Almost Half a Million Condoms Ordered for the Rio Olympic Village: Grindr Get Ready

By Tony Richens -- Eikon Online -- July 18, 2016

At the London Olympics, within hours of the first athletes arriving in the city, the gay dating app Grindr crashed. It took them 24 hours to get the servers back up and running with enough bandwidth to help satisfy the demand of athletes in the village looking for their hottest hookup.

This coincided with more than 150,000 condoms being delivered to the village to satisfy the demands of both straight and gay athletes.

It has now been announced that the IOC has order 450,000 condoms for the Rio Olympic Games to satisfy the sexual activity that will occur before and after the athletes compete. It was discussed very early on that because of the amazing venue in Rio, the beaches, and the nightlife, athletes attending the games this year will have an amazing time. It is also expected they will meet and hook up with many of the locals. Match them with the athletic sculptured bodies from around the world and the village looks set to be renamed The Brothel.

According to the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, which broke the story in May, the IOC is providing 350,000 male condoms, 100,000 female condoms, and 175,000 packets of lubricant. That works out to 42 “camisinhas,” Brazilian slang for condoms, per athlete. (In Brazilian slang, the term means “little shirts.”)

“This is considered sufficient to encourage athletes to practice safe sex while in Brazil for the Olympic Games,” the IOC told Folha.

Recognizing the basic forces of nature, officials began passing out free condoms at Seoul in 1988. (Apparently, nobody had high expectations: that number was only 8,500.) But things heated up over the next several games: In Sydney in 2000, officials had to scramble to add 20,000 condoms to the 70,000 that ran out midway through the Games.

This time, it seems, the IOC is taking no chances. The mosquito-borne Zika virus, an epidemic in Brazil, can cause mild flu-like symptoms among healthy adults. But its effects on the fetuses of women who contract the virus in early pregnancy can be devastating. Many babies exposed to the virus in utero are born with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, as well as some developmental delays.

The Australian team is coming especially prepared: the Aussies will be armed with special antiviral condoms that may provide extra protection against Zika. Scientists have confirmed that Zika can be sexually transmitted. It is unclear how long people infected by the virus remain contagious, but it appears to be at least several weeks.

Let’s hope along with the increase in condoms the owners of all the gay hook-up apps in the world lift their server power so that no one misses out on that gay hook-up experience come August 5.

Courtesy of Eikon Online gay magazine.

Seven Ways to Have Amazing Sex If You Have a Small Penis

By Dana Leigh Smith -- Men's Fitness -- June 12, 2016

Even if you’re less than thrilled with the cards you’ve been dealt, it's totally possible for you and your partner to reach the finish line. Top sex experts explain how.

From Apple Watches to paper-thin laptops, small sells. Which is why it’s ironic that so many dudes assume bigger is better when it comes to penis size. When fully erect, the average Johnson is 5.2 inches long, according to a King’s College London review. And according to the same study, 90 percent of guys have a member that falls between 4 and 6.3 inches when erect. That said, if you fall into the remaining 10 percent (because you’re smaller or larger), not all conventional sex tips and positions can provide the pleasure you and your partners crave. That’s not to say you can’t have mind blowing sex, though; you just have to know how to use what you’ve got to your advantage. “A man’s ability to give a woman pleasure and even orgasm doesn’t depend on penis size,” notes Dr. Megan Fleming, a clinical psychologist and sex therapist. “Hands, mouths and toys are also great sources of pleasure that men can reliably count on. There are also ways to modify sex positions to make them more pleasurable depending on your size.”

To help uncover the moves and strategies that will make you and your partner never want to leave the bedroom, we asked Fleming and other top sex experts the best ways to have mind-blowing when you’re less endowed. Their tips are sure to make your sex life hotter and more satisfying than ever before.

