Srinivas Padma: Personal Musings on Life, Growth, and Connections

ALISON ROBERTS: Size does matter after all when it comes to sexual satisfaction, according to Dr Daniel Amen. Forget those enlargement offers in your e-mail inbox: We're talking about the Big B - the Brain. "In order to have a great sex life, you have to have a great brain," Amen says. Brain greatness, he explains, requires avoiding activities that can literally shrink the brain, including abusing drugs and alcohol. Amen is a clinical psychiatrist and brain-imaging expert who also brings a single guy's interest to the topic. "I like to look, that's all I can say," he says, savoring the double-entendre of expressing his love of the view inside the skull. His latest book, Sex on the Brain: 12 Lessons To Enhance Your Love Life, falls into his growing catalogue of writing about how to enhance the good life. "It just seemed like nobody was putting the brain right in the middle of our sex lives," Amen says. The way he looks at it, sex largel...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian researchers claim they have created a nutty alternative to Viagra based on walnuts in a pill more healthy than its pharmaceutical counterpart, according to a report on Sunday. Kim Kah Hwi, who headed the team of researchers from the University of Malaya , said he was inspired to look into walnuts after reading about their use in history, the Star daily reported. "I read articles about the Romans and French having eaten walnuts for this purpose. I thought if it had been documented that long ago, then there surely has to be something there," he told the newspaper. It took Kim and his research team two years to develop " N-Hanz ", tablets which contain walnut extract and have shown positive results on 40 volunteers against erectile dysfunction. "It takes about an hour for the effects to set in and it will last for about four hours," said Kim. "Furthermore, because it is not a drug, it is safe for those with hypertension or diabet...

They might be from the land of the Kamasutra, but Indian men last the least time in bed, from foreplay to the climax. This is one of the highlights of a global survey of more than 40,000 men in 43 countries on their sexual habits. According to the survey unveiled by Men’s Health, the world’s largest men’s lifestyle magazine, South Korean men had sex the most number of times per week: 4.50. This figure was 3.27 for Indian men, although it is better than the world average of 2.08. The magazine has carried the survey findings in a special report “World’s Best Sex Right Here In India” in its November issue. The number of partners for the average man in his lifetime was 4.53 in India — well below the global average of 7.65 and much below the Brazilian score of 11.37. Polish men are most faithful. Sixtythree per cent of them said they had never cheated with another woman. The percentage for India was 48, just below the global average of 50 per cent. Compared to the worldwide average of 59 pe...