A person could use this new study to make sense of almost all aspects of biology and sex, if a person had a way of doing so: “Sociosexual Orientation and 2D:4D Ratios in Women: Relationship to Men’s Desirability Ratings as a Long-Term Pair Bond,” Tara L. DeLecce, John P. Polheber, Robert L. Matchock [pictured here], Archives […]
Tag: sex
A tribute to regret and regrets
Amanda Hess pays tribute, in Slate, to certain researchers [pictured here] and their research. Her tribute begins thus: College Men and Women Express Different Sexual Regrets. Could Cave People Be to Blame? In a new study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, a team of evolutionary psychologists queried 200 American college students on their greatest romantic and […]
Scary blow-up and unnecessary kidney removal after oral sex
This medical report presents a cautionary story — the possibly-unnecessary removal of a body part: “Non-surgical pneumoperitoneum after oro-genital intercourse ,” Shamir O. Cawich [pictured here], Peter B. Johnson, Eric Williams, Vijay Naraynsngh, International Journal of Surgery Case Reports, epub September 25, 2013. The authors, at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica, report: “A […]
New Hip, Safe Sex Motion Study
A hip new hip project carefully studied people having sex, doing it for safety’s sake. The study is: “Sexual Activity after Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Motion Capture Study,” Caecilia Charbonnier, Sylvain Chagué, Matteo Ponzoni, Massimiliano Bernardoni, Pierre Hoffmeyer, Panayiotis Christofilopoulos, Journal of Arthroplasty, epub September 6, 2013. This chart sums up the study’s medical insights, […]
A new pope, a new look at sacerdotal celibacy
The Catholic Church recently gave itself a new pope. On the question of priests engaging in sexual reproduction, history is repeating itself. The last time around, we wrote (in 2005), in The Guardian: Whenever there is a new pope, the air fills with questions about priestly celibacy. The more formal term for this practice is […]
For Sex Researchers: How to Get the Attention You Want
A bunch of people who do research on how people have sex came together to advise themselves and other people about how to get the kind of attention they want from people in the media. It’s all about the people. Here’s their report: “Turning Sexual Science Into News: Sex Research and the Media,” Kimberly R. […]
The stimulating job of cataloguing (Kinsey)
Pamela Pierce, writing in Girls Like Giants, tells of and wonders at how she went about cataloguing the work of a famous sex research joint: I started a Master’s in Library Science at Indiana University in Bloomington and began working at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Founded in 1947, a […]
Misleading study title of the week: Sex and drinkers
This week’s Misleading Study Title of the Week is: “Sex moderates stress reactivity in heavy drinkers” Emily E. Hartwell and Lara A. Ray [pictured here], Addictive Behaviors, vol. 38, no. 11, November 2013, pp. 2643–2646. The authors are at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Science royalty, yes. And/but there are those retractions….
The Retraction Watch blog writes: Authors of retracted sex paper won Ig Nobel for MRI study of coitus — and had another retraction Yesterday we reported on the retraction for data misuse and plagiarism of a 21-year-old paper on sex and female cancer patients. Turns out we missed a couple of rather interesting details about the […]
Sex, Sex, Sex in the Bible, or maybe not [study]
Hunting for sex? This study finds that one purported hunting ground may be less well-stocked than its reputation suggests: “Sleeping with the Enemy: Recent Scholarship on Sexuality in the Book of Judges,” Serge Frolov [pictured below], Currents in Biblical Research, June 2013 vol. 11 no. 3, pp. 308-327. The author, at Southern Methodist University in […]