The new Brazilian report about sex with animals has finally been published online. “Sex with Animals (SWA): Behavioral Characteristics and Possible Association with Penile Cancer. A Multicenter Study,” Stênio de Cássio Zequi [pictured here], et al., Journal of Sexual Medicine, published online October 2011. (Thanks to Richard Wassersug for bringing this to our attention.) The […]
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Interdisciplinary film preview: Hersteria (and Watch)
The new film Hersteria evidently intermingles strands from a number of scientific disciplines: electromagnetism, physiology, and more. Even sex. It is said to be based on incidents from the history of science and technology, including the invention of certain forms of the device known as a vibrator. Here’s a preview: Meanwhile, an old film tells the […]
Intoxicated assumptions
Today’s classroom exercise is to [1] read this snippet from a psychology paper, then [2] identify all the assumptions that the authors make about what people think about, then [3] ask yourself if you believe those assumptions. The paper is “What Men Want: The Role of Reflective Opposite-Sex Normative Preferences in Alcohol Use Among College […]
Sexual Attraction to Corpses, in Review
1989 was a standout year for reviewing (for research purposes) officially documented cases of necrophilia: “Sexual Attraction to Corpses: A Psychiatric Review of Necrophilia,” J.P. Rosman and P.J. Resnick, Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 1989;17(2):153-63. The authors, at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Ohio, report: “The authors review 122 cases (88 […]