News Flash!  Men are more satisfied with one night stands than women!

According to an unscientific Internet poll published in the journal "Human Nature," half the women who responded are unhappy after casual sex, whereas four out of five men are happy.  While men felt more content, confident and sexually satisfied after meaningless sex, women were more likely to feel used and let down.

Durham University professor Anne Campbell, who led the research, said the results demonstrate how there is no evolutionary advantage for women in one night stands.  "In evolutionary terms women bear the brunt of parental care and it has been generally thought that it was to their advantage to choose their mate carefully and remain faithful to make sure that their mate had no reason to believe he was raising another man’s child.  Recently, biologists have suggested that females could benefit from mating with many men - it would increase the genetic diversity of their children, and, if a high quality man would not stay with them forever, they might at least get his excellent genes for their child."

I believe the equation is more simple.  You know the old saying:  "Men use love to get sex.  Women use sex to get love."  Hence, men are getting "what they want" with one night stands, whereas women are not.

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Are you a good kisser?  As usual, it depends on whether you’re a man or a woman.  And that first kiss is more important than you may think.

Researchers at the University of Albany found that nearly 2/3 of people who were were attracted to someone totally lost interest the moment they had that first kiss.  This is because a kiss is not just a kiss; biologically speaking, a kiss is an exchange of chemical, tactile, and bodily cues.  Regions of our brains go crazy when we get a good kiss, given that much of our brain is wired to pick up information from our mouths.

Evolutionary psychologists have also speculated that we determine reproduction and genetic compatibility from a kiss.  Saliva also contains testosterone, a sex hormone that affects libido.  Researchers at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania also found that kissing provides stress relief by reducing levels of the stress hormone cortisol.  In the long-term, kissing maintains the bond lovers feel for one another.

As you would expect, men and women approach kissing differently.  Men are more likely to kiss as a means to an end, i.e., to get sex.  Men are also more able to enjoy sex that involves bad or no kissing.  Men also swap more spit than women and prefer open-mouth and tongue kissing.  Researchers speculate this may be because the male sense of taste and smell are less acute than females.

Whereas women are more likely to use kissing as a way to establish and evaluate their relationship, reject bad kissers, and require kissing before, during and after sex.

With such importance placed on the kiss, it’s odd that most sex education bypasses the lips and heads straight for the genitals.  Fortunately, kissing is fun and easy with a willing partner, so you are encouraged to practice kissing every day.

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Men everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief!  A study published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine concludes the optimal time for sexual intercourse is 3 to 13 minutes.

But before you do a happy dance in the bedroom, you have to realize this time does NOT include foreplay and afterplay.  And sexual intercourse that lasts less than 3 minutes is considered “too short.”

A four-week study of 1,500 couples in 2005 found that the median time for sexual intercourse was 7.3 minutes.  It’s difficult for both older and younger men to make sexual intercourse last much longer, said Marianne Brandon, a clinical psychologist and director of Wellminds Wellbodies in Annapolis, Maryland.  “There are so many myths in our culture of what other people are doing sexually,” Brandon said. “Most people’s sex lives are not as exciting as other people think they are.”

The truth is that time matters, size matters, it all matters.  But what’s most important is that couples make an intimate, emotional connection with each other during sex.

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