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Study Finds G-Spot May Be Myth

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A sexual quest that has for years baffled millions of women, and men, may have been in vain. A study by British scientists has found that the mysterious G-spot, the sexual pleasure zone said to be possessed by some women but not all, may not exist at all.

The scientists at King’s College London who carried out the study claim there is no evidence for the existence of the G-spot, supposedly a cluster of internal nerve endings, outside the imagination of women influenced by magazines and sex therapists. They reached their conclusions after a survey of more than 1,800 British women.

OK, there have been a lot of dumb and poorly executed researches done since I’ve started this blog.  This is yet another one.  Put simply, you’re not going to answer the question of the G-spot by taking a survey.  The only way you’ll get this one right is to dive head first into it.  Get your hands dirty.  Put your finger on it.  Get the idea?

Different women react different ways.  With some you can grope around all day and night and find no magical trick.  Some don’t even like foreplay at all, so it’s not an issue.  Then there are others who you can do it just right and they go off like a rocket, every, single, time.  Unless of course they’re numbed from the waist down.  But, when taking a survey, how many women are going to admit to being satisfied so amazingly easily. Push a button and you’re done. Kinda makes ya sound easy, kinda like a slut.  Society has put pressure on women for my entire lifetime that the O is supposed to be a challenge.  Therefore, the G is counter-intuitive.  In order for this survey to mean anything, I would think asking a woman where she thinks hers is, and then compare using the G versus not using the G using a standardized device.  After doing 1,800 women, some being identical twins, and some not, then I think you’d have something.  In fact, you’d probably have two.

The tree looks taller without the brush

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One of my Facebook friends sent us all this little gem:

How to shave your groin.

Most of it seems fairly obvious.  And, I’m pleased to know I use proper shaving techniques for the most part.  However, I was highly appreciative of some tips I had never thought of:

  • Trimming hair 3mm or shorter makes for a tighter shave. ( How do you measure 3mm hair in a shower? )
  • Use a waterproof trimmer to avoid electrocution.
  • Be sure to pull it real hard to avoid nicks and cuts.
  • Be sure to moisturize it thoroughly afterwards.

And women wonder why guys like to take really long showers.

H/T Mitch.

Winning the war on genital herpes

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I love my news aggregator.  To me it’s been a bigger contribution to the world wide web than Myspace or Facebook.  It’s very quiet tho.  But it is SOOOOO powerful.  Rather than relying on entertainment to provide my news, I just get the raw data and make my own decisions.  Lots more people should do that as opposed to being spoonfed news that is filtered by media.  As such, sometimes I get stuff that is really sorta more than I need to know.  Today’s case in point:

I get the daw data from the Centers for Disease Control.  Don’t ask me why, it was just one of those morbid curiosities that I could get the “live” feed of every major illness on the planet.  However, today’s was rather uplifting:

Percentage of Adults Aged 20--29 Years with Genital Herpes* Infection, by Race/Ethnicity ( Center for Disease Control )

Percentage of Adults Aged 20--29 Years with Genital Herpes* Infection, by Race/Ethnicity ( Center for Disease Control )

Now, to me, this is particularly gratifying.  Years after I “left the market”, it is suddenly much safer ( if the only thing you’re worried about is genital herpes ).  Just thought you all would want to know this huge medical breakthrough.

The cooties inoculation scam!

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I was sent this video by Mrs. Moon:

Now, I watched it intently, as it depicts sad kids.  I don’t want Moonlet to be sad.  So, I immediately began searching for a cooties inoculation shot.  I was flabbergasted when googling “cooties inoculation” I got this profound result:

Results 1 – 1 of 1 for “cooties inoculation“. (0.11 seconds) 

Now, you can search for almost anything that doesn’t exist and get a bazillion results.  So, what’s with getting only one result for something as critical as protecting your kid?  The answer was more disturbing to me than the video.  THERE IS NO COOTIES INOCULATION SHOT!  I had been HAD!

Knowing that, I just watched the video again and chuckled a little.  Those kids are great actors!

11% of Men Have Multiple Sex Partners

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That’s the headline.  Here’s some meat ( yeah, pun intended ):

More than 4,900 men ages 15-44 participated in telephone interviews about their sex lives, including the dates during which they were in sexual relationships in the previous year.

