Skeptics Stack Exchange
Skeptics Stack Exchange

Questions tagged [sexuality]

Use this tag for the psychological and social aspects of sex and sexual activities in general. Use [gender] for gender differences and gender issues (male/female/lgbt...); use [reproduction] for the reproductive process, which may or may not include sex or even gender.

Human sexual activities or human sexual practices or human sexual behavior refers to the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality.

Human sexual activity has psychological, biological, physical and emotional aspects.

See also http://meta.skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/652

201 questions
17
votes
2 answers

AI can guess whether you're gay or straight – how do they get 91% success rate?

This article claims there is a software, that can say if a person is homosexual, based only on their facial images. The other article calls it "pseudoscience" though: critics say we’re revisiting pseudoscience Is it true or fake? How did they…
enkryptor
  • 273
  • 1
  • 7
17
votes
2 answers

Did 'Key Parties' ever exist?

According to Wikipedia,a key party is a: a form of swinger party, in which male partners place their car and house keys into a common bowl or bag on arriving. At the end of the evening the female partners would randomly select keys from the bowl…
gnometorule
  • 339
  • 2
  • 10
17
votes
4 answers

Does homosexuality preserve the species?

From The Huffington Post: For even without a causal link established between homosexuality and population management, the obvious reduction in population growth attributable to homosexuality by itself indubitably works to preserve the species. …
Carlo Alterego
  • 3,963
  • 4
  • 29
  • 77
16
votes
1 answer

Did a Cypriot bishop claim that homosexuality is caused when parents have anal sex?

The August 1, 2019 issue of MetroWeekly ("Washington D.C.'s Best LGBTQ Magazine for 25 Years"), on page 46, provides a "LastWord" quotation section that includes the following: "Gays are created due [to] the anal sex of a straight couple and only…
Robert Columbia
  • 3,396
  • 3
  • 20
  • 43
16
votes
1 answer

Have 5% of Danish men had sex with an animal?

From this 2015 New York Post article: Some 5 percent of Danish men have had sex with an animal. That seems completely outlandish to me. Bestiality seems like a very rare fetish. It's probably wrong but you never know.
user39173
16
votes
2 answers

Is there a woman named Lilly who is engaged to a robot she built?

The Daily Mail informs us that: A French woman has revealed she is in love with a robot and determined to marry it. [...] Now, Lilly is reportedly engaged to the robot and says they will marry when human-robot marriage is legalised in France. This…
Sklivvz
  • 78,578
  • 29
  • 321
  • 428
16
votes
1 answer

Are humans the only species to have permanently enlarged breast?

According to this did you know? blog humans are the only species to have permanently enlarged breast. It quotes an article from the Guardian but the article does not contain that specific fact.
user21093
  • 161
  • 1
  • 3
16
votes
1 answer

Was homosexuality an integral part of samurai life?

The Beautiful Way of The Samurai: Toshiro Mifune, the popular actor famed for his characterizations of quick-witted, taciturn samurai, never uttered a word about it. Akira Kurosawa, the well-known movie director, kept inscrutably mum. Not one of…
user7920
16
votes
1 answer

Does sex cure headache's symptoms or causes?

The claim that sex cures headaches is commonly quoted. For example, from 10 Reasons Sex is Good For You: 10. Sex Can Cure Headaches A South Illinois School Of Medicine study on 52 migraine sufferers reported that 16 experienced considerable…
Ramy Al Zuhouri
  • 271
  • 2
  • 6
15
votes
0 answers

Do Mormon teens practice "soaking" and "jump humping"?

According to this popular post on /r/facepalm, and again here Some Mormon teens have convinced themselves that putting a penis in a vagina and then not moving is not sex. That's called soaking. Jump humping is when you get someone to jump on the…
Evan Carroll
  • 28,401
  • 42
  • 129
  • 239
15
votes
1 answer

Is there a positive correlation between number of sexual partners and likelihood of failed marriage in the United States?

Youtuber Louis Rossman has said in one of his videos that There are studies on this; there is a direct correlation between number of sexual partners and likelihood of failed marriage, based on real marriages. These are not made up statistics. He…
tuskiomi
  • 1,563
  • 1
  • 13
  • 32
15
votes
1 answer

Are brothels to have sex with animals increasing fast in Germany?

I've found some sources that explain this is a phenomenon that this is likely happening in Germany right now, although the sources for that are a bit old. Dailymail claims on 1 July 2013: Bestiality brothels are spreading through Germany faster…
myktin
  • 367
  • 3
  • 7
15
votes
0 answers

Does masturbation increase self-esteem?

BetterHealth writes about Masturbation: Some of the general health benefits of masturbation may include that it: [...] enhances self-esteem. 2KnowMyself writes in Why masturbation lowers your self esteem and causes depression: Based on…
Christian
  • 33,271
  • 15
  • 112
  • 266
15
votes
2 answers

Do homosexuals have a shorter life expectancy than heterosexuals?

I've heard a few people claim this. Have any reputable studies concluded that homosexuals live, on average, significantly shorter than heterosexuals?
Joel
  • 269
  • 1
  • 2
  • 7
15
votes
2 answers

Are there 40,000 children of same-sex couples in California?

In 2008, California citizens passed a controversial amendment to the state constitution, Proposition 8, defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Recently, the US Supreme Court has begun hearings on Prop 8, and for the article "Court…
Paul
  • 5,380
  • 1
  • 41
  • 75
1 2 3
…
13 14