Word: sexuality
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...biggest reason that Harvard students find themselves sleep-deprived seems fairly obvious: We are simply having too much fun. We party too hard, and we strip down too often. A 2007 survey by Harvard University Health Services found that just over half of Harvard students had engaged in sexual intercourse at least once. This astronomically high number should alarm us—have we completely forgotten our fair college’s Puritan roots? Aside from the obvious ethical and moral questions premarital sex raises, between-the-sheets workouts tonight are a surefire way to guarantee we?...
Harvard students aren’t used to getting anything lower than a 4.0. But the College scored just a 3.2 on the third annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, released yesterday. The survey was sponsored by the makers of Trojan condoms and conducted by Sperling’s BestPlaces, an independent research firm. The report card graded and ranked 139 colleges based on 13 criteria, including sexual assault programs, availability of contraceptives, and student peer groups. Harvard’s ranking fell from 10th place last year to 25th. Trojan and Sperling’s BestPlaces did not release...
...author, Anna S. J. Dreber, a visiting researcher from the Stockholm School of Economics, noted that “in an evolutionary sense, it makes sense that women are more risk averse” than men, “If you think in terms of the sexual division of labor, in hunter gatherer populations, women go out and do the foraging for the goods that are going to be the most stable, whereas the men go out and go for the high risk strategy—they go hunting,” Apicella said. “They...
...Alan Strang, he holds his compact, still-smallish body straight and still, his hands thrust down at his side - a polite, almost stolid youth who, as his story unfolds through the prodding of the psychiatrist tasked with finding the motivation for his horrific crime, is transported into religio-sexual ecstasy in the presence of his equine gods. In a Broadway season when neophytes from Katie Holmes to Cedric the Entertainer are making their stage debuts, Radcliffe transcends stunt casting. He holds his own nicely opposite Richard Griffiths, the portly, Tony-winning star of The History Boys, who makes the psychiatrist...
Other researchers are exploring how the adolescent propensity for uninhibited risk taking propels teens to experiment with drugs and alcohol. Traditionally, psychologists have attributed this experimentation to peer pressure, teenagers' attraction to novelty and their roaring interest in loosening sexual inhibitions. But researchers have raised the possibility that rapid changes in dopamine-rich areas of the brain may be an additional factor in making teens vulnerable to the stimulating and addictive effects of drugs and alcohol. Dopamine, the brain chemical involved in motivation and in reinforcing behavior, is particularly abundant and active in the teen years...