Brace yourselves, here comes the ultimate list of sex trivia, with random useless sex facts and weird news about sex! Thanks to the best useless facts and useless trivia community out there, the Today I Learned subreddit, we present to you the best random sex trivia and sex news. Enjoy!
- The USSR tried to blackmail a gay US journalist with photos of him having sex with a Soviet spy, but he refused to cooperate and reported the incident to the CIA. When the Soviets sent the photos to prominent journalists, they all refused to out him. (wikipedia)
- The mites that live on your face are related to ticks and spiders. They eat the oil from your skin, hide in your pores, have sex on your face while you sleep, and can tell researchers where your ancestors came from. (npr.org)
- There was a woman who gave her neighbor a ‘box of sex toys’ to hold on to. 6 months later the neighbor noticed a stench coming from her closet where the box was stored. She finally opened it and found a decomposing severed head inside. It was the original woman’s husband. (nypost.com)
- For several years the CIA paid sex workers to bring men back to a “safehouse” brothel so they could secretly dose them with LSD and watch what happened through a two-way mirror in an effort to find a mind control drug. (discovermagazine.com)
- Natalie Portman had multiple sex scenes with Ashton Kutcher and one with Mila Kunis ( Kutcher’s now wife) in separate movies in the same year. (etonline.com)
- Mick Jagger once sought help from a sex addicition therapist, but ended up seducing the therapist. (cbsnews.com)
- In 2013 a French businessman died of a heart attack while having sex with a stranger while on a business trip. A French court subsequently ruled that this was an industrial accident and that his wife and family were entitled to compensation. (bbc.co.uk)
- Snails, which are hermaphrodites, have sex by first stabbing each other with a tiny spike called a love dart, which determines who is more likely to be the ‘male’ in the exchange (the better stabber). Scaled to human size, the dart would be a 15-inch knife. (kqed.org)
- The dinosaur noises in the “Jurassic Park” movie were made from recordings of tortoise sex. (digitalspy.com)
- In 2005, McDonald’s had an ad campaign saying “I’d hit it” about a double cheeseburger, not knowing the slang meant they wanted to have sex with the cheeseburger. (ramblingbeachcat.com)
- In the original cut of The Santa Clause Tim Allen’s character looks at a phone number and says “1-800-SPANK-ME. I know that number.” This scene was cut from all home media releases after a kid in Washington called the number – which led to an active sex hotline – and racked up a $400 phone bill. (wikipedia)
- Tokyo Olympics 2020 bed manufacturer has reassured athletes that the recycled cardboard beds won’t collapse during sex. The Airweave bed manufacturer said the bed frames will be able to hold up to 440 lbs loads & guarantee structural integrity with no more than 2 athletes in one bed. (independent.co.uk)
- Mount Kemukus, is a hilltop shrine in Central Java where people go to have sex with other pilgrims who are total strangers, to bring goodluck. (mountainculturegroup.com)
- Despite millennials often being seen as a ‘promiscuous’ generation, they have less sexual partners than previous generations and having less overall sex than their own parents. (time.com)
- After the scene where Margot Robbie has sex with Leonardo DiCaprio on a pile of money in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’, Robbie ended the scene with her back covered in paper cuts from the fake money they used. (thedailybeast.com)
- The NES game ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ included a real phone number that players could call and hear a recording of Jessica Rabbit offering hints. The phone line was discontinued by 1990 and reassigned to a sex hotline some time before 2010. The original recording has since been lost. (lostmediawiki.com)
- Some spiders engage in oral sex. (wikipedia)
- After an Iranian government contract for a British company was cancelled and given to Siemens instead, a British embassy investigation revealed that it was because Siemens’ Iranian sales agent allowed the Shah to sleep with his wife in exchange for the contract. (wikipedia)
- Actress Nicki Clyne left the series Battlestar Galactica to work on Allison Mack’s sex cult full time. (wikipedia)
- River and Joaquin Phoenix spent a significant portion of their childhood in a sex cult known as Children of God and later, The Family International. (wikipedia)
- Starving female praying mantis’ lure males into sex, and then eat them instead. The study shows that male mantis’ were more likely to seek out starving females than healthy females, due to the increased pheromones they purposefully secrete. (ibtimes.co.uk)
- James Gunn’s live action Scooby Doo (2002) was originally a Rated R adult film full of edgy humor, drugs and sex jokes until Warner Brothers made him edit it down to a clean cut PG children’s film. (slashfilm.com)
- Sex toys are banned in some states, such as Alabama. Flirting is banned in San Antonio, Texas. Oral sex is banned in Indiana. And sleeping naked is illegal in Minnesota. (factretriever.com)
- The animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series had to be heavily censored in the UK due to controversy over “Ninja” weapons and the the catch phrase “Bummer” being slang for anal sex. (wikipedia)
