Teen Sexuality – Sexy Mythology
It can be hard to keep straight from day to day: Are teenagers horny little devils or precious little angels? This week, according to the dominant media narrative, it seems to be the latter. After years of hand-wringing over the trend of teenagers texting each other naughty photos, the release of a new study on Monday prompted a flood of headlines like “‘Sexting’ Not a Common Practice for Young Teens” and “Only 1% of Teens Are Actually Sexting.”
So, what is it with the schizophrenic coverage?
More than anything, the coverage of this latest finding should highlight our cultural inability to look at teen sexuality with any nuance. The narrative tendency is to swing between the extreme poles of corruption and innocence. They are either hormonal, sex-crazed maniacs or innocents in need of protection. (more…)
Sex Addiction Crisis
With the Tiger Woods scandal officially behind us, the Daily Beast looks into our nation’s sex addiction epidemic—which now afflicts more than 9 million people and employs some 1,500 sex therapists. “Where it used to be 40- to 50-year-old men seeking treatment, now there are more females, adolescents, and senior citizens,” says one expert. Whether it’s online porn or a wild merry-go-round of sexual partners, millions of Americans are pursuing sex to sugar-coat long-suppressed emotional needs. Aided by the Internet and high-tech GPS gadgets, they can satisfy their needs faster than ever before. (more…)
Friendship – Best Basis for Relationships
When members of the opposite sex meet for the first time and there is an attraction, the parties seem to see each other in a seemingly perfect light, the other person can do no wrong and the likeness level is very high. This period can last for a long as well as short period of time, after which they start to see each other just the way they are, true colours begin to manifest themselves and the other person becomes human so to speak.
For those relationships that were formed on other factors apart from friendship, they tend to fail as soon as the novelty wears off especially if the appearance of the factor starts to dwindle. At such points, people start regretting the relationship because it dies out as quickly as it sprang up. (more…)
Do You Suffer From Sexsomnia
Have you ever been awoken in the dead of night by an acute stabbing sensation, only to realize your unconscious partner was having sex with you? There’s actually a word for that, and no, it’s not sleepscrewing — but it’s almost as dumb! It’s called “sexsomnia,” a term coined by Dr. Colin Shapiro in 2003 to describe “people who engage in sexual acts while they are asleep, such as masturbation, fondling, sexual intercourse and actions that would be sexual assault or rape were the sufferer conscious.”
Ryan Harris is a raging sexsomniac. His wife, Dee Harris, tells The Sun that their 16-month-old baby boy was conceived during one of his more vigorous episodes. (more…)
How Exercise Leads to Better Sex
Life energy and sexual energy are intertwined—you could say joined at the hip. Your sexuality is your passion print, which is as unique as a fingerprint. You can’t conceal or reveal it with the kind of clothes you wear either, whether it’s revealing blouses or sweats. You express your passion print by the way you move, the scent you emit, how you speak with your eyes, part your lips and breathe. However, constant stress, work, household responsibilities, overzealous parenting, an improper diet, a sedentary lifestyle, poor sleeping habits, cardiovascular disease and diabetes will put an end to feeling sexy everyday and every night, plain and simple.
No one can live a stress-free life. Be aware that stress is a cumulative process—small daily stressors add up and tend to overwhelm. Consequently, when you get out of balance both physically and emotionally, sex falls by the wayside. Are you angry at your spouse? At yourself? Do you feel anxious about having sex? The most efficient way to shed stress hormones and reduce anxiety is by exercising: move it out of the body and the mind. (more…)
Kamasutra 3D
This could shake the prudish souls off their wits. Ananga Ranga, an ancient classic erotic literature in Sanskrit, is going 3D. Young filmmaker Rupesh Paul’s upcoming project Kamasutra 3D is a period movie based on a sex manual written by arch-poet Kalyana Malla, related to the Lodi Dynasty, which ruled Delhi from 1451 to 1526. Malla wrote the script in honour of Lad Khan, son of Ahmed Khan Lodi. The original work was translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton (he also translated Kama Sutra) in 1885 and was published as Ananga Ranga. The eye-popping success of the recent Chinese 3D porn film Sex and Zen is a major source of inspiration for doing the project, Rupesh Paul said.
“3D appears the best format to portray classic erotica, but it was hardly experimented till recently. It had remained as a tool to give the biggest jolt in horror movies. Nobody predicted that the Chinese stereoscopic porn would be a major hit. In fact, it outgrossed 3D film Avatar.
“In the film, we are trying to give an extra dimension to the sexual positions described in the ancient treatise on the art of love,” Rupesh said.
“Ananga Ranga is largely considered as refined version of Kama Sutra. Unlike it, Ananga Ranga was written for husbands and wives and was intended to show that one woman is enough for a man.
“It says how a husband can promote the love for his wife through sexual pleasure and enjoy living with his wife as if he had lived with 32 different women, thus preventing the married couple from getting tired of one another.
“Through the film, we try to portray that Ananga Ranga is the true Kama Sutra,” he said.
The film will be an fictional adaptation of a real life incident during the Lodi Dynasty.
“The story will portray Malla’s acquaintance with Prince Lad Khan, who is a Casanova, the scripting of erotic literature and the incidents that evolve after Khan’s wife decides to study the text,” he said.
What Do You Think About During Sex
Apparently, we have wondering minds while we’re doing IT. “Sexual Distraction,” an article in the current issue of Psychology Today, states: “People click through four unsexy thoughts during the average love session. Distractions are common and often benign, according to a new study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior‘.”
Hmmm, most interesting. I’ve never thought about what I think about during the deed, although now that I think about it, I likely have had lots of mundane or practical thoughts since I have a brain that can be difficult to quiet. Knowing me, I’m probably checking items off my to-do list: Sex? Check. (more…)
