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- scoottie, on 12/27/2007, -4/+146but all women expect men to be mind readers
- LordSeth, on 12/28/2007, -3/+89Scientists have discovered a substance that will decrease a womans sex drive by 98% Its called wedding cake.
- Pastey, on 12/27/2007, -2/+64I would argue that there's much more to the first point ("Not Tonight, Honey" - sorry, I had to use the mirror) than meets the eye. I don't think it's evolutionary, but rather psychological.
Most people (men and women) get complacent when they're in a secure relationship and this lets the "spark" die. How many men are constantly buying flowers for their girl when dating, or taking them out to dinner or a movie, or calling them all the time just to tell them they miss them or are thinking about them, adn then let this lapse once a few years of being together have flown by?
Conversely, how many women stop buying little gifts for their guy after the initial thrill has worn off, or stop wearing sexy underthings, or stop congratulating their guy and pumping his ego to let him know how much they admire or respect him?
It's so easy to get into the day-to-day routine, and once kids come along and you're tired 24-7 it gets even easier. The old adage that you don't appreciate what you have until it's gone is very, very true. It's something you have to get into a habit of fighting against. If you don't, you'll suddenly wake one morning years down the line and wonder where your sweetheart went and who this "roommate" is sharing your bed.
My wife and I have been married almost 14 years and have been together for 17. We still consistently have great "adult" fun together at least a couple times a week (depending on schedule and craziness that saps your energy) and love each other deeply. It doesn't have to be the exception - it should be the norm.
Just be vigilent to always let the person you love know that THEY are the one you chose and that THEY are special to you. Keep the love and appreciation flowing and the excitement and sex will take of itself. - annabegonia, on 12/27/2007, -21/+81Women should speak up about what turns them on, then maybe they would be more interested in sex. If he gets it wrong, just smack him, pull his hair and make him try again. Practice makes purrrrrrfect ;)
- cwolves, on 12/27/2007, -6/+54the article text:
Sex researchers are peculiar beasts. Armed with their tape measures, clipboards, surveys, and hidden cameras, they seek to provide a peephole from which to scrutinize that most private of spheres, human sexuality. What's most surprising is that we let them in—we're more than happy to unzip our pants and bare our private lives. Why do we do it? Maybe it's precisely because sex is so private that we're compelled to share. We know that without sex researchers to disseminate data about our sex lives, we'd be forced to rely upon furtive glances in the men's room, never sure of what to add or subtract to account for the angle; upon locker room stories, never sure how many grains of skeptical salt to apply; upon porn that only leaves us feeling depressed about ourselves. So cheer up, because most of what you think you know is probably wrong. Today, sex researchers step out from behind the curtain and share the real numbers on five areas of men's sexual health. The answers may surprise you.
Sex on the Brain
The idea that men think about sex every seven seconds, like the claim that we only use 10 percent of our brains, is often repeated but rarely sourced. The number doesn't bear up against scrutiny. According to the Kinsey Report (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male), 54 percent of men think about sex every day or several times a day, 43 percent a few times a week or a few times a month, and 4 percent less than once a month. Even though the Kinsey Report relies on men to self-report on how often they think about sex, it's still eye opening to find that just under half of men aren't even thinking about sex once a day. Clearly, the seven-second rule may be a tad hyperbolic.
Not Tonight, Honey
The stereotype about the sex-starved man and the disinterested woman may be more than just a cliche. As it turns out, the instant a woman enters a secure relationship, her sex drive begins to plummet. Four years in, a German study found, fewer than half of women wanted regular sex. And after 20 years, only 20 percent did.
Among men, libido held steady no matter how long they'd been in the relationship. Researchers provide an evolutionary explanation—women's sex drive is initially high to facilitate pair bonding. Meanwhile, desire for tenderness showed the opposite trend. Ninety percent of women craved tenderness, but of men who'd been in relationships for ten years, only 25 percent said they hoped for the same from their partner.
Measuring Up
For as long as there's been such thing as a ruler, men have been putting wood to, um, wood and wondering how they measure up. "There's nothing wrong with you. You look at yourself from above and you look foreshortened," Hemingway reassured a panicking F. Scott Fizgerald. "It is basically not a question of the size in repose. It is the size that it becomes. It is also a question of angle."
The trouble is that most of the actual surveys of penis size are unscientific and unreliable. The Kinsey survey relied on men to report their own numbers honestly and accurately—never a good idea. (Curiously, that survey found that gay men reported having longer penises than straight men—a finding never since replicated.)
