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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.”
I think there’s probably nothing more disturbing than a giant spider, one where you can see all of its mouth parts and eyes and hairs. Extremely close up photography provides some of the unsettlement, but at least you can’t hear the terrible sounds they make. Their ability to terrify me (only in gigantism) notwithstanding, spiders are also extremely interesting creatures (arachnids, to be technical).
Blow Your Mind: Evolution and the Orgasm Wars
by Robert Lamb | October 11, 2011
What would aliens make of the human orgasm? Far more than a mere reproductive incentive, this intense neurological event stimulates human culture itself — yet science still hasn’t figured out exactly what the female orgasm is all about. In this tasteful-but-fun episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I examine the two warring factions in the debate over female orgasm evolution. We cover a lot of ground, discussing all the various theories as well as a lot of wide-angle contemplation of la petite mort.
In the Stuff Mom Never Told You episode on douching, Caroline and I discussed the advertising history of feminine hygiene products that revolved around scare tactics. In those early days, Lysol and Zonite pushed their wares as feminine hygiene products by convincing female consumers that if they didn’t douche, their husbands would lose sexual interest.
Pass the Infected Caterpillar Himalayan Viagra
by Robert Lamb | August 2, 2011
Researching Tibet is like reading about some fantastic other world, where psychonaut monks chart the realms beyond death and body breakers offer up corpses as alms to the scavengers of the sky. So it should come as no surprise to learn that Tibetans also dig up a strange root that’s allegedly “half vegetable, half caterpillar” and sell it for bank as an energy booster and aphrodisiac.
Think about all of the preening and flirting we exert in order to obtain it, not to mention the relationship factors and potential baby-making that may go along with it when it finally happens. To evolutionary biologists, it’s an extremely inefficient design compared to asexual reproduction since we squander so many resources for sex, and they’re only now figuring out why sex exists.
Korean urologists recently found a correlation between penile and finger length. Specifically, the ratio between the length of a man’s index finger and ring finger may relate to the length of his penis. The shorter the index finger, compared to the ring finger, the longer the penis — possibly.
How to improve the odds of having an orgasm
by Cristen Conger | June 29, 2011
While reading an article in the Times Online about the differences between male and female orgasms, I stumbled upon my one of my favorite study “findings” to date. It turns out that while socks might not be the most arousing clothing item to wear during sex, it might improve your odds of having an orgasm.
Earlier this week, I wrote about the possible antidepressant effects of semen in women. A 2002 study by psychologist Gordon Gallup hypothesizes that the vagina absorbs a host of mood-boosting hormones contained in semen, which makes women feel better. This would make it seem like vaginas and semen are BFFs, right?
Well, according to Dr. Gallup himself, that isn’t the case.
The newest episode of Stuff Mom Never Told You tackles a question that my mama certainly never discussed with me: Does semen make you happier? And by you, I mean heterosexual women who are sexually active. Though potentially blush-inducing, Molly and I didn’t cull this question from some crude bathroom humor source…
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