Concurrent sexual relationships were particularly common among these groups:

That mix may put those men — and their partners — at higher risk of contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Now, I like WebMD.  They have this way of just blurting out stuff and leaving it at that.  They don’t ask questions.  I do.

  • If a man masturbates by himself, and has sex regularly with only one other person, would this still count as “multiple”?  Himself and the partner?  Doubt it, but I could see it creating conflicts when trying to honestly answer the questions.
  • Were the unmarried men having multiple sex partners before or after they became “unmarried”.  Sometimes being married leaves no other option other than multiple partners.
  • Were wives present during the questioning?  11% seems awful low to me considering the divorce rate is so much higher.
  • The age bracket seems screwy.  It’s illegal for a 15 year old to admit having sex.  How many guys answered “no” for fear of prosecution?  Seems kinda stupid if they did report that they were.
  • Along the same lines, how many eighteen year old boys are going to say they have NOT had sex with lots of babes?
  • At 44, most men are tied down raising families and worrying themselves sick over mortgages and such.  At 50 most guys have a little spare time on their hands. 
  • Why cut this thing off at 44?  Are they assuming guys quit looking after that point?  Got news for the WebMD, there’s no difference in libido post 44 ( of which I am ) than pre 44.  If nothing else, a certain sense of desperation starts setting in right about that time.

I could go on and on, but you get the picture.  The one thing most guys are most likely to lie about, for good reason, is the number of women they’ve been with.  Depending on the circumstance, it will either get skewed up ( bragging with other guys ), or skewed down ( wife’s present ).  I think 11% way too low.

What’s that you say?

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This is almost funny to me:

Users of impotence drugs, such as Viagra, may suffer sudden hearing loss, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

It’s not clear that the drugs truly trigger hearing loss, but the Food and Drug Administration decided Thursday the drugs would bear a warning about the possible risk after counting 29 reports of the problem since 1996 among users of this family of medicines.

The impotence drugs Viagra, Cialis and Levitra will bear the warnings. So will Revatio, a drug for pulmonary hypertension, which contains the same ingredient as Viagra.

Now, this warning is probably a good idea.  Out of the millions of people who have used to these drugs, 29 have lost their hearing.  First of all, I would wonder what the chances are that 29 people with high blood pressure would have lost their hearing anyway.  But, that takes away from the levity of the post, so I won’t go that route.

The problem I see hear is even with the warning, how many guys are gonna ponder, hearing, or stiffies?  A stiffy’s a pretty damned important thing to a guy.  If you can’t get a stiffy occasionally, everything else, including sounds, just don’t seem quite the same I would imagine.

Secondly, how many guys are going to be the butt of jokes when they suddenly and inexplicably lose their hearing over the weekend?  Having a heart attack’s a fairly common thing, lots of things can explain that away.  But, suddenly losing your hearing?  That’s not quite so common.

Thirdly, how many women, based on this knowledge, are going to start spiking their mate’s?  A man with a healthy boner and can not hear a word you say doesn’t sound all that bad I would imagine.

Lastly, will San Francisco open clinics for guys who are addicted to these drugs so that they won’t blow up their hearts, go blind, or lose their hearing?

It just seems to be a neverending growing list of problems with these drugs.  However, I’m quite certain, when I open my email, I’ll have another fifty or so spam letters telling me how I can get it cheap and confidentially. 

Finding that pesky gay gene

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DePaul University has recruited a whole bunch of gay brothers to try to find a gay gene.  This follows up on the multitude of attempts to find this gay gene in the past.  The new research is going about it from a different perspective, I think it has a real chance.

For some inexplicable reason, Fox chose to include naysayers to the research such as Stanton Jones, an evangelical Christian.  He thinks the problem is not biological ( remember, sodomy is a sin, not a condition per most church teachings ).  He claims he’s converted several gays to become normal well-adjusted Christians.  I think he’s convinced a few guys to fantasize about dudes while poking the missus in order to not be ostracized by their family and community.  That darned gay gene is still there regardless of what they’re poking at this particular point in time.

