If you’re like me, you love old-timey science and the peephole into the past that it gives us. I particularly love to learn about disorders that seemed to have a very strong social and cultural correlate. This particular article talks about hysteria and how, when doctors started to photograph patients in the throes of their [...]
You may have seen the alarming articles in the media over the past couple of weeks, proclaiming that Science has discovered that using lube during anal sex is a non-refundable one-way ticket to an STI. As is often the way with media outlets, genuinely useful (though inconclusive) research gets distilled down into quick and sensationalist [...]
Looks like we’re not alone in the sexual accoutrement department. We now know that chimpanzees also use “tools” to enhance their sex lives. I anthropocentrically put “tools” in scare quotes because, let’s be honest, they’ve got a long way to go before they achieve an ape-vibrator. Even so, the evidence is intriguing. Says primatologist Dr. [...]
I give you “Sex Madness,” a 1938 exploitation movie disguised as a PSA warning its viewers against syphilis. You can watch it here on YouTube if you have an hour to kill. But what I love most about this movie is not the movie itself, which is woefully un-exploitative to modern sensibilities, but the fact [...]
“Erotic capital,” broadly defined by Catherine Hakim, the senior research fellow in sociology at the London School of Economics who coined the term, is:
a nebulous but crucial combination of physical and social attractiveness. Properly understood, erotic capital is what economists call a “personal asset,†ready to take its place alongside economic, cultural, human and social [...]
The folks at XKCD did a color survey a little while back, and while I didn’t do the survey, nor did I even read the questions, I quite enjoyed the wrap-up of the data. Feel free to read the whole blog entry, but my particular favorite part was the gender breakdown of popular colors:
I was [...]
Apparently, if your DNA is non-African derived, you’re also part Neanderthal:
…all non-Africans – be they from France, China or Papua New Guinea – share the same amount of Neanderthal DNA, suggesting that interbreeding occurred before those populations split. The timing makes the Middle East the likeliest place where humans leaving Africa and resident Neanderthals did [...]
We’ve all heard about those test animals that are given a treat followed by a painful shock and how they come to associate the treat with pain, even when not given the shock. Interestingly, the converse can also be true — if given a shock and THEN a treat (or a certain smell, or something [...]
Don’t believe the hype! Victorian ladies liked a hot piece of ass just as much as we modern folk do! And now there’s evidence of it — fifty years before Kinsey did his sexuality studies, unassuming Stanford professor Clelia Mosher unearthed intimate details about how the women of the time viewed sex and its place [...]
Holy crap, you guys. You HAVE to read this article. It’s on the OKCupid blog, and it amasses all the data they’ve collected by the people using their dating service. There are graphs, people. There are graphs where you can move the toggle to change the results.
And you will find that there are some fascinating [...]
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