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Sep 2, 2008 5:26 AM CDT

Scientists Find 'Divorce Gene'

Gene linked to poor bonding

(Newser) - Some men may be hard-wired to form strong marital bonds and others more genetically likely to divorce—or never marry, according to a new study. Researchers have found that men with a variant of a gene linked to a hormone released during sex were less likely to develop strong emotional...

Athletes' Village Is a 'Sex-Fest'

olympics

Aug 22, 2008 3:02 PM CDT

Athletes' Village Is a 'Sex-Fest'

(Newser) - The Olympic village overflows with world-class athletes, and they're doing about what you'd expect thousands of buff, healthy young people voluntarily crammed into a confined space to do: have sex, and plenty of it. "I am not implying, for one moment, that every athlete in Beijing is at it,...

Women on Pill
Choose the
'Wrong' Man

Aug 13, 2008 3:55 AM CDT

Women on Pill Choose the 'Wrong' Man

Oral contraceptives twists choice based on smell

(Newser) - The pill skews women's choice of partners because the contraceptive disrupts the sense of smell, according to new research. Women usually seek partners who have an odor that indicates dissimilar genes. That's important because a gene mix tends to produce healthier offspring. But research shows women using the pill tend...

The Sexiest
Music Videos
Ever Made

Aug 5, 2008 12:39 PM CDT

The Sexiest Music Videos Ever Made

Nerve chooses 50 classics that still turn us on

(Newser) - From "Love Shack" to "Sexual Healing," sex and music videos have always gone hand in hand. Nerve lists its picks for the 50 sexiest videos of all time:

"Addicted to Love," Robert Palmer: The stone-faced models shimmying behind Palmer exude a cool '80s sexuality.

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Cuckold's Web Vendetta Wrecks Banker's Career

ANALYSIS

Aug 5, 2008 10:59 AM CDT

Cuckold's Web Vendetta Wrecks Banker's Career

Bitter online campaign pays off when ex-wife's disgraced lover resigns

(Newser) - The resignation last week of a top Wall Street banker, supposedly to “spend more time with his family,” was actually the result of a successful Internet vendetta by the cuckolded husband of a woman with whom Steve Rattner had had an affair. Rattner tells the New York Times...

7 Reasons to Get Hitched

Aug 3, 2008 6:55 PM CDT

7 Reasons to Get Hitched

Marriage has physical, emotional and financial benefits

(Newser) - If you're considering getting married—or divorced—it may be time to mull over Maclean's reasons why matrimony is healthy:

Married people have less chance of dying from car accidents, cancer, cirrhosis of the liver, heart attacks, and homicide.
Men who divorce or separate are six times more likely to

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Why Take the Risk
of Public Sex?

column

Jul 20, 2008 5:20 PM CDT

Why Take the Risk of Public Sex?

Confessionals, beaches, bathrooms: 22% of Americans are oddly willing

(Newser) - The story of a quickie in an office bathroom got one scribe wondering: Why risk job, humiliation, and even prison to do it in a public place? Diane Mapes admits in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to fooling around by a river, but never on a beach or a church during Mass—...

Vasectomy Is
Young Man's Pill

Jul 15, 2008 11:44 AM CDT

Vasectomy Is Young Man's Pill

More under-40s opt for the liberating procedure

(Newser) - Once exclusive to the over-40 crowd, vasectomies are increasingly popular among young men who want condom-free sex and no fears of Daddydom. But there's also a control component, writes Richard Morgan in Details: These men are taking charge of birth control, not leaving it up to the woman. "I...

Wife Shouldn't Worry
Laura Bush: Dowd

OPINION

Jul 9, 2008 1:11 PM CDT

Wife Shouldn't Worry Laura Bush: Dowd

First lady is sympathetic character in controversial novel

(Newser) - Words like "smear" and "gossip" have flown around American Wife, the novel probing the secret life of Laura Bush, but the book itself is pretty harmless, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times. Kings and queens have always inspired art, Dowd notes, and Wife isn’t sensationalist—...

Sex Revolution for
Granny & Gramps

Jul 9, 2008 5:42 AM CDT

Sex Revolution for Granny & Gramps

Over 70s enjoying more nookie than ever

(Newser) - Men and women in their 70s are having more sex than ever, according to a series of surveys. Over a 30-year period the number of married men still enjoying sex in their 70s increased from 58% to 62%, while that figure jumped 38% to 58% for married women, the Independent ...