Communicate

Whether or not you feel self-conscious about your ability to pleasure your partner, it’s important to keep the lines of communication open. “Partners need to communicate about many aspects of their sexual relationship,” says Dr. Leora Manischewitz, a clinical psychologist and licensed sex therapist in New York City. “Pleasuring each other is not a given, rather something that two people teach each other. A woman may need a specific means of stimulation to achieve orgasm and a man may need a specific way of being stroked in order to achieve an erection. In the same way, the size of a man's penis may be a topic for conversation. Lovers who respect each other will talk about this with openness and acceptance. They will discuss ways to work around it and work together to find positions that enhance pleasure for each partner.”

Try Rear Entry

Once you’ve discussed any concerns with your partner, it’s time for the fun part: experimenting and finding what works best for you! One position that experts agree is sure to take both you and your lady on a wild ride: doggy style. “There are certain positions that enhance friction and sensations. For example, ‘doggy style’ with the man in the back and the woman on her knees in front of him, usually offers the woman intense sensation during penetration, especially if she squeezes her thighs together,” says Manischewitz. Fleming agrees that having the woman squeeze her legs together can make sex feel more pleasurable for both partners, adding “Rear entry is a good position for men who are smaller in size because it can allow him to reach her G-spot, which is about 3-inches inside the anterior vaginal wall.”

Use Props

For a man with a small penis, sex is all about finding the best angles, Fleming tells us. “Definitely use your environment, furniture, and other props to find the best angles and depth of penetration for you and your partner. While doing standing doggy style, for example, try putting your hands on a chair,” says Fleming. Putting pillows under her hips when she’s on the bottom can also help you get deeper, creating the "full" feeling many women like, says sex coach and certified sexuality educator, Amy Levine. “That said, women primarily climax from clitoral touch. Try using a small vibrator on her clitoris while you thrust to boost sensation and pleasure. As she becomes more aroused her vaginal walls will tighten, making sex more pleasurable for you, too.”

Skip the Lube

The one thing you shouldn’t keep in your sex arsenal? Lube. “If she is naturally well lubricated, don’t add more. A little friction will increase sensation,” explains Fleming. However, be advised that if she’s dry, penetration may feel uncomfortable regardless of size. So you’ll want to focus on turning her on and getting her juices flowing before you start bumping and grinding.

Have Her Put Her Legs Up

If getting deeper inside her is what you crave, ask her to put her legs over your shoulders in the missionary position. “This allows for greater sensation and pleasure, notes Manischewitz. You can also try having her lay with her butt on the edge of the bed or couch, legs up. “When you enter her in this position it can maximize what you’ve got,” says Levine, adding “you basically want vaginal access without obstruction of other body parts.”

Let Her Climb On Top

Another position worth trying is woman-on-top. “It’s one of the best strategies for a guy with a smaller penis, as it allows the woman to maximize her partner’s length and position him in a way that feels good to her,” explains Levine. “It also gives you (or her!) the ability to stimulate her clitoris—which is often needed to reach the big O.” To make sure you don’t slip out as she’s ridin’ dirty, have her rock and grind against you, rather than move up and down, advises Fleming.

Extend Foreplay

No matter what positions you decide to try, know that extending foreplay will make sex more enjoyable for you and your partner—and not only because it builds arousal, which as Fleming explains, is key to having more intense orgasms. If you’re self-conscious about your size or your ability to please a woman, fooling around (and bringing her to orgasm) before going all the way can help take the pressure off during the main event.

Courtesy of Men's Fitness

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Is your penis really shrinking?

By Oliver Burkeman - The Guardian - Friday, May 13, 2016

In Singapore, in autumn 1967, hundreds of men and boys hurried to hospital emergency rooms, clutching their penises, convinced they were rapidly retracting into their bodies and that if they let go of them, they’d die. Such panics aren’t as rare as you might imagine. In the early 2000s, in Nigeria and Benin, several people were killed in retaliation for using magic to shrink their enemies’ genitals. The vanishing-penis phenomenon – known by its south-east Asian name, koro – is listed in the psychiatry bible, the DSM, and has cropped up worldwide for centuries.

