Questions tagged [sexuality]
Use this tag for the psychological and social aspects of sex and sexual activities in general. Use [gender] for gender differences and gender issues (male/female/lgbt...); use [reproduction] for the reproductive process, which may or may not include sex or even gender.
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Did Socrates have a homosexual relationship with an Athenian statesman?
There are many conflicting accounts as to whether the Athenian statesman Alcibiades was a lover of Socrates. The Wikipedia page on Alcibiades' depiction in culture states:
"Alcibiades also ...
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Do most women enjoy sex?
The YouTube video by clinical psychologist, Dr. Whiten (Dr. Psych Mom) called "women do enjoy sex... in depth discussion about why you may not think so" makes the claim that most women enjoy ...
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Do children of gay and lesbian couples have a lower high-school graduation rate?
I recently came across this 2013 study: High school graduation rates among children of same-sex households which looks at a large sample of Canadian families, and concludes:
Children living with gay ...
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Does watching pornography increase sexual performance in women?
I am referring to these lines:
A recent study reported that increasing porn use is linked to
decreased sexual performance in men and increased sexual performance
in women.
Big Think - Is watching ...
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Did the Indonesian army have a virginity test for female recruits?
The original article is on Newsweek which I personally consider a reliable source.
The virginity check, which extended to military fiancées, involves someone placing two fingers into the vagina to ...
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Did the Danish Justice Ministry survey veterinarians about bestiality?
A 2015 Reuters article discusses Danish laws about bestiality, and refers to an earlier report:
A 2011 Justice Ministry report surveyed veterinarians and found 17 percent of them suspected that an ...
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Does it take two weeks for a single man to produce enough sperm to impregnate every fertile woman on Earth?
Fact Slides has a slide that claims:
A single human male produces enough sperm in two weeks to impregnate every fertile woman on the planet.
It sources a book of random facts
Is it true?
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Did a Cypriot bishop claim that homosexuality is caused when parents have anal sex?
The August 1, 2019 issue of MetroWeekly ("Washington D.C.'s Best LGBTQ Magazine for 25 Years"), on page 46, provides a "LastWord" quotation section that includes the following:
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Are men more likely than women to accept an offer for casual sex?
It is widely believed that men are more amenable to offers of casual sex than women.
(Note: This is a different claim to "men want casual sex more than women" or that "women are more easily able to ...
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Does homosexuality in males steeply decline with age?
The 2013 book My Genes Made Me Do It! Homosexuality and the Scientific Evidence (text) argues that homosexuality is, at most, only weakly and indirectly genetically based, and that conversion ...
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Are most women sexually aroused by videos of naked women?
I found this article claims:
74 percent of women who identified as “straight” were strongly sexually aroused by both men and women
I found another claim from Telegraph which is
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Have 5% of Danish men had sex with an animal?
From this 2015 New York Post article:
Some 5 percent of Danish men have had sex with an animal.
That seems completely outlandish to me. Bestiality seems like a very rare fetish. It's probably wrong ...
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Were early hunter-gatherers monogamous?
In an article, reporting on research by Mark Dyble, anthropologist, pre-agricultural human societies are described as predominantly monogamous:
Only when more resources became available, did sexual ...
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Fewer shared immune genes in a couple correlate with (or even cause) more female orgasms?
I found in a psychology blog that
Researchers have found that women who share fewer immune genes with their male partners also report more frequent orgasms (Garver-Apgar et al., 2006).
And the genes ...
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Does too much sex, or STDs, cause urination after sneezing?
From Billy Baldwin (verified user, 109 RTs, 805 likes, Wikipedia biography), referring to Jenna Jameson, who used to be a porn star:
Curious to know what might've caused that sneeze-pee condition of
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Does masturbation (or sex) help one focus better later?
From a NY Post article:
Kit Maloney, the founder of O’actually, a feminist porn production company, said that “masturbation [and] orgasm is like meditation. It allows the space for the brain to ...
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No gay porn star self-identifies as bottom?
In the book Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide (WW Norton 2009), it is stated on p. 180 that
Some men go both ways--calling themselves "versatile"--but this is ...
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Are more than 40% of millenials in Japan virgins?
CNN claims that a survey conducted by Japanese government claimed that 42% of men and 44.2% of women between 18 and 34 are virgins.
I'm not exactly doubting about the survey but more about that the ...
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AI can guess whether you're gay or straight – how do they get 91% success rate?
This article claims there is a software, that can say if a person is homosexual, based only on their facial images. The other article calls it "pseudoscience" though:
critics say we’re revisiting ...
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Would Egale's recommendations for law reform make anal sex legal at any age in Canada?
LifeSiteNews claims recommendations made by Egale, a Canadian LGBT advocacy organization, on changing laws would allow anal sex 'anytime, any place, with anyone'.
Specifically, it claims that the age ...
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Is 7:30-8:15am the best time to have sex?
Russian language media (as usual, citing usual unnamed "british researchers"), reported that 7:30-8:15am is the best time to have sex.
Британские исследователи назвали лучшее время для занятия ...
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Did some Moroccan teens contract rabies through bestiality?
Several news sources have reported that 15 teenagers contracted rabies in Morocco after having sex with a donkey, e.g. (in Spanish):
Morocco World News: 15 Teenagers Treated for Rabies After Engaging ...
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What is the economic burden of having transgender people in the US military?
Donald Trump recently said on Twitter that the US
... cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.
What are the medical and ...
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Do women rate 80% of men as "below average looking"?
From Reddit's "Today I Learned" section:
TIL Women find 80% of men below-average looking - according to research based on OkCupid's 7 million users.
Is this an accurate summary of OKCupid's research?
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Are brothels to have sex with animals increasing fast in Germany?
I've found some sources that explain this is a phenomenon that this is likely happening in Germany right now, although the sources for that are a bit old.
Dailymail claims on 1 July 2013:
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