Questions tagged [sexuality]
Use this tag for the psychological and social aspects of sex and sexual activities in general. Use [gender] for gender differences and gender issues (male/female/lgbt...); use [reproduction] for the reproductive process, which may or may not include sex or even gender.
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Have 10-15% of the general population had at least one incestuous sexual contact when under the age of consent?
I found these numbers in the page Incest at Wikipedia:
Incest between an adult and a person under the age of consent is considered a form of child sexual abuse[70][71] that has been shown to be one ...
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Do children of gay and lesbian couples have a lower high-school graduation rate?
I recently came across this 2013 study: High school graduation rates among children of same-sex households which looks at a large sample of Canadian families, and concludes:
Children living with gay ...
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Are half of transgender women inmates (in England and Wales) sex offenders or category A prisoners?
The group Fair Play for Women published a report in Oct 2017 claiming that
Half of all trans-identifying males (transwomen) in prison are convicted sex offenders or dangerous Category A prisoners.
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Does watching pornography increase sexual performance in women?
I am referring to these lines:
A recent study reported that increasing porn use is linked to
decreased sexual performance in men and increased sexual performance
in women.
Big Think - Is watching ...
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Do Mormon teens practice "soaking" and "jump humping"?
According to this popular post on /r/facepalm, and again here
Some Mormon teens have convinced themselves that putting a penis in a vagina and then not moving is not sex. That's called soaking. Jump ...
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Did the Indonesian army have a virginity test for female recruits?
The original article is on Newsweek which I personally consider a reliable source.
The virginity check, which extended to military fiancées, involves someone placing two fingers into the vagina to ...
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Does China censor online discussions of female orgasms?
A Washington Post article describes how people in China were recently discussing certain taboo subjects using the Clubhouse app:
They asked questions about the protests in Hong Kong, reports of mass ...
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Did the Danish Justice Ministry survey veterinarians about bestiality?
A 2015 Reuters article discusses Danish laws about bestiality, and refers to an earlier report:
A 2011 Justice Ministry report surveyed veterinarians and found 17 percent of them suspected that an ...
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Is availability of video pornography a main reason of sexual crimes in developing and under-developing countries? [closed]
I think it is easiest to google search for a porn video than any other thing. What I notice is that whenever a sexual criminal is caught and when Police search for his belongings, almost every time ...
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Does it take two weeks for a single man to produce enough sperm to impregnate every fertile woman on Earth?
Fact Slides has a slide that claims:
A single human male produces enough sperm in two weeks to impregnate every fertile woman on the planet.
It sources a book of random facts
Is it true?
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Do “Soupeurs” exist?
I was chatting with some friends and the topic of the “Soupeur” came up. Apparently this is a word used in France to describe the practice of — and I quote:
“…a sexual practice involving attraction ...
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Did a Cypriot bishop claim that homosexuality is caused when parents have anal sex?
The August 1, 2019 issue of MetroWeekly ("Washington D.C.'s Best LGBTQ Magazine for 25 Years"), on page 46, provides a "LastWord" quotation section that includes the following:
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Were the people in "Inis Beag" the most sexually repressed and the people in "Mangaia" the most sexually liberated in the world? [closed]
In the 1960s, a rather obscure anthropologist by the name of John Cowan Messenger discovered an isolated and very small community in a place called "Inis Beag" in Ireland. This was apparently a false ...
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Are men more likely than women to accept an offer for casual sex?
It is widely believed that men are more amenable to offers of casual sex than women.
(Note: This is a different claim to "men want casual sex more than women" or that "women are more easily able to ...
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Is it possible to determine if a person has had receptive anal sex through a physical exam?
Physical examinations of the anus are sometimes used in North Africa to determine if a man has practiced receptive anal sex, and hence has broken laws against homosexuality.
Here is one such report ...
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Does homosexuality in males steeply decline with age?
The 2013 book My Genes Made Me Do It! Homosexuality and the Scientific Evidence (text) argues that homosexuality is, at most, only weakly and indirectly genetically based, and that conversion ...
