Butchers are happiest and having the most sex! Need a steak tonight ladies?

Ladies, listen up! If you're looking for man who'll give you the right attention in the bedroom - look no further than you local man o' meat - 'tis right! Refer to the article below taken from news.com.au which suggests that the local butcher is among Australia's happiest workers and also concludes they are having the most sex.

Soooo, if you equate quantity with quality - I suggest you find yourself a butcher...

The Daily Telegraph reports that a Galaxy poll of consumers, which rated the perceived happiness and job satisfaction of a range of professionals, ranked butchers as the most friendly and contented.

Thirty per cent of consumers perceived butchers as happy with their jobs - a figure confirmed by 76 per cent of butchers surveyed who reported feeling healthier, laughing more at work and having more sex than other workers interviewed. Service station attendants, bank tellers and sandwich hands featured at the lower end of the survey, with less than 10 per cent of consumers perceiving them as happy at work. Butchers are having 60 per cent more sex than other workers. More than half the 295 butchers surveyed had no sick leave last year and 60 per cent described their work as fun.

Oh yeah, I also found this article which suggests WHY the butcher is sexy - in short, a macho man (equated with MEAT CARVING) whom also carries around a big bloody knife!?!

Please fill us in on your carnivorous fantasies and/or just let us know which profession you find the sexiest?

Coming from Oprah it must be right - "Mums buy your teenage daughters vibrators!"

Let’s talk.

Who better to back up what Mia Muse is all about other than Oprah? Yes! Bring it on! A recent episode of Oprah was wonderfully progressive. In the episode Oprah and Dr. Berman discuss the importance of teenage girls (aged 14, 15 or 16) understanding their sexuality and sexual beings, suggesting that one way to do this was for mothers to buy their daughters a vibrator, said Dr. Berman. The idea of such a purchase is met by Gayle’s distaste who believed that teenage girls already have too much information hence their sexual promiscuity. In argument to Gayle, Oprah and Dr. B say that this is exactly why young women should masturbate in order to understand their own bodies, needs and desires first before they explore this with teenage boys. Too often Dr. Berman works with older women who do not understand their own sexual response, feel badly about their bodies, feel badly about their sexual beings- hence, there is no such thing as too much information in this day and age.

From Jezebel - Dr. Berman's argument to scared moms is that it's important that girls not only know about their own bodies but understand what it means to reach an orgasm. Because if they know what an orgasm is, and that they can do it for themselves, then they can own it and they will know that they never have to depend on another person to make them feel that way.

Overall the episode insightfully suggests that at age 10 or 11 parents should discuss the male and female anatomies with their children and then at 14 or 15 parents should have an in-depth conversation about self-stimulation and mention that one option includes vibrators.

I was always taught that it was best to communicate everything that generally was a fear or unknown. This taught me to speak my mind and feelings – which I believe now allows for honesty and understanding with myself. When I was about a 11 I read my neighbours Dolly Dr. this is where I found out what masturbating was- or that this ‘innate desire to touch yourself’ had a name. I think I laughed and couldn’t breathe properly for about 10 minutes. The Dolly Dr. in hindsight was actually quite sad, a girl had been caught masturbating in the toilet by her dad – he then insisted on going to the bathroom with her every time she went. I went home later and asked my parents if they masturbated? My mum in the foreground said, “umm, yes! Everyone does at least once in their life.” My dad in the background, looked a little freaked out and said, “ah, yea, I guess…” I remember thinking oh, okay-cool.

WATCH THE OPRAH VIDEO ON JEZEBEL HERE

Emotionally Intelligent women have more orgasms

Image is from Pierre Dal Corso via Lifelounge

A study done on 2000 female twins found that emotionally intelligent women have more orgasms. The study suggests that a healthier emotional state of mind results in better physical, emotional and mental awareness which = better SEX (by better we mean more orgasmic).

The BBC article said;

The research found a significant association between emotional intelligence and the frequency of orgasm during masturbation and intercourse.

Professor Tim Spector, director of the Twin Research Department at King's College London and co-author of the study, said: "These findings show that emotional intelligence is an advantage in many aspects of your life including the bedroom.

"This study will help enormously in the development of behavioural and cognitive therapies to improve women's sexual lives."

Lead author Andrea Burri said: "Emotional intelligence seems to have a direct impact on women's sexual functioning by influencing her ability to communicate her sexual expectations and desires to her partner."

The vision at MIA MUSE has always been to promote a confidence and communication in our sexual dimensions of self. This can obviously be hard - so many experiences can shape how we view ourselves, how we communicate and how we then share this with other people. We at MIA MUSE think that by providing a space that allows for us to get in touch with ourselves (to rejuvenate our boudior) this will parallel our ability to communicate with ourselves - resulting in higher emotional intelligence and whoa, wait for it... MORE ORGASMS!

