How much sex is the right amount of sex? Are you getting it once a month? Every day? Twice a week? There’s so much research into this question, you’d think sex was all anyone ever wanted to talk about. But here’s an interesting thing. While in my 20-something single days my girlfriends and I had looong...
An HIV-positive Malawian man, who says he is paid to have sex with children as part of initiation rites, has been arrested on the president's orders. Eric Aniva, a sex worker known in Malawi as a "hyena", was the subject of a BBC feature last week. He told the BBC that did not mention his HIV status to those who...
A TV ADVERT from a sex toy firm which features romping rabbits, spanking and sexually suggestive fruit will hit TV screens tonight just days after the firm was endorsed by the Queen. The tongue-in-cheek ad for Lovehoney, which received the Queen's Award for Enterprise in April for boosting British exports, does not feature...
WOMEN smokers are at greater risk of suffering a potentially fatal stroke often triggered by physical exertion including sex, new research suggests. The more a woman smokes the greater their risk of a subarachnoid haemorrhage a form of bleeding on the brain which accounts for one in every 20 strokes in the UK. There are usually...
A FATHER of two denied having sex with an underage girl, saying to police: "I'm not like that." Craig Oldfield denied forcing a girl to take part in sexual activity while she was "frozen to the spot with fear". He said to police: "Why would I? I'm 21. I'm working. I've got a partner...
For years, scientists have hunted for male and female differences in how the brain is wired for sexual responses. Has nature revealed how differences can arise? There are few scientific topics more guaranteed to get people chattering – and arguing – than claims about the different wiring of male and female brains....
A WOMAN punched a migrant in the face when she was attacked at a bus stop. The Algerian sex attacker was arrested in hospital after his female victim hit back, leaving him with a broken nose. The 35-year-old had pounced on the young woman early in the morning as she waited for a bus in the Austrian city of Linz. But he had not...
MALE spiders enjoy performing ORAL SEX on their mate, new research found. Oral sex is rare in the animal kingdom apart from in mammals where macaques, lemurs, bonobos, hyenas, cheetahs, lions, dolphins and bats are known to engage in fellatio. Yet cunnilingus is even rarer. Now scientists have found the Madagascan Darwin's...
A NORTH Korean defector has spoken publicly about the sex lives of those living in one of the most secretive and repressive nations in the world. Ji-Min Kang was raised in North Korea but managed to escape the oppressive regime and start a new life in South Korea. Writing for NK News, an independent English-language news site...
NORTH Korean officials including despot Kim Jong-un have picked girls as young as 13 for sick "sex parties", it has been claimed. Girls are taken from their classrooms by soldiers and told to not speak to their families ever again or face execution, according to defectors. They claim the youngsters are drafted into...
This extremely conservative country was once home to the world’s first sex treatise and the erotic art on display is perhaps more shocking now than when it was created. In December 2013, India’s LGBT community suffered a severe setback as the country’s Supreme Court ruled homosexuality to be a criminal...
THE Culture Secretary had a two-year relationship with a former Page 3 girl and "porn star" at the same time he was seeing a dominatrix, it was sensationally claimed last night. Stephanie Hudson alleged that John Whittingdale, who is under intense pressure to quit, bragged about his work schedule and showed off...