Robots Are the Future of Dating
Today, Nerve posted a list of wacky new technological gadgets that can double as dating aides. These include the dog robot, pictured above, which checks your feet for unseemly odor before you head out...
View ArticleMasturbation for Better Menopause
It turns out that vibrators are good for something other than making people happy and curing hysteria. Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, of Yale University School of Medicine, has been recommending the use of a...
View Article“Fuck” Through the Decades
We’ve been checking out this collection of charts documenting the popularity of some sex terms over others, in print. We’re not surprised to see that “fuck” didn’t show up much until the 1960s, but...
View ArticleSounds Like A Bad Idea
Yes, this is an x-ray of a fork stuck in someone’s urethra. The unlucky man got himself to the emergency room twelve hours after inserting the fork, in the worst attempt at sounding we’ve ever heard...
View ArticleThis Month in Online Dating
Lately, we can’t go anywhere on the internet without hearing about a new dating site, hookup app, or some variation thereof. Folks who are looking for lasting love, a one-night stand, or something in...
View ArticleUnited States of Pornography
America has spoken, and it wants creampies. Last week, PornHub, the popular porn video sharing site, posted its top search terms and visit duration per US state. The graphic above illustrates it...
View ArticleMore Fun With Maps!
Since you got a kick out of the map of PornHub search terms, we thought you’d enjoy this world map of the average age of first sex by country. None of the sources we found were clear about how “first...
View ArticleAll About Animal Sex
When it comes to sex, the animal kingdom is endlessly entertaining. Did you know that dolphins do it in the blowhole, or that hedgehogs engage in oral sex? Out in nature, there’s an orgy everywhere...
View ArticleTop 10 Worst Sex Scenes
“Slither slither slither slither went the tongue…” We love good erotica, but we won’t deny that there’s a unique pleasure in reading really, really bad smut. If you understand the joy of wondering,...
View ArticleDo Smaller Balls Make For Better Parents?
In a recent study, seventy men from Atlanta were asked to look at pictures of their children while having their brain activity measured by an MRI. They were then asked about their daily involvement in...
View ArticlePorn Without Porn
In response to British prime minister David Cameron’s crackdown on internet pornography, freelance ad writers Henrik Düfke and Felipe Montt created Cameron Porn, a collection of “free sex videos:...
View ArticleSex is Back
We’re thrilled to be launching our Sex is Back campaign, which features people speaking candidly on camera about their sex lives. Interested? Take a look behind the scenes and meet the Sex is Back...
View ArticleTeen Sex Talk, Minus the BS
The Huffington Post has been running a series of articles by teens, about sex. So far, all of the stories in the series, called “Teen Sex: It’s Complicated,” cover the two topics that you’d expect...
View ArticleNo, That Toy Won’t Replace You
Here at The Pleasure Chest, we hear one fairly common concern from straight men: “If my wife/girlfriend buys a sex toy, will it replace me?” The answer is, of course, a resounding heck no! As much as...
View ArticleThe Penis Church
This is the Dixon Christian Science Society in Dixon, Illinois, seen from above. Yup. h/t Buzzfeed
View ArticleInstagram Porn Censorship Update
Finding porn on Instagram has become an involved and bewildering process. The Data Pack recently released an updated list of which hashtags Instagram still censors alongside a list of hashtags that...
View ArticleNo One is Straight! (Or Maybe Fewer People Than We Thought.)
In a new study, a startling 19% of participants identified themselves as not-heterosexual when researchers used a method that provided more than usual anonymity. In a corresponding survey using a...
View ArticleWhy Is Your Penis So Sensitive?
Have you ever wondered why the foreskin and frenulum are so sensitive compared to the rest of the penis? As it turns out, you can thank your Meissner’s corpuscles: nerve endings that are especially...
View ArticleTristan Taormino on Feminist Porn
We were honestly surprised to see that Cosmopolitan recently featured an interview with wildly prolific educator, author and pornographer Tristan Taormino, in which she answered questions about...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Rim Job
There’s an article about straight men getting rim jobs on Playboy’s SFW site. Can we now officially say that rimming is mainstream? You should probably brush up on your rimming skills.
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