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Is there a surge in youth erectile dysfunction?
A 2016 article in The Australian says that there is an increase in youth ED, and furthremore that it's due to porn:
You couldn’t make it up, right? Wrong: erectile dysfunction in men in their teens ...
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Are most women sexually aroused by videos of naked women?
I found this article claims:
74 percent of women who identified as “straight” were strongly sexually aroused by both men and women
I found another claim from Telegraph which is
most famous UK ...
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Did the study mentioned by "The virginity fraud" TEDx Talk happen?
During 2017's TEDx Oslo Talk The virginity fraud, the presenters refer to a (supposed) study on the reliability of virginity testing around 9:15 mark:
The absurdity of virgin testing is illustrated ...
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Have 5% of Danish men had sex with an animal?
From this 2015 New York Post article:
Some 5 percent of Danish men have had sex with an animal.
That seems completely outlandish to me. Bestiality seems like a very rare fetish. It's probably ...
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Have the sales of "Shape of water" dildos skyrocketed due to the success of the film with that name?
Breitbart reports:
Sales of dildo sex toys inspired by the Academy Award-winning film Shape of Water have skyrocketed following its success at the Oscars, The Wrap reports.
The dildos, which are ...
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Were early hunter-gatherers monogamous?
In an article, reporting on research by Mark Dyble, anthropologist, pre-agricultural human societies are described as predominantly monogamous:
Only when more resources became available, did sexual ...
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Can men have sex every day of the year?
This article, My Husband and I Had Sex Every Day for a Year — Here's How We're Doing Now claims that a particular married couple have had sex (almost) every day for a year.
I am skeptical - Are most ...
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Fewer shared immune genes in a couple correlate with (or even cause) more female orgasms?
I found in a psychology blog that
Researchers have found that women who share fewer immune genes with their male partners also report more frequent orgasms (Garver-Apgar et al., 2006).
And the ...
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"Women rate the strongest men as the most attractive" ...or is it always so? [closed]
The Washington Post says that "women rate the strongest men as the most attractive, study finds". Of course, that does not contradict the common sense, but it there enough evidence provided. ...
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Does too much sex, or STDs, cause urination after sneezing?
From Billy Baldwin (verified user, 109 RTs, 805 likes, Wikipedia biography), referring to Jenna Jameson, who used to be a porn star:
Curious to know what might've caused that sneeze-pee condition ...
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Do men prefer women with long hair?
I know intuitively this is true but was wondering if there ever has been a scientific, statistically significant survey to find if it is true.
Long hair is traditionally strongly linked to ...
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Does masturbation (or sex) help one focus better later?
From a NY Post article:
Kit Maloney, the founder of O’actually, a feminist porn production company, said that “masturbation [and] orgasm is like meditation. It allows the space for the brain to ...
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Did NAMBLA march in Gay Pride parades in the 70s and 80s?
On Reason.com, there is reporting on the Fifth Column podcast. In the episode linked in the Reason article, Robert Mariani, formerly an editor at The Daily Caller, asserts that in "the '70s and '80s, ...
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No gay porn star self-identifies as bottom?
In the book Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician: The Essential Guide (WW Norton 2009), it is stated on p. 180 that
Some men go both ways--calling themselves "versatile"--but this is ...
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Is the association between homosexuality and mental illness likely to have a genetic basis?
From "Sexual Orientation and Psychiatric Vulnerability: A Twin Study of Neuroticism and Psychoticism" (2011):
Abstract
Recent evidence indicates that homosexuals and bisexuals are, on average, ...
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Are more than 40% of millenials in Japan virgins?
CNN claims that a survey conducted by Japanese government claimed that 42% of men and 44.2% of women between 18 and 34 are virgins.
I'm not exactly doubting about the survey but more about that the ...
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Is sex a cure for depression in 50 percent of cases?
I read this claim on Twitter from a plastic surgeon who has worked for the Miss Venezuela organization. It says:
Estudios revelan que el 50% de las depresiones se curan con buen sexo. #CiruTips
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AI can guess whether you're gay or straight – how do they get 91% success rate?
