Anthropology. Society and custom. 13 Spanish Curse Words That Make No Sense In English. Teen Sex Study Shows Racy Movies & Online Content Have Little Effect On Adolescent Sexuality. By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 04/25/2013 07:30 AM EDT on LiveScience Watching sexy movies and TV shows or accessing sexually explicit content online may influence how teens have sex — but only slightly, new research finds.
Teenagers in the Netherlands who watch sexually explicit media are more likely than other teens to have sex for money and to try new sexual behaviors, according to a new study published Thursday (April 25) in The Journal of Sexual Medicine. Baby Consciousness Seen In Infants As Young As Five Months, Brain Waves Show. By Paul Gabrielsen.
Pope orders Vatican officials to tackle child sex abuse scandals. Pope Francis has directed the Vatican to act decisively on ecclesiastic sex abuse cases and take measures against paedophile priests, saying the Catholic church's credibility was on the line.
The announcement was quickly dismissed by victims' advocates as just more talk. "Once again … a top Catholic official says he's asking another top Catholic official to take action about paedophile priests and complicit bishops," said Barbara Dorris, an official of Snap, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, a US-based organisation. "Big deal. Roman erotica lacks a sense of sin. Sex is a highlight of the British Museum's exhibition Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, as I point out in my review.
The villas and brothels of Pompeii were full of erotic paintings, sculptures and kinky artefacts. Yet this art lacks something essential to modern sex. Playing games with culture. 25 March 2013Last updated at 20:36 ET By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News BioShock Infinite creative director Ken Levine on the key to his success Sometimes a video game is more than just a game.
Especially when it is written and created by Ken Levine. Empathy in Negotiations Can Both Help and Hinder. In table tennis matches, marital spats and job negotiations, you are advised to get inside the other person's head.
But that can mean one of two things: to cognitively take that person's perspective or to emotionally empathize. New research reported in the January issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin explores these two approaches and shows that there is a time and a place for each. In a complex war game, players decided in each round whether to disarm or attack. What Japanese history lessons leave out. Japanese people often fail to understand why neighbouring countries harbour a grudge over events that happened in the 1930s and 40s.
The reason, in many cases, is that they barely learned any 20th Century history. I myself only got a full picture when I left Japan and went to school in Australia. 'Granny,' 'Prostate' And 'Mom And Son': The Most Searched-For Porn Terms From Around The World. What do your porn preferences say about you?
Does an Italian get off differently than a German? Does someone from the U.S. South have different sexual inclinations than a Yankee. Don't answer those questions. Denied the chance to cheat or steal, people turn to violent video games. A new study suggests that people get frustrated when they are offered the opportunity to cheat or steal and that chance is then taken away from them.
Other studies have shown that blocking people from achieving their positive goals increases frustration, which is not surprising. But this is the first to show that even denying people the chance to commit forbidden behaviors can increase frustration. The commoners who married royalty. 11 March 2013Last updated at 11:51 ET Princess Lilian's romance with Prince Bertil became one of Sweden's best-known love stories Despite her Welsh background and fairytale life, the late Princess Lilian of Sweden was not a household name in the UK.
She was also not the first commoner to marry royalty. The BBC looks at others, including the Duchess of Cambridge. Richard Burton Was A Great Writer. The Richard Burton DiariesEdited by Chris Williams (Yale University Press, 693 pp., $35) The entire world is increasingly using Facebook. Back in 2009, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tweaked his famous social network's mission to read: "Making the world open and connected. " Three years later, the world appears to have heard him loud and clear.
A new set of maps from social media strategist Vincenzo Cosenza reveals the most popular social network in nearly every country around the world, and the map for December 2012 shows that Facebook now dominates 127 of the 137 countries tracked by Internet ranker Alexa, with over 1 billion monthly active users. The growth mainly came from Asia, where the site has 278 million users, compared with Europe's 251 million, according to The Next Web. (Zuckerberg may hail from the States, but North America is actually ranked third in Facebook users, with 243 million). There are very few countries left for Facebook to complete its mission, and those where it hasn't yet penetrated tend to have government controls in place.
'Universal' personality traits don't necessarily apply to isolated indigenous people. Five personality traits widely thought to be universal across cultures might not be, according to a study of an isolated Bolivian society. Researchers who spent two years looking at 1,062 members of the Tsimane culture found that they didn't necessarily exhibit the five broad dimensions of personality -- openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism -- also known as the "Big Five. " The American Psychological Association's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published the study online Dec. 17. While previous research has found strong support for the Big Five traits in more developed countries and across some cultures, these researchers discovered more evidence of a Tsimane "Big Two:" socially beneficial behavior, also known as prosociality, and industriousness.
These Big Two combine elements of the traditional Big Five, and may represent unique aspects of highly social, subsistence societies. The Real Rationale for the 2nd Amendment, That Right-Wingers Are Totally Ignorant About. Right-wing resistance to meaningful gun control is driven, in part, by a false notion that America’s Founders adopted the Second Amendment because they wanted an armed population that could battle the U.S. government. The opposite is the truth, but many Americans seem to have embraced this absurd, anti-historical narrative.
The reality was that the Framers wrote the Constitution and added the Second Amendment with the goal of creating a strong central government with a citizens-based military force capable of putting down insurrections, not to enable or encourage uprisings. The key Framers, after all, were mostly men of means with a huge stake in an orderly society, the likes of George Washington and James Madison. President George Washington, as Commander-in-Chief, leading a combined force of state militias against the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. Crisis in Syria has Mesopotamian precedent, experts say. Myths And Decision Making. Viewpoint: How hackers exploit 'the seven deadly sins' 16 December 2012Last updated at 19:10 ET. Students. Your Cheat Sheet for New Facebook Emoticons. George Harrison Jacket Sells For £110K At Bonhams Auction. 7 Ways Women and Girls Are Stereotyped, Sexualized, and Underrepresented on Screen.
Relative length of adults' fingers indicator of verbal aggression: Prenatal exposure to testosterone linked. Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo: "Let the People Die but the Minerals Flow" The crisis in the Middle East has attracted a great deal of international attention and emotions. Bad baby advice: a history. Fergie time: Does it really exist?
23 November 2012Last updated at 23:09 GMT By Charlotte Pritchard BBC News. Revealed: How Ronald Reagan, J. Egdar Hoover, and the FBI Plotted to Crush 1960s Dissidents. Why Is Arizona Still Counting Votes? James Buchanan Duke: Father of the modern cigarette. The Tragedy of the Commons. Caffeine improves recognition of positive words. Open mouth means closed mind: Behavior of U.S. Supreme Court justices predicts their votes. New computational method for timing the tree of life. The Female Prostitute That Rose to Become One of the Most Powerful Pirates in History and Whose Armada Took on the Chinese, British, and Portuguese Navies… and Won. 10 Books that Screwed Up The World. Evolution: New understandings of how populations change over time. Obama has better leadership skills, survey shows. A Record 24 Million Latinos Are Eligible to Vote, But Turnout Rate Has Lagged That of Whites, Blacks. Growing Concerns in China about Inequality, Corruption.
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