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This was big, but cute:

From http://www.bentblog.com/art41782126.htm:
( Sorry, it's a big graphic, so I'll put it behind a cut. )

"Thrusting hard into her, she moaned and came in less than 5 minutes"

My immediate reactions:

"What? Hot girl-on-girl strap-on action?"

and

"Less than 5 minutes? That's it? That's desirable?"

Clearly, I'm not the target audience.

Sex is communication. If someone is a bad communicator out of bed, it's unlikely they'll be a good communicator in bed. Possible, but unlikely.

Edit: A number of commenters have drawn a distinction between verbal and non-verbal communication, and assumed I meant "verbal=out of bed"; "non-verbal=in bed". That is not what I posted. I do find it noteworthy that people make that assumption.

In particular, to post articles about sex from non-sexually related magazines.

This one is from Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/08/cz_af_1008health.html), and is entitled "Is Sex Necessary?"

A few quotes:

"The best that modern science can say for sexual abstinence is that it's harmless when practiced in moderation. Having regular and enthusiastic sex, by contrast, confers a host of measurable physiological advantages, be you male or female."

"[B]y having sex three or more times a week, men reduced their risk of heart attack or stroke by half. In reporting these results, the co-author of the study, Shah Ebrahim, Ph.D., displayed the well-loved British gift for understatement: "The relationship found between frequency of sexual intercourse and mortality is of considerable public interest."

"Seminal plasma contains zinc, calcium and other minerals shown to retard tooth decay. Since this is a family Web site, we will omit discussion of the mineral delivery system. Suffice it to say that it could be a far richer, more complex and more satisfying experience than squeezing a tube of Crest--even Tartar Control Crest."

But read the whole thing. They obviously had fun compiling it all.

The original article (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=%203933):

Condom Nations
By Miguel Fontes, Peter Roach

September/October 2007
Where is sex safer: sub-Saharan Africa or Scandinavia? According to the world’s largest sex survey, whether you have unprotected sex isn’t a matter of being male or female, gay or straight. When it comes to risky bedroom behavior, what matters most may be where you live.

Risky business

Aug 20th 2007
From Economist.com

SEX may be risky wherever you are. But those indulging in the riskiest behaviour often live in some of the world’s richest nations, according to Foreign Policy magazine, using data from the latest Durex Global Sex Survey—the world’s largest survey of sexual behaviour, with over 317,000 participants in 41 countries. They have sex at a younger age and sleep with more people, both indicators for contracting sexually transmitted infections. Each year, there are more than 340m new cases of such infections globally, excluding HIV.

(From http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9675837)

From http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/weekinreview/12kolata.html:

EVERYONE knows men are promiscuous by nature. It’s part of the genetic strategy that evolved to help men spread their genes far and wide. The strategy is different for a woman, who has to go through so much just to have a baby and then nurture it. She is genetically programmed to want just one man who will stick with her and help raise their children.

Surveys bear this out. In study after study and in country after country, men report more, often many more, sexual partners than women.

But there is just one problem, mathematicians say. It is logically impossible for heterosexual men to have more partners on average than heterosexual women. Those survey results cannot be correct.

Sex survey researchers say they know that Dr. Gale is correct. Men and women in a population must have roughly equal numbers of partners. So, when men report many more than women, what is going on and what is to be believed?

“I have heard this question before,” said Cheryl D. Fryar, a health statistician at the National Center for Health Statistics and a lead author of the new federal report, “Drug Use and Sexual Behaviors Reported by Adults: United States, 1999-2002,” which found that men had a median of seven partners and women four.

But when it comes to an explanation, she added, “I have no idea.”

The most likely explanation, by far, is that the numbers cannot be trusted.

I know, I know, it's such a shock that people lie about sex...still, I liked the article, and I'm glad

missmoreland posted it. Thanks!

( Full text behind cut, because the New York Times expires its articles )

People take their cultural assumptions into bed with them. I think it's useful to examine those assumptions and be aware of which ones one's taking in.

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Most recent bit of spam to get past the filters.

A scrap from yesterday's conversation.

Today appears to be my day to post about sex.

And from the September/October 2007 issue of Foreign Policy.

From the Economist, Aug 20th, 2007:

The Myth, the Math, the Sex

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