We're relieved our own pregnancy desires are dim flickers in the distant future, because we would drive ourselves absolutely nuts keeping up with all these ding-bat how-pregnancy-happens theories. Pregnancy Makes Women Smarter

It's getting to be a bit much.

Today we stumbled upon two studies touting how physical attractiveness plays a role in sperm and their swimming skills. Apparently, an ugly man and beautiful woman have the greatest (theoretical) success rate for making a baby. Sigh. Further proof God is a man.

The Telegraph reported today that sperm are a lot smarter than … Read More

Historically, researchers have found women to be turned off by racy ads showing excessive nudity and sexual language. New experiments are showing, though, that the problem for advertisers may not be that sex doesn't sell to women, but rather that women don't often agree with the way it's portrayed.

Authors of a new study set to appear in the August issue of The Journal of Consumer Research recently tested their hunch that women's reaction to sexy ads would improve if sexual behavior was linked to two “intrinsic” female values: commitment and devotion.

"Findings from our initial experiments were supportive … Read More

If you've ever smelled your man and thought, "Baby, I'd love to eat you on a cracker," science can explain.

In a recent study, Swiss researchers took sweat samples from men and women's armpits, mixed them with the enzymes from bacteria normally found there and discovered that men smell like cheese and women smell like grapefruits or onions. That's right: grapefruit or onion. So, if your man's ever been tempted to sprinkle sugar on you in the morning or sauté you in olive oil for taco night, there you have it.

In the recently updated … Read More

It's the aged old question—does he want to be friends or is he hoping one night I have one too many beers and my clothes slip off?

Despite CNN's 83% "yes" vote in favor of male and female friendships, there are generally two popular schools of thought on such an issue. 1.) Yes, of course men and women can be just friends. (says the woman) And 2.) Are you insane? Men want to sleep with anything moving and halfway decent and unfortunately you fall into that category. (says the man.)

Sigh.

CNN tackled this issue and had a plethora … Read More

While we like to think of ourselves as unique, there's more lemming in us than we realize. Not only are our actions open to suggestion, as previous studies have shown, so are our opinions about non-essential things like beauty. A new study explains that we have our unconscious brain to thank for that.

Even when it comes to rating someone's level of attractiveness, we're susceptible to groupthink. Researchers asked Dutch women subjects to rate pictures of faces based on their level of beauty, then they told the women their averages were either above, lower or spot-on with the opinions … Read More

Is there a crisis in black relationships? Despite millions of examples of loving couples, black women and men still have negative perceptions of each other. As a successful black woman in her 30s, marriage is on my mind. So I set out to find out where these perceptions came from—and if they are true.

Donna L. Franklin's 2001 book, What's Love Got to Do with It?, shows that 7 out of 10 black mothers give negative messages to their daughters about black men. Did my mom give me negative messages … Read More

Gentlemen, there are not points for political correctness. Australians don't mince words. The Outback is too dangerous a place to go around your arse to get to your elbow in terms of getting your point across. So, we're not terribly surprised when Reuters reports that the mayor of an Outback town suggest that "ugly ducklings" move to his town because of the heavily skewed male-to-female ratio.

The town of Mount Isa, in Queensland, is known as a rough place and sits on 1 of the world's most massive underground mines. Local knowledge (the LK, as it were) … Read More

With the prick of a needle, your G-spot will be rocked harder than ever the next time you're lucky enough to get laid.

So says London's Daily Mail, in an article about Caroline Cushworth, who splurged on a $1,600 dollar 'orgasm jab.' It's a lip plumper-like shot of collagen inside -- yes, inside the vagina -- that guarantees a lady orgasms with every roll in the hay by enlarging the "pea-sized" G-spot for four, count'em, four months.

Color me fascinated...but also skeptical. How safe is it, really, to shoot collagen directly onto one's G-spot (assuming you've found the bugger)? I'm … Read More

Husband and wife team Dr. Walt Larimore and Barbara have teamed up to contrast men and women, brain-wise, His Brain, Her Brain. But rather than simply pointing out the differences, the Larimores offer strategies to use each other’s strengths in tandem. For instance, they say that men act, while women brew. The authors suggest keeping this in mind when beginning a conversation—and preventing it from becoming an argument--e.g., letting him move forward on a small aspect of a larger issue or letting her think things through before making a huge, final decision. Makes sense, right?

Is there a crisis in black relationships? Despite millions of examples of loving couples, black women and men still have negative perceptions of each other. As a successful black woman in her 30s, marriage is on my mind. So I set out to find out where these perceptions came from—and if they are true.

Donna L. Franklin's 2001 book, What's Love Got to Do with It?, shows that 7 out of 10 black mothers give negative messages to their daughters about black men. Did my mom give me negative messages about black men? No, she didn't have to. I got them … Read More