Esquire’s sex columnist on the truth about “girls night out,” wedding obsessions, and more revealing solutions for the bedroom Women don’t like explosions, in art or in life. Women aren’t as funny as men. We’re often cleverer, frequently wittier, but to be really funny demands a certain clownishness that our grace just does not allow. It’s fine, really it is. We grow pathetic goatees and look awful in cargo shorts anyway. Women are aware of about 10 percent of the things men actually think and say about us. Best to keep it under five. Women love to be...

Had sex. Those two little words can sure elicit a reaction depending on when and where they’re uttered. But what does “had sex” mean, anyway? It seems that no one knows. In a new study from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, researchers found no consensus on what “had sex” means. They conducted a random, telephone survey of 204 men and 282 women living in Indiana. The respondents ranged in age from 18 to 96. Most were heterosexual. Read More…

Extra small condoms for boys as young as 12 are going on sale in Switzerland Alexandra Williams in Geneva Called the Hotshot, the condom has been produced after government research showed 12 to14-year-olds did not use sufficient protection when having sex. The study, conducted on behalf of the Federal Commission for Children and Youth, interviewed 1,480 people aged 10 to 20. It showed more 12 to 14-year-olds were having sex, in comparison with the 1990s. The Hotshot condoms, which cost 7fr60 (£4.70) for a packet of six, have been created by Lamprecht AG, a leading condom manufacturer in Switzerland....

By THE NEW YORK TIMES Recently, a panel of experts joined the Consults blog to answer readers’ questions about sex addiction. One reader, responding to reports of golfer Tiger Woods’s sex addiction, wondered if the sex addiction claim was just to save face and release all personal responsibility for his actions. Q.Men who play with fire must know they might get burnt. Read More…

By THE NEW YORK TIMES Recently, a panel of experts joined the Consults blog to answer readers’ questions about sex addiction. Here, two of those experts respond to one wife who is concerned that her husband may be a sex addict who is addicted to her. Is My Husband Addicted to Me? Read More…

A proposed city ordinance has a lengthy definition of a medical marijuana dispensary, along with rules of operation. “We want to be able to make clear what is going on, and that it is legitimate,” said Jessica Hogan, director of public relations for the nonprofit Colorado Springs Medical Cannabis Council, which helped draft the proposed ordinance being considered by the Colorado Springs City Council. The ordinance refers to “Medical Cannabis Dispensaries,” cannabis being the botanical name for the plant from which marijuana comes. Read More…

By Andrew Stern, Reuters CHICAGO – Golfer Tiger Woods’ admission that he is undergoing therapy after having adulterous affairs has focused attention on the issue of sex addiction, a condition some experts say is becoming much more common. But sex addiction is a controversial concept not currently recognized as an official diagnosis in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, considered the definitive word on psychological disorders. Read More…

Hilary Mantel, the prize-winning author, has opened up a public debate over teenage sex by claiming that girls are ready to have babies when they are 14 years-old. By David Harrison The 57-year-old novelist said that society ran on a “male timetable” which dictated that women should have babies at an older age. “Having sex and having babies is what young women are about, and their instincts are suppressed in the interests of society’s timetable,” she said. “I think it is that men’s lives have set the timetable. Men reach a sort of sexual peak when you...

Police say man had sex with 26 women without telling them he had AIDS The 47-year-old repairman, whom police described as a practiced “seducer,” slept with at least 26 women over the past six years, they say. A Web site provided the introduction, and Perkins skillfully used the women’s profiles to flatter them. But if Perkins ever revealed anything about himself, he always left out one important detail: He has AIDS. Read More…

When law professor Mark Cato was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, he started a popular blog detailing the frustrations of daily life – and the inventions he came up with to triumph over the cruel wasting disease. Here are selected extracts from his heart-rending online diary. By Professor Mark Cato, with an introduction by Cassandra Jardine In April 2008, Professor Mark Cato was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease and told that he might have only 14 months to live. Faced with this deadly illness, Cato – aptly named after the great Roman stoic – did not turn his face to the wall....