1Cold Sores
Cold sores can be spread to the genitals causing genital herpes, and up to 50% of new genital herpes cases are caused by oral sex from a partner that has cold sores.
2. The first sex dolls were created by 16th-century European sailors who were isolated during voyages. The dolls were often made of sewn cloth or old clothes. Later, the Dutch sold some of these dolls to the Japanese, and the term “Dutch wives” is still sometimes used in Japan to refer to sex dolls
3. While sudden heart attacks during sex are rare, most of them happen to men who are cheating on their wives.
4. There is a ritual in Malawi called Sexual Cleansing in which young girls after their first mensuration cycle are forced by their parents to have sex with a community-chosen man in order to get accepted by the community. This has led to high rates of HIV/AIDS in the country as some of these men have HIV.
5. Condoms should be replaced every 30 minutes when engaging in a long sex session.
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6Goat Glanding
Quack Doctor John R. Brinkley amassed a great fortune in the 1930s by performing an operation that transplanted goat testicles into humans as a cure for impotence.
7. Mind-blowing sex can give you transient global amnesia, a condition that causes you to lose all of your memories for a couple of hours.
8. In 1920, a disciplinary tribunal called the “Secret Court” was formed at Harvard to investigate and take action against allegations of homosexual activities among students. Its existence was not known until 2002 when a student encountered a file labeled “Secret Court” in the university archive.
9. English sailors on the HMS Dolphin in 1766 discovered that native women on islands would trade sex for iron, and began pulling nails out, causing loss of the ship’s structural integrity.
10. The 1969 book “Naked Came the Stranger” was a literary hoax. The book was written to be disjointed and terrible, but full of sex scenes, to prove that any book could succeed if enough sex was thrown in. The novel spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List.
11Sultan Murad III
Ottoman Sultan Murad III was impotent. According to historians “his arrow was working but was unable to reach the target of union and pleasure.” After many attempts by his mother, a cure was found with one side effect: his libido increased so much that by the end of his reign he had over 100 children.
12. 8% of Canadians have had sex in a canoe.
13. Male penguins have been observed having sex with other male penguins, having sex with dead penguins, and having sex with unwilling female penguins. When this was discovered in 1912, it was considered too lewd to publish.
14. Ronda Rousey has remarked that she tries to have “as much sex as possible” before a match since she says it boosts testosterone levels.
15. In Ancient Greece, prostitutes were classified into two classes; the Pornai and the Hetairai. The Pornai served many men at once and frequently worked on the street. In contrast, Hetarai were educated, had few clients, and provided companionship and intellectual discussion as well as sex.
16Sex During Pregnancy
Aztec midwives advised women to continue having sex until the 7th month of pregnancy, saying that, if women abstained, their children would be sickly and weak. Apparently, modern studies have found that exposure to semen can facilitate “immune tolerance” of the resulting fetus; i.e., the pregnancy can have a higher chance of success.
17. According to a 2011 study published in the International Journal of Impotence Research, eating 100 grams of pistachios at lunch every day for three weeks led to increased blood flow to “the problem area,” leading to a significant decrease in erectile dysfunction.
18. 2suit is a spacesuit designed for sex in space. Partners wearing the 2suit can attach themselves to each other via Velcro, giving space for intimacy.
19. Data gathered in a 2012 study indicated that 76% of gaming couples feel that their RPG time is a positive force in their relationship. The research also suggested that interacting in-game increased a couple’s satisfaction with their marriage.
20. Nymphomania is not an encompassing term for sex addiction. Nymphomania only refers to women's sexual addiction. Satyromania is the men’s version.
21Gambian Tourism
One of the poorest countries on earth, Gambia, is a hotbed for female sex tourism. Wealthy older European woman seeking out young African men is the country’s main attraction.
22. In a village in Turkey, women were fed up with walking to get water, so they withheld sex from their husbands until they fixed the waterline. They got what they wanted within one month.
23. Ida Craddock was a 19th-century sex educator who wrote pamphlets that advised couples on the importance of foreplay, complications of having too big of a penis, and how to properly rupture the hymen. She later committed suicide after being sentenced to prison for breaking obscenity laws.
24. When Olympic organizers found condoms on the roofs of housing for athletes in the Seoul Games in 1988, the Olympic Association outlawed outdoor sex in the Olympic village.
25. In 1985, a doctor in Lovell, Wyoming was convicted of sexually assaulting patients for over 25 years. One of the reasons he was able to get away with it for so long was that many of his victims were strict Mormons and didn’t know what a proper pelvic exam, or even sex, felt like.
