As 2011 fades into history, let’s take a look back at Dr. Windmill [pictured here] and the loudest penis of the year. That loudness rating pertains to the publicity received, as much as to the decibels produced. Here’s a BBC Report by Ella Davies, on June 30: ‘Singing penis’ sets noise record for water insect […]
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Duck Big Bang Inflation Force Measurement Project
This biology project, called “Force of Duck: Measuring explosive erection“, has a fun fundraising video, and (see the text below the video) speaks for itself, eloquently: A duck pond in the breeding season is like a singles bar on steroids — rife with sexual conflict. Males and females pair off, but male ducks also force sex […]
Male organ of/and economic growth
A new study of sorts from Helsinki ties the field of economics just a little more tightly to the traditional sciences. It also cites the 1998 Ig Nobel Prize-winning Canadian study “The relationships among height, penile length, and foot size,” Kerry Siminoski and Jerald Bain, Annals of Sex Research, 6(3), 1993. The new study is: “Male […]
Postcoital Penis Cleaning in Budongo Chimps
The authors of a study called High Frequency of Postcoital Penis Cleaning in Budongo Chimpanzees do not beat about the bush. “We report on postcoital penis cleaning in chimpanzees,” they write. “In penis cleaning, leaves are employed as ‘napkins’ to wipe clean the penis after sex. Alternatively, the same cleaning motion can be done without leaves, simply […]
“Trojan.. hard evidence.. phallometric device”
“Trojan concluded that the only way to obtain hard evidence was to administer a test using a phallometric device.” So reports Jan Puhl in Spiegel Online about a curious story. The article begins: Controversy Surrounds Czech Use of Erection-Measurement Machine Authorities in the Czech Republic have been using a supposed erotic lie detector to test […]
New book: The Penis Shortener
Erwin Kompanje, the AIR European Bureau’s research researcher, who is also a medical ethicist at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, is a passionate collector of historical medical books. His collection inspired him to write De Penisverkorter (The Penis Shortener), short stories (in Dutch) about neglected and forgotten remarkable discoveries in medicine. The title […]
Matters of Size
Behold the gentle interplay of measurement, urology, and psychology: “Penile Size and the ‘Small Penis Syndrome’,” Kevan R. Wylie and Ian Eardley, BJU International, vol. 99, no. 6, June 2007, pp. 1449-55. (Thanks to Kristine Danowski for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at Porterbrook Clinic, Sheffield Care Trust, Sheffield, U.K., explain:
Agrees object is not Prussian
Dr. Minka Cosgrove writes [AIR 15:6]: I disagree with Doris Morra (AIR Vents 15:4) and Sugreeva Baliga (AIR Vents 15:5) that Olivia Rausch is necessarily a moron. I of course agree with them that the photo in Rausch’s article (“Museum Treasures for Children,” AIR 14:7) does not show a “disused late-nineteenth century Prussian cannon shell” […]
Circumcision and the Penis Microbiome
Intrepid Lance B. Price of the Translational Genomics Research Institute, together with colleagues there and elsewhere, looked long and hard at the penis microbiome — both before and after circumcision. Their report is online: “The Effects of Circumcision on the Penis Microbiome,” Lance B. Price, Cindy M. Liu, Kristine E. Johnson, Maliha Aziz, Matthew K. […]