What of love inside an MRI machine? Ida Sabelis discourses in her acceptance speech for the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in medicine: In the autumn of 1991 Pek (M.V. van Andel) phoned my partner Jupp. Whenever he does that, he mostly has something special on his mind. The point was to visualize with a modern […]
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Gee! Journal seeks spot of publicity
The Sunday Times reports (thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing it to our attention.): A study by British scientists has found that the mysterious G-spot, the sexual pleasure zone said to be possessed by some women but denied to others, may not exist at all. The scientists at King’s College London who carried out […]
Brassiere specialist: man makes his points
“Brassiere Having Simulated Nipples,” U.S. patent #3976083, issued to Jakob E. Schmidt of Charlestown, Indiana, on Aug 24, 1976. (Mr. Schmidt also was granted patent # 4241737 for a “Brassiere Having Simulated Nipples and Attachable-Detachable Nipple Simulators” and patent #4127128 for the identically-named “Brassiere Having Simulated Nipples and Attachable-Detachable Nipple Simulators,” . Patent #3976083 is […]
Oral Sex and Preeclampsia
“Correlation Between Oral Sex and a Low Incidence of Preeclampsia: A Role for Soluble HLA in Seminal Fluid?” C.A. Koelman, A.B. Coumans, H.W. Nijman, I.I. Doxiadis, G.A. Dekker, and F.H. Claas, Journal of Reproductive Immunology, vol. 46, no. 2, March 2000, pp. 155–66 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0165-0378(99)00062-5). (Thanks to Paolo Usai and Eugene Rubach for bringing this to […]