Oh yea, perhaps you could read Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman if you need a little help.

Empowerment within religious parametres

Back home in Jakarta, 18-year-old fashion designer Dian Pelangi can whip her fan club into a fizz of guileless adoration: "Wow!" "Gorgeous!" "Inspiring!" "Empowering!". They thrill to Pelangi's way (her name, aptly, means "rainbow") with silky tie-dyed and batik Islamic clothing; how she plugs into fashion trends just enough, but not so much as to compromise a girl's modesty or provoke other Muslims' disapproval.

"OMG! I just fell in love with her power, her craziness, her dresses, her everything!" This was a typically impassioned thread among many more posted by young Indonesian women after a photo-strip of Pelangi's designs recently went up on blog spot "Hegab-Rehab".

Thanks to Melanie Hick from TheVine - you can read on here, via The Age.

In secrecy - some blindly work while others run a $3 billion festish/bondage industry

In Pakistan the only way a whip/flogger is used is for harsh punishment when victims defy the strict codes of Islam. On the contrary one of the largest manufactures of bondage/fetish wear comes straight out of Pakistan's commercial epicentre, Karachi.

Two brothers from a poor family in Pakistan were chosen by their father to receive a university education and $800 upon graduation, to which they bought a computer and began researching. Leather jackets were popular in the manufacturing industry in Pakistan at the time, so they were looking these up online. They stumbled across a straight jacket. They were confused yet intrigued and after further research realised the potential for the fetish/bondage market in the United States.

Islam rules the region, next to the factory where the brothers and their $3 billion fetish industry reside is a mosque and the offices of a radical Islamic organizaiton. The brothers cannot tell anyone the real reason they make this ‘gear’. Their wives don’t even know. The union has tried to shut them down – but eventually they justified it by saying, “… it’s just business”. More recently they hired a team of people to ‘protect’ them and their factory. Their employee’s, generally women don’t even know what their products are used for.

If you watch the amazing video the STARK contrast of the brothers standing next to their designs is something to appreciate. They talk candidly about how creating these items, makes them inquisitive – Islam though does not allow for such exploration.
One of the women designers says some of the bondage gear interests her, but not all of it.

Take some time to watch the video; it is eye opening to say the least. I'd also like to know your thoughts.

The article and video interview come from the New York Times.

If you say 'Double-Ended' in French does it sound nicer?

Women's Health Magazine did a 'spread' on the best sex toys of 2009. The Ella by Lelo made the cut. The Ella falls under the WHM category of Artsy - "Hit the g-Spot". We couldn't be happier with this description, what more would a woman want than an avant-garde piece, that stimulates your g-Spot? LADIES - WHAAAT?!

The original opinion of the Ella was that it wasn't big enough to claim it's double-ended dildo status. The Ella described by it's creators Lelo, as a double ended dildo - through my eyes although beautiful and unobtrusive, 'twas not big enough to reach inside both people simultaneously. Note: unobtrusive? Doesn't one want something 'obtrusive' when it comes to double-ended? DOUBLE-ENDED FAIL? NO! I was wrong with this assumption of the Ella, she is beautiful and promotes all invasions of personal space.

Previously I had always pictured double-ended sex toys to be exactly how they sounded, huge, black, mechanical and quite –frankly scary. This is how my misconception hindered any foreseen pleasure and why I considered all double-ended toys to look intrusive and hence, the belief the Ella could be nothing - NOTHING! on the tier of pleasure objects.

At the complete other end of the spectrum, basically like I had been hit upSIDDDE-the head, came a tweet from a like-minded soul which said, sales of the Ella had reached one-million in Sienna - suddenly, the sleek and ergonomically designed, really hot-to-pull-out-from-the-silk-pouch-during-foreplay, Ella got me excited.

Either black or white, the Ella is made with phthalate-free silicone; one narrow, strategically curved end reaches and stimulates your g-Spot, while the other is made for old school pleasuring. Alas, the Ella (non-vibrating sex-toy) is a great way to get intimate and close with your partner. Style wise, I’d even go as far to say she brings couture to your boudoir. Combine all this with a potential for simultaneous orgasm + the price + the closeness to your partner (squared) = best purchase EVER.

Modern dilemmas for modern ladies

Modern dilemmas for modern ladies are on the rise. Hanging out and hooking up is stressing women out, says a sex therapist and her husband. Check this article out from The Age Newspaper.

"In the film He's Just Not That Into You, Drew Barrymore's character complains about being rejected by seven different technologies.
"I had this guy leave me a voice mail at work, so I called him at home, and he emailed me to my Blackberry, and so I texted him to his mobile phone," she says.
"And now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It's exhausting."
It's not only a sign of the times but a contributing factor to what relationship experts are calling a thoroughly modern epidemic: Modern Female Dating Anxiety (MFDA)."