“Can Chlamydial Conjunctivitis Result From Direct Ejaculation Into the Eye?” ask Simon Rackstraw, ND Viswalingam and Beng T Goh of the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. That question forms the title of a study they published in 2007 in the International Journal of STD and Aids. Drs Rackstraw, Viswalingam and Goh describe the plights of […]
Tag: sex
Complexity of possible ogamies (and non)
The Information is Beautiful blog highlights this revised (to make it more complex) chart by Franklin Veaux of his Map of Non-Monogamy [click on it to see additional detail]. Veaux, assisted by his readers and presumably by personal collaborators, will likely identify still more niches that humans are endeavoring and/or managing to fill with and […]
‘Millionaire’ Query: Ostrich Bonk Preference
On the Italian edition of the show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”, a contestant recently spent eight minutes wrestling with a question raised in an Ig Nobel Prize-winning study: Who do ostriches prefer as sex partners? Watch this taut dramatic incident: The study being discussed here garnered the 2002 Ig Nobel biology prize for […]
Male/female physicists compared, fictionally
This chart compares the personality traits of male and female physicists, all of whom are fictional. It’s part of the study “Portrayal of Physicists in Fictional Works,” Daniel Dotson, Comparative Literature and Culture, Volume 11, Issue 2 (June 2009) Article 5.
Unambiguously ambiguous about slug sex
New Zealand’s 3News has a good intentionally ambiguous headline: University investigating sea slug sex life Massey University is turning its skills on an ‘urgent, local issue’ – the sex life of a sea slug. “We want to find out who the slugs are having sex with,” says evolutionary geneticist Professor Paul Rainey. “Is it with […]
The Sexual Unification of Germany
A study called The Sexual Unification of Germany tells what happened, on paper and in some people’s heads, when East Germany hooked up with West. After the Berlin Wall came tumbling down in 1989, salacious minds wondered how many, how quickly, how often, and just how Easterners would fall into bed with Westerners. Ingrid Sharp, […]
Ovulating Women Ogle Forgettable Men
A soon-to-be-published study ogles women who ogle while they ovulate: “I Only Have Eyes for You: Ovulation Redirects Attention (But Not Memory) to Attractive Men,” Uriah S. Anderson, Elaine F. Perea, D. Vaughn Becker, Joshua M. Ackerman, Jenessa R. Shapiro, Steven L. Neuberg and Douglas T. Kenrick, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, article in press […]
Able on drugs and sex
Ernest L. Abel, one of the Detroit doctors who say the letter “D” foreshadows death, is the same Ernest L. Able who compiled and edited the highly stimulating (in its time) book Drugs and Sex, ISBN-13: 978-0-313-23941-0, 129 pages, Greenwood Press, 1983.
Sex and Religion – a re-examination
“…the recent rise of fundamentalist and new age religious movements calls for a reexamination of the current link between religion and sexual behavior.” says a recent research article which may be the first academic study to have cross-tabulated Spiritualists, Agnostics, Atheists, Jews, Monotheist Christians, Fundamentalists (and those who declare no religion) – with their preferences […]
Able on marijuana
Ernest L. Abel, the Detroit doctors who say the letter “D” foreshadows death, is not only the same Ernest L. Able who compiled and edited the highly stimulating (in its time) book Drugs and Sex, ISBN-13: 978-0-313-23941-0, 129 pages, Greenwood Press, 1983. He also wrote the highly provocative (in its time) book A Marihuana Dictionary, […]