Page 9 - Sex Facts

A woman disguised herself as a boy to date her friends.

Her name is Gemma Barker, and she made headlines when she created three male personas to date her 16 year old friends. Even though they knew her in real life, they didn’t pick up at all that it was her disguised as a boy. Even the parents of one of the girls was duped.

Gemma, 19 at the time, got in pretty serious trouble because of it. She was charged with two counts of sexual assault and one count of fraud. The fraud count was for claiming one of her male personas assaulted her. She had introduced herself to her friends by making fake Facebook profiles and contacting them that way.

It worked, but trouble arose when one of the girls became suspicious that the other girl was dating the same guy. Today, she is on the Sex Offenders Registry.

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Women can walk around topless in New York.

If you’ve been to New York, you’d question why this was such a pressing matter that someone took the time to put it into legislation. For 80% of the year in New York, it’s a bit cold for going topless.

The ruling was first made in 1992, following the case known as The People v. Ramona Santorelli and Mary Lou Schloss. During that case, multiple women were arrested for violating decency laws. Like with many places where being topless is legal, it was argued then that it was discriminatory because the same standard wasn’t help to men.

The New York Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the women, and it’s been legal ever since. Meanwhile, San Francisco could be in the process of banning nudity.

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Ovulating strippers make more money!

An evolutionary psychologist at the University of New Mexico and his research conducted a study that showed an interesting, but very obscure fact. Strippers earned more tips by lap dancing when they were ovulating than when they were not, and also more than women on the pill, who don't ovulate.

The research assistant first noticed this because he worked at a strip club assisting the performers. One of his duties was handing out tampons. He noticed women who requested them earned less than the others. This was the basis for their study.

They set up an anonymous website where they gathered data for 296 work shifts, or about 5,300 lap dances. The women would include info about their earnings, productivity and menstrual cycles.

The results? Women ovulating would earn in average $30/ hour than women in their periods and $15/hour more than women at other stage in their cycle. Women on the pill, who don't ovulate, made significantly less than women in their natural cycle.

The theory is that women ovulating are at their peak of fertility and that makes them more attractive to males. What they haven't found yet is how men can subconsciously recognize that a women is in estrus (their fertility peak).

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Amazon has a patent on 1-click shopping!

It might sound silly, but whenever you see a store that has 1-click shopping, they're probably paying Amazon some licensing fees. Amazon was granted a patent for the technique in September of 1999. They also own the trademark of "1-Click." The patent covers a technique through which a store allows a user to complete an online purchase without having to use shopping cart software, and also without inputting billing and shipping information. 

Apple is one of the few licensors of this patent. They added 1-Click to their Apple Computer store and then later added it to iTunes and iPhoto. In 1999, Amazon sued Barnes & Noble because of their Express Lane service, which was similar to 1-click shopping. B&N thought they had designed a way to get around the patent, but they still settled out of court.

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Nearly 40 percent of the internet is porn!

During the first four months of 2010, Optenet said that 37 percent of all content hosted on the internet was of pornographic nature. Optenet is a global IT security company that has a complex network of global intelligence, which allows for efficient classification of all material on the Internet. The amount of porn greatly supersedes all contents following it online.

Shopping is next on the list with only 9 percent of the internet hosting it. Travel takes up 5.7 percent of the internet. Both computing and sports take up 4.2 percent of the internet.

It is important to take into consideration the type of sites porn websites host. Most of them consist of bandwidth-hogging videos. The videos take up a lot of space and probably increase the volume of porn to be so high.

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