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Steve Higgins is sometimes a Psychologist, sometimes a Neuroscientist, and sometimes even a Human Factors Engineer. He works for the U.S. Government. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Psychology.
Category: Sex
This is one odd video. This French Orangina TV ad has furries wearing kinky lingerie and an octopus giving a lap dance to a bear. Check it out: I guess I shouldn't be surprised after this previous post about a French set of ads on safe sex practices. -Via BoingBoing-...
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Category: Evolutionary Psychology
In what sounds like a whole lot of hand waving (but hey! I study vision what do I know!), scientists have 'discovered' that creepy old men running after their daughters friends has led to an increase in life expectancy for human kind. Just think that people like Woody Allen, Jerry...
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Category: Sex
It was only a matter of time until someone created a sex toy for dogs. From the description: A dog is an animal with an enormous sexual appetite which can't be controlled. Many methods consist in artificial ways to stop dogs inborn caractere. These methods like castration or meds are...
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Category: Sex
...just kidding! It's nearly every month that a new study comes out showing that abstinence only programs don't do shit. This time a study from Oxford shows, through a meta-analysis of 13 different U.S. trials, that none of the abstinence-only programmes had an impact on the age at which individuals...
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Category: Biology
Wow... I knew that many animals had herpes and if you want to get a herpes free lab animal it costs many times what a 'normal' herpes carrying animal does. But wow... Chlamydia in Koalas?! Maybe some of you bio people out there can tell us whether it's the same...
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Category: Sex
Click on the picture for the full size one....
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Category: Biology
"An ongoing US experiment to turn "homosexual" rams straight by altering their hormone levels has sparked the ire of both gay activists and animal rights groups."
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Category: Biology
Behind its "plain brown wrapper" cover, the book begins with a short overview of the role of hormones and the nervous system, as well as how the body changes during orgasm. Later chapters go into greater detail, describing the connection between the brain and genitals, and how various factors, from aging and physical condition to drugs, disorders and diseases, affect sexual response and orgasm.
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Category: Chatter
A review of the most interesting, wacky, weird, funny, silly, and informative studies of the year.
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Category: Humor
Hmm... I know plenty of funny women.... so don't whine to me ;) "What makes the female so much deadlier than the male? With assists from Fran Lebowitz, Nora Ephron, and a recent Stanford-medical-school study, the author investigates the reasons for the humor gap." The article also goes on to...
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