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Eleven is the magic number..

EVERYONE. Stop what you're doing immediately. This is breaking news. A new survey has revealed exactly when a lady is most in the mood for sex. Seriously. I'm not making this up.

1000 women took part in a survey by Women's Health Magazine, and from this it was deduced that a lady feels most lustful... wait for it... At around 11pm on a Saturday night. Are you taking note, boys? This could be down to a number of things. Letting off steam after a long week is a definite possibility, along with the fact that at 11pm on a Saturday night, there's a distinct chance that a couple of glasses of wine will have been consumed.

The survey went on to reveal that forty per cent of the women questioned admitted they were particularly fond of having "al fresco" sex. Outdoor passion was described as being "the most exciting", followed by getting amorous in the workplace, with getting down on a beach coming in third. Some might dispute the fact that having sex on a beach is pretty much the same thing as doing it outdoors, but I digress.

Along with these revelations, the research concluded that out of everyone in the UK and Ireland, women in Scotland and England were happiest with their sex lives. An impressive four out of five women said that their bedroom shenanigans were very satisfactory. Good for them.

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She must be from Scotland.

In dismal contrast, less than a third of Irish women could say the same. Either us Celtic lasses are very hard to please, or someone seriously needs to look into the plight of the sexually active Irish female. I would do it, but I live in Los Angeles now, and the men here are a completely different species to what I'm used to.

However, the article tries to cheer us Irish ladies up by reassuring us that at least we are actually having sex. Apparently more than forty percent of women in Ireland are "attempting to have sex at least three times a week." Now, while this is all very encouraging, I can't help but feel that the use of the word "attempt" in this context is worrying. Someone is doing something wrong, clearly.

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The luck of the Irish? Yeah right.

"It is great to see that the majority of women are satisfied between the sheets, or outside, as our ... sex survey reveals," said Farrah Storr, the magazine's editor.

That's all very well, but I'm still a little concerned about the lack of satisfactory sex in Ireland. I won't be returning, if that's the case.

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She probably doesn't have a problem finding a man.

New research from the University of Texas in San Antonio claims that women have a lack of male attention to thank for their career success. The study, published April 2 in the Journal of Personality and Psychology, offers up the idea that women tend to pursue high paying careers more often when there is a lack of suitable men in the area.

Apparently, if ladies have to "fend for themselves" financially and emotionally, they are more likely to concentrate on establishing themselves on the career ladder, and they put finding a mate and reproducing on the back burner. Well, duh.

Researchers used a number of different methods to gather their information, some of which leave a little to be desired. They examined the sex ratio of males to females in each of the 50 states, compared it with the percentage of women in the top 10 career spots, and from that information gleaned these findings:

"Sex ratios involving a scarcity of men led women to seek lucrative careers because of the difficulty women have in finding an investing, long-term mate under such circumstances," researchers wrote. "Accordingly, this low-male sex ratio produced the strongest desire for lucrative careers in women who are least able to secure a mate. These findings demonstrate that sex ratio has far-reaching effects in humans, including whether women choose briefcase over baby."

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I'd probably pick the briefcase.

So far, this makes sense, right? If there's a lack of men, there's a lack of long-term heterosexual relationships. If there's a lack of relationships, there's a lack of babies and families. Obviously, women have more time to work on their careers if they don't have a spouse and four children to run around after. Put two and two together and come up with an answer that we can safely assume is four.

But then researchers performed two surveys using groups of women still in college to see where they would rank the importance of having a career over the importance of having a family. They deduced from this survey that women in a population that was female-dense would rate career as more important. They also found that women who ranked themselves as less attractive to males would also prefer to concentrate more on their jobs. Um, OK.

However, what they have failed to consider is that all of the women interviewed were between the ages of 19 and 22. What self-respecting, university-attending girl of that age says she wants a man and babies more than she wants to be successful and happy in her career? It is just not the done thing these days -- heck, it hasn't been en vogue since the 1950s.

And seeing as though these women don't yet have degrees, they also don't yet have careers, making their survey responses simply predictions of what decisions they might make later in life.