'Laura Bush'
No Conservative
in New Novel

GLOSSIES

Jul 7, 2008 4:44 PM CDT

'Laura Bush' No Conservative in New Novel

Character has an abortion, describes sex with future president

(Newser) - In a new book unlikely to top the presidential reading list, author Curtis Sittenfeld fictionalizes the story of Laura Bush. Radar got a sneak peek and calls the novel "a masterful highbrow-lowbrow mash-up." The narrator is a librarian who falls in love with a future president upon seeing...

Brinkley Ex 'Fesses Up
to Sex Mania

Jul 3, 2008 10:52 AM CDT

Brinkley Ex 'Fesses Up to Sex Mania

Tearfully admits to affairs, $3,000-a-month porn habit

(Newser) - Cheating hubby Peter Cook was in tears during Christie Brinkley’s sensational divorce trial yesterday—which the supermodel insisted be open to the public—as he confessed to a laundry list of sexual excesses including spending $3,000 a month on porn, pleasuring himself on web cams, and trolling swinger...

YouTube Divorcee Hubby Goes to Court

Jun 28, 2008 8:38 AM CDT

YouTube Divorcee Hubby Goes to Court

NY Theater mogul 'mortified' to see 'whole life' on Web

(Newser) - "I felt absolutely awful, I was humiliated, I was embarrassed, I was hurt," the husband of YouTube sensation Patricia Walsh-Smith said yesterday in a New York divorce court. "I felt violated in every sense of the word." Philip Smith was telling his side of the story—...

HIV Rate Soars 12%
Among Young Gay Men

Jun 27, 2008 2:28 AM CDT

HIV Rate Soars 12% Among Young Gay Men

Black gays hit by biggest jump in 'second wave' AIDS epidemic

(Newser) - HIV infection rates are rising by 12% annually among young gay men aged 13 to 24—and even more among young black men, the Washington Post reports. That's 10 times higher than the overall gay community, possibly because younger men have “not been personally affected by AIDS in the...

Hef Had
Family
Foursome,
Gay Tryst

Jun 23, 2008 11:00 AM CDT

Hef Had Family Foursome, Gay Tryst

Playboy founder green-lights a sex-filled biography

(Newser) - Hugh Hefner has signed off on a new biography that delves into the Playboy kingpin's sexual liberation, the New York Post reports. In "Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream," Steven Watts writes how the skin-mag magnate had a foursome with his first wife, his brother Keith...

Hollywood's
Hottest
Hookers

Jun 18, 2008 12:51 PM CDT

Hollywood's Hottest Hookers

Entertainment Weekly salutes the world's oldest profession

(Newser) - The world's oldest profession has helped many an actor get a leg up in Hollywood—onscreen. With Showtime airing the British hit Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Entertainment Weekly salutes cinema's top 25 sex workers, including:

Jane Fonda (Klute): Fonda says she based her Oscar-winning performance on the prostitutes

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Lusty She-Chimps
Emulate SATC

Jun 18, 2008 12:31 PM CDT

Lusty She-Chimps Emulate SATC

Females mate with as many males as possible

(Newser) - New research into the sex lives of chimpanzees compares the behavior of females to their peers in the urban jungle of Sex and the City. Female chimps are promiscuous, hoping to fool several male Mr. Bigs into thinking they fathered offspring, and noisy, to attract other partners. Dominant males are...

Did the Butler Do It With Di?

Jun 16, 2008 10:20 AM CDT

Did the Butler Do It With Di?

Brother-in-law tells tab Paul Burrell confessed to 'kinky' confabs with princess

(Newser) - Did Princess Diana bed her royal butler? That’s what Paul Burrell's brother-in-law tells the News of the World, per a 1993 pub confession. "He suddenly tells me he's been having a sexual relationship with Princess Diana," Ron Cosgrove said. “He said they did it in the...

Get Ready
for Some Hot Robot Lovin'

Jun 15, 2008 5:10 PM CDT

Get Ready for Some Hot Robot Lovin'

People will sleep with robots in 5 years, love them in 40, experts say

(Newser) - Human-robot love is no longer the stuff of science fiction, AFP reports. At least one researcher predicts that 40 years from now, robots will tell you stories, make you laugh, and swear that they love you. As for sex, robots will be capable of it in 5 years: It's "...

Jolie Talks Mommies, Killers

Jun 12, 2008 12:33 PM CDT

Jolie Talks Mommies, Killers

Actress gives scoop on 2 very diverse roles

(Newser) - Angelina Jolie was shocked to learn she and Brad Pitt were expecting twins but also, perhaps unnecessarily, tells Entertainment Weekly that pregnancy can be good for the sex life. She also discusses talking politics with Clint Eastwood, the challenges of getting ready to have six kids under 8, Billy Bob...