.Erotic filmmaker Tony Comstock...
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Sunday, March 1, 2009 - 6:22pm By John PettittCanada.com reports a study from the International Journal of Epidemiology showing that while 68% of 16 to 19 year olds said they used protection the first time with new partner just 38% of men and 29% of women aged 35-44 did so. The study...
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Friday, February 27, 2009 - 4:53pm By Chris HallMore Internet pornography is consumed in states with conservative, highly religious populations than in states with more liberal populations, a new study claims. Benjamin Edelman, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, conducted a...
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