This article claims there is a software, that can say if a person is homosexual, based only on their facial images. The other article calls it "pseudoscience" though:
critics say we’re revisiting ...
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Sexual assault epidemic on US campuses or up-playing of same situation as elsewhere? [duplicate]
I'm not from the US nor do I live there - so I definitely have no idea what life on US campuses is like.
In recent years I've heard occasional news stories about supposed prevalence of sexual assault ...
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Would Egale's recommendations for law reform make anal sex legal at any age in Canada?
LifeSiteNews claims recommendations made by Egale, a Canadian LGBT advocacy organization, on changing laws would allow anal sex 'anytime, any place, with anyone'.
Specifically, it claims that the age ...
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Are statistics in controversial Australian antigay posters true?
According to the photo of an anti-gay poster depicted here:
92% of children of gay parents are abused
51% have depression
72% are obese
My questions:
Are these stats supported by other studies? If ...
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Is 7:30-8:15am the best time to have sex?
Russian language media (as usual, citing usual unnamed "british researchers"), reported that 7:30-8:15am is the best time to have sex.
Британские исследователи назвали лучшее время для занятия ...
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Did JFK have an affair with Marilyn Monroe?
There are a variety of rumors on this topic, many with vague sourcing. That they had an affair, that confidants on both sides have confirmed it, that it influenced Monroe's infamous "Happy Birthday, ...
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Did some Moroccan teens contract rabies through bestiality?
Several news sources have reported that 15 teenagers contracted rabies in Morocco after having sex with a donkey, e.g. (in Spanish):
Morocco World News: 15 Teenagers Treated for Rabies After Engaging ...
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Is there a positive correlation between number of sexual partners and likelihood of failed marriage in the United States?
Youtuber Louis Rossman has said in one of his videos that
There are studies on this; there is a direct correlation between number of sexual partners and likelihood of failed marriage, based on ...
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What is the economic burden of having transgender people in the US military?
Donald Trump recently said on Twitter that the US
... cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.
What are the medical and ...
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Are "Get Paid to Travel" ads part of a sex trafficking network?
Recently, on Facebook, the following images have been trending in my feed, people forwarding them on, claiming that most if not all of them are actually attempts to get women into sex trafficking (...
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Do women rate 80% of men as "below average looking"?
From Reddit's "Today I Learned" section:
TIL Women find 80% of men below-average looking - according to research based on OkCupid's 7 million users.
Is this an accurate summary of OKCupid's research?...
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Was 2016 the Deadliest year for the LGBTQ community?
This image claims the following:
2016 was recorded to be the deadliest year for the LGBTQ community.
27 transgender people were murdered in 2016, overtaking previous
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Are brothels to have sex with animals increasing fast in Germany?
I've found some sources that explain this is a phenomenon that this is likely happening in Germany right now, although the sources for that are a bit old.
Dailymail claims on 1 July 2013:
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Were 25% of newly-infected HIV-positive gay men actively seeking infection in 2003?
Rense quotes a 2003 Drudge Report article, that previewed an apparent Rolling Stone magazine article titled "Bug Chasers: The Men Who Secretly Long To Be HIV+."
The men who want the virus ...
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Transgender teenagers grow out of it 75% of the time [duplicate]
Ben Shapiro writes:
Suicide Rates Among Transgenders Do Not Decrease Thanks to Sex-Change Surgery. The suicide rates among transgenders do not drop after surgery. 41 percent of transgender people ...
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Do certain religious traditions believe that Eve had sex with the Serpent?
On p.169 of my edition of de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, she includes a footnote remarking
The moon is a source of fertility; it is seen as the "master of women"; it is often believed that the moon, ...
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Do comprehensive Sex Ed programs reduce teenage sexual activity?
Nicole Cushman claims in Vice:
"[P]arents seem to be under the impression that teaching this information was going to encourage the kids to go out and have sex."
"We know from decades of ...
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