PARENTS should avoid trying to convince their teenage children of the difference between right and wrong when talking to them about sex, a new government leaflet is to advise. Instead, any discussion of values should be kept “light” to encourage teenagers to form their own views, according to the brochure, which one critic has called [...]
Posts Tagged ‘reproduction’
Objectification of women
Sexy women in bikinis really do inspire some men to see them as objects, according to a new study of male behavior. Brain scans revealed that when men are shown pictures of scantily clad women, the region of the brain associated with tool use lights up. Men were also more likely to associate images of [...]
Adaptation and reproductive nurturing trump conflict in evolutionary fitness
First, this stuffy gem: Adaptation is one of the driving forces behind evolution, along with selection and the appearance of new species, say a group of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München researchers, but they say that the interpretation familiar since Darwin – these processes increase the “fitness” of the species overall, since, of two competing species, only the [...]
Are gender differences innate or learned?
Throughout the world, boys and girls prefer to play with different types of toys. Boys typically like to play with cars and trucks, while girls typically choose to play with dolls. Why is this? A traditional sociological explanation is that boys and girls are socialized and encouraged to play with different types of toys by [...]
Where did all these pedophiles come from?
While authorities say tough laws are already in place to deal with child pornographers, rapidly evolving technologies and a lack of consensus among experts about why people abuse children makes it nearly impossible to “arrest our way out of this.” Officials estimate there are at least 65,000 people in Canada — and up to 600,000 [...]
How slutty are people?
A new nationwide survey, using high-tech methods to solicit candid answers on sexual activity and illegal drug use, finds that 29 percent of American men report having 15 or more female sexual partners in a lifetime, while only 9 percent of women report having sex with 15 or more men. The median number of lifetime [...]
Eugenics approved for limiting Down’s Syndrome babies
A new pre-natal screening program in Denmark has halved the number of babies with Down’s Syndrome. The success of the program, undeniably a form of eugenics, raises a number of questions about how far people should go with pre-natal screening – and what kinds of conditions merit termination of a pregnancy. Many people, including the [...]
More on British decline into third world through bad breeding
A survey has revealed young British women are more promiscuous than their male counterparts and more likely to be unfaithful. The study of 2000 women in the UK, commissioned by More magazine, found that by the age of 21, women have had an average of nine sexual partners – two more than their male partner. [...]
How Feminism enslaved women
All this fear around sex made for great tension in boy-girl relationships. On the other hand, I never for a minute gave up the difficult search for a mate. I was brought up to believe, and still believe, that who you marry is the most important choice you make in life. Does that make me [...]
The politicization of hair
Is short hair a conscious – or unconscious – signal that a woman is not interested in sex? { snip } In ages in which inadequate nutrition played havoc with beauty, resplendent hair was a sign of fruitfulness, its unleashing implying the intimacy of the bedchamber. Where long hair suggested sex, short hair has been [...]
