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The Larger Your Penis, The More Likely Your Wife Will Cheat Says New Study. Men often view having a large member as a symbol of strength and sexual prowess.

The Larger Your Penis, The More Likely Your Wife Will Cheat Says New Study

But it turns out, when it comes to keeping a woman satisfied, bigger may not be better. Contrary to popular belief, a new study out of Kenya found that husbands with larger penises were more likely to be cheated on by their wives (shocking, we know). For the study -- published this month in PLOSOne -- researchers interviewed 545 married couples in Kenya in order to better understand their relationship habits and, more specifically, to identify factors which contributed to women having extramarital affairs. Researchers asked both partners to self-report the male's erect penis size (they had a 15 inch ruler on hand for reference). Then, if there were differences between the estimates (which there were), they either took the average of the two or went with the estimate from the partner who was less likely to fib.

Sex Is Important to Many Midlife Women. Brenda Goodman HealthDay Reporter Posted: Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 7:00 AM MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- The mechanics of sex may become a bit more difficult after menopause, a new study finds.

Sex Is Important to Many Midlife Women

But most women will continue to be sexually active as long as they feel sex is important. The study, published online Feb. 10 in JAMA Internal Medicine, included 354 women who ranged in age from their 40s to mid-60s. All of the women reported being sexually active at the start of the study. Each year for four years, researchers queried the women about their menopausal status and physical health. After another four years, about 85 percent of the women continued to be sexually active. "Women who felt that sex was highly important were about three times as likely to continue having sex as women who thought it was a little or not important," said study author Dr. Thomas said that could mean a couple of things. Marx Is Back. The inscription on Karl Marx's tombstone in London's Highgate Cemetery reads, "Workers of all lands, unite.

Marx Is Back

" Of course, it hasn't quite ended up that way. As much buzz as the global Occupy movement managed to produce in a few short months, the silence is deafening now. And it's not often that you hear of shop workers in Detroit making common cause with their Chinese brethren in Dalian to stick it to the boss man. Indeed, as global multinational companies have eaten away at labor's bargaining power, the factory workers of the rich world have become some of the least keen on helping out their fellow wage laborers in poor countries. Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?

Ai Aoyama is a sex and relationship counsellor who works out of her narrow three-storey home on a Tokyo back street.

Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?

Her first name means "love" in Japanese, and is a keepsake from her earlier days as a professional dominatrix. Back then, about 15 years ago, she was Queen Ai, or Queen Love, and she did "all the usual things" like tying people up and dripping hot wax on their nipples. Her work today, she says, is far more challenging. Aoyama, 52, is trying to cure what Japan's media calls sekkusu shinai shokogun, or "celibacy syndrome".

Japan's under-40s appear to be losing interest in conventional relationships. The sign outside her building says "Clinic". When Power Goes To Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart. Neuroscientists have found evidence to suggest feeling powerful dampens a part of our brain that helps with empathy.

When Power Goes To Your Head, It May Shut Out Your Heart

Rave News - MASTURBATION PARTY LESS CREEPY THAN RAVES, SAYS 19 YEAR OLD GIRL - Tuesday May 28th, 2013. Leah Dufour, a 19 year old McGill student, has been a fixture of Montreal's party scene for the last several years.

Rave News - MASTURBATION PARTY LESS CREEPY THAN RAVES, SAYS 19 YEAR OLD GIRL - Tuesday May 28th, 2013

"I've been to countless clubs and countless dance parties," says the young woman, "but Wankfest is the only masturbation party I've been to, and it was by far the friendliest, most accepting and enjoyable event I've ever attended. " Masturbation parties originated in the United States in the summer of 1994, shortly after Joycelyn Elders, who was America's Surgeon General at the time, lost the support of the White House for suggesting that masturbation should be taught in Sex Ed classes. "We started throwing masturbation parties in solidarity with Joycelyn," says Phineas Hendrix, the owner of San Francisco's legendary four story Sexy Adult Fun Time Toyshop. Rave News - MASTURBATION PARTY LESS CREEPY THAN RAVES, SAYS 19 YEAR OLD GIRL - Tuesday May 28th, 2013.

Messaging Apps Invade Asia, Now the Most Active Social Networks in Japan and Korea (Infographic) We’ve been following the rapid progress of messaging apps very closely across Asia, and we’ve even noted that they might be a threat to the dominance of Facebook in the region.

Messaging Apps Invade Asia, Now the Most Active Social Networks in Japan and Korea (Infographic)

Now we have a clearer view of this seismic social shift in this new infographic. It shows that two nations have turned away from Facebook, Twitter and other large social sites in such numbers that a mobile-only chat app is now the leading social service in each of those places. Yes, South Korea now has 19 million daily active users on KakaoTalk, and Japan has 36 million active users on rival app Line. In Korea, Changes in Society and Family Dynamics Drive Rise in Elderly Suicides. Rather than quietly taking her life at home as many South Koreans do, the woman staged her death as a final act of public protest against a society she said had abandoned her.

In Korea, Changes in Society and Family Dynamics Drive Rise in Elderly Suicides

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed. Well I’m in the working world again.

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling. Because I had been living quite a different lifestyle while I was away, this sudden transition to 9-to-5 existence has exposed something about it that I overlooked before. 11 Hot Super-Innovative Mobile Messaging Apps from Asia. With the numbers Rick released on mobile messaging apps growth , and Willis’ post on how heated the mobile messaging battle is getting, I thought I’d take a look at the killer features that make messaging apps so strong with younger smartphone users in the region.

They’re all a big threat to Facebook Messenger (which seems to be imitating Asian chat apps in some respects) and the newer Facebook Poke. Why are these apps so hot? It all boils down to the virtual stickers and being so multimedia and immediate. Conception Bash at Dada. Is there a cure for alcohol hangovers?