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Naked News: Teen sexting “epidemic”? Turns out we should all chillax

• Here’s something to LOL about: A new study shows that the whole teen sexting thing was — shocker — largely media hype, and that only 1% of kids age 10-17 have texted an explicit picture of themselves. And a million teens roll their eyes and say “We told you so.”
  
  
• Speaking of overreacting: Turns out that the trope that “men think about sex every 7 seconds” is total bull (Again: shocking, we know.) Actual research shows that men think about sex, on average, 18.6 times a day — and for women the average is 9.9 times a day. Not exactly the distance from Mars the Venus, right? For comparison: men think about food almost 18 times a day (and women almost 15 times a day).
  
  

Naked News: Smiling is nature’s Botox

• Smile! Because it’s not that bad (actually, it probably is that bad), but mostly because it makes you look younger.
  
  
• ONWEE 4 ME: Teen sexting linked with psychological distress.
  
  
• Gloria Steinem: “I think we need to get much angrier.” Hell ya, bitches!
  
  

Naked News: Why we sext

Why teens and adults are compelled to send X-rated texts. Is women’s intuition a myth or reality? Do men experience menopause, or rather, manopause? Passionate responses to Erica Jong’s recent co-sleeping-kills-sex comments. Gender-based femicide is still prominent in India. More scientific support for the idea that people are born this gay. MORE FROM EMandLO.com: When [...]