Science news articles about 'pleasure'

... not use condoms were significantly more likely to believe that condoms reduce sexual pleasure and were also more concerned that their partner would not approve of condom use. The findings appear in ...

A new touch-sensitive nerve fibre responsible for the pleasure experienced during stroking has been described.

Prof Francis McGlone discusses the importance of touch and pleasurable stroking

A male bird singing a song directly to a female feels reward and pleasure.

... and norms of everyday life," the authors explain. "Further, we suggest that the club, and the pleasurable practices and experiences that it supports, has become a site of contained illegality." The ...

Aggressive boys may actually derive pleasure from watching other people suffer pain, a new study says.

... While 23 percent of women who used both condoms and hormonal methods reported decreased pleasure, they had the highest sexual satisfaction scores. Women who used condoms alone or along with a ...

Many women think condoms undermine sexual pleasure, but those who use both hormonal contraception and condoms also reported higher overall sexual satisfaction.

... findings complement what is known about the effects of nicotine in the dopamine pathway. This is the classic pleasure pathway in the brain, much studied by addiction experts. "Our study in no way ...

... many of us believe we need a good reason to enjoy a special luxury or splurge on something expensive, there really may be no such thing as a guilty pleasure, say University of Michigan researchers.

... the mechanism of Darwinian selection -- has endowed us with a balanced system of pains and pleasures that correspond respectively to the sort of things we should avoid or seek in order to further our ...

...   But doing so, he argues, is irrational and a huge waste of energy and resources, for it is pleasure and desire that underlie all our decisions and actions, and, therefore, our experiences. read more

Scientists in the US and Sweden say they understand more about how the body responds to pleasurable touch.

... the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the risk of coital injury¬¬—without reducing pleasure or causing sexual dysfunction. The first study, by researchers in Australia, shows that the inner ...

New research finds reduced neurophysiological responses to pleasurable activities in newly depressed individuals.