1. Adolescents in intact families are less likely to become sexually active compared to peers in non-intact families. 2. Girls who experienced a parental separation during childhood are more likely to engage in early sexual activity. 3. Among girls in intact families, those who report having a close relationship with their fathers are less likely [...]
Posts Tagged ‘reproduction’
Why are there so few white people?
Here’s a hint — they’re polarized by gender and personal drama: Here’s Jeff from Middleburg, Florida: “I am not going to hitch my wagon to a woman . . . who is more into her abs, thighs, triceps, and plastic surgery. A woman who seems to have forgotten that she did graduate high school and [...]
Grow up about sexuality already
Typical sleight of hand — they project what they’re thinking, imply a negative judgment, but never say it so they can’t be criticized: MALE science students are a university’s most likely virgins while females who study arts subjects are the most sexually active, Australian researchers say. { snip } It found arts students were “younger, [...]
Why Britain is failing
BRITISH men and women are now the most promiscuous of any big western industrial nation, researchers have found. In an international index measuring one-night stands, total numbers of partners and attitudes to casual sex, Britain comes out ahead of Australia, the US, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. The researchers behind the study say high [...]
People breed for money
Indeed, lawyers and financial advisers have reported a 50 per cent increase in the number of divorce inquiries since the financial markets collapsed in September. A recent survey conducted by community website makefriendsonline revealed that a third of 10,000 respondents believe that financial hardship will cause a relationship to fail, while matrimonial law specialists Mishcon [...]
Are you third world or first world, in bed?
She found that men who were judged to be more “masculine” and women who were considered more “attractive”, were likely to be seen as more inclined towards casual sex – and to actually be so (Evolution and Human Behavior, vol 29, p 211). { snip } It also raises the more fundamental question of why [...]
I’m surrounded by morons: sex ed for five year olds
Here’s a typically brainless modern artifact: The children of De Burght School in Amsterdam walk past the red-light district to their classrooms every day, past the “Peep Shows, Live Girls,” the risqué underwear shops and the newsagents selling teen magazines with free condoms. At school the five-year-olds play mummies and daddies in the playground knowing [...]
Can we admit sexuality is genetic yet?
Yes, as mentioned before, some people are molested young and so become homosexual. But for most people sexuality is defined in the womb. The nature-versus-nurture debate rages on, but a new study of transsexuals has shown genetics plays a key role in determining our sense of gender. { snip } Researchers measured the variation in [...]
Lowest common denominator, path of least resistance
“Prostitution causes deep psychological harm,” says Melissa Farley, Ph.D., a research and clinical psychologist and founder and executive director of the nonprofit group Prostitution Research and Education in San Francisco. “The words that are said to these women on the job, the names they are called by their [customers] and pimps hurt them emotionally. They [...]
Conservatives: homosexuality is not a "choice" (but restrained sexuality is)
The brains of gay men and women look like those found in heterosexual people of the opposite sex, research suggests. The Swedish study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, compared the size of the brain’s halves in 90 adults. Gay men and heterosexual women had halves of a similar size, [...]
