Behavior

We all know we should exercise to improve our physical life. But if you needed even more incentive to hit the gym, how about the fact that exercise can also improve your sex life? It seems almost fairly obvious. As Karla Robinson, medical editor at GoodRx, puts it: “Exercise increases blood flow throughout your body,…

Enlarge / Even hermit crabs have individual patterns of behavior — personalities, if you like. When scientists ignore the effects of such differences, they may produce research that’s flawed. Several years ago, Christian Rutz started to wonder whether he was giving his crows enough credit. Rutz, a biologist at the University of St. Andrews in…

Photo: RealPeopleStudio (Shutterstock)Our parents are mere mortals, and never is that more apparent than when we look at how they handled money. Most of our parents’ personal finance advice—solicited or, more often, not—reflects wisdom from a different time. After all, certain money habits only made sense when college was cheap and eggs costed a dollar. Whether…

Photo: New Africa (Shutterstock)Making the bed is among my least favorite chores. First, there’s the all-out war with the fitted sheet. Then, if you’re particularly unlucky, there’s a second battle with the duvet cover. Getting a duvet inside its sheath is an agonizing process that usually involves trying to stuff it down evenly before getting…

Photo: Dilok Klaisataporn (Shutterstock)Many new year’s resolutions (and old year’s resolutions) involve starting new, life-improving habits. And while that’s a great idea in theory, the reality is that making lifestyle changes is really hard.Unfortunately, there’s no silver-bullet solution to this problem, but there is a common mistake many people make when beginning new habits. Here’s…

Photo: Tero Vesalainen (Shutterstock)We all want sex to feel good—and not just orgasmic, but also pleasant and pain-free. But unfortunately that’s not always the case for some vulva-owners. Dyspareunia, pain that happens during or after sex, can occur for multiple reasons. According to certified sexologist and pleasure coach Tyomi Morgan, experiencing pain during sex can…

Photo: Sergii Sobolevskyi (Shutterstock)If you’re going home for the holidays with your partner, you might think that your sex life has to be put on pause. After all, you’ll probably be crammed in a guest room—or your childhood bedroom—right next to your parents’ room and, well, sex can be loud for all sorts of reasons.…

Photo: oneinchpunch (Shutterstock)Hopefully you feel blissfully exhausted after sex and not too worried about what’s happening to your insides afterwards. But since sex is a full-body activity, it makes sense that you might experience some physical symptoms afterwards.“Sex means a lot of things, takes a lot of forms, and can have different effects on each…

Photo: VGstockstudio (Shutterstock)If you have a vagina, you’ve probably been told that it’s an absolute must to pee immediately after having sex to prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs). But it turns out there isn’t a lot of evidence to support this idea. There is shockingly little research on the question of whether this oft-repeated advice…

Photo: Antonio Guillem (Shutterstock)Keep your phone out of your bedroom: That’s standard advice for good sleep hygiene, and I’ve never been able to do it. For one thing, it seems silly to go buy a standalone alarm clock when I’ve got a perfectly good one on my phone—and it’s more customizable, anyway. For another, where…