Do rich guys give women more orgasms? (pt2)
d I mention I'm not a scientist? I'm just a guy who posts stuff he finds interesting on a website. So, caveat emptor, dear readers. In my post on what to look for in a marriage partner I said that rich guys give women more orgasms. And that's what the study showed. Well, turns out the study was wrong: In a recent article in this journal (Pollet and Nettle, 2009), we reported that women with higher-income partners reported more frequent…
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How To Increase The Amount Of “Good Sex” You Have
's less about the Kama Sutra and more about increasing self-esteem: Self-determination Theory posits that psychological wellbeing stems from feeling autonomous, competent, and related. Prior research has found that people report that, on days in which they perceive these needs are met, they have good days, as evidenced by both positive mood and fewer physical symptoms. The current research examined the relationship between satisfaction of these needs and sexuality, hypothesizing that having sexual interactions in which these needs are met,…
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8 Little Known Statistics On Sex And Relationships:
a Discovery: The average man’s ideal woman is 60lbs lighter than him. A woman will get chatted up in bar 6 minutes faster if she is wearing make up. Last year 21% of dates were organized via e-mail and 5% of relationships were ended by text. 98% of Americans have experienced unrequited love. Ladies don’t drink more than 1.5 glasses of wine more than your date – a turn off for most men. For every $5000 extra a woman earns over…
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Why do we kiss? What type of kissing do men and women like best?
om an interview with William Cane, author of "The Art of Kissing": You list statistics—for example, 67% of men don’t mind a woman’s wearing lipstick when kissing, 53% of women prefer a clean-shaven man, and 33% of people open their eyes while kissing. Do you have favorite statistics? Women’s favorite spot to be kissed, other than the mouth, is the neck. Ninety-six percent of women reported that they like neck kisses, while only about 10% of men do, so a…
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Being In Love = More Faked Orgasms
is paper models lovemaking as a signaling game. In the act of love-making, a man and a woman send each other possibly deceptive signals about their true state of ecstasy. Each has a prior belief about the other's state of ecstasy. These prior beliefs are associated with the other's sexual response capacity, which varies in different ways for men and women over the life-cycle. The model predicts that love, formally defined as a mixture of altruism and possessiveness, increases the…
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How do our parents affect what we look for in a mate?
ems our parents' age has effects on what we're attracted to. via ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Mate preferences are shaped by infant experience of parental characteristics in a wide variety of species. Similar processes in humans may lead to physical similarity between parents and mates, yet this possibility has received little attention. The age of parents is one salient physical characteristic that offspring may attend to. The current study used computer-graphic faces to examine how preferences for age in faces were influenced by…
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Are narcissists more charming?:
itially, yes. Later on, nope: On the basis of a realistic behavioral approach, the authors showed that narcissists are popular at zero acquaintance and aimed to explain why this is the case. In Study 1, a group of psychology freshmen (N = 73) judged each other on the basis of brief self-introductions using a large round-robin design (2,628 dyads). Three main findings were revealed: First, narcissism leads to popularity at first sight. Second, the aspects of narcissism that are most…
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Are women more likely to remember their first pair of shoes than their first kiss?
a telegraph.co.uk ...more than 92 per cent of women could remember the first shoes they bought with their own money. Less than two, however, in three recalled the name of the person they first kissed, the survey found. Also interesting: An overwhelming 96 per cent of women said they regretted having thrown away a pair of shoes, while only 15 per cent felt sorry at dumping a boyfriend. More than 1,000 women were questioned about their feelings towards their footwear…
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