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To your brain, music is as enjoyable as sex

Whether it's the Beatles or Beethoven, people like music for the same reason they like eating or having sex: It makes the brain release a chemical that gives pleasure, a new study says.

 

French culture minister targeted over sex tourism

France's culture minister is struggling to keep his job amid an uproar about a 2005 book in which he details Bangkok's brothels and the pleasure and freedom of paying "boys" for sex. Frederic Mitterrand's candid tale came back to haunt him ...

 

Love, pleasure, duty: Why women have sex

Love, pleasure, duty: Why women have sex

What makes a woman want to have sex? Is it physical attraction? Love? Loneliness? Jealousy? Boredom?

 

Scientists find 'pleasure nerves'

Scientists find 'pleasure nerves'

Scientists in the US and Sweden say they understand more about how the body responds to pleasurable touch.

 

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