But most curious about this research study is the lack of attention to the male side of the equation. If a man is successful in his chosen career, is it because he is driven and ambitious or the result of a scarcity of eligible bachelorettes? Hard to say...but let's cross our fingers that researchers somewhere in the world are surveying a handful of 19-year-old high school graduates for the answer.

Cuz that's certainly where the truth lies!

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Sex Robots of 2012

If you're a man with extra scratch and a distaste for commitment, you've probably already considered meeting certain..."needs" with professional help. In Los Angeles, there's certainly no shortage of women of the night or women of the Internet, depending on your preference.

Still, a sex worker comes with a lot of strings attached. Right or wrong, it's hard not to wonder what other cocks have been in her that day and what strange new diseases busted through the latex.

For those with a religious upbringing or bleeding heart political leanings, the guilt of paying a woman for sex can be too much to bear. So you'll be happy to hear that researchers at he Victoria Management School in Wellington, New Zealand, are prediction the best innovation this side of Internet porn: robot hookers.

Don't lie: You know you've considered this before. Maybe it was when you watched "Blade Runner" or perhaps you're a fan of Anton LaVey, who saw robots as both an end to human labor and human sexual frustration. But whether your fantasy is about having your own private pleasure droid or just a woman incapable of saying no, you're about to get it -- and probably just about anything else you can think of.

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Too crowded for coitus?

Apparently, people in Hong Kong are keeping their bits to themselves these days. Sex experts are advising the population of the city to increase their private time because, going by recent studies, no one is getting any.

A survey done by City University's Community College shows that couples in the city are having sex less than twice a week -- 1.6 times a week, to be precise. (I don't know where the .6 comes into play...someone's clearly not able to finish what they've started.)

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Online survey says....

Women, the wait is over. All of your burning relationship questions have finally been answered. Wanna know what your man is secretly thinking without you having to ask? Shocking facts emerge from the bedroom in an exclusive nationwide sex survey conducted in April's Esquire Magazine.

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She'd rather be comparing wallpaper samples.

Ladies, it turns out all those hours you spend watching HGTV aren't just a function of your affection for wall sconces and tasteful lighting schemes. A study by Dulex and the Mindlab International Laboratory at Sussex University indicates that for women, a re-decorated room can be just as pleasurable as sex.

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Please, please, please.

A recent study has promised scientific evidence that exercise -- yoga, crunches, cardio, etc. -- can bring a woman to orgasm without any digital (i.e. finger) or fantastical assistance.

The findings, published in peer-reviewed sexual health journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy, came from a survey of 124 women who reported having had exercise-induced orgasms and 246 who said they've felt exercise-induced sexual pleasure.

But while the physical activities known to cause these intimate reactions were outlined concisely -- leading me to make an immediate appointment with my big, strong trainer -- the mechanics behind why they occur were left unexplained.

Until now.

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In a time when technology is king, people can't live without the Internet. That being said, a recent study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group, a global management consulting firm, surveyed 1,000 people in several different countries to evaluate just how connected people are to the world wide web.

The results show how some people can't get enough of the web. 21 percent of Americans respondents said they'd be willing to not have sex for an entire year in order to stay online. Sadly, that's only Americans. Fifty-six percent (!!!) of Japanese respondents said they'd do the same.

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Whether people like it or not, teenagers have sex. But (and this may not come as a surprise to many), when things get messy, teenagers may not be able to get the morning-after pill as easily as one might assume.

A recent study published in the medical journal Pediatrics shows that we might need to give our local laws regarding access to the pill a once-over.

In 2009, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ruled that anyone older than 17 can get the pill without a prescription, and that has been worked into law by most states. Despite this, some pharmacies across the country either won't have the pill in stock or will even go so far as to mislead pill-eligible men and women because they aren't aware of their states' Plan B policy.

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Can't we talk about something else? Like my dazzling smile?

A revealing new study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine points to a whole new reason to feel uncomfortable at the gynecologist.

Researchers at the University of Chicago have published a study entitled: "What We Don't Talk About When We Don't Talk About Sex: Results of a National Survey of U.S. Obstretician/Gynecologists."

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