Note that the sex positions listed are descriptive, not prescriptive. Real sex between experienced partners usually shifts from position to position during a single session, at the whim of those involved.

In the Indian Kama Sutra and Arabic Perfumed Garden, the act and manner of sex was an art-form. In the Khajuraho statues, it has religious meaning. The Joy of Sex was one of the first widely accepted modern sex manuals to describe sexual positions. In the Kama Sutra, sixty-four sex positions are explained as arts. These may be considered yoga positions for a couple. Tantric yoga, as applied to couples is sometimes called the yoga of union and is the supposed spiritual context for these positions.

There are also a vast number of positions for oral sex (including cunnilingus and fellatio) and mutual masturbation, which are too numerous to list here.

While not all of these positions will necessarily be as stimulating or as satisfying for both partners as other positions, a couple may develop a rotation among these positions. Some may be more physically difficult or tiring for one partner, while others offer a break or resting point that will maintain a particular level of passion. In a sense, a set rotation through favored positions may be likened to a complex and progressive musical piece, such as a sonata or symphony. An alternation of positions favored by each partner can be particularly delightful when understood in the larger give-and-take common in interpersonal relationships. Each couple may in this way develop their unique "song of love". The musical symphonic work Bolero, written by Maurice Ravel, is thought by many to be intentionally evocative of the progression of caressing, positions, intensities, and satisfactions of lovemaking. Note that the piece is about 22 minutes long - thought by many men to be rather long for this use and by many women to be too short.

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What's that? A bonus? I think the life-cycle is all backwards.

You should die first -- get it all over with. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young. You get a gold watch. You go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol and party. You get ready for high school. You go to grade school and become a kid. You play. You have no responsibilities. You become a little baby & go back into the womb. You spend your last nine months floating. . . Then, you finish off as an orgasm.

Women treat sex like a tradable commodity. Like every other commodity, sex is subject to the sacred underpinnings of economic law: Supply and Demand. You ever notice that when a woman has sex a little more freely than other women approve of, she's called 'cheap'? There's a reason for that.

It's a classic cartel situation, like OPEC. Women pretty much control the supply of sex: they ration it out and create an artificial shortage. Yet, demand is hot. That is why they can get us pay to through the nose for it.

Women don't always consciously realize that this is what they're doing. There's no big conspiracy, this is just how women naturally seem to behave. They are embedded within a larger process, so individual women have internalized the process' imperatives and live their lives entirely unaware of the process' imperatives. Please excuse me if I sound conspiratorial, but I'm trying not to. Frankly, I think it’s more disturbing that there is no cabal of conspirators who are behind it all. This system is on auto-pilot, with its unwitting female cadres just going about their business. Women are billions of different individuals, most of whom hold similar attitudes towards their sexuality and how to use it to their advantage. Most of them withhold sex while appearing to offer it, if the man meets her conditions. As a result, the aggregate efforts of all these individual women acting in their own self-interests to optimize conditions for themselves have dovetailed together into what merely seems like a conscious implementation of a massive cartel.

Nobody is in charge of the cartel. That should bother you. Because nobody can switch it off or make it go away.

Ironically, a woman who has sex with too many men is a 'whore'... yet a woman who only puts-out in return for an extravagant evening of wining, dining and gifties somehow isn't a whore. (Blink.) Wha? Aren't the two roughly equivalent? Maybe 'romantic courtship' is a less blatant way of expressing 'hooking'? I challenge you to say the following to any woman: 'it's not manly to pay for everything.' She will look at you like you're nuts.

The cartel is how women managed to bargain some measure of control over just about everything. That's just one of the myriad ways in which women counteract male power (or rather, male economic power might've originally developed to counteract women's sexual leverage over us? It's a chicken-egg paradox, to be sure.) That's just one way we're cowed into submission. Women think that they have to control sex because men control 'everything else'... well, it makes as much sense to say that men have to control 'everything else' because women control sex. (I quote 'everything else' because I think that oversimplification is abject bullshit. But I digress.)

In order to fully appreciate the cartel, go get a thick book on economics. There's usually at least a chapter devoted to the subject.

The printing press enabled publishers to churn out dodgy books faster than the Church authorities could ban them. Readers were treated to gems such as Mrs Isabella Cortes’s handy hint from 1561 that a mixture of quail testicles, large-winged ants, musk and amber was perfect for straightening bent penises. The era also brought us the earliest recorded recommendation of slippers as a sex aid (“Cold feet are a powerful hindrance to coition,” warned Giovanni Sinibaldi in his 1658 book Rare Verities.) But to find history’s oddest advisers, we must look to the Victorians and Edwardians. William Chidley, for example, believed that he could best promote his ideas by walking around in a toga. Chidley, an Australian, advised readers in his 1911 pamphlet The Answer that heavy clothing caused erections, which would lead to sexual overexcitement, illness and death, as well as being “ugly things” of which “we are all ashamed”. He urged people to live on fruit and nuts and to practise a method of flaccid intercourse apparently based on horses’ sex lives. Yet it wasn’t his ideas that got him repeatedly arrested, but his silk toga, which the authorities thought indecent. After his death, supporters continued propounding his theories into the 1920s.

A group of Asian women are collecting the details of the sex life and fantasies of female Muslims with the aim of publishing them in a taboo-breaking book.

The women - young Greater Manchester-based professionals -say their aims is to shatter the myth that Muslim females are frigid prudes forced unwillingly into sex by dominant males.

They have started their ground-breaking work by writing about their own sex lives and are now seeking female volunteers in the wider Muslim community. They spoke to Asian News of their research but asked not to be identified for fear it would upset their relationships with husbands or partners. Their spokeswoman was accountant Samina (not her real name).

She said, "We are not prudes, in fact some of us are the complete opposite who enjoy a very fulfiling and active sex life.

"We want to address modern day Muslim sexual experiences even if they do not match Islamic prescriptions for sexual conduct."

Boobs are getting bigger as modern women now have two inches more up front than ever before.

Research today reveals that the average bust measures 36in compared with 34in a decade ago.

And even cup sizes are fuller, increasing from a modest B to a fuller C or D.

The study by market analysts Mintel found that today's more buxom women have sent sales of structured and supportive underwired bras soaring.

Demand for the underwired bra is up by 12 per cent in the last two years and now makes up 70 per cent of the bra market.

Analyst James McCoy said: "Undoubtedly, the growth in the average British bust size over the last 10 years from 34B to 36C or D has played a significant role in the increasing popularity of underwired bras which provide greater support.

Well, have you heard of ...... the "ass fuck conspiracy?" You haven't, eh? Well, I probably should not do this, but I will -- I will share the secrets of the little-known ass fuck conspiracy. But only if you promise to use it only for the greater good (aka: pleasure). (Note: there are basics of this plan -- lube, limits, pacing, etc. -- that are well-known, oft-talked about, and are part of any successful sexual interlude which will not be specifically covered here, but DO keep them in mind.)

Overview: Lighten up, no matter how pressing your desire for ass fucking may be. Talking, pressuring or coercing your girl into anal isn't effective. Tricking or forcing her into it is out of the question. Pleasuring her into it is a whole different story........

THE BASIC RULE: You must be well-versed in pleasuring the "usual" parts. That's right, you must be handy with a pussy. If you're not already giving your girl heights of orgasmic pleasure like she's never seen, you're not ready for the ass fuck conspiracy. If you're not skilled with her vagina and related parts (and genuinely enjoy being so), there's no way she's letting you near the "other" place. Period. And she has a sense of this, trust me. If this is an issue, go back and figure it out, then proceed only when you've practiced more.

Step #1: Orgasms, orgasms, and more orgasms (for her, duh). If you're providing your girl with many lovely and varied types of O's, she's going to have an inherent trust in your knowledge of and ability in the area of pleasuring her, which is going to make the issue of ass fucking much more considerable. (see above.) Also, for most girls, its more desirable and more pleasurable to do anal if they've already had at least one or several orgasms. More on this below.

Step #2: Oral, oral and more oral. While you're down there showing off your superior oral abilities and facilitating those O's, mix-it up a bit -- flick your tongue, swirl it, and perform oral on and around her asshole. This will not only introduce her to the fact that there are many lovely nerve-endings there, which she will most likely enjoy, but will exhibit the fact that you are adventurous and appreciative of and committed to the pleasure of her entire being. This creates a much different atmosphere then that of completely avoiding her asshole and then trying to stick something in it. You know?

Step #3: The T'aint. "It ain't the pussy and it ain't the asshole." You may have heard of this little place between the pussy and the asshole. If you are enjoying or working up to Step #2, don't forget this little place for licking, etc.

The trend-spotting authors who popularized the term "metrosexual" to categorize straight men who exfoliated, wore Diesel jeans and took longer to get ready than their girlfriends have decided that the two-year-old phenomenon is, well, so two years ago.

The new ideal, according to Marian Salzman, Ira Matathia and Ann O'Reilly in their new book, "The Future of Men," is the "übersexual." In contrast to metrosexuals, who, they write, risk being "sad sacks who seem incapable of retaining their sense of manhood in postfeminist times," übersexuals "mark a return to the positive characteristics of the Real Man of yesteryear (strong, resolute, fair)." Yet they are poised to not only change a diaper but to discuss how they feel about it.

And unlike metrosexuals, "übersexuals don't invite questions about their sexuality." The authors recently released a list of the "top 10 übersexuals," with Bono at the top, followed by George Clooney and Bill Clinton.

"I believe that many women are intimidated by and uncomfortable with the concept of erotic female domination because of the way they see it portrayed in adult films and in the media. I believe that men also develop many bad habits after years of satisfying their fantasies on their own, and focusing on their own pleasure. Through communication, trust and safe, sane & consensual exploration of erotic power exchange, I think many couples can experience pleasure they never imagined, and also develop better relationship communication and intimacy."

Sex and romance may seem inextricably linked, but the human brain clearly distinguishes between the two, according to a new study. The upshot: Love is the more powerful emotion.

The results of brain scans speak to longstanding questions of whether the pursuit of love and sex are different emotional endeavors or whether romance is just warmed over sexual arousal.

"Our findings show that the brain areas activated when someone looks at a photo of their beloved only partially overlap with the brain regions associated with sexual arousal," said Arthur Aron of the State University of New York-Stony Brook. "Sex and romantic love involve quite different brain systems."

Young women are leading the way in tearing down sexual taboos in North America, where teenagers are having more sex at a younger age than their parents and grandparents, a new survey showed.

Freewheeling young women in the United States and Canada first have intercourse at the age of 15, partake more in oral sex than previous generations and are far less prudish, according to a landmark new report by researchers at California's San Diego State University.

Between 1943 and 1999, the age of first intercourse dropped to 15 from 19 for females, while the percentage of sexually active young women rose to 47 percent from just 13 percent in 1943, according to the study that appears in the most recent issue of the Review of General Psychology.

"Feelings of sexual guilt plummeted, especially among young women. Attitudes toward premarital sex became dramatically more liberal over the same period," the analysis of 530 studies spanning five decades and involving more than a quarter of a million young people said.

Over the same 56-year period, approval of premarital sex increased from 12 percent to 73 percent among young women, while the figure rose from 40 percent to 79 percent among young men, according to the study.