I’ve studied in an all-boys school and since a very young age, I noticed that not all boys in our class were similar in terms of masculinity and masculine behaviors.On one end of the spectrum, there were those highly aggressive, dominant, super-masculine boys who often had a passion for sports and bullying other kids. Then […]
Why do straight men and women like watching lesbian porn?
PornHub, the world’s largest porn website, releases its analytics report every year that reveals how its users are engaging with the website. It turns out that for the past three consecutive years, the most popular search term on PornHub has been “lesbian”.Watching girl-on-girl action is popular among both men and women, more so in women […]
Why exercise makes us feel so good
Generally, we feel good when we increase our fitness potential (i.e. the chances of survival and reproduction). The good or ‘positive’ emotions are sent by our subconscious mind so that we’re motivated to repeat the activity that is highly beneficial for us. This is why activities like eating, sex, and gaining social approval make us […]
Does the law of attraction really work?
If you’re into philosophy and have read books like As a man thinketh, Think and Grow Rich, and The Secret and almost all the stuff by authors like Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer, you’re probably aware of the Law of Attraction. The law states that our life is the consequence of our thoughts. Our reality is […]
What women gain (and lose) by having short-term affairs
Humans pursue two types of mating strategies- long term and short term, and sometimes a combination of both. Long-term mating strategy typically involves finding a long-term partner with whom one decides to mate , have offspring and then raise those offspring. Short term mating strategy, on the other hand, involves mating with more than one partner […]
Why sexual fidelity matters more to men
Sexual infidelity in a long-term relationship, such as marriage, is undesirable to both men and women.Since the major goal of forming a long-term relationship is to have repeated sex in order to increase the odds of conception, if a person looks for sex outside the relationship he’s straight-out rejecting his current partner. Generally, sexual infidelity […]
How emotions influence our sense of time
Our minds have an amazing ability to keep track of time, despite the fact that we have no sensory organ specifically devoted to the measurement of time. This has led many experts to believe that there must be some sort of internal clock in our brain that ticks continuously, just like any other man-made clock. Our […]
Why do we do what we do, and not what we don’t do?
Why do we do what we do? Why do we choose a certain behaviour/action over other options?What rules govern our decision-making? Why do we become indecisive at times? Answers to all these questions are contained in a terminology that we’ve borrowed from economics, namely ‘cost/benefit analysis’. In economics, a business decision is made after weighing […]
10 Best psychological thriller movies to bend your mind
I’m a big fan of psychological thriller movies. It’s, by far, my favourite genre. I get a strange kind of high from story-lines that cause psychological discomfort in me, story-lines that make me question my own sanity and shatter my concept of reality. If you’re anything like me, you’re going to love the movies on […]
3 common causes of psychosomatic illnesses
A psychosomatic illness (psyche = mind, soma = body) is the one that has no known biological or physical cause and the symptoms are caused or aggravated by psychological factors.In other words, psychological imbalances or issues that a person may be experiencing in their life are manifested as physical, biological illnesses! Despite their uncanny nature, psychosomatic […]