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omnibrain | December 18, 2006Well - this book has everything you ever really wanted to know about orgasms - 338 pages.... that's a lot of orgams? multiple orgasms?
Honestly, I'm a little surprised a book like this hasn't been written before.
"I wrote this book because no one had approached the topic from a holistic view with the neurophysiology and endocrinology as well as the effects of diseases, medication and other concerns on orgasm," said Whipple, a Voorhees, N.J. resident.
The 338-page book, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, is in its second printing after its release in late October.
Behind its "plain…
omnibrain | December 18, 2006
In no particular order...
1) Being a south paw promotes survival from attacks (well at least in crabs). It seems that
The left-handed advantage is realized when snails interact with predators of opposite handedness. Some predatory crabs are "righties" -- and have a specialized tooth on their right claw that acts like a can opener to crack and peel the snail shells. "The 'sinistral advantage,' or advantage to being left-handed, is that it would be like using a can opener backwards for the crab to crack and peel the snail shell,"
Does something like this apply to humans? We're still…
clock | December 11, 2006If Buzz Skyline was my physics teacher back in high school, and taught lessons like this one (reading aloud NSFW, silent reading is OK), I'd be a physicist today, not biologist.
omnibrain | December 11, 2006Hmm... 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 say how men are more stupid than women...
And this...
If I am correct about this, which I am, then the explanation for the superior funniness of men is much the same as for the inferior funniness of women. Men have to pretend, to themselves as well as to women, that they are not the servants and…
omnibrain | December 11, 2006For some reason this research sounds like it was done by that short criminal guy from the Princess Bride (you know... the one who gets poisoned?)
Check out this quote from one of the Authors:
"This required a particularly nasty experiment, in which we inoculated colonies with the most virulent disease of honeybees that is known, the dreaded American foulbrood disease," said Seeley.
See the reason for the experiment below the fold...
The reason for the experiment is actually pretty funny in itself. It seems that queen bees can be quite promiscuous - they go out looking for sperm from many…
omnibrain | December 10, 2006Ahh... condoms :) It seems like they've gotten much more protective .... and perhaps a little less - scratchy.
1000 BC
Condom use can be traced back several thousand years. It is known that around 1000 BC the ancient Egyptians used a linen sheath for protection against disease.
100 - 200 AD
The earliest evidence of condom use in Europe comes from scenes in cave paintings at Combarelles in France. There is also some evidence that some form of condom was used in imperial Rome.
1500's
The syphilis epidemic that spread across Europe gave rise to the first published account of the condom.…
clock | December 8, 2006This does not have much to do with circadian oscillations, or even the daily rhythms of human mating, but a much faster rhythm of human mating - you know what I'm talking about...
The fascinating new blog, The Physics of Sex, explains the physics in great detail and gives you ideas for your own home science experiments.
clock | December 3, 2006Neil's attitude towards vaginas is very positive.
Lindsay asserts that swearing is a fascinating philosophical topic.
Amanda debunks the old tired counter-arguments.
And many, many comments on all three threads will keep you busy for a while. Mind you, considering the topic, the language in those posts is NOT safe for work (or your work may not be safe for it, in which case you should quit).
clock | November 25, 2006Love for animals, even the dead ones, can sometimes go too far, dontcha think?
clock | November 21, 2006If I understood this correctly. Can someone explain what the procedure may be in Israel?
clock | November 4, 2006Dr.Petra looks at studies that suggest this, and links to her old Halloween post on the related subject...
purepedantry | October 25, 2006Hot. This is article is too funny:
From bonobo chimpanzees to fruit flies, many female animals mate with multiple partners that often queue up for the event. Studies have shown that the the last male to mate with a female is the most successful at impregnating her. Nobody has understood why.
The last male can take advantage of a more "sperm-friendly" environment created by males that have copulated before him, according to a new model put forth by David Hosken and David Hodgson of the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
Males ejaculate hundreds of millions of sperm into the female…
purepedantry | October 5, 2006Memoirs of a Skepchick dramatizes the researchers who determined men and women are aroused at the same rate -- talking to a grade school class:
"So you watch the men and women get hotter with the night vision goggles?"
"It's a camera, technically, and . . . yes, yes we do."
"What are they doing while you watch them?"
The man looks to the teacher for help, but recalls that she took advantage of today's talk to step out for a coffee and cigarrette. "Well, they're, uh, they're watching movies actually."
"What kind of movies?"
"Um, a lot of different movies . . . "
"Why would people get hotter…
purepedantry | October 2, 2006No more excuses, men:
"Comparing sexual arousal between men and women, we see that there is no difference in the amount of time it takes healthy young men and women to reach peak arousal," said Dr. Irv Binik, psychology professor and founder and director of the Sex and Couple Therapy Service of Royal Victoria Hospital, which is part of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC).
Thermal imaging, or thermography, is infrared imaging using thermographic cameras that detect radiation emitted by objects based on their temperature. Because of its usefulness in detecting warm objects in the dark,…
purepedantry | September 29, 2006Oh my God, best article ever:
Having sex in the weightlessness of outer space is the stuff of urban legends and romantic fantasy -- but experts say that there would be definite downsides as well.
Spacesickness, for instance. And the difficulty of choreographing intimacy. And the potential for sweat and other bodily fluids to, um, get in the way.
"The fantasy might be vastly superior to the reality," NASA physician Jim Logan said here Sunday at the Space Frontier Foundation's NewSpace 2006 conference. Nevertheless, Logan and others say the study of sex and other biological basics in outer…
revere | September 25, 2006Back-to-school season, time to learn good habits. It's also high season for the condom industry:
"If you look at condom sales, there are different peaks," said Jim Daniels, the vice president for marketing at Trojan, which dominates the United States condom market. He cited New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day and even the Fourth of July, but said the back-to-school season is a particularly good opportunity for recruiting young customers.
"A third of condoms are purchased by college-age students," Mr. Daniels said. "Therefore it's a very important target. Very often people become sexually active…
clock | September 20, 2006Bird Moms Manipulate Birth Order To Protect Sons:
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Since 2002, Badyaev, Oh and their colleagues have been intensively documenting the lives of a population of house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) on the UA campus.
Throughout the year, the researchers capture birds several times a week to band and measure them and to take DNA and hormone samples. During the breeding season, the researchers locate the nests, keep track of activity in the nest, follow nestling growth and development, and take DNA samples from the chicks.
The researchers have also been…
clock | September 20, 2006This strange November 09, 2005 post should really be posted on Friday as part of the Friday Weird Sex Blogging....
Via Shakespeare's Sister and Blue Gal in a Red State comes this crazy article:
Serbs line up for testicle shocks
Men in Serbia are lining up to have electric shocks delivered to their testicles as part of a new contraceptive treatment.
Serbian fertility expert Dr Sava Bojovic, who runs one of the clinics offering the service, said the small electric shock makes men temporarily infertile by stunning their sperm into a state of immobility.
He said: "We attach electrodes to either…
clock | September 20, 2006Amanda makes a correct connection between preformationism of old and the anti-abortion ideology of today. The only thing missing is the connection of both to Dawkinsian genocentrism which is just preformationism with modern rhetoric of DNA and genes and "blueprints of life". The history of the war between epigenetics and preformationism and, within preformationism, between spermists and ovists is masterfully covered in Clara Pinto-Corriea's book Ovary of Eve.