• “Mercy Sex”: Shocking Study Reveals Why Women Have Sex With Men Even When They Don’t Want To

  Women who feel little or no sexual desire may still have sex two or three times a month — in some cases, to preserve their relationships and prevent their partners from leaving, researchers have found. Sometimes intimacy has little to do with passion...

• The Secret to Strong Love Lies in the Bedroom: Scientists Prove the Link Between Sexual Confidence and Happiness

  A recent online study conducted in Italy has shown that sexually assertive and confident individuals tend to experience greater satisfaction in their romantic relationships. At the same time, sexual self-esteem was found to be closely linked to both body appreciation and sexual assertiveness. The scientific paper was published in the journal Behavioral Sciences....

• 3.5 Times a Week: Scientists Calculate the Ideal "Sex Quota" for Couples in Love

  It seems logical: the deeper the love, the more frequent the sex. However, science reveals that in reality, things work quite differently...

• Steam-Powered Orgasms: How Victorian Doctors Treated Female "Hysteria" to Save Their Hands From Fatigue

  The Victorian era was every bit as puritanical and repressed as its reputation suggests; selling anything explicitly sexual was entirely taboo. By the mid-1800s, peddling pornographic literature could land you straight behind bars. And yet, just a couple of decades later in 1869 (a rather fitting year), the world's very first sex toy officially entered production...

• "Billionaires’ Vagina Club": Inside Silicon Valley's most exclusive and expensive gynecological service

  An exclusive gynecological practice, colloquially and boldly dubbed the "Billionaires’ Vagina Club," is gaining massive popularity in Silicon Valley. Wives of tech moguls, top executives, and philanthropists are willing to shell out tens of thousands of dollars a year for the sake of "healthmaxxing"—maximizing bodily optimization and extending sexual youthfulness...

• Viagra in a Bar: What Is TikTok’s Viral ‘Sex Chocolate’ and Does It Actually Work?

  Every few months, a new viral product hits TikTok Shop, Amazon, and beyond, leaving us wondering if we need to open our wallets again. Over the past year, the so-called "sex chocolate" by the brand Tabs has become a massive hit among couples—marketed as a fun new date-night activity, Vice reports...

• The 6/9 Effect: How Internet Users Turned a Simple Numerical Coincidence into June’s Biggest Sex "Holiday"

  Every year on June 9, Google search queries hit record highs, hashtags skyrocket to the top of trending lists, and people who have never even heard of "National Sex Day" suddenly find themselves wondering: why is this date taking over the entire internet...

• French women are losing interest in sex: “It’s boring”

  French writer the Marquis de Sade once argued that sex is as important as food or drink and should be indulged without false modesty. However, a new sociological study conducted by the French Institute of Public Opinion (Ifop) for the sex shop chain Espaceplaisir suggests that times — and young people’s attitudes toward physical intimacy — have changed dramatically, Euronews reports...

A sex application for Facebook social network has attracted a great deal of people, Lenta.ru informs quoting The Drum. The Bang with Friends application where a subscriber may openly speak up about own sexual preferences was downloaded for 20,000 times for one night.

On the application a subscriber may note those friends with whom he would prefer to sleep. According to the application creators, they intended to help people to speak up about their sexual preferences, and it is out of question that the names of those subscribers are confidential. 

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