“Dr. Brennan said the find was so shockingly obvious that she almost fell out of her chair.” —December 14, 2022 report in the New York Times.
Category: Improbable Sex
Research — about sex — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Pussy Stimulation Study
A new, stimulating study of cats is aimed at assisting human women. The study is: “Vaginal Lubrication and Pressure Increase Induced by Pudendal Nerve Stimulation in Cats,” Jialiang Chen, Yihua Zhong, Jicheng Wang, Bing Shen, Zhijun Shen, Jonathan Beckel, William de Groat, Christopher Chermansky, Changfeng Tai, Journal of Sexual Medicine, epub 2022. The authors, at […]
Axillary/Subclavian Vein Puncture Using Navigation by Parallax with an Imaginary Target
This study about Axillary/Subclavian Vein Puncture Using Navigation by Parallax with an Imaginary Target added significantly to the world’s stock of knowledge about Axillary/Subclavian Vein Puncture Using Navigation by Parallax with an Imaginary Target: “Axillary/Subclavian Vein Puncture Using Navigation by Parallax with an Imaginary Target,” Ernest W. Lau, Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, December 2007, vol. […]
“The most viewed medical video in the world” [sex in an MRI]
French medical journalist Marc Gozlan reminds us that the most viewed article in the history of the British Medical Journal led to the creation of what became “The most viewed medical video in the world“. Here is that video: Where did that come from? Here’s the story of how that video came to be, and […]
How phonies and self-promoters came to rule the world
“Our obsession with money and susceptibility to charisma, over-confidence and surface gloss have propelled us into an age where sham, spin, trickery and twaddle have become the new norms,” writes Shelley Gare, in the Sydney Morning Herald: How phonies and self-promoters came to rule the world … We can’t say we weren’t warned…. Almost 25 […]
“Journal to retract article from 2000 that plagiarized one from 1984”
In digging up material for a book, I ran across a pair of quasi-identical articles on an unusual topic. The articles were so similar that I sent word to our friends at the Retraction Watch web site, who dug into the history of those articles. Today, Retraction Watch published their report about those two reports: […]
Nasality in Homosexual Men, Compared to Heterosexual Men and Women
Do homosexual men sound different from other people, when they talk? This Belgian study is a new attempt to answer that question: “Nasality in Homosexual Men: A Comparison with Heterosexual Men and Women,” Belle Vanpoucke [pictured here], Marjan Cosyns, Kim Bettens, and John Van Borse, Archives of Sexual Behavior, epub 2018. The authors, at Ghent University, […]
Using Smartphone Apps to Find Sexual Partners [research study]
How to use smartphones to pick up sex partners is a problem that’s been studied by scholars. Now, three other scholars have studied those studies. Here’s what they say they found: “Using Smartphone Apps to Find Sexual Partners: A Review of the Literature,” A. Anzani, M. Di Sarno, and A. Prunas [pictured here], Sexologies, vol. […]
Non-Word and Word Noises During Sex [research study]
“An Examination of Predictors of Nonverbal and Verbal Communication of Pleasure During Sex and Sexual Satisfaction,” Elizabeth A. Babin, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, vol. 30, no. 3 2013, pp. 270-292. (Thanks to Ig Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Miller for bringing these to our attention.) The author, at Cleveland State University, reports: “Verbal communication […]
Vocalised Sounds During Sex [research study]
“Vocalised Sounds and Human Sex,” Roy J. Levin, Sexual and Relationship Therapy, vol. 21, 2006, pp. 99-107. The author, at the University of Sheffield, UK, reports: “[An] early study of the coital behaviour of a single Caucasian married couple (Fox & Fox, 1969)… highlights the complexity of the vocal behaviour of but one female, which […]