- In traditional Balinese culture, it was common for a set of twins of the opposite sex to marry each other, since it was assumed that they’d had sex in utero. (wikipedia)
- Men initiate sex more than 3x as often as women do in a long-term, heterosexual relationship. However, sex happens far more often when the woman takes the initiative, implying that it’s the woman who sets limits, and that frequency of sex depends on how enthusiastic a couple are about it. (norwegianscitechnews.com)
- Kawasaki, Japan hosts an annual ‘phallus festival’ to pray for fertility, healthy childbirth, and safe sex. (japanistry.com)
- When a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and he dies. (veterinaryhub.com)
- Many Greek Gods were bisexual. Zeus was also bisexual. (pride.com)
- American adults are having sex less frequently. American adults had sex about nine fewer times per year in the early 2010s compared to the late 1990s due to an increasing number of individuals without a steady or marital partner and a decline in sexual frequency among those with partners. (springer.com)
- Well known adult film Lisa Ann appeared in front of the Oxford Union in opposition to the idea that porn should be included as part of Sex Ed. (oxford-union.org)
- Condoms should be replaced every 30 minutes when engaging in a long sex session. (nhs.uk)
- Flying foxes, a.k.a. Pteropus, a.k.a megabats have oral sex in addition to intercourse, with fellatio and cunnilingus observed between opposite sexes, as well as homosexual fellatio in at least one species, the Bonin flying fox. (wikipedia)
- In Ancient Greece, prostitutes were classified into two classes; the Pornai and the Hetairai. The Pornai served many men at once, and frequently worked on the street. In contrast, Hetarai were educated, had few clients, and provided companionship and intellectual discussion as well as sex. (wikipedia)
- The main characters of HBO’s Sex and the City had 94 sex partners between them. (nydailynews.com)
- Aristophanes wrote a play in ancient Greece during the Peloponnesian War called “Lysistrata.” In the play, the women of Greece bound together to end the war by telling their husbands that they would not have sex with them until they stopped fighting the war. (wikipedia)
- Debi Sue Voorhees who played Tina in ‘Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning’ (1985) became a teacher after her acting career and was fired from two separate high schools after students got ahold of stills from the sex scene she performed in the film. (fridaythe13thfranchise.com)
- In the Vietnam war, there was a flourishing sex industry for American soldiers. There were an estimated 300,000 sex workers in the country at this time. (wikipedia)
- Ancient Rome tried to increase dwindling birth rate by providing benefits to citizens who had more than 3 childen of both sexes. (wikipedia)
- Senior citizens have WAY more sex than most people believe, to the point that it’s actually caused STD problems among the older population (since everyone assumes new partners aren’t sexually active). (vocal.media)
- Α NASA intern stole millions of dollars worth of moon rocks with his girlfriend, had sex with her on top of the moon rocks, tried to sell the rocks, and ended up in prison. (wikipedia)
- When British scientists discovered homosexual behavior in penguins in 1911, they were so shocked that they published the study in Greek so it would remain accessible to only a few scientists. (wikipedia)
- There’s a 1971 essay written by science fiction author Larry Niven where he explains, in great detail, why having sex with Superman would almost certainly kill Lois. This essay is believed to inspire certain scenes in the infamous comic series, “The Boys”. (syfy.com)
- Disney’s “Enchanted” film was originally written as a R-rated comedy princess movie with borrowed elements from “American Pie” and “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” that focused heavily on sex and profanity. (wikipedia)
- In 1818, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer described the post-orgasm moment of clarity as “devil’s laughter”, explaining: “They have fulfilled their need to reproduce and are momentarily caught in the abyss of meaninglessness.” (themodernsisyphus.com)
- Human sperm can have antidepressant qualities. (theweek.com)
- Playboy severed its ties with Playmate Stacy Arthur after she appeared on TV to say she had sex at the Playboy mansion by two security guards and a butler. The employees claimed the sex was consensual but were fired because they violated company policy by having sex during working hours. (wikipedia)
- 40 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds say they “never” have sex — and that’s higher than any other age group. (australiatalks.abc.net.au)
- There is a Vibrator bar in Japan where single women and couples can go to try upto 350 different kinds of vibrator’s, dildo’s and sex toys for a small fee. A cover charge of 3,000yen per person includes a 90-minute visit and two drinks. Of course you can extend your pleasure and stay longer. (japantravel.com)
- Thor (MARVEL comics) conceived himself after he had incestuous sex with his sister. In Mighty THOR #296-298, Thor in a mortal form named Siegmund, rescues and falls in love with Sieglinda, his twin sister. After his death Sieglinda gives birth to his child Siegfried, who is actually Thor. (marvunapp.com)
- Scientific studies show that 1,500 animal species are known to practice natural same-sex coupling – from insects, to fish, birds and mammals. (dw.com)
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