File this one under nice work, Captain Obvious. A new study by a University of Iowa sociologist found that it is likely for people in sexual relationships to have multiple partners these days. Professor Anthony Paik surveyed 783 heterosexuals between the ages of 18 and 60 to find out about their sexual partners and there were some interesting results. The study was published in Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Of women, 17% responded that they had been monogamous to their last partner but the partner hadn’t been. 8% of men answered that question the same way. Concerning situations where neither partner was monogamous, 12% of women and 10% of men said this was the case for their last sexual relationship.

Things got interesting on the question of whether being involved with a friend or stranger makes it more likely to have multiple partners. The study said that being involved with a friend makes a woman 44% more likely to have multiple partners, but only makes a man 25% more likely. On the other hand, being involved with a stranger made men 43% percent more likely to have more partners, but only 30% of women answered the same way. It was basically the opposite, meaning women feel more comfortable having multiple partners if one of those is a friend, while men will look to have multiple partners when involved with strangers.

While anyone paying attention to pop culture for the past few years could tell you that casual sex has been increasing, it is cool to say actual proof of it in the form of this study. Also the insight on the differences in men and women’s approach to the subject brings some understanding to how each of the sexes looks at hooking up with more than one person at once.

When you think of places to look for a casual hook up, a list of websites and bars probably come to mind. The last place you would think to check is with the government, but in Singapore, that is exactly what is happening. The government there developed the Social Development Unit (SDU), basically, to promote baby-making!

With the country facing low birth rates from natives and an influx of foreigners, the government has sought to increase the birth rate of the domestic population. The SDU was created in response, and it provides online dating services, hosts social mixers, and even puts together speed dating events.

The public reaction, however, has been a bit mixed. Many young folks look at it as too much paternalistic involvement by the government. Opponents say they do not need the government to find partners. A common joke goes that the agency name really stands for Single, Desperate, and Ugly, based on the selection offered by their services.

It is a fascinating concept either way, if you think about it. The government is actually committing resources and tax dollars to help people hook up! With a little bit of improvement to the system, the people of Singapore could be looking at some true government “benefits”.

Here’s a fresh take on boys who play with Barbie dolls, courtesy of Tulipan Condoms. Many fathers might worry about their boys taking to girls’ dolls, but this commercial shows that it should be encouraged if they want the little guys to become ladies men.

I also got a kick out of the kid’s point of view towards the father. He gets so fed up and disappointed that Pops keeps trying to push his homosexual ways on the boy that when he busts in on Daddy’s tea party, he turns the tables and gives his dad the look of disapproval. Hey, at least the dad was picking up some good dance moves from those life size action figures!

They definitely nailed the concerned parent cinematography as well. The lighting and camera angles when the father peeks into the son’s room and watches him in the car are straight out of a bad “Just Say No To Drugs” commercial. It is full of good laughs all around.

Tulipan is an Argentian condom company that has put out a number of humorous commercials over the years. We like what they’re doing down there and want them to keep it up. What did you think of this spot?

Take the worst blind date story you have ever heard, multiply it by ten, and it is still not close to this. A teenage boy in China was so disappointed by the appearance of his blind date that he went home and hanged himself afterwards.

The two met on the popular QQ messaging site, and had been talking for a few weeks before meeting. The girl said she was 19 years old, beautiful, and went by the name “Flying Skirt,” or Quanjiaofeiyang in Chinese. When they met, it turned out she was 27 and…..uhmmmm, how can I put this….”homely”. The boy turned around and went straight home, got very quiet, and lost his appetite. Four days later, he hanged himself from a tree.

A few things stick out about this story. One is that they were only in touch for a few weeks before, how could he have been that attached? Perhaps the skewed girl to guy ratio left him feeling desperate.

Also, this had to seriously mess up the girl psychologically. Before reading this, I thought the worse that could happen is having an ex turn gay or lesbian, but this is a whole new level. Granted, she lied about her age and looks, but nobody deserves this.

At the end of the day, this story is pretty extreme and reminds us a few things. One is that whatever our relationship drama is, keep it in perspective because it is not that bad. Another thing is it is these extreme stories that remind us that these are the exceptions with blind dating and most of our experiences will be much more positive than negative.

Breasts. This blog supports them (pun only half intended) and we think you all need to be better informed with regard to them. In light of this fact, enjoy and rejoice.

