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"Trophy Wives" Are Rare in Real Life
Trophy wives proliferate movies and television shows, but have you ever actually met one? According to new research, this stereotypical arrangement of young, highly attractive women with older, less attractive but highly successful men is not as common as the entertainment industry leads us to believe. In real life, trophy wives actually seem to be exceedingly rare.
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Better Identification of Viking Corpses Reveals: Half of the Warriors Were Female
Shieldmaidens are not a myth! A recent archaeological discovery has shattered the stereotype of exclusively male Viking warriors sailing out to war while their long-suffering wives wait at home with baby Vikings. (We knew it! We always knew it.) Plus, some other findings are challenging that whole “rape and pillage” thing, too.
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Why Men Never Remember Anything
Recently, I was visiting my family in Seattle, and we were doing that thing families do: retelling old stories. As we talked, a common theme emerged. My brother hardly remembered anything from our childhood, even the stories in which he was the star player. (That time he tumbled down the basement steps? Nope. That panicky afternoon when we all thought he’d disappeared, only to discover he’d been hiding in his room, and then fell asleep? Nothing.) “Boys never remember anything,” my mom huffed.
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Scientists Have Discovered How Common Different Sexual Fantasies Are
We all have at least one and most of us have many: Sexual fantasies. In fact, it's normal, and even healthy, to have sexual fantasies.
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Men Strive To Give More To Charity When The Fundraiser Is Cute
If you're wondering how to get more people to contribute to your online charity drive, consider a photo of you smiling. Even better if you're an attractive woman. Biology is to blame, researchers say.
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Marvel Comics Reveals a Female Thor
In issue No. 8 of the Thor series, the identity of the woman wielding Thor’s mighty hammer is revealed: it’s Dr. Jane Foster, a former girlfriend of the hero.
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One woman, five characters, and a sex lesson from the future
I swim laps every day and lately I've taken to listening to TED talks while I swim. This morning I heard this one. It's a new kind of danger... a spit take while swimming... She makes a lot of really excellent points hilariously.
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Does sexual behavior have to mimic sexual orientation?
What do you do when presented with a set of genitalia you didn’t think you were wired for?
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The next billion entrepreneurs will be women
While, men are most often at the helm of a company, it’s becoming more evident that women are driving increased business success.
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Should female athletes have to prove they are women?
Indian sprinter Dutee Chand recently secured the right to compete as a woman, even though her natural level of testosterone may exceed international track and field regulations for female athletes.
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My life without gender: 'Strangers are desperate to know what genitalia I have'
Raised a girl, became a boy, and now? From navigating public bathrooms, to choosing what to wear, Tyler Ford on living as a genderless person
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A Gender Terminology Refresher
The mainstream conversation about gender identity has widened significantly in the last few months, between Caitlyn Jenner’s public transition and Miley Cyrus and Ruby Rose appearing in the public eye identifying as genderqueer. It may be a great moment for a refresher on gender terminology, so here at The Frisky, we wanted to provide you with a glossary of terms! Let’s dive in.
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10 Times Miley Cyrus Dropped Amazing Truth Bombs About Sexuality
You have to give her credit.
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Nearly Half of British 18-to-24-Year-Olds Say They’re Not Totally Heterosexual
Back in the 1980s, when people still affixed buttons that weren’t just miniature flags to their lapels, I often wore one with the slogan, “How Dare You Assume I’m Heterosexual.” Forget for a moment the bitchy friend who looked me up and down and declared, “As if for a minute anyone would.” The button was a necessary reminder that, for the most part, LGBTQ people were an invisible minority.
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Caitlyn Jenner and Our Cognitive Dissonance
As binary gender identities become increasingly fuzzy, one might expect it won’t be long before it will be non-existent. Unfortunately, society is only going to get so far down that road before it’s stymied by a cognitive feature of our brains. Let us explain.
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Marine study finds all-male infantry units outperformed teams with women
A Marine Corps study that found all-male ground combat units more effective than teams that included women has raised new concerns about the Pentagon's push to open all jobs to women next year. A summary of results released Thursday from the unprecedented study showed that all-male ground combat squads were faster, stronger and more lethal in most cases than units that included women.The women also suffered higher injury rates during physically demanding training.
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What It’s Like to Be an Intersex Nudist
"I don’t have to deal with the politics of sex and gender and men and women. You guys are welcome to all that crap."
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The Boys Who Only Develop A Penis When They Hit The Age Of 12
When born, to all intents and purposes they appear to be female. But when the children referred to as “Guevedoces” in an isolated village in the Dominican Republic reach puberty, things start to change. They develop muscles, their chests start to grow, and by the age of 12, they sprout testes and a penis.
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Why do women live longer than men?
As soon as I was born, I was already destined to die earlier than half the babies in my maternity ward – a curse that I can do little to avoid. The reason? My sex. Simply due to the fact that I am male, I can be expected to die around three years earlier than a woman born on the same day. What is it about being a man that means I am likely to die younger than the women around me? And is it possible for me to break the curse of my gender?
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The Radical Ambiguity of Henry Darger
I first encountered Henry Darger’s doggedly private, colored drawings depicting his opulent fantasy world at the 1997 The Unreality Of Being show at the Museum of American Folk Art.
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