Each year, video game developer Eric Zimmerman hosts a contest in which designers must come up with a plausible video game concept based on an unusual theme. According to Zimmerman, the purpose of the challenge is to push for video games that set themselves apart from the usual offerings based on monsters, street fighting, or sports. Well, it's safe to say that if any of the concepts presented in ...

Natalie, a 22-year-old woman from San Diego, California, has decided to pay for her Masters Degree by selling something that is precious and belongs only to her: her virginity. She got the idea from her sister, who was able to save up enough money for her own degree by working as a prostitute for three weeks.

Natalie realizes that the idea may seem appalling to some, but she is unconcerned: "I know ...

NFL running back Shaun Alexander writes:

At the University of Alabama, I was meeting women from a lot of different backgrounds. My mother had taught me never to exploit women—that sex was meant only for marriage—and to treat women with respect. I knew the boundary lines it wasn't right to cross… I knew if I didn't keep my focus, I could fall. And it could occur anytime.

One time it ...

In the 2006 book Unprotected, an anonymous campus psychiatrist writes:

Radical politics pervades my profession, and common sense has vanished. Dangerous behaviors are a personal choice; judgments are prohibited—they might offend…

Where I work, we're stuck on certain issues, but neglect others. We ask about childhood abuse, but not last week's hookups. We want to know how many cigarettes ...

When researchers at the University of Texas at Austin asked 2,000 people why they have sex, there were plenty of answers—237, to be precise. The most popular answer given by those surveyed was that they felt an attraction for the other person. Others said sex was a chief way to feel closer to someone else or to show someone how much they are loved. Many simply said they had sex because "it feels ...

According to government reports, almost four in ten babies born in the United States during 2005 were born out of wedlock. That means of the 4.1 million babies born that year, more than 1.5 were brought into the world by unmarried couples. This number represents an all-time high.

Several factors contributed to these statistics. While the teen birth rate did drop, unwed mothers in their twenties had ...

In an eye-opening study, researchers have found that teenagers who listen to raunchy, sex-filled lyrics are more likely to indulge in early sexual activity than their counterparts who don't.

In 2001, the researchers surveyed 1,461 teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17. Most of the participants were virgins at the beginning of the study. Between 2002 and 2004, the researchers carried out follow-up ...

Percentage of Americans describing themselves as sexually adventurous—42

Percentage who've had sex on a first date—29

Average number of sexual partners men have in a lifetime—20

Average number of sexual partners women have in a lifetime—6

Number of adults who visit adult-only websites in a typical week—11 million

Percentage of adults who view magazines, movies, or videos containing ...

During her 2006 trip to West Africa, First Lady Laura Bush said:

"I'm always a little bit irritated when I hear the criticism of abstinence, because abstinence is absolutely, 100 percent effective in eradicating a sexually transmitted disease. In a part of the world where one in three people have a sexually transmitted, deadly disease, you have to talk about abstinence—you really have to. In ...

When asked about the conservative tone of the 2006 fall collections fashion show in Paris, world-famous designer Miuccia Prada replied: "The super-exposure of nudity seems not to have given much happiness to women."