Since then, there have been numerous attempts to settle on a number: from various Web surveys to the condom company that did a survey in Cancun during spring break ("Excuse me, could you step into my office, I need to check something"). But the most rigorous studies to date found similar results—the Journal of Urology put the average penis size at 5.08 inches, and the International Journal of Impotence Research put it at 5.35 inches.
The Spread of HIV
In Africa alone, AIDS kills some 6,000 people every day. While treatment must be made available for all who need it, some elements of the AIDS epidemic are likely exaggerated. Remember when Surgeon General C. Everett Koop called AIDS "the biggest threat to health this nation has ever faced." (Presumably bigger than cancer, heart disease, obesity, and smoking.) And when Oprah told her viewers: "Research studies now project that one in five heterosexuals could be dead from AIDS..." It seemed as if no one was safe, not even non-drug users, straight men, or housewives.
But the truth is that HIV isn't nearly as easy to spread through heterosexual sex as many people think. According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, men almost never get HIV from women. A healthy man who has unprotected sex with a non drug-using woman has a one in 5 million chance of getting HIV. If he wears a condom, the odds drop to one in 50 million. And though it's easier for men to infect women, the odds that an HIV-positive man will transmit the virus to a woman through sex are less than one in 1,000.
In Three Minutes Flat
Judging from the average porn flick, romance novel, or locker room conversation, a Martian landing on Earth would probably assume that intercourse would last somewhere in the vicinity of 40 minutes. But if that Martian were to actually enter into a relationship, he might be in for a big disappointment. Such marathon sessions are the exception to the rule; surveys find that the average sex session lasts from three to ten minutes. Not that any of this should be so surprising—the average hotel porn viewer watches for just 12 minutes. - SimianSamurai, on 12/27/2007, -5/+50I last longer than this thread will
- ZenMojo, on 12/27/2007, -3/+41I think they're just confusing testosterone with telepathy.
- jorelvo, on 12/27/2007, -2/+39mirror: http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:http://www.ps ...
- ers35, on 12/28/2007, -2/+35This user has made a comment like this before.
http://www.digg.com/gadgets/Switchbike_The_Best_Bi ...
"I was there... this guy was a ***** weirdo... TWICE he referred to himself, in dutch, as (and I quote) "the ***** chameleon"."
Note how he refers to different people in each comment. - evi1, on 12/27/2007, -1/+33I think digg should just build in mirrors.
- Joomal, on 12/28/2007, -1/+28It's something men really don't want to talk about, but it seems pretty constant throughout all mature relationships. Men just don't get the type of sex or the amount of sex they want after marriage.
Sex is not the only part of marriage, but it is a big part for a man at least.
Most men go to work and provide for the family while losing their hair over stresses and financial issues, and the only thing that we ask for in return is for our wives to make it all better at the end of the day so we can continue our lives the next day refreshed. - blackbelt88, on 12/28/2007, -2/+27That should be a new playable class in World of Warcraft.
- hollywoodphony, on 12/27/2007, -1/+21This is shocking, I had no idea about any of these things. Coincidentally, I've also never seen a stand up comedian in my life.
- sonnybobiche, on 12/27/2007, -4/+24the HIV transmission bit was eye-opening to say the least.
- dezman2003, on 12/28/2007, -0/+19Must have been an off day, I wouldn't worry about it unless it starts happening more frequently.
- iticu, on 12/27/2007, -2/+20Replacing "List" with "Stats" doesn't change the fact that it's another list.
- oilcan, on 12/28/2007, -0/+18i once looked at a woman's ass and thought it was very nice, without the direct image of pushing my ***** into it. strange, but it happened.
- Hoogie7Dowser, on 12/28/2007, -0/+18I think about nestling my face in boobies about 17 times a day. But the questionaire asked very specifically how many times I think about Sex. I quantified a conversion rate of 663 face-to-boob unions to 1.1333 sex thoughts.
- robdazomba, on 12/28/2007, -0/+17Those of you pointing out that your penis is larger than average, please consider what the article pointed out about the Kinsey report on size. "Curiously, that survey found that gay men reported having longer penises than straight men." Trying to tell us something, are you?
- widgetmaker, on 12/27/2007, -10/+27Dead after 49diggs?
- Taciturn, on 12/28/2007, -0/+17Time spent waiting for the big V to kick in doesn't count.
