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When scientists exposed men to women’s tears, they expected the men to respond with sympathetic emotions. Instead, they lost interest in sex. In several experiments, researchers found that men who sniffed drops of women’s emotional tears became less sexually aroused than when they sniffed a neutral saline solution that had been dribbled down women’s cheeks. While the studies were not …

Next year San Francisco’s voters may see a ballot question that would ban the circumcision of males under 18 years old. “It’s genital mutilation,” said Lloyd Schofield, the author of a San Francisco ballot measure that would make it a “misdemeanor to circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate the…genitals” of a person under 18. Baby boys in San Francisco may be …

In what they are calling the “largest nationally representative study of sexual and sexual-health behaviors ever fielded,” a just-released survey commissioned by Indiana University says that 8% of adult American men self-identify as gay or bisexual, with 7% of women identifying as lesbian or bisexual. Those numbers are almost triple the percentages claimed by some anti-gay groups. ABC News takes …

Over at Box Turtle Bulletin Rob Tisinai tips us to this fascinating BBC clip in which openly gay actor John Barrowman undergoes a brain scan while looking at nude images of men and women. Researchers can conclude the primary sexual orientation of their subjects by measuring the brain’s electrical responses as the images are viewed. We hereby issue an open …

Everything from “Spin The Bottle” to stuff whose meaning I shudder to wonder. Visit the Human Sex Map to click off what you’ve already tried and liked, tried and hated, and so on.

(Via – The Advocate)

“Why do so many effeminate gay men prefer in their partners the very masculinity they’ve bleached out of themselves? The obvious answer is that they’re attracted to their opposites. But that answer only goes so far. Effeminate men may lust for their masculine counterparts but most masculine men don’t return the favor. “Effeminate men get hoisted on their own chiffon …

The British Medical Association yesterday declared “ex-gay” therapies to be harmful and called for investigating any doctor that attempts to “cure” homosexuality. Via Pink News: The body met in Brighton yesterday and more than two-thirds of doctors present backed a call for the Royal College of Psychiatrists and other mental health standard-setting bodies to reject the treatments and ban their …

Last night Dan Savage emailed us with the tip that a doctor in Florida is treating pregnant women with a drug she hopes will prevent babies from being born lesbian. Savage: Pediatric endocrinologist Maria New—of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Florida International University—isn’t just trying to prevent lesbianism by treating pregnant women with an experimental hormone. She’s also …

“In the discreet white-collar realm, men and women are interchangeable, doing the same, mind-based work. Physicality is suppressed; voices are lowered and gestures curtailed in sanitized office space. Men must neuter themselves, while ambitious women postpone procreation. Androgyny is bewitching in art, but in real life it can lead to stagnation and boredom, which no pill can cure. “Meanwhile, family …

“If I’m going to be with a woman sexually, it doesn’t mean I’m a lesbian. We put these restraints and definitions on people, but it’s hard to define. Sexuality and love can be different things. I can be attracted to a woman sexually, but it doesn’t mean I want to be in love with a woman.” – Cameron Diaz, speaking …

An attempt by Canadian researchers to compare the sex lives of men who watch porn with men who never have was called off because they couldn’t find any subjects for the latter group. Scientists at the University of Montreal had to change the focus of their project after failing to find a single male aged in his 20s who hadn’t …

Over the complaints of more than 100 parents, Ames, Iowa is backing a librarian’s decision that a sex advice magazine written by and for teenagers remain on the shelves. The above image is a screen shot from magazine’s website. A teen sex magazine will stay on the shelves at the Ames Public Library despite a petition signed by more than …

“If you have been gay your whole life and feel that that’s the way God made you, God bless you. But I would still say that that doesn’t mean you should act on that. I would happen to say, for instance, that God made me with a pretty short temper. Now, I still think God loves me, but I can’t …

A just-released report from the Centers for Disease Control says that gay and bisexual men contract HIV/AIDS at a rate fifty times higher than the general population. To my knowledge, the CDC has not previously made such a comparison, instead relying on the raw data of confirmed cases. CDC official Dr. Amy Lansky announced today at a plenary session of …

We may be adding yet another letter to the LGBT alphabet soup as asexuals are coming out of the closet and joining Pride parades to announce that they are perfectly OK with their lack of interest in sex. “It does raise questions about the nature of love,” said Anthony Bogaert, a sexologist at Brock University in Ontario who estimated the …

Porno Pete LaBarbera is determined that no one in United States be allowed to enjoy sexual freedom. To that end, he’s now turned his piggy lust-filled eyes to the straight world’s cavalcade of kinkster and swing events, calling on his erect-for-Jeebus followers to deluge an Ohio hotel with complaints about a planned swinger/SM party. In his latest missive, LaBabera’s tongue …

Over at World Net Daily and on Free Republic the wingnuts are going crazy over the claim that a rural high school teacher in Wisconsin gave high school seniors a questionnaire that asked these questions: What do you think caused your heterosexuality? When and how did you decide you were a heterosexual? Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just …