In an international index measuring one-night stands, total numbers of partners and attitudes to casual sex, Britain comes out ahead of Australia, the US, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany.
Couples who hug and kiss more often or become physically intimate are less likely to be stressed, especially if they are married.
Sex sells, as the saying goes, and while failing banks may give the stock market jitters, they have yet to rattle the world's oldest profession, Australian industry members say.
Scientists in China have mapped the genome of the giant panda, which could yield a better understanding of why the endangered animals are so famously sex-shy, state media said on Monday.
Teens are becoming more promiscuous, hence parents need to tell them all about sex at home, rather than expect schools to do the job, said Sherwood-Laughlin, Indiana University sexual health expert.
Minutes after having sex with her boyfriend, a 35-year-old woman suffered a stroke, paralysing the left side of her face. But she miraculously recovered after therapy.
A fourth of the teenagers in the US will end up with a sexually transmitted disease because they prefer not to use condoms regularly, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
He has been dubbed the high priest of Catholic Kama Sutra, but Polish Friar Ksawery Knotz says that by giving married couples tips on how to practice divine sex, he is simply doing God's work.
The authorities in Britain have advised parents to watch popular steamy TV soaps as an ice-breaker to conversations with their children about sex and relationships.
Coaching parents at work on how to talk to their adolescent children about sex could be an effective way to reduce risky sexual behavior among teens, according to a study in the United States released.
If you think that sexual desire diminishes with age, you are wrong, for a new study has found that couples over 70s are having more sex than ever - and it is women who are enjoying more than men.
Men who have sex at least thrice a week are less likely to develop erectile dysfunction later in life, a new study has revealed.
Revealing a range of bitter-sweet sexual experiences of most Australian women, a major online survey has found that the average woman in that country has 13 different sex partners in her life.
Men who buy sex, most of them from the "mainstream" society, are the single most powerful driving force in Asia's HIV epidemic and constitute the largest infected population group, according to a report by an independent body on HIV/AIDS.
According to a study, women are not comfortable with fleeting sexual encounters and feel 'used' after one-night stands.
A survey involving 778 women aged 19 to 45 showed that seventy-four per cent of them think about shopping every minute.
US teens are having less sex, doing fewer drugs and smoking fewer cigarettes than those who grew up in the 1990s, a study released today by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has found.
Scientists may be on track to develop a 'wonder pill' that could not only help generate sex drive in both men and women but also have the potential to encourage weight-loss, a development that could make Viagra redundant.
Is sex driving people to alcohol and drugs? Maybe, says a new study that found many teens and young adults using alcohol and drugs in an elaborate strategy to increase their chances of sex.
Men are increasingly going off sex due to stress, depression and the inability to talk about their problems, experts have claimed.
A new inalienable right could be enshrined soon in Ecuador's constitution: the pursuit of sexual happiness for women.
Indian men may claim to have a healthy sex-life, but a new international survey claims that orgasm often eludes them.
Organisers of what is billed as Latin America's biggest erotica trade show have hailed the nine-day event as a big success after welcoming some 20,000 Brazilians with libidos piqued and wallets opened.
American men have doubled the amount of housework they do and may be having better sex because of it, experts said.











