Why Do We Demonize Men Who Are Honest About Their Sexual Needs? Is Birth Control Preventive Medicine? Study: Men fake orgasm, too. Women aren't the only ones who feign pleasure in bed, according to a new study.
Men fake orgasm, too. In a study of more than 200 college students, 25 percent of men and half of the women reported that they'd acted out an orgasm during sexual activity. The biggest motivation to fake it? Wanting sex to end without the awkwardness of hurting their partner's feelings. The research is published in the November issue of the Journal of Sex Research. Acting out orgasms Studies have consistently shown that between half and two-thirds of women have faked orgasm at some point. The new study, carried out by psychologists at the University of Kansas, asked 180 college-age men and 101 college-age women questions about their sexual histories. Almost 100 percent of those surveyed had experienced some sort of partnered sexual stimulation, whether manual or oral. Intercourse turned out to be a major predictor of whether someone had faked it.
Why fake? Related on LiveScience.com: The Dawn of Swinging: An Interview With Christopher Ryan. Sex at Dawn, the new book on prehistoric human sexuality by Dr.
(of psychology) Christopher Ryan and Dr. (of psychiatry) Cacilda Jethá, has already gotten heaps of media attention—with good reason. Using evidence from psychology, archeology, physiology, anthropology and primatology, the book traces the sexual behavior of our hunter-gatherer ancestors and comes to a culture-shocking but inescapable conclusion: as a species, Homo sapiens is not naturally monogamous. Intelligent, iconoclastic, and wildly entertaining, the book takes on the "standard narrative" of the withholding female and the jealous male and turns it on its head. Reviews and interviews abound summarizing, praising and challenging the work, but we wanted to know: what does all this mean for the sexual activists and adventurers of the modern world? I asked Christopher Ryan some questions about the things that matter to those who care about sexual freedom.
Monogamy unnatural for our sexy species. Christopher Ryan: True nature of our sexuality silenced by religious authorities, societyFor 95 percent of our evolution, men and women shared partners, children, Ryan saysRyan: Advent of agriculture brought idea of private property, women as possessionsNonpossessive sexuality is natural, but we can opt to be monogamous, he writes Editor's note: Christopher Ryan is a psychologist, teacher and the co-author, along with Cacilda Jethá, of "Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality," published by Harper Collins.
(CNN) -- Seismic cultural shifts about 10,000 years ago rendered the true story of human sexuality so subversive and threatening that for centuries, it has been silenced by religious authorities, pathologized by physicians, studiously ignored by scientists and covered up by moralizing therapists. In recent decades, the debate over human sexual evolution has entertained only two options: Humans evolved to be either monogamists or polygamists. "But we're not apes! " Nudists fight for bare essentials as swingers invade holiday colony - Europe, World. A long-simmering war between two tribes of the unclothed – "traditional" nudists and so-called "libertines" or exponents of free sex – exploded into a public protest at the town's council meeting this week.
Old-fashioned naturists have been complaining for years that Cap d'Agde's once-sedate nudist quarter has been disfigured by an influx of partner-swapping clubs and raunchy hotels. A flurry of arson attacks on sex clubs two years ago was blamed on low-level terrorism by nudist fundamentalists. At this week's Cap d'Agde council meeting, the protests took a more peaceful form. Old-fashioned nudists complained that they, and their children, were being confronted with "voyeurist" and "exhibitionist" behaviour, including sexual acts in public. Worse, they suggested, the "deviant" newcomers sometimes walked about in their clothes and mocked the "real" nudists.
About 30 traditional nudists (fully dressed) applauded her words from the public gallery. Seniors Are Having Lots of Sex.