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A new Concordia University study finds residential energy use in Quebec is driven more by household demographics than building age. Using smart-meter data (2019–2023) and census variables, researchers show factors like income, household size and car ownership better explain consumption, offering utilities and policymakers clearer tools to design targeted, equitable energy strategies.
Over time, expectations can shift, especially when something remains out of reach. Researchers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick suggest this also may be true for orgasms.
When an orgasm is repeatedly absent, women may begin to see it as less important, according to the researchers, whose study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
“Women don’t necessarily care less about orgasm compared to men, but when it doesn’t happen regularly, they may start to see it as less important,” said Grace Wetzel, the lead author of the study who conducted the research as a former Rutgers doctoral student and is now at Indiana University. “That shift in expectations may be one way people adapt to the ‘orgasm gap,’ the well-documented pattern in which heterosexual women experience orgasm less often than men during partnered sex.”
New twin research shows that innate IQ plays a major role in predicting your future socio-economic status. The study, which follows twins during the crucial early adult years, reinforces the view that heredity and genes shape our life opportunities – and the people we become.