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Editor's note: Ian Kerner, a sexuality counselor and New York Times best-selling author, blogs about sex weekly on The Chart. Read more from him on his website, GoodInBed. All you have to do is watch nearly any depiction of female orgasm on screen to get an idea of how a woman is "supposed" to react during sex. From "When Harry Met Sally" to "Sex and the City" to your basic porn film, women in the throes of passion aren't just shouting their ecstasy from the rooftops - they're moaning with pleasure.

Two women were killed in separate homicides Monday, bringing the total number of female homicide victims this year to 19, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. A 70-year-old woman was stabbed to death in the 1100 block of East 81st Street in Avalon Park, police said. An 18-year-old woman was shot to death in the 5700 block of South Sangamon Street in Englewood, according to officials. Women comprise 12 percent of the homicide victims this year, according to RedEye data.

USA Today reports: Of the 1,001 wives ages 18-49 surveyed last month, 75% say a good sex life with their spouse is "very or extremely important"; 16% say "somewhat important. " Read the full story at USAToday.com .

Everyone seems to want to be in a reality TV show, and Doron Ofir Casting is hoping to make dreams come true. The casting group is looking for home cooks, electronic dance fans and women "who dare to be different. " But that's not all: They're also casting shows about fanboys and girls, spurned lovers, entrepreneurial college students, people with bad tattoos and for tug-of-war champs. They're all for real! Check out the casting call page at the site by clicking doronofircasting.com . I'm not sure what networks are picking up some of these shows, but a few of...

There's something about 2 a.m. that can make men lose their minds. The clock rolls over and if you're a group of girls in a bar - well, you're just asking for it, right? You're asking for attention, the way you're brazenly sitting there, calmly drinking beer and chatting. The way you're requesting songs at the jukebox and sitting back down to finish your story. The way you decided to wear a dress to the bar. You want those two guys to come up to you once, twice, three times to interrupt your conversation and tell you how much they love the song.

I'm terrible at talking to women in bars. I always feel so awkward, and never know what to say. On the rare occasion that I've gotten a few numbers from girls, it never leads anywhere. What can I do to get over myself? --Bar Not So Fly I doubt I'm the first one to suggest this, but maybe you should try meeting women somewhere other than bars? Bars are weird spaces. It's sort of assumed that women who go alone to bars are either very sad or desperately trying to get laid, otherwise why would they be there?

Funny ladies are raising their profile this year—from Mindy Kaling and Tina Fey's memoirs to Kristen Wiig scoring a hit with "Bridesmaids" and being named GQ's "Bro of the Year. " They've landed leading roles in movies centered around crude guy humor. Take Cameron Diaz in "Bad Teacher," Anna Faris in "What's Your Number?" and Mila Kunis in "Friends with Benefits. " Kunis, who is the voice of Meg on "Family Guy," was named GQ's "knockout" in its Men of the Year issue and attended the Marine Corps Ball.

Discovery Channel's "Curiosity" this Sunday delves into two things most people enjoy: sex and numbers. The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, where Alfred Kinsey conducted his groundbreaking sex survey more than 60 years ago, did a new survey that asked more than 5,000 people hundreds of questions about their most intimate sexual practices. And since I'm sitting alone writing this, I guess I'll just share some of the sex statistics the survey found and will be presented in "Curiosity: Sex in America," premiering at 8 p.m. Nov. 11. It's all...

Twenty years ago, reporters dubbed 1993 the Year of the Woman, after a glass-ceiling-cracking, record-shattering SIX women became U.S. senators. I was 7 and ecstatic with the news. I remember putting on my power scrunchie and marching into my first-grade classroom ready to dominate. Suddenly those "I can do anything boys can do" picture books made sense. My future was not limited to being a teacher or a mommy. I was going to be the president of the United States, mainly because I thought it would be cool to have people drive me around in a limo with...

