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.