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Think Your Way To Better Sex

Your state of mind affects your response in the bedroom. How your brain can improve your sex life.

Your partner seduces you into the bedroom. You take off your clothes, climb into bed and...start thinking about the laundry, the fight with your boss or your belly pooch. If this happens to you when you hit the sack, you're not alone. Many women's minds turn to everything but pleasure during sex. Why do we do this? And how can we stop it?

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Prude To Nude: Learning To Love My Womanly Parts

One brave woman poses for a sculpture that shows there is beauty in all bits.

British artist Jamie McCartney is working on a sculpture called "Design a Vagina." Using only volunteers, he is making casts of 200 women's vaginas, and displaying them together in 40 block panels. He wants to show people that where vaginas are concerned, "the variety of shapes is endlessly fascinating, empowering and comforting." This is the story of how, for one of those volunteers, his message really hit home.

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Sex After 40 Is Smoking

The most sizzling sex may be happening with middle-aged lov-ahs. Take that young Hollywood!

Britain's Sun attempted to put a damper on middle aged sex by reporting older people have sex less. Thankfully, the paper interviewed three women who say they enjoy sex much better now than when they were a 20-something. They attribute this to body issues, insecurities, and not knowing what to ask for or how to ask for it. All three women agree that Samantha Jones type middle aged sex is definitely attainable for ladies over forty. And not just Jennifer Aniston.

Study: Men May Affect Women’s Self-Image

Study seeks to establish link between what he says and how she feels.

A study is underway at an Australian university to figure out if a woman's self-esteem is best served by kind sentiments or just sentiments that she agrees with. There are many schools of thought on this. Some women only hear what they want to hear and some women are 'ravenous, blood-sucking monsters' for compliments.

Obese Women Far Less Likely To Get Pregnant

A recent study came out showing that women with a Body Mass Index above 29 or in the obese range have problems becoming pregnant. Many scientists have a problem with BMI but this thing appears to have some strong correlation. Another reason to lose a little weight or another thing to feel badly about?