Feature image of Dwan Auryn and Vex by blathh.
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via fuckyeahdykes
+ Focusing more on your body and erotic thinking can help you orgasm, if you want to orgasm more:
“The researchers did not expect that the cognitive aspect of orgasm in women would be as important as the results suggested, said study author Pascal De Sutter, a professor at the department of sexology and family science at the University of Louvain in Belgium.
“It seems that women have no problem” focusing on erotic fantasies when they are on their own, De Sutter told Live Science. But women who do not have regular orgasms during intercourse seem to have more difficulties focusing their attention on the present moment when they have sex with their partners, she said.”
via womenofcolor
+ OKCupid conducted a lot of social experiments on its users:
“In essence, OKCupid admittedly used its site as a huge behavioral and social science laboratory. And according to The New York Times, they often did this without telling users they were conducting experiments on them.
In a blog post entitled, “We Experiment on Human Beings,” OKCupid’s President, Christian Rudder, justified the company’s social experimentation: “We noticed recently that people didn’t like it when Facebook ‘experimented’ with their news feed. Even the FTC is getting involved. But guess what, everybody: if you use the Internet, you’re the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That’s how websites work.” he wrote on the company’s blog, OKTrends. Rudder went on to show the results of the three experiments it conducted.”
via women of color
+ Nerve‘s list of pop culture icons who’ve changed the way we think about sex include Judy Blume, Janet Mock, Kathleen Hanna, Margaret Cho and more.
+ At Oh Joy Sex Toy, Isabella Toyman from Scarleteen talks about strap-on harnesses and shows you how to make one.
Su and Bo Do Summer via Les Beehive
+ At Dazed, Stoya and Melissa Gira Grant discuss sex work.
+ If you want to know how to have 90s-era cybersex, this instructional video from Found Footage Fest will show you how.
+ Porn soundtracks form part of our collective imagining about sex:
“The sex soundtrack currently inhabits the domain of oral history. Just as the sound of Karen Carpenter’s silky voice takes writer Tara McGinley back to the “safe, happy place” of childhood, porn soundtracks lead a large chunk of Americans back to the same happy place: the ’70s.”
+ Gay cis men cannot effectively draw vaginas.
Behind the Scenes of the Pirelli 2015 Calendar via Les Beehive
+ Boobs: sexy, and useful. Patricia Highsmith smuggled snails with hers.
+ Teenagers new to kink are getting incorrect information from unideal places:
“Any horny teen and her eager partner can figure out how to engage in “bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism” (BDSM) at home in their parents’ absence or in the backseat of a car without assessing the risks with a trained counselor. If the imagination fails, a finger-click on the internet – or the purchase of 50 Shades of Grey – succeeds. But to reduce or eliminate the risks associated with uneducated or new BDSM practitioners and provide guidelines for safer sex, in all its forms, competent educators should be talking about enthusiastic consent, boundaries and pleasure to help young people transition from adolescence to a safe and happy adulthood.”
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i have been dying to know why i find women so sexy/ why I’m attracted to them. there have been studies done that show that men can smell pheromones? when a woman is ovulating and that makes her more attractive than other women. that women with round faces, i think, are marriage material and women with square faces are more likely to be one night stands or something. anyway my point is, has anyone looked into why women find other women attractive? the science of what is going on in our brains and some such?
this isn’t scientific but I think boobs is a popular answer
boobs are magical, seriously, watching boobs has been known to lower high blood pressure. thats from a legit study! ( probably done by dudes to find the benefits of strippers but in this case humanity is at stake so who am i to argue?)
I don’t know of any current or well-known study, but I’ve totally thought of this, too! I think humans in general are attracted to the way another person smells without even thinking about it, so it would be nice to know how a woman or a non-binary person is affected by the pheromones of their female or non-binary partner(s).
it so would, hopefully, the next virginia johnson and bill masters if they are out there will answer this for us
At first I was like, oh great, more gay hipsters being ironically sexist. But after reading about the project, I think I would totes buy that book of crudely drawn vagaina art.
Also, I can’t believe I just misspelled vagina.
I would totes buy this too, except aren’t they drawing vulvas not vaginas?
+ Boobs: sexy, and useful. Patricia Highsmith smuggled snails with hers. I re-read that at least 3 times and still uttered a very loud, “WHAT?!” and then I read her story and I wish I hadn’t.
Okay come on now that instructional video isn’t real. It can’t be. Can it?