This enterprise proved so amusing that the pair, in collaboration with composer Dave Soldier, repeated the experiment with popular music, releasing the "most wanted" and "least wanted" songs together on a CD with a cover photo of all three men wearing white lab coats and pointing at a calculator. Sadly, the pair stopped short of what I view as the greatest challenge: producing novels that reflect what Americans like and dislike in fiction. Now, at last, with People's Choice Literature, by the writer/artist/composer Tom Comitta, a new "scientist" has taken up the task. People's Choice Literature offers its readers two novels for the price of one. The first is a thriller whose heroine tries to prevent her boss, a new age–y tech mogul, from launching a quantum computing network that will bring about a total surveillance state.

In Sex Reviews, writers offer a sober critical assessment of the sex scenes in new films and television series. This installment contains spoilers for Babygirl. Nestled amid a nice little set of Christmas releases is Babygirl, an erotic thriller set during the holidays, written and directed by Halina Reijn of Bodies, Bodies, Bodies fame. The film stars Nicole Kidman as Romy, a work-addicted CEO of a robotics company, who lives with her play-directing, gray-goatee-sporting husband Jacob (Antonio Banderas) and two teenage daughters in a gorgeous Manhattan apartment. Romy's creeping dissatisfaction with the rounds of Botox, therapy, and meetings that make up her life comes to a head when she meets Samuel, an intern at her company, played by hyper-handsome English actor Harris Dickinson. In fits and starts, the Gen X Romy and Gen Z Samuel discover that they have a very particular type of chemistry: She wants to be told what to do, and he's willing to tell her.

PragerU personality Aldo Buttazzoni joins'Fox News @ Night' to discuss the dating trends among Gen Z men and shares how Americans feel about a bug-based diet. Gen Z teens and young adults are having less sex than past generations and want less sexually explicit content shown in the media they watch. A new study from UCLA found that Gen Z teenagers and adults are asking for fewer sex scenes in the television and movies they consume. The "Teens and Screens" report out of the school's Center for Scholars and Storytellers found that 51.5% of adolescents would prefer to see more content that portrays platonic relationships and close friendships. The study also found that 44.4% of youth surveyed felt that romance in media was "overused."

Stressful situations really do make it harder to remember things, new research has found. Challenging situations make it harder to understand where you are and what's happening around you, the study showed. The research could help us understand why people who have been through extremely stressful events, such as war veterans or victims of crime, struggle to remember them. Stressful situations really do make it harder to remember things, new research has found. Challenging situations make it harder to understand where you are and what's happening around you (stock image) The research shows that difficult situations - whether positive or negative - cause the brain to drop nuanced, context-based thought in flavor of reflexive action.

Artificial intelligence is now letting romance fans'skip to the good parts' of their audiobooks. Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook firm, is rolling an algorithm picks out the steamy sections of 110 romance titles. X-rated content is found under'Hot Hot Hot'. Amazon-owned audiobook firm, is rolling an algorithm that picks out the steamy sections of 110 romance titles such as EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey (pictured) The'Take Me To The Good Part' algorithm, works by scanning for keywords associated with specific moments. For instance, a proposal scene may be flagged up by words such as'diamond', 'ring' and'kneel', Audible's machine-learning also creates a'Steaminess Score', which shows the level of graphic details that a listeners can expect. Audible could someday use similar algorithms to key passages of classic novels to help English literature students with their studies.

Much like sex itself, it's hard to get a sex game right on first try. While the genre known as interactive fiction often explores themes of sex and sexuality, players of mainstream video games are used to little more than the occasional, awkward and intensely unerotic cut scene. Creators, consumers and critics of this relatively young artform are still figuring out what the culture deems acceptable. That can lead to difficult conversations – as it did this month with one highly divisive scene in a game released early this year. Christine Love is a writer and programmer known for making visual novels: interactive narrative games with static 2D art, in which the player's choices often involve selecting which response to give in conversation scenes.

There has always been sex in video games. As shocking as this revelation may be to those who have only ever played Call of Duty, Fifa or Pokémon Go, it's the truth. As soon as developers were able to put animated pixels on a screen, they were trying to make those pixels do rude things. In the early 1980s, for example, a publisher named Mystique released a series of "erotic" games for the Atari 2600, beginning with Burning Desire, in which you played a naked air rescue worker. From the very start, realism was important. Later, we were treated to Sam Fox Strip Poker on the Commodore 64 and Night Trap on the Sega Mega Drive, a sort of fuzzy interactive B-movie that was deemed so shocking that it became the subject of a congressional hearing.