A common response is to scoff at the ignorance of the uneducated. But in The Geography Of Madness, journalist Frank Bures shows that what such “culture-bound syndromes” demonstrate is the astonishing power of culture and belief – on all of us. Whether you’re Beninese, Bolivian or British, the ways your life goes wrong will be heavily influenced by how you believe it could go wrong.

Self-styled rationalists often seek to debunk the influence of mind over body: it seems too damned weird that, for example, women who believe they’re at risk from heart disease are 3.6 times more likely to die from heart attacks than those with identical risk factors, but who lack the belief. (That’s a 1992 finding from the respected, long-term Framingham Heart Study.) But on second thoughts, wouldn’t it be weirder if the staggeringly complex organ between our ears didn’t exert strong effects on all the other, less complex organs it coordinates and controls? One effect that’s especially relevant here, Bures explains, is “bio-attentional looping”: you fear something, which causes you to monitor your body for symptoms, which – lo and behold! – you find. That heightens your fear, which increases your self-monitoring, and so on. It’s no coincidence that in almost every recorded case of koro, the victim already knew of the condition, so was primed to detect it.

I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine whether merely monitoring your body for signs of genital retraction (or nipple retraction, the female version) can induce the feeling it’s happening, but can anyone doubt that bio-attentional looping affects us in countless other ways? We keep reading about how we’re all underslept and distracted these days, so we can’t help scanning the body for the signs, which obligingly present themselves. (Are you stressed? Feel carefully for traces of tension in the body. Keep going. OK – now are you stressed?)

It hardly matters that the belief starts off being false, since believing it makes it true. Those koro victims didn’t have vanishing penises, obviously. But once they believed it could happen, the sensations of shrinkage were real. And what’s the difference between believing you’re stressed and being stressed? There isn’t one. We relate to the world, even our own bodies, through a thick web of beliefs, of which we’re largely unaware. You might be tempted to respond that your beliefs are the reasonable ones to hold. Perhaps. But then of course that’s what you’d believe.

See the full article along with additional links at TheGuardian.com.

Sex Helps Boost Brainpower
By Elizabeth Agnvall in AARP's Bulletin Today

Love might be good for the heart, but it turns out that sex is good for the brain, especially as we age. And, in fact, a healthy sex life seems to benefit men’s and women’s brain’s differently, a new study finds.

Researchers at Coventry University in England studied 6,800 men and women 50 and older and found that those who were sexually active scored higher on cognitive tests than those who were not. (Sexual activity included intercourse, masturbation, petting or fondling anytime during the previous year.)

The sexually active group were more likely to be younger, richer, more physically active, less lonely and not depressed. Because all of these factors are, on their own, connected with better brain health, the researchers made statistical adjustments to account for benefits they might provide.

So why is sex good for the brain? The researchers speculated that sex increases levels of the feel-good hormones dopamine and oxytocin in the brain. Those brain chemicals are not only an intricate part of feelings of love and lust, but “may also be important to brain function through improved signalling or connectivity between brain regions,” wrote lead author Hayley Wright in an email to AARP, although she added that further research is needed before we understand the relationship between sex and cognition. Plus, the findings might help explain why those in loving relationships tend to have better brain health.

“The general consensus from scientific and medical research tends to be that what is good for your heart is good for your brain. So, it seems that a healthy and active lifestyle (and now, maybe, sex life) can help to keep our brain healthy in older age,” Wright wrote.

Interestingly, the research additionally found differences in how men and women benefit from sex. Men who were sexually active had higher scores on number sequencing and memory, while sexually active women scored better solely on tests of memory.

It’s possible that “differences in brain development and structure” cause sexual activity to have “different effects on the brain and hence cognitive function in men and women,” wrote Wright and coauthor Rebecca Jenks in the journal Age and Ageing. Their study used data from the large, long-running English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, which is tracking the health information of 10,000 British adults over age 50.