Rep. Nancy Elliott (R-NH) explains why she opposes marriage between partners of the same sex.

A compelling, logical argument bolstered by penetrating analysis from what must surely be one of our great nation’s sharpest political minds.

Presumably the idea here is to make sex perfectly safe by creeping you out so much you’ll never want to have sex again? Extra points to the Chinese for their rendition of an “American style” orgasm. Really, for the amount of porn we produce and export to the world we can’t really expect teh_furriners to know any better. I just feel sorry for all the soon-to-be-disappointed immigrants.

The polyamory lifestyle is nowhere near as sexy as I thought it would be. As the Boston Globe details in their long article, there’s plenty of normal well-respected, not spectacularly good-looking people who practice it. There’s more than just a few too–there are hundreds in just that town, so over the entire country there must be, like, thousands!

Casual Encounters wishes the previously-underground lifestylers out into the open and hopes for further erosion of the tyrannical ‘monogamy is right’ meme.

Read on for the tearjerking tale of the man with the world largest penis, Jonah Falcon, who has discovered that simply being in possession of his perhaps-enviable womb-crushing pants behemoth isn’t enough to make him happy. Or rich. Or, well (in my opinion) interesting.

More information over here.

1. 9 Sex Myths you Shouldn’t Believe.
2. Men who help clean get more sex.
3. Hustler publisher sues nephews for making “inferior porn”.
4. Behold: the condom pillow.
5. Creepy kids’ books that really exist.
6. Strippers. (Oh go on, it’s really funny. We promise.)
7. Touch my balls. Touch them.
8. Sexual bases throughout the decades.
9. Give this man a Nobel Prize.
10. The Porn Rangers. Watch out.

The holiday season is a great time to sit back and reflect on our pasts. Or, you know. The pasts of sex tape celebs.

So in that spirit, click through and enjoy the trip down memory lane.

An HIV-positive man infected his wife with the virus because he wanted to start having sex with her again.

The 35-year-old injected his blood into the sleeping woman, who had refused to have a physical relationship for a year after discovering he was carrying the virus that causes Aids.

He pricked her twice with a sewing needle laced with his blood, believing the pair would be ‘equals’ once more.

But he was behind bars in New Zealand today awaiting sentencing after admitting infecting another person with a disease.

The husband had emigrated to the country in 2004 with his wife and two young children, none of whom can be named.

Immigration officials found he had HIV, but his wife and children did not, during compulsory health checks.

The woman, 33, confronted her partner on discovering she was infected a year later.

She said: ‘All he said was he was sorry. He told me “I used needles on you because I wanted you to be the same as me so that you can live with me and you won’t leave me”.’

She told the court: ‘I just wanted to maintain the relationship for the sake of the children…He insisted on staying and mentioned that he was not worried about sex…any more. All he wanted was to see the children grow with both parents under one roof.’

But in May last year, she said, she discovered a sting-like mark on her left thigh. ‘After having a shower I put some lotion on myself and I could feel pain on my thigh. When I looked at it, it was turning red like a circle, getting and bigger.’

Later that morning, when she returned home from her nursing studies unexpectedly, she said, she saw her husband in the bedroom with a syringe full of blood.

When she asked him what he was doing, he pushed past her and walked away, refusing to discuss it. The wife searched a rubbish bin for evidence of the syringe but found nothing.

The paper reported that two days later the wife woke to a stinging feeling in her leg. ‘In my sleep I felt a prick on my leg I got up..and I flicked the blankets…I looked at (the husband) and he was wide awake.’

She said she asked him if he had pricked her and he said he had not. But later she found evidence of ‘blood sprinkles’ on their duvet, which, she said, her husband tried to hide from her.

She told him to leave the house – and in September, when her doctor suggested a test at a routine check-up, she found she was HIV-positive.

A nurse who had been in contact with the family and who was present when her GP told her the bad news told the court: ‘At this meeting (the woman) was beside herself with emotion. (She) could not work out how she had got HIV because she stated that she had not had sex with her partner for about a year.’

Later, during a meeting with an infectious disease specialist, the husband cried and repeated: ‘Please forgive me.’

The Sunday Star Times quoted Mr Simon Harger-Ford of the New Zealand Aids Foundation as saying that the organisation had never heard of a victim being infected in such a way ‘and with such intent.’