There’s long been a lack of evidence for why sex has become so much more common than asexual reproduction across nearly all species. Thankfully, this is now slowly changing.
A male African jacana bird mounts a female, but who takes the lead in caring for the young?.
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Sex roles in nature don’t always follow the same script. In fact, some females have genitals that resemble a penis. How can this be? Evolution has the answers.
Five years ago, we would actually be having a conversation.
Aleksandar Todorovic
Surveys of sexual practice conducted between 1921 and 1995 found that women tend not to have orgasms during penile-vaginal sex. And yet men’s and women’s magazines continue to offer ‘lessons’.
Breasts ‘barrel-rolling across Ezra’s howling mouth’? That joke isn’t funny anymore.
Kandarya Mahadeva Temple, India. David Tubau
Yesterday, the British Literary Review awarded the 2015 Bad Sex in Fiction award to Morrissey. So what is it about sex writing that’s so difficult – and what’s the secret of writers who know how to seduce?
Time to have the conversation.
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There are possible emotional and social pitfalls to love and sex with robots, but does that mean we should ban them entirely?
Men are more likely to use cannabis because of external factors such as peer use, and women for internal factors such as anxiety.
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Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug with more than 181 million consumers worldwide, three quarters of whom are men. Why do men and women use cannabis?
South African fans got into the World Cup spirit in more ways than one.
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Many animals, including humans, form long-term partnerships, but some are same-sex, suggesting they’re not all about raising offspring but some other form of cooperation.
Can learning to write about sex help young people navigate their love lives?
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When most people think of book censorship, they imagine political regimes and potentially book burning in Nazi Germany. What is little considered is that most books that have been challenged or banned are books for young people.
Professor of Media and Communication and Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology