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It's almost impossible to get a straight dude who plays video games horny these days. Walk by him in a short skirt that's practically begging to be creepshotted and he'll politely avert his gaze. Use your girl voice to talk to him on Xbox Live and he'll compliment you on your impressive gameplay skills and immediately want to engage you in a conversation about the latest issue of Bust magazine. Luckily, developers of Wicked Paradise, an adult virtual reality game for the Oculus Rift headset, are working to solve this important problem.

In an interview with Road to VR, Wicked Paradise CEO Jeroen Van den Bosch said that he and his team are in the preproduction and research phase of an erotic virtual reality adventure game that can be played using the Oculus Rift headset. It will "begin as a male heterosexual fantasy game," he said, but will hopefully expand into satisfying other genders and orientations once the initial product is released.

The major question Mr. Van den Bosch said he's tackling is how exactly to turn a heterosexual video game nerd on. "'Can a virtual woman inside a virtual world actually make you genuinely horny?'" he said many men have asked him. "Well, I’m happy to let you know that the answer to that question is 'yes!'"

Finally, the era of frigid, sex-hating gamer guys may finally be coming to an end.

(h/t Kotaku)

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Dust off that whip! Despite the fact that the DSM-V has managed to wedge those who practice BDSM into the category of "paraphilia," or an unusual sexual preference, a recent study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that those with a little taste for kink are actually more psychologically healthy than those who just lie there like dead fish.

Many believe the DSM-V's inclusion of sexual kinks further stigmatizes them when there is no real evidence to support the notion that liking things like bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism are psychologically harmful. Instead, the Journal's study found that on average, those who identified as preferring a lil' BDSM sex were either as mentally healthy as vanilla people, or more healthy. According to Live Science, kinky people were "more extroverted, more open to new experiences and more conscientious...they were also less neurotic...and reported higher levels of well-being."

"We did not have any findings suggesting that people who practice BDSM have a damaged psychological profile or have some sort of psychopathology or personality disorder," one of the study's researchers wrote.

Still no word on the correlation between fedora wearers and those who list BDSM as an interest on OKCupid, but we'd venture to guess one begets the other.

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Okay, we'll admit it: a smartphone is almost as good as a boyfriend. Texting is a perfectly fine substitute for talking, a Snapchat of a penis is not that much less exciting than the real thing, and who needs to fall asleep to the comforting sound of your loved one's snoring when you can drift off to dreamland guided by your favorite chillwave band?

Still, as awesome as sexting is, sexing is infinitely better. But with everyone operating at Peak Smartphone Obsession, it seems that many would prefer to trade in their sex lives for iPhones. CNBC reports that in a recent survey conducted by Internet security company AVG Technologies, 57 percent of American women said they'd rather give up sex for a week than their smartphone. Makes sense--you can't check your email on a set of chiseled abs, at least not until the Singularity comes.

We have to assume porn is still allowed in this no-sex-or-smartphone hypothetical, otherwise we're out.

Practically porn. (Photo: Flickr/Terry Richardson)

The only detrimental effect of your teen’s nefarious porn habit is the crapload of malware stewing on the family computer, and not, say, harmful mental defects. Some hippy-dippy Dutch researchers claim that young people indulging in skin flicks is not negatively influencing their sexual behavior.

Nearly 4,600 Netherlanders aged 15 to 25 were quizzed online about their porno viewing habits and other various intimate questions about their sex lives, such as if they participated in "adventurous sex" activities like something called a threesome.

Researchers found that 88 percent of young men, while 45 percent of girls, watched porn within the last year. Guys liked videos on the rough side, while the ladies indulged in soft-core material. However, both sexes preferred consuming the porn online and not via DVDs or television since that's such a pain.

Gert Martin Hald, the lead researcher, also discovered this:

But while the researchers found there was a statistically significant relationship between the subjects’ pornography use and their sexual behaviour, that link turned out to be a modest one. The subjects’ own personal dispositions, particularly whether they were sexual sensation seeking, were likely to be a greater influence, Hald says.

The kids will be all right.

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If your significant other isn't keen on the idea of you purchasing another gaming console, just tell him or her that owning an Xbox will actually help you hone your sexual prowess.

Metro reports that a study conducted by the website VoucherCodesPro polled the partners of 1,747 gamers about which consoles they used, then asked how they'd rate their gaming S.O. in the bedroom. As it turns out, most people classified their partners as "good" or "average," as opposed to the much-preferred "excellent." Guess gaming doesn't make your fingers as dexterous as you thought?

Writes Metro:

The results saw just 11 per cent respond ‘excellent’, while most  - 27 per cent said their partner was ‘good’, 26 per cent said their partner was ‘average’ and a disappointing 20 per cent branded their partner’s bedroom skills as ‘below average’.

When VoucherCodesPro broke the data down, they discovered that 54 percent of Xbox users were described as "good" or above in bed, with 22 percent winning the "excellent" crown.

Meanwhile, PC gamers ranked the worst in bed. But what if you're an irresistible stud in World of Warcraft?

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To celebrate its fourth birthday, gay mafia invention Grindr released some important findings regarding its cultural impact on the gay community. Turns out, gay guys love it!