The first time I saw one of Dove's "real beauty" ads I was charmed. I was in college and the ad was the one featuring a line of women in suspiciously unsexy white underwear. They were all of different nationalities and of healthy weights. All I could think was, "Those models' thighs are touching! THEIR. THIGHS. ARE. TOUCHING!" Compared with the underweight Victoria's Secret models I was used to seeing pouting away on billboards and magazine ads, these women almost looked fat. I had to stare at the ad for a few minutes while my brain recalibrated: This...

When you're around the internet as much as we are, you tend to notice patterns. Specificially, you notice that men and women seem to keep repeating the same mistakes. Below are 10 things both women and men need to stop saying as soon as possible. WOMEN: “I just get along better with guys!” No, you don't. You just make poor choices of which women you pursue to be your friends, based on whatever bullshit factors will prop you up further (popularity, money, connections, looks)

The first time I saw one of Dove's "real beauty" ads I was charmed. I was in college and the ad was the one featuring a line of women in suspiciously unsexy white underwear. They were all of different nationalities and of healthy weights. All I could think was, "Those models' thighs are touching! THEIR. THIGHS. ARE. TOUCHING!" Compared with the underweight Victoria's Secret models I was used to seeing pouting away on billboards and magazine ads, these women almost looked fat. I had to stare at the ad for a few minutes while my brain recalibrated: This...

When Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith made his comments about a female reporter becoming the first woman ref, a lot of things weren't clear. It was an uncomfortable, awkward exchange resulting in Keith expressing his frustration in a bad way. Once he brought up the league's lack of female refs, he was being sexist and should be criticized. But this was just a blip on the radar of sexism in sports. And it's finally gotten to me. Sexism is basically encouraged in the four major sports.

To the men of Chicago: Stop texting women! I know, calling a girl sounds more terrifying than getting a prostate exam from Carrot Top. And for the half of you who aren't afraid but simply lazy, fine. But it's time for change. Today, I urge girls everywhere to embrace the hashtag #girlsagainsttexting. This is not a joke or a suggestion. This is an order. We as a gender must reclaim the power that technology has stolen from us. I want this hashtag trending until every man in Chicago realizes we no longer will put up with the communication equivalent of wearing a sweat suit...

Can you be for female empowerment in the workplace, believe there is an unjust double standard for women in every aspect of life from assertiveness to sexuality, observe Equal Pay Day and generally be just feminist as f*** while still thinking Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” is a total tool? Obviously, I think the answer is yes (or I wouldn't have written this column). I have not read “Lean In” but Sandberg has been popping up everywhere, from...

Already a breast cancer survivor before her 30th birthday, Lauren Wakefield knows she's one of the lucky ones. "I found a lump one day and went in probably within the next two weeks after that," the 27-year-old wedding photographer said. "From the time that I went in to when I was diagnosed was only a couple of weeks, and it was already Stage 2. It was pretty fast moving. " Like many of her peers, the West Town resident thought breast cancer was something that only affected older women.

I had heard from older friends that sex for women gets better in their late-20s and 30s, but I never really believed it until I hit 30. Holy crap, it's true! My sex drive is way more intense and I have more orgasms more easily than ever before. Not that I need justification to enjoy my awesome new sex life, but I'm just curious, why does this happen? - 30 and loving it This is a phenomenon that can be traced back to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, whose 1953 book “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female” noted women tend to hit their sexual stride in their dirty 30s. But, remember that Kinsey's research...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but has this not been the most weirdly misogynistic election season since - I want to say - women got the vote? Here's my theory: Men are beginning to figure out that it's all over for us, and we're having a society-wide freakout about it. It's not just Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock proclaiming that God wants women to have their rape babies or Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin with his scintillating insights...

On NBC's fantastic “Parks and Recreation,” Nick Offerman has turned Ron Swanson into such a spectacular, hilarious symbol of contained emotion and old-fashioned, meat-and-potatoes masculinity that it feels necessary to establish that Nick Offerman is not Ron Swanson. “I love musicals like crazy,” says the 42-year-old Minooka, Ill., native, whose new film “Somebody Up There Likes Me” opens March 8. “I think I have a frustrated Broadway chorus member somewhere in me. And so while I can watch 'The Sound of Music' and 'Singin' in...