Surprise, surprise: the highest frequency of homophobic tweets in the U.S. mostly occur in small towns, not large cities, according to a heat map produced by researchers at Humboldt State University. 

Is your city in the red?

A new study culled from data found in the National Surveys of Family Growth (NSFG) suggests gay men aren't sleeping around as much as we were a decade ago. 

No, we're not talking about the kind of beards you cultivate in a negotiation deal in a Hollywood publicity firm's office; we're talking scruffy, scratchy, sexy and oh-so-of-the-moment beards—the kind Tom Cruise and John Travolta don't have!

A study conducted at the University of Southern Queensland and published in the medical journal Radiation Protection Dosimetry has found that growing a beard can provide a natural boost to a man's overall health that baby-faces simply can't attain.

You may think that jocks have it all in life, from elementary school all the way through to their 20s, but one study out of Michigan State is here to say that the grass AstroTurf might not be much greener.

It's been denied for years alongside accusations of sexism or sound bytes like "it's not the size of the boat, it's the motion in the ocean." But once and for all, science has tackled big penises.

Let us rephrase that.

Though there are, of course, individualized preferences, a recent study has proven that men with bigger penises are found more attractive than their counterparts.

New research that has been published this month in the Archives of Sexual Behavior finds that mom and dad might be smarter than they pretend to be when we bring the boyfriend home to meet them. According to the study, people are able to guess the top and bottom in gay relationships with outrageous accuracy.

Have scientists found HIV's Achilles heel and could it lead to an HIV vaccine?

A new study shows progress. 

More after the jump.

You might want to grab onto a stress ball or a friend's arm and open a new browser tab to shop for button-fly jeans on Amazon while you're reading this.

According to a new study on genital injuries, men getting their penises stuck in zippers is the No. 1 issue affecting our favorite little friends.

Allure's first ever aging survey puts (yet another) question mark after the gay obsession with One Direction. According to the results, those in the LGBT community are more attracted to people 10 years older than themselves than their straight counterparts.

Go figure.

A new study that has surveyed porn searching habits around the globe reveals some not-so-shocking stats about the world's most homophobic countries: they also are some of the most gay porn-hungry global nations.

What do your Facebook "Likes" say about you?

That's the premise of a new study out of the University of Cambridge, where researchers have pinpointed with frightening accuracy the type of person who likes everything from "emo" to "Did you get a haircut no it grew shorter."

A study published in the March issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior puts unfortunately unsurprising statistics behind what we've come to expect: that cohabiting same-sex couples are less healthy than straight partners who have marriage options available.