Sexuality and Intimacy

Sexuality and Intimacy

• Why today’s young men are terrified of sex (New York Post)

• The Seven Most Common Sexual Fantasies (Psychology Today)
• The Bored Sex

• What's the Right Age to Begin Having Sex? (Psychology Today)
• This Is the Most Common Reason People Have Sex (Vice)
• There Are Six Types of Straight People Who Have Same-Sex Hookups (Vice)
• 1,000 Parents Were Asked How Their Sex Life Changed After Having Kids (Fatherly)
• Having This Many Sexual Partners in One Year Could Be the Key to Happiness (My Domaine)
• Why young men have sex they don't actually want (Futurity)
• Study Says Sex Can Help Your Career, But Not In That Way (Forbes)

Sexual Norms

• Are Polyamorous Relationships the New Sexual Revolution? (Zora Medium)

• Why Do Straight People Hook Up With Same-Gender Partners? (Psychology Today)

• Young People and the Great Sex Decline (Society Pages)
• Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex? (The Atlantic)

• Is Hookup Culture Putting An End To Anniversaries? (Refinery 29)

• America Going Through Another Sexual Revolution, Sociologist Author Says (The Daily Signal)
• New Study Finds Average Number Of Lifetime Sexual Partners For Men And Women (All That Is Interesting)
• Our analysis of five decades of sex research shows an evolving spectrum of sexual norms (Quartz)
• I Talked To 1400 Strangers About Their Sex Lives. Here’s What I Learned. (Medium)
• Americans having less sex than they once did (The Washington Post)
• Why Americans are having less sex (CNN)
• Virgin America: Why young adults are having a hard time getting laid (Salon)
• Searching for Sex (New York Times)

Sexuality & Adolescence

• That Teen Sexting Study (Forbes)
• Science Says Abstinence-Only Programs and Policies Are Failing (Parents)
• Parents Aren't Talking to Teens About Consent, Study Finds (Teen Vogue)
• Are today's teens more responsible about sex? (CBS News)

Teen Pregnancy

• US teen birth rate drops to all-time low (CNN)

Sexuality & Young Adults

• Researchers Found What Consent Looks Like Isn't Always Straightforward on College Campuses (Teen Vogue)

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

• Why men and women lie about sex, and how this complicates STD control (The Conversation)

Intimacy & Technology

• The mechanics of mechanophilia: why men find Siri sexy (The Telegraph)
• Man pays £1,000 a year for a pretend girlfriend to text him (Independent) 

Infidelity

• Monogamy: not one-size-fits-all (Deutsche Welle)
• 1 in 4 Americans don't think one-night stands count as cheating (Deseret News)
• An Ingenious Way to Predict if Your Partner Will Cheat (Psychology Today)
• How women cheat differently to men (Independent)
• The Surprising Demographic That's More Likely to Cheat in Marriage (Brides)
• The changing reasons why women cheat on their husbands (CNN)
• Women cheat on men who don't do house chores, French survey finds.(The Telegraph)
• These are the most adulterous countries in the world (Independent)
• The day of the year your partner is most likely to cheat on you, according to an extra-marital dating site (Independent)

Romance

• When Pop Culture Sells Dangerous Myths About Romance (The Atlantic)

Love

• What Makes Love Work: Triangles of Love (Psychology Today)

• What is love? (The Guardian)
• What is Attachment Theory? (Very Well)
• The Five Love Languages (The Telegraph)
• 5 Psychology Theories of Love (Very Well Mind)
• How To Define Love? 5 Experts Share Their Personal Philosophies (The Bride)

Friendship

• Why Your Friends Are More Important and Special Than You Think (Sociological Science)
  

• Galentine's Day has become a thing – why hasn't Malentine's Day? (The Conversation)

• The Outsize Influence of Your Middle-School Friends (The Atlantic)

• Why men are “so shit at friendship” (Quartz)
• This Is What Happens When Friends Fall in Love (The New York Times)