If you tuned into Oprah yesterday, you'd see just how true the statement "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is. Mara Schiavocampo of NBC news traveled around the word to find out how different cultures define beauty. She discovered that big butts and ankles are considered beautiful in Mauritania, a perfect nose is ideal for Iranian women, and straight hair and pale skin is what Japanese women go to great lengths to achieve.
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I bet most of you don't like to think about your parents having sex, but what about your grandparents? Even if the thought makes you cringe, past research shows that men and women up into their '80s are still getting it on! A recent article on MSNBC touches upon this topic.
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I'm sure you've all heard about Thomas Beatie, the man to first become pregnant and have a baby. He was originally born a female, but underwent six sex-change operations and took male hormones to become a man, and then legally married his partner Nancy. Since she's infertile, he kept his womb and ovaries intact in the hopes of having a family someday — they feel that having a baby is neither a male or female desire, but a human one.
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A recent study shows that deer mice are monogamous and have "superior stress tolerance and blood sugar regulation." That would make us think that for humans, a monogamous relationship would prove to offer health benefits, but what else can we learn from the animal kingdom? Here are the first five of 10 sex lessons from a recent MSNBC article and my interpretation of each one.
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I don't know what this world is coming to — I just read a news article about two men convicted of infecting 14 semi-conscious men at sex parties with HIV. The incidences happened in Amsterdam between January 2006 and May 2007. It's possible that these two men drugged the others with a date-rape drug before assaulting them, but that has yet to be proven.
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If you didn't already hear, Simon Cowell and long-time girlfriend Teri Seymour have called it quits, but according to People, he's not looking for love again anytime soon. He claimed to have sworn off women and his statement got me thinking.
We all handle breakups differently: some hibernate and regroup while others paint the town red or jump into another relationship.
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Last night we saw history being made. Regardless of the way you voted, a great change has been made to our country. I know most of you were feeling anxious before the votes were counted yesterday, and since emotions are no doubt still running high, tell me, is your mind a little bit more at ease now that the election is over?
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Teenage pregnancy is on the rise again and researches are now saying that television is partly to blame. A study, which is being published today in the American Academy of Pediatrics looked at 700 12 to 17 year olds for three years and found that those who watched sexual content on TV were roughly twice as likely to be involved in a pregnancy over teenagers who didn't. And the lead researcher in this study, Anita Chandra, feels there's a strong association between the two factors.
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If you've ever had a love/hate relationship with someone, you know how frustrating and confusing it can feel, but according to new research, there's a reason why these kinds of relationships are so common. In a recent study, participants were shown images of individuals they hated and the brain activity pattern it revealed partially occurs in areas of the brain activated by romantic love as well. Written in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS One, researchers said, "This linkage may account for why love and hate are so closely linked to each other in life.
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