In a press release calling itself “groundbreaking” and a “global sensation,” Grindr revealed Monday that it has amassed more than six million users since 2009. What's more, 40 percent of new accounts were created within the last 12 months. However, users who use something beside their torso as a profile pic weren't included in the company’s release.

The location-based meetup app also said 90 percent of their horny millennial user base publicly share their location, an option that can be disabled. The survey found that users are "most addicted" to Grindr, along with social networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Eighty percent of the millennials surveyed also described themselves as oversharers; 71 percent of them are fine in sharing "personal information," like the graphic results from their ab routine, presumably.

Tapping into the millennial mindframe, founder/pioneer/CEO Joel Simkhai said the app has become an “invaluable resource” for bored gay guys waiting around for their OKCupid dates. He also praised the app for disrupting the garish gay club scene, which in the olden times was the only way to meet others DTF.

"Grindr opened up a whole new world for gay men by finally providing a more spontaneous, exciting and instantaneous way to meet guys. Since our launch, and specifically over the past year, our user base has grown exponentially and we owe that to our loyal and engaged users," wrote Mr. Simkhai.

You're welcome, Mr. Simkhai. What kind of Facebook gift would you like for your community service?

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Say what you will about techies and charitable giving, but Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has established himself as one of the most important philanthropists in the world, even nabbing a spot on Businessweek's list of most generous people. Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Gates and his wife work to eradicate poverty and increase access to healthcare.

Now, with a $100,00 grant offered through the Grand Challenges in Global Health Program, the Gateses are hoping to find "anyone -- students, scientists or entrepreneurs" to reinvent the condom. It's your time to shine, Ballmer.

The contest, spotted by Gothamist, is looking for one genius inventor to develop "the next generation of condom." Though condoms are the most reliable contraceptive method to protect against pregnancy and STIs, it doesn't take your ex-boyfriend to tell you how much they kind of suck (oh, and will he tell you). So the foundation is requesting proposals for a next-gen condom that "significantly preserves or enhances pleasure, in order to improve uptake and regular use."

If that's too much of an undertaking for you, the foundation offers other ideas:

 Additional concepts that might increase [condom usage] uptake include attributes that increase ease-of-use for male and female condoms, for example better packaging or designs that are easier to properly apply. In addition, attributes that address and overcome cultural barriers are also desired.

If you manage to develop a condom that guys won't complain about having to wear, you will win $100,000 from the Gates Foundation, help contribute towards a healthier world and also achieve deity status among anyone who has ever heard or uttered the phrase, "But it feels so much better without one."

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Bad news for everyone who's been dreaming about intergalactic intercourse since those heady tween years: a new study found that sex in space could actually present some rather life-threatening illnesses.

Studies on plant cells showed that processes involved in reproduction are impacted by zero-gravity conditions like those experienced in space. Scientists said this could have major implications for humans hoping to make space babies. "Our findings offer new insight into how life evolved on Earth and are significant with regards to human health, as a traffic jam on these highways that also exist in human cells can cause cancer and illnesses such as Alzheimer's," a Montreal University professor told the Daily Mail.

These findings could have an impact on the space tourism industry, which is ramping up to send private citizens into space as early as next year. Though to be fair, there are plenty of risks associated with earthly sex, so we doubt any humans--or plants!--who want to have space sex will be deterred by a couple of tsk-tsking scientific studies.

Still, we bet somewhere on his private island Richard Branson is weeping over the dangers of joining the "220-mile high club."

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Stephany Cohen is a British psychic with a mass of rainbow dreads and a very exciting sex life. She appeared today on the U.K. TV network ITV1's program This Morning, where she discussed the various sexual encounters she frequently has with alien species--both of the cat and reptile variety!

Ms. Cohen said that as she is falling asleep, her consciousness frequently travels to a spaceship where she flies through the galaxy to other worlds. She has a "spirit boyfriend" named Ian the Octopus Man who "stays quite close" to her and gives her mind-blowing orgasms that no mere human mortal could even come close to replicating. "All of them indulge in sex, but particularly the cat people are extremely, highly charged sexually and it's part of the cat people culture," she told the show's host.

Oh, those cat people: always looking for strange.

The professor This Morning brought on as a foil was pretty skeptical of Ms. Cohen's claims. He suggested she has Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder but for some reason has convinced herself it's just aliens getting all up on her body. He also asked her to use her psychic powers to look inside a briefcase that they were holding in another room, but Ms. Cohen snapped that her powers don't really work on-demand like that.

Why would you waste your pyschic powers on some professorial briefcase when you have Ian the alien Octopus to fool around with?

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When not capturing guns being pointed at it or going on death-defying treks of the Grand Canyon, the Google street view team occasionally snaps things that are slightly sexier. On a foray into a French extreme sports store called Krakatoa, for example, they caught a couple with their pants down--literally.

The store, located in the town of Briançon in southeastern France, looks like your average Pac Sun. And really, who among us that was once 14 in the sterile suburbs hasn't wanted to make out in a Pac Sun dressing room?

The street view cameras caught the lovebirds behind a dressing room curtain in the middle of the store, with their loudly-patterned underwear around their ankles. The photo seems staged, since the couple's pants are nowhere to be found and it's kind of difficult to ignore a big street view camera in the middle of a store. Though we do suppose skateboards really turn some people on.