This is the first study to link sexual activity with cognitive function in healthy older men and women. One earlier study of Italian men over 65 found that those who were still sexually active had better cognitive function than those who weren’t. And a 2013 University of Maryland study showed that “continuous long-term exposure to sexual experience” helped restore cognitive function and cause cell growth in the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center — at least in middle-aged rats.

“I wonder why anyone is surprised at these findings. It’s almost as if we believe our sexual drive, desire and performance is in its own self-contained system and should have no other effect on the body. How could that be? It is the same system of nerves, skin, muscles and hormones that operate within the whole body. Why should the brain, the producer of many of the hormones and quite affected by them, be left out of the party?” said AARP sex and relationship expert Pepper Schwartz.

The full article, which includes a number of additional links, can be found at the AARP Blog Bulletin Today.

May is National Masturbation Month

By Stacy Lloyd HERWriter at EmpowHER.com


May 1 marks the first day of National Masturbation Month. If you didn't know this, you’re not alone. The annual observance is not high profile.

In fact, the most coverage masturbation has received may have been back in 1992 when Jerry Seinfeld and his cast mates brought up the taboo topic during a Seinfeld episode. In one of the first scenes, character George Costanza’s mother catches him masturbating. The four New Yorkers then entered into a contest to determine who could go for the longest period of time without masturbating. However they couldn’t say the actual word on primetime television, so the euphemism, "master of my domain,” was born. No one won.

So how does a hush-hush subject like masturbation get a month of its own? It started in 1995 in San Francisco as a response to the forced resignation of U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders. After a speech at the United Nations World AIDS Day in 1994, an audience member asked Elders about masturbation’s potential for discouraging early sexual activity. She answered,“I think it is something that is part of human sexuality and a part of something that perhaps should be taught.”

That was the end of the first black Surgeon General’s Washington career, but the beginning of National Masturbation Month. The founders of San Francisco based sex toy and education shop Good Vibrations said, "Enough is enough!" They wanted to do two things: keep up the conversation about Elders unjust firing and make people talk about masturbation.

Good Vibrations recognized many people needed support and advice about the very act of masturbating. One of the first things they had to do is provide reassurance. They made sure people knew it was okay to masturbate in the first place. For so long, shame and stigma have been attached to masturbating. Yet the truth is it is an activity so commonplace, natural, pleasurable and healthy it is said "ninety-eight percent of us masturbate, and the other two percent are liars."

Since then, Good Vibrations has held annual events used as public health education programs to increase awareness of self-pleasure as a strategy for safer and healthier sex and to de-stigmatize masturbation. Their events have also worked to get people to talk about the act, instead of giggling or remaining silent. After all it is the ultimate in safe sex.

So go ahead, celebrate National Masturbation Month!

Stacy Lloyd is a writer and video producer in Phoenix, Arizona. A former television news journalist, she covered stories around the world. Currently, she produces corporate and non-profit videos and broadcast programming.

Note: Though this article was originally published in 2014, this is the first time it has been referenced on Measurection.

An Investigation into the Dick Size of the American Male
By Monica Heisey - Vice Magazine - August 21, 2014


There’s something fascinating about penises.

In truth, my fascination is less about penises themselves and more about the disjunct between what they are—dangling, fleshy, easily agitated protuberances—and what they are asked to represent: authority, virility, power. They are masculinity’s synecdoche, and rather an odd choice.

For a start, not all penises get to be representative of strong, manly qualities. We know the hierarchy: big = good, small = bad. For an organ that changes size upward of 11 times a day (and even more frequently at night), the size thing really gets to people. As a woman, I get that. I know what it is to consciously or unconsciously size up my body or parts of my body, noting the sizes of others', comparing, keeping track. It’s an enormous amount of unnecessary pressure, and it seems to me that if you tell a man he has a “small dick,” the message is more or less the same thing as saying, “You’re fat” to a woman: You are sexually undesirable and not good at being your gender.

