Word: sexualism
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...turns out that one of humanity's oldest professions may be even older than we thought: In a recent study of macaque monkeys in Indonesia, researchers found that male primates "paid" for sexual access to females - and that the going rate for such access dwindled as the number of available females went...
...long-tailed macaques in Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, traded grooming services for sex with females; researchers, who studied the monkeys for some 20 months, found that males offered their payment up-front, as a kind of pre-sex ritual. It worked. After the females were groomed by male partners, female sexual activity more than doubled, from an average of 1.5 times an hour to 3.5 times. The study also showed that the number of minutes that males spent grooming hinged on the number of females available at the time: The better a male's odds of getting lucky, the less...
...Bureau of Study Council (BSC), the Harvard University Health Services (UHS) Center for Wellness, UHS Mental Health Services, the Harvard College Women’s Center, and the Office for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response all contributed to the pamphlet...
...sometimes tradition and new technology meld, if not marry. Central Market has an office for Bharatmatrimony.com, an online site that facilitates traditional arranged marriages - still the preferred way to find a mate for most Indians. (The sexual revolution, Bijapurkar says, is unlikely in India.) The office in Central Market is for parents left out of India's high-tech revolution. Flesh-and-blood staffers are on hand here to help parents navigate the unknown information highway...
Kamatenesi believes that plants like the "sex tree" may have other medicinal properties besides treating sexual impotence and says that Uganda will miss out on drug discovery and manufacturing if the government does not protect the forest. Researchers also say that the plants' extinction would take a toll on local Ugandans who have been using the trees as herbal cures for generations. Says Kamatenesi: "We are losing out if we let these plants go extinct without doing more research. The people say that the medicines work...