Men Often Misread Women’s Sexual Cues
Men often have difficulty accurately reading a woman’s level of interest in them, a new study finds.
In what should come as no surprise to any woman who’s spent time in the dating world, a certain type of guy tends to think all women want him, while other guys just can’t seem to pick up on the cues.
The study included 96 male and 103 female U.S. college undergraduates who took part in a “speed-meeting” exercise that involved talking for three minutes to each of five members of the opposite sex. …read more
Hormone Might Ease Menopause, Boost Women’s Sex Life: Study
(HealthDay News) — A hormone called DHEA appears to help ease women’smenopausal symptoms and also improve their sex life, a small, new study says.
This is the first evidence that low doses of DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), a hormone secreted by the adrenal glands, can help sexual function as well as menopausal symptoms, according to the researchers at the University of Pisa in Italy.
The study included 48 postmenopausal women who’d experienced troubling symptoms for a year. They were divided into four groups: 12 took vitamin D and calcium to prevent osteoporosis; 12 took a low dose of DHEA; 12 were given standard hormone replacement therapy (HRT) of estrogen plus progesterone; and 12 took tibolone, a synthetic steroid. …read more
Study shows Wi-Fi can kill your sperm! -ABC News Blogs
Attention all men: You might want to keep your laptops, smartphones and other Internet-browsing tools away from the family jewels.
A new study, albeit a small one, suggests that using Wi-Fi may damage sperm and decrease a man’s fertility. The cause, according to Reuters Health, is electromagnetic radiation generated by wireless communication.
In the study, published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, researchers took semen samples from 29 healthy volunteers and placed them under a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop connected to the Internet. After four hours, the semen suffered – 25 percent of the sperm were no longer swimming and 9 percent of them showed DNA damage. Semen samples kept near a laptop that was turned on but not connected to the Internet showed minimal damage, as did samples that were stored separately. …read more
Men’s Insecurity and Jealousy
So, you finally got the girl of your dreams. She’s fine-looking and sexy. She’s definitely a catch! Every time you go out, other guys are checking her out. So, you hold her closer, have a protective arm around her, and cast steely “Don’t you mess with my girlfriend” stares at the other guys. You closely watch her every move and feel a pang of jealousy and insecurity, even at times when it is not the least bit warranted. You constantly call her up to check up on her or count the seconds before she answers your call. You’ve been too paranoid too many times whenever she says she’s out with her girl friends or co-workers, or if she’s meeting up with a high school sweetheart or an ex-flame. You instantly erupt in jealous rage at the mention of past loves. …read more
A jolt to the penis may cure impotence, study says
In case you had any doubts — and how could you after all those football-through-the-tire, middle-aged-men-channeling-Elvis, kitchens-turning-into-rainforests commercials — men value their erections.
When our penis hydraulics fail, we’ll swallow our pride and the magic pills, and if they fail, we’ll vacuum pump it, tie it up with rubber bands, use a needle and syringe to shoot drugs into it, and, if none of that works, we’ll have the poor guy reamed out and stuffed with plastic tubes we can fill with salt water for woodies on demand.
Now some Israeli doctors have tried yet another technique: shocking the poor thing. Using something they call “low-intensity extracorporeal shock wave therapy,” a team from the Rambam Healthcare Campus in Haifa actually succeeded in giving recalcitrant penises a boost. …read more
50 Interesting Sex Trivias
- Scientists are unsure why humans have pubic hair, but they theorize that the hair traps secretions that hold pheromones, or sexual scents.
- In women, the labia minora (singular: labium minus) vary more than any other part of the female genitalia. The labia minora (Latin for “smaller lips”) can range from pink, burgundy, brown, or a mixture of colors. They may be small, or large enough to extend beyond the labia majora (Latin for “larger lips”), and one may be longer than the other. Contrary to myth, they are not lengthened or wrinkled by masturbation.c
- The word “clitoris” is Greek for “divine and goddess like.” The clitoris is present only in female mammals. It is actually approximately 4 inches long, with 3/4 of the clitoris extending inside a female’s body.c
- The opening of the vagina is called the introitus, from the Latin intro or “into, within” + ire, meaning “to go into.”c …read more
Impotence
Impotence, also called erectile dysfunction, affects overall 10-30% of the male population and up to 30 million men in theUnited Statesalone. In fact, impotence is the most common erectile dysfunction in our modern society. Most men will experience the problem at some stage in their lives, with the incidence of impotence increasing with age.
Impotence is defined as a consistent inability to achieve or sustain an erection that will allow for sexual intercourse. The erection may be too weak, too brief, or too painful. Impotence has many causes; we distinguish between psychical and physical related cases. Statistics though vary a great deal when they are drawing conclusions on the dispersion.
Physical, related impotence can be related to factors as: …read more
Natural Remedies for Erectile Dysfunction
From acupuncture to arginine, from ginseng to pomegranate juice, men have tried all sorts of natural remedies for erectile dysfunction (ED) — which doctors define as the repeated inability to get or maintain an erection firm enough for sexual intercourse. But are these alternative remedies safe? Do they really work?
The scientific evidence to support the use of natural remedies for impotence is sketchy; many of the studies that seem to give the remedies a thumbs-up were so poorly designed that their findings are suspect.
“Just because there is evidence doesn’t mean it’s good evidence,” says Andrew McCullough, MD, associate professor of clinical urology at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City, and one of the original clinical …read more
