Check out the Touch project at Fleshmap. The creators asked survey participants where on their own bodies they most like to be caressed and where they most like to touch their lovers’ bodies. Using this data (33,871 individual ratings!), the creators came up with two interactive maps of male and female bodies: Skin to Skin, a “heatmap,” and Sorting Out Desire, a collage of images of body parts whose relative size indicates their erotic allure.

Also check out the Look project, which graphically represents female breasts and male nipple hair.

Finally, check out the Listen project. One part of the project visually demonstrates how often various body parts are referenced in different musical genres, while the second deletes all of the text that doesn’t refer to body parts from various famous poems and songs, leaving only images of body parts separated by dots.

Zarb Champagne has bottles that will make your tongue (and maybe some other things) tingle. The website is pretty and interactive, but since it’s flash-based I can’t link you to the sexy Skin series of bottles. To reach the gallery, select the “Zarb” menu at the top of the main page, click on “Bottles” from the drop-down menu, and navigate to “Skin” on the sidebar.

Finally, educate yourself with this article about how scent influences sexual attraction.

I’ve found enough links that a backlog has begun to form. What that means to you is that this and future WSO posts will have fewer pictures, perhaps a bit less text, and significantly more links. Sounds good for everyone, am I right?

Take a moment with Kieran Vollard from Dinner for Schmucks and learn how to turn your lovemaking into artmaking.

Check out artist Olga Zavershinskaya‘s sexy photo work [above] at the Zeemp blog.

Esquire presents wisdom from Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a well-loved 82-year-old sex therapist who helped Americans open up about sex and sexuality (and who once  served as a sniper in the Israeli military). Here’s one of her tips:

The biggest concern among men is still penis size. I tell them the vagina accommodates penises of all sizes. Then I tell them to go home, and, in the privacy of their own room, stand in front of a full-length mirror, bring themselves to full erection, and admire. You will never worry about penis size again because you won’t be looking down upon it. You’ll be looking at it from straight ahead.

This article from Al-Jazeera discusses the disturbing prevalence of rape in the US military, including the surprising fact that more men than women have experienced sexual trauma while serving.

This article from the Huffington Post claims that Target has continued to donate funds to anti-gay politicians they had previously apologized for supporting.

Ever feel like something is missing from your vaginal-care regimen? Maybe a vaginal steam bath will help.

This article claims that a new contraceptive method called RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance) is moving forward in development. RISUG is a one-time procedure that supposedly lasts for 10 years, is fully reversible, has few side effects, and takes fewer than five minutes to perform. Fingers crossed.

Finally, and most importantly, a new study indicates that heterosexual and homosexual love are identical in the brain. Awesome.