Is $50 a fair price for a bride? How about a goat?
…sex with the animal. The goat’s owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders. They ordered the man, Mr…
…sex with the animal. The goat’s owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders. They ordered the man, Mr…
The Asian Sex Gazette, an online (and perhaps offline) publication whose content is a bit risque for this PG-rated blog (I found the link over at the excellent Marginal Revolution…
…Single Girls Master The Hook Up The Seesaw Marriage: True Love (Just for Elites) The New American Matriarchy (The Middle Class Gets a Sex Change) Pharm Girls (How Women Remade…
…up to $100,000 in the United States, while many Indian clinics charge $22,000 or less. Very few questions are asked. Same-sex couples, single parents and even busy women who just…
…questions, I couldn’t help but note that she’d added a few questions that doctors didn’t ask in years past: “Are you sexually active?” … and then: “Is there any reason…
…is different: In much of Europe the two-cheek greeting between friends of the opposite sex is standard. On my first return trip to the Netherlands, I assumed that two-cheek kissing…
…the previous (before 1960) “mating market” into two markets consisting of the “sex market” and the “marriage market,” the author goes on to describe how this sets up a classic…
What do you do when smart people keep making stupid mistakes? And: are we a nation of financial illiterates? This is a “mashupdate” of “Is America Ready for a “No-Lose…
In 2005, Raghuram Rajan said the financial system was at risk “of a catastrophic meltdown.” After stints at the I.M.F. and India’s central bank, he sees another potential crisis —…
After eight years and more than 300 episodes, it was time to either 1) quit, or 2) make the show bigger and better. We voted for number 2. Here’s a…
Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with cancer at 22. She made her illness the subject of a New York Times column and a memoir, Between Two Kingdoms. She and Steve talk…
…that student to do just about anything you want.” Talking to the Toronto Star, Dubner concedes that some people will see the prostitution chapter in SuperFreakonomics “as a sex story,”…
…patrons; as blood alcohol level increased, so did political conservatism (controlling for sex, education, and political identification). In Study 2, participants under cognitive load reported more conservative attitudes than their…
We seem to have decided that ethnic food tastes better when it’s served by people of that ethnicity (or at least something close). Does this make sense — and is…
…the gruesome atrocities committed by the LRA, which ramped up the violence in the early 1990’s, and on the kidnapping of young children for use as soldiers and sex slaves….
…one sex or the other has a greater propensity to be the innocent victim in accidents, but it strikes me as unlikely. Another complicating factor could be the driving environment….
Where’s the line between an addiction and a bad habit? Why do definitions of mental illnesses change over time? And what’s the most addictive thing in the world?…
…as it is when you’re black.” 2. “Sex,” said Orlando. “They missed out on the prostitution game and all the people making money selling their bodies. That’s a huge part…
How a pain-in-the-neck girl from rural Virginia came to run the most powerful university in the world.
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin and Steve talk about how inflexible jobs and family responsibilities make it harder for women to earn wages equal to their male counterparts. But could Covid…
…same-sex partners and older children. We show that the program did not induce employees to leave the employer’s plan and (say) put themselves and their dependents on the spouse’s plan….
…think it’s justified if she goes out without telling the husband or argues with him; 36% if she refuses sex, and 30% if she burns the food. And this is…
Some of the biggest names in behavioral science stand accused of faking their results. Last year, an astonishing 10,000 research papers were retracted. In a series originally published in early…
…to keep track of their sins. It also allows them to examine their conscience based on personalised factors such as age, sex and marital status – but it is not…
…women play in gangs? Are they just for sex? Do they ever get to be in charge? Are they low-level peons? A: In the 1970s and 1980s, female gangs were…
…sex, or engaged in some other illicit behavior, how likely would you be to tell the truth? Probably not very. This causes havoc for any researcher who wants to study…
How do friendships change as we get older? Should you join a bowling league? And is Angela more important to Mike than Mike is to Angela?…
