“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 […]
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Forensic Comparison: Sex With Animals vs Human-Butt-Fisting
The traditional method of literary analysis known as “Compare and Contrast” gets a workout in this newly published medical study: “Similar mechanisms of traumatic rectal injuries in patients who had anal sex with animals to those who were butt-fisted by human sexual partner,” Damian Jacob Sendler, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, vol. 51, 2017, […]
Does a herdsman-jilted llama shed tears? [research study]
“Sexual relations between shepherds and the members of their flocks have existed for millennia, leading to the development of a certain type of love between them. The female llama, a ruminant related to the camel, is said by the local people in the Andean high plateau to weep with tears of jealousy when the herdsman […]
When a monkey loved a deer…
Love has always been difficult to define exactly. A newly published study adds nuance, or at least data, to the concept. The study is: “Interspecies sexual behaviour between a male Japanese macaque and female sika deer,” Marie Pelé, Alexandre Bonnefoy, Masaki Shimada, and Cédric Sueur, Primates, epub January 2017. The authors, in Strasbourg, France and […]
Did His Orgasm Lead to Blindness? (podcast #93)
Can a man’s orgasm cause him to go blind, at least temporarily? A medical report explores that very question, and we explore that medical report, in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams discusses a published orgasm/blindess study, with dramatic readings from Yale/MIT/Harvard biomedical researcher Chris Cotsapas. For more info about what we […]
Does an apple a day improve a woman’s sex life? [podcast #79]
The question “Does an apple a day improve a woman’s sex life?” anchors this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Yale/MIT/Harvard biomedical researcher Chris Cotsapas — tells about: Does an apple a day improve a woman’s sex life? — “Apple Consumption is Related to Better Sexual Quality […]
Boys Will Be Boys: Eat or Be Eaten, and a Pestle
What’s the deal with people who yearn to eat or to be eaten — to literally consume, or to literally be consumed — during sex. And what’s a good example of an early medical report about a pestle found in a rectum? Those questions are addressed in studies that are profiled (in the column “Boys Will Be Boys: […]
Scintillating new book about firefly sex (and fireflies)
Sara Lewis (who gave a 24/7 Lecture about firefly sex, at the recent Ig Nobel Prize ceremony) has a new book out. The book is called Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies. The Washington Post has one of the first reviews of the book: …Lewis, who has spent years and traveled the word studying fireflies, […]
How Fireflies Get It On
Sara Lewis reduced her discoveries about firefly sex to 24 seconds, and then to seven words. She performed this, as a 24/7 Lecture, at the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony: A year before that, Lewis performed a longer version — about thirteen minutes long — as a TED talk:
The Museum of Sex’s curator has written a book
Sarah Forbes has written a book about her experiences as curator of The Museum of Sex. We have enjoyed our experiences collaborating with the curator, on the case of the homosexual necrophiliac duck, on the case of the Blonsky device for using centrifugal force to assist women in giving birth, and on other endeavors. Forbes’s book is […]