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How the Kinsey Report Fueled Whiskey Sales
by Cristen Conger | December 20, 2011
While browsing through Brenda R. Weber’s study on the public discourse around Alfred Kinsey’s 1953 “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female” this caught my eye: “…newspaper coverage on Kinsey’s volume on women not only displayed but fostered several important discursive phenomena…ranging from augmented sales of Kinsey whiskey (no direct relation) to increased audiences for evangelical denunciations of Kinsey’s ‘morally dangerous’ report.”
A pair of studies recently featured in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) journals are, I think, a bit creepy. First up is a study the findings of which are so intuitive I find it a tad nerve-wracking that the researchers managed to get the funding to conduct it, let alone get it published. [...]
Women Slowly Brewing Their Way Toward Beerquality
by Cristen Conger | March 15, 2011
I think The Atlantic had a spy in Stuff Mom Never Told You podcast studio the other week when Molly and I were recording a very special St. Patrick’s Day episode on women and beer (by popular Facebook request!). Mere days after chitchatting about the dearth of women brewing beer, this article pops up on the magazine’s Web site: “Shattering Beer’s Glass Ceiling: The Rise of Women Brewers“.
Is there an unhealthy side effect to getting women out of the house and into the workforce? According to a Reuters report (via HuffPo), yes.
Long story short: the more women work, the more women smoke cigarettes.
Bizarre Human Mating Behaviors #5 – How women can get free drinks at a bar
by Marshall Brain | February 15, 2011
If you are interested in how human relationships work – especially sexual relationships between men and women and the courting rituals that lead up to them – then this article is fascinating: 13 Ways to Score Free Drinks The article offers a field guide to social engineering in the social topography of a typical American [...]
Women Are Binge Drinking More — But Not More Than the Boys
by Cristen Conger | December 14, 2010
A few weeks ago on Stuff Mom Never Told You, Molly and I asked whether women are drinking more. This year’s health report card from the National Women’s Law Center shows that, yes, indeed, we are. The report card gave American women a failing grade for binge drinking, which is defined as pounding five or more alcoholic beverages in one sitting. Nationwide, 10.6 percent of women fessed up to binge drinking at least once a month, compared to 7.3 percent in 2007.
Stuff Mom Never Told You about Ponies and Drinking
by Molly Edmonds | November 18, 2010
If your weekend plans include re-reading “Black Beauty” while drinking a few bottles of wine, then boy oh boy, do I have some podcast episodes for you. This week on Stuff Mom Never Told You, we took on two of the great passions of women — a good horse and a good cocktail.
The problem with Alcohol and caffeine living together
by Marshall Brain | October 29, 2010
What happens if you take the amount of alcohol in a six pack of beer, mix it with a 165 mg caffeine, add a lot of sugar and put it in a can? Four Loko Company Defends Caffeinated Booze After Washington Students Sickened at Party The aftermath of the party, at which police found students [...]
Pregnant women everywhere can knock back a pint without feeling an ounce of guilt, thanks to study findings published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (via Discovery News). Based on long-term research that followed 18,500 children from the moment they exited the womb through their first couple years, it’s perfectly healthy to [...]
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