- pegisys, on 12/28/2007, -0/+17You know when they say heterosexual sex the mean vaginal only, once you stick it in her butt the risk goes up
- Pastey, on 12/28/2007, -0/+16Heh. Then it's not the courting that's at fault, it's the perception of the person doing the courting.
You have to be careful who you give your heart to. Most people today are selfish jerks who won't think twice of using you for all you're worth and then dumping you and bragging about it to their friends.
Maybe I sound bitter too, but I don't think so. I think you're right. You just have to be very careful and practice some insight. You only got one heart to give, and it gets more scarred and dysfunctional the more it's stomped on. - benkrembs, on 12/28/2007, -0/+15Indeed. Whether women like it or not, the male libido is one of the strongest forces in the universe. Men have killed, abandoned families, and worked themselves to death in pursuit of sex.
If men can make the sacrifice for a life of monogamy for a woman (which we're clearly not wired to do), the woman should understand the importance of giving the guy enough sex to keep him happy. Few things will make a guy's eye start to wander faster than not getting any. - brianez21, on 12/28/2007, -2/+17THE CAKE IS A LIE!!
- duser4, on 12/28/2007, -0/+14lasts 3 to 10 minutes? wow.... For me it's 2 minutes and that includes foreplay
- MasterInsan0, on 12/28/2007, -4/+18Unfortunately, much like other aspects of human social interaction, the rituals required to "court" a lady have changed dramatically since your day. Routinely buying flowers, dinner, movies, and candy for a woman today will leave you alone at night thinking about her while she's off having wild, one-night-stand sex with another man she met at a club or something.
Yeah, it sounds like I'm just bitter, but I'm not even speaking from experience, just observation. - Taciturn, on 12/28/2007, -0/+13The cake is a cliche?
- HimThatSpeaks, on 12/27/2007, -4/+15I think every digg page should have the instructions on how to pull up the mirror.
- Herostratos, on 12/28/2007, -1/+12The fact that he makes up those comments are hilarious as hell, even more than the post itself.
- WilliamHBonney, on 12/28/2007, -0/+11foreplay for 58 mins huh?
- surf314, on 12/28/2007, -1/+12I can confirm 2. She never wants sex and I never want tenderness.
- dezman2003, on 12/28/2007, -3/+14and avoid sleeping with dudes.
- PlutoPrime, on 12/27/2007, -6/+17From the article: "and 4 percent less than once a month"
I can't ever think of a time when I only "half" thought about sex... - inactive, on 12/28/2007, -0/+10I could at least deal with it better if I knew earlier in the day so I could make arrangements before I'm laying in bed with a boner all night.
- RealSurreal, on 12/28/2007, -1/+11Yes but don't throw caution to the wind because it might seem less likely to get it.
- yohnstoppable, on 12/28/2007, -1/+11***** Chameleon? Sounds like someone is a gd racist against black backgrounds
- mrbad101, on 12/28/2007, -0/+9Well played.
- transfuse, on 12/28/2007, -2/+11I don't care if that was a lie, it made me lol like heck man.
- salinemist, on 12/28/2007, -0/+9Props for being honest. Here, have a beer.
- inactive, on 12/28/2007, -0/+84) Profit.
- m0zzie, on 12/28/2007, -1/+9holy ***** i just choked on my coffee. dugg for a massive lol.
- DrAcUlA212, on 12/28/2007, -0/+82 hours.....that includes the 1 hour and 59 minutes of begging.
- InferiorWang, on 12/28/2007, -0/+7especially since they apparently have bigger wieners than the rest of us now.
- headzoo, on 12/28/2007, -0/+7"In Three Minutes Flat"
A few female aquaitences of mine have said, "I'm looking for a good time, not a long time". So if you can only hold out for 10 minutes, that's fine. Just make sure it's an insane 10 minutes. - haveacigar, on 12/28/2007, -1/+8You have obviously never heard of rule 34
- inactive, on 12/27/2007, -0/+7I thought i was going to read this and be screaming *****. I am actually suprised at how accurate i seems to be
- tattertech, on 12/27/2007, -2/+9Take that Psychologytoday!
- dengzhi, on 12/28/2007, -2/+9the number of profile views is a measure of your e-penis.
- DemonWasp, on 12/28/2007, -0/+7What if you have the opposite problem, and last longer than she can (even with that whole "multiple orgasms bit) ?
*so damned jealous* -
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