Picasso painting sells for record price

Picasso’s Women of Algiers has become the most expensive painting to sell at auction, going for $160m (£102.6m) at Christie’s in New York.

Eleven minutes of prolonged bidding from telephone buyers preceded the final sale – for much more than its pre-sale estimate of $140m.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32700575

Yes, ok… an amazing result. Why so valuable?

For some […]

Will the real nymphomaniac please stand up? Sex, cinema, and desublimation

From the article:

“….Pornography has been normalised. There is nothing once locked behind walls of taboo that you can’t now watch over breakfast and that your kids aren’t streaming in their bedrooms. The birds and the bees? They’re the real mysteries today. Cocks and cunts, not so much.

What is a film artist to do with this […]

Women only have eyes for the big boys???

In a new and definitive scientific study on penis size sure to have global repercussions, a team of Australian National University researchers have put male genitalia under the microscope.

“To put it bluntly, if you are short and pear-shaped a large penis is not going to increase your attractiveness’’

In a nutshell, the research shows that penis […]

Couple caught having sex on a Florida beach face 15 years in prison

AN OVERLY amorous couple caught having sex on a Florida beach face a hefty penalty for their daylight tryst: 15 years in prison.

Read more:

http://www.news.com.au/travel…

Ok, clearly, not having any regard to the fact that there may have been children around on a public beach was pretty dumb. It was also pretty dumb not to […]

The Fifty Shades Effect: UK Couples Having 3 Times More Sex

A study done for Netmums about the post-Fifty Shades sex lives of over 2,000 UK readers revealed some interesting insights on how scenarios from the page can affect our real life passions.

The research showed that on average, respondents were having sex once a week, but after closing the cover on the final page, that number […]

5 Sexual Encounters That Changed The World

Sex has the power to change your life, but does it have the power to change the entire world? Short answer: yes. Here are 5 examples of world-changing sex.

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https://www.lelo.com/blog/5-sexual-encounters-changed-world/

When society isn’t judging, women’s sex drive rivals men’s

From the article:

“This month, new research published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, gives a vital handle on the question of whether women really don’t want sex as much as men do…

The study strongly suggests that the image of women as sexually choosy and conservative needs some dramatic qualification. In the right experimental circumstances, […]

Online Disinhibition Effect

But have you ever stopped to consider why people feel invincinble online? Or why they get so angry? A study in the US helps explain half of it.

Arthur Santana, a communications professor at the University of Houston, analysed hundreds of comments on stories from the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Houston Chronicle […]

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