Category: Science

Are you an unmarried couple that’s living together? Your kids hate you.

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 9, 2011

WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS: THIRTY CONCLUSIONS FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES from the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values and the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia was recently released.

And if you are a couple with children that happen to be unmarried (“living in sin” is what our parents called it, back when “sin” was a bit more inflammatory than it is today), then you have set your children up on an unhealthy spiral as they grow older.

Some of the results from the study include:

Tags parenting, Relationships, survey

Science

1-in-12 Michigan women suffer from vulvodynia

Post author By web gangsta
Post date October 1, 2011

Ending Female Pain: A Woman's Manual - The Ultimate Self-Help Guide for Women Suffering from Chronic Pelvic and Sexual Pain
Ending Female Pain: A Woman’s Manual
The Ultimate Self-Help Guide for Women Suffering from Chronic Pelvic and Sexual Pain

One in twelve women living in Michigan suffer from vulvodynia.

And what is vulvodynia? It’s a pain in a woman’s external genital area. It could be a chronic pain, or it could come from some sort of contact such as from sex or riding a bicycle.

So where does this 8% of Michigan women figure come from?

Tags health, medical, Relationships, survey

How To News Science

80% of couples live together before getting married

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 27, 2011

Living Together: A Legal Guide for Unmarried Couples

Living together before marriage: it’s not exactly a growing trend, it’s just something that’s been done for years and years.

Heck, if you want to get technical, Adam and Eve “lived together” in Biblical times. There certainly wasn’t a priest around to make their arrangement an official “marriage”, if you will.

And while Web Watch knows that some parents are perfectly fine with the permanent roommate situation that living together brings, we also know of some couples who purposefully hide their living arrangements from the parental units. It’s all about avoiding the wrath and disappointment of the parents, combined with the realization that the living-in-sin couple might have to pay for their own wedding arrangements, we assume. To each their own. Whatever works.

Tags parenting, Relationships, survey, Wedding

News Science

September 26th is World Contraception Day

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 25, 2011

America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation

World Contraception Day is September 26th.

The purpose of WORLD CONTRACEPTION DAY is, according to their mission statement, “to improve awareness of contraception to enable young people to make informed decisions on sexual and reproductive health”.

In other words, it’s to promote contraception as a way to prevent unplanned pregnancies and sexually-transmitted diseases.

Tags contraception, holidays, medical, Relationships

News Science

First born? Only child? Your parent’s decisions effect your future job and salary options

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 24, 2011

Birth Order Book, The: Why You Are the Way You Are

“Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!” said Jan, lamenting the fact – again – that she’s the ignored middle child on The Brady Bunch.

So while it was played for laughs, maybe she did know a little bit about what her future held. And it’s not pretty.

Tags jobs, parenting, survey

Science Websites

What’s a Sex Surrogate?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 16, 2011

Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate

Have you ever heard about a SEX SURROGATE and wondered what it was?

Fox News recently wrote an article about it, and summed it up with this:

“…some sex therapists turn to surrogate partners – people who help patients with intimacy issues using a hands-on approach. This can include having sex with the patient.”

What? You mean to say that there are doctors who can prescribe sex to their patients, and there’s an actual service those patients can turn to that will have sex with them “for medical reasons”?

It sounds like it’s borderline prostitution, but where there is a medical need, what other choice does one have?

Tags medical, Relationships, website

Science

Smokers do not make better lovers

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 15, 2011

Thank you for Smoking

Smokers do not make better lovers, despite all the assumptions that smoking makes one appear to be sexier.

(do you hear that kids? Let’s say that again — “smokers do not make better lovers”)

We know what you’re thinking. Web Watch, how could you possible know this? Well, we’d like to say that it’s due to our vast knowledge and personal experience… but we’d rather just point you to this REPORT ON SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION and SMOKING.