NoFap is a community of mostly heterosexual men abstaining from what they see as an addictive cycle pornography, masturbation, and orgasm, induced by the exploitation innate male urges pornography industry. In general population, increased masturbation consumption are associated with psychological factors including low affect, loneliness, boredom, all which may be exacerbated lockdown/social di...

Critical masculinities scholarship has identified a number of ways in which abstention from sex, pornography, and masturbation works to repair reproduce hybrid hegemonic masculinities. Though the mercurial plural nature contemporary online is investigated on fronts, analysis date often pinned down particular subject position, understood predominantly its gendered dimensions. In this article, I ...

INTRODUCTION Up to 30% of women suffer from female orgasmic disorder (FOD)-the second most common type of female sexual dysfunction. FOD has been acknowledged to be multifactorial and recent research has implicated the importance of psychosocial risk factors. AIM The aim of this study is to investigate whether normal variations in emotional intelligence--the ability to identify and manage emo...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the sexual behavior of women with polycystic ovary syndrome and the relationship between sexual behavior and the clinical parameters related to this syndrome (obesity, hirsutism and menstrual irregularities). METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out involving 48 women with polycystic ovary syndrome. The evaluation was based on the c...

Aims: To investigate how the Chinese make love. Methods: From Jan. 2009 to Dec. 2009, a survey was carried out of 600 adults (300 male and 300 female adults) in Tianhe community (Guangzhou, China). Information included masturbation, sexual foreplay, oral sex, intercourse, coordination with sexual partner, self-evaluation of one’s sexual function. Results: 255 females and 229 males fulfilled the...