While conversations about the everyday humiliations of embodiment in present-day North America are common among my female friends, the only men I’ve ever really talked to at length (heh) about their junk have been boyfriends or lovers. I was reminded of something dick-pic critic Madeleine Holden said in an interview with VICE in May: “I've come to the conclusion that men face similar (although less intense) pressures to look a certain way, but are afforded fewer outlets to discuss how it affects them. Traditional masculinity requires men to be stoic about their emotional issues and men risk being called pussies and fags if they are openly self-conscious. Basically, men are a simmering heap of raw nerves and unexplored emotions.”

I put out a call on Twitter: Did anyone want to talk about his dick? It turns out people really, really did. More than 55 men (all cis-gender) responded to my casual survey, including Jonah Falcon, who currently holds the title for largest recorded dick in the world, and Nick Gilronan, the winner of last year’s Smallest Penis in Brooklyn contest. Aside from Falcon and Gilronan, everyone else’s names have been changed. I let them pick their own pseudonyms.

The men came from a conveniently varied range of geographic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Their average age was 32. The average dick size was 6.2 inches erect, at the high end of the North American average, which is between five and six inches. (I expect Jonah’s 13.5-inch penis skewed the stats somewhat.) The smallest reported penis was 3.6 inches erect. There was a 50:50 foreskin-to-circumcised ratio. The sheer range of items men compared their dick and balls to was incredible—eggs, berries, iPhones, Magic Markers, the classic bottle of Coke, and “about two lighters, end to end.”

With a few exceptions, almost all the guys knew the exact dimensions of their penises—length and circumference. A few claimed to “never have measured,” but even they acknowledged that was hard to believe.

This sample group was simultaneously very OK with having average-size penises, and not totally aware what the average is. Almost everyone considered their dicks to be . . .

CLICK HERE to read the remainder of the article on the Vice magazine site.

Inmate says Rikers guard belittled him for 'small penis'

By Kathianne Boniello - New York Post - March 13, 2016

A Rikers Island inmate is suing the city because, he claims, a jail guard dismissed his penis as too small.

Anthony Malik Ellis was arrested on a robbery charge in 2014 and is being held on $15,000 bail.

Ellis claims in court papers a female guard hauled him into a stairwell where there were no cameras and manhandled him.

"You out your cell now, let me see this d–k you been telling everyone to suck," the guard said, according to the Manhattan federal-court lawsuit.

"She then grabbed my genitals and told me 'Huh, and it's not even big enough for me to suck it.'"

Acting as his own lawyer, Ellis is seeking unspecified damages for "mental anguish from being told I have a little penis," he said in court ­papers.

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Nadkins Are The Newest Version Of Wet Naps For Men's Crotches

By Chanel Parks - Associate Style Editor, The Huffington Post

In an effort to spare you a bunch of inappropriate jokes, we'll just get straight to the hard fact: men have just as many hygiene needs as women. The one we're addressing today is not a sizable issue, but it's important nonetheless.

Nadkins, a new grooming product on the market, makes cleansing wipes dubbed as "Male Jewels Refresher Towelettes." Yep, that's right, they're designated wet naps for the male nether regions, for when things get all sweaty, smelly and uncomfortable.

Founder Joe Caccamo came up with the idea based on the bad sensations guys feel in their junk throughout the day. "Let's face it, when a man is uncomfortable down there, he is generally uncomfortable all over, making for a miserable day," Caccamo said in a press release. So, why not create something that turns a simple swipe into a sigh of relief?

In terms of the product name, Nadkins was born out of a conversation Caccamo had with a woman. Caccamo told The Huffington Post that his friend said, "'You know Joe, guys don’t always smell so great ... down there.'" His response? "Yeah ... it’s like they need a napkin for their nads ... a Nadkin!"

Full story at HuffingtonPost.com.