The ugly truth about one night stands

The ugly truth about one night stands Only the best looking men tempt women into casual sex Men are far more interested in casual sex than women. While men need to be exceptionally at-tractive to tempt women to consider casual sex, men are far less choosy  Read on

Rating attractiveness: Study finds consensus among men, not women

Rating attractiveness: Study finds consensus among men, not women Hot or not? Men agree on the answer. Women don’t.

There is much more consensus among men about whom they find attractive than there is among women, according to a new study by Wake Forest University psychologist Dustin Wood. Read on 

Teens are heading in wrong direction: Likely to have sex, but not use contraception

Teens are heading in wrong direction: Likely to have sex, but not use contraception Between 2003 and 2007, the progress made in the 1990s and early 2000s in improving teen contraceptive use and reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing stalled, and may even have reversed among certain groups of teens  according to the study “Changing Behavior Risk for Pregnancy Among High School Students in the United States, 1991�,” by John S. Santelli, MD, MPH, professor and chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in conjunction with researchers at Guttmacher Institute.  Read on

Stress puts double whammy on reproductive system, fertility

Stress puts double whammy on reproductive system, fertility University of California, Berkeley, researchers have found what they think is a critical and, until now, missing piece of the puzzle about how stress causes sexual dysfunction and infertility. Read on

Religious devotion does not impact abortion decisions of young unwed women

	Religious devotion does not impact abortion decisions of young unwed women Sociologist finds that factors such as grades and parents’ education are more influential than religious involvement for pregnant teens and young adults who face abortion decision
Unwed pregnant teens and twenty-somethings who attend or have graduated from private religious schools are more likely to obtain abortions than their peers from public schools, according to sociological research published in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.  Read on

Partner status influences women’s interest in men

	Partner status influences women’s interest in men A study by Indiana University neuroscientist Heather Rupp found that a woman’s partner status influenced her interest in the opposite sex
In the study, women both with and without sexual partners showed little difference in their subjective ratings of photos of men when considering such measures as masculinity and attractiveness. However, the women who did not have sexual partners spent more time evaluating photos of men, demonstrating a greater interest in the photos. Read on

Fathers respond to teens’ risky sexual behavior with increased supervision

	Fathers respond to teens’ risky sexual behavior with increased supervision Two-thirds of American teenagers have sex by the time they’re 18. A new longitudinal study finds that when adolescents engage in risky sexual activity, fathers respond by increasing their efforts to supervise and monitor their children.
Researchers at Boston College, the University of Pittsburgh, and Harvard University conducted the study, which appears in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Child Development.  Read on

Is love at first sight real? Geneticists offer tantalizing clues

Is love at first sight real? Geneticists offer tantalizing clues Research published in the journal Genetics shows that the reproductive outcome of a mated pair depends on pre-existing gene expression in the female and on the male with whom she mates

Leave it to geneticists to answer a question that has perplexed humanity since the dawn of time: does love at first sight truly exist? According to a study published in the April 2009 issue of the journal GENETICS (http://www.genetics.org), a team of scientists from the United States and Australia discovered that at the genetic level, some males and females are more compatible than others, and that this compatibility plays an important role in mate selection, mating outcomes, and future reproductive behaviors.  Read on

Sexual behaviour at work still a problem shows new study from Rotman School

Sexual behaviour at work still a problem shows new study from Rotman School Be careful of that raunchy joke that gets all the laughs. As funny as folks at work may find it, it’s probably hurting morale.

That’s one conclusion of a groundbreaking new paper from the Journal of Applied Psychology co-authored by researchers from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Management. The study’s authors looked at the effect of sexual behavior in the workplace such as sexual jokes, innuendo, discussions of sexual matters or flirtation. And in a research first, they investigated if men and women got anything positive out of the behaviour, such as enjoyment and social bonding. Read on

More than 20 percent of sexual assaults drug-facilitated

More than 20% of sexual assaults in a sample of 882 victims were drug-facilitated sexual assaults, found a new study published in CMAJ http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg513.pdf. Victims of drug-facilitated sexual assault were more likely than others to present to a large urban centre and to be employed, and to have consumed over-the-counter medications, street drugs, and alcohol before the assault.  Read on