Joel Ginsberg of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association is just as paranoid in the opposite direction.  He, and according to the article, “many gays” fear that parents will abort or somehow discriminate against the fetus.  I feel differently.  Obviously.  As a parent, you want the best possible life for your child.  As a parent, you know the wonder of bringing a child into this world, and, you know the joys of raising that child.  You want that for your child.  Just because it MIGHT be gay doesn’t mean you’d abort that child.  But, if you know you can safely prevent a life of discrimination, or fear of discrimination, never conceiving and watching the miracles of pregnancy, and raising that child as you did, you’d take that chance in a heartbeat as a parent.  If you didn’t, then having a gay child would never have bothered you in the first place.  So, I think this abortion paranoia is a tad bit overblown.  If not contrived.

Now, IMO, there are two aspects to gay acts.  One is instinct, one is experiment.  Society as a whole has never made any effort to distringuish the difference.  If it’s instinct, there is no real choice in partners.  If it’s thrill and excitement, there’s all kinds of choices.  Given the aspect of finding the “gay gene”, and nixing it before birth, that leaves the kid-to-be facing the life of all kinds of choices.  Being gay or not would become purely a choice.  Given Jones and Ginsberg’s preferences, there would be no choice in the matter.  You either are or you are not.

I kinda like the idea of leaving that type of decision open to individual choice.  And I guarantee you this, you eliminate the “gay gene”, there will still be gays.

Cell phone flashbacks?

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Here’s the story:

If your hipbone is connected to your BlackBerry or your thighbone is connected to your cell phone, those vibrations you’re feeling in the car, in your pajamas, in the shower, may be coming from your headbone.

Many mobile phone addicts and BlackBerry junkies report feeling vibrations when there are none, or feeling as if they’re wearing a cell phone when they’re not…..

Research in the area is scant, but theories abound about the phenomenon, which has been termed “ringxiety” or “fauxcellarm.”

Anecdotal evidence suggests “people feel the phone is part of them” and “they’re not whole” without their phones, since the phones connect them to the world, said B.J. Fogg, director of research and design at Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab.

In simpler terms, BJ Fogg is saying this is an emotional issue.  That something basically becomes a part of you and therefore you experience what it would do whether it’s there or not.  The report paints it as if you have to be addicted to your cell phone for this to happen.  It has to be a DEEP attachment.

Well, this is where the story gets screwy for me.  I have had that experience myself.  Even yesterday while riding on a lawnmower I felt that tinge where my pocket would be.  I’m not loony in that way.  My phone was in the kitchen and I was perfectly fine with that.  Once at home, it spends many hours alone as I don’t particularly want to be disturbed with a cell phone.  So the addict description certainly doesn’t apply to me.

What I am speculating, from my own non-medical or clinical perspective is that SOMETHING made my leg twinge, which is not necessarily all that unusual, and I instinctively assumed it was the cell phone.  In other words, the cell phone didn’t make anything happen at all, it just FELT like the cell phone vibrator.

I really think people get way too serious sometimes.

The Wrath of Khan is real?

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Remember that scene from Star Trek II – The Wrath of Khan where Khan places this bug in Chekov’s ear that eats its way to his brain and turns him into an automaton for Kahn?  I do.  It kind of unnerved me at the time.  That was exactly twenty-five years ago.  That entire time I thought that scene was purely fiction.

Until today. Check THIS headline out:

Arizona Teen Becomes Sixth Victim This Year of Brain-Eating Amoeba

Here’s some bits of interest:

….an amoeba, a microscopic organism called Naegleria fowleri that attacks the body through the nasal cavity, quickly eating its way to the brain…..

People who are infected tend to complain of a stiff neck, headaches and fevers, Beach said. In the later stages, they’ll show signs of brain damage such as hallucinations and behavioral changes.

Although not nearly as big as the bug in Star Trek, it seems to be quite more lethal.  This is a pretty nasty little animal that I can not believe I’ve never heard of before.  And, although I’m sure most people who read this blog of higher intellect are not familiar with a lot of what goes on at Lake Havasu, I can not believe more people have not been exposed to this nasty critter.  And, living where I do, I am just thankful it’s never popped up here.  ( Most likely won’t either, water tends to move around in hilly areas. )

According to that article, the best thing you can do when swimming in warm standing water is pinch your nose.  Apparently those pesky brain eating amoeba can’t function too well anywhere else in your body.

Pretty

Damn

Amazing

Did life on Earth come from space?

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There is a long held theory that life on Earth evolved from life forms raining down on Earth from other places.  So far, there isn’t any proof of this, it just sounds logical.  However, we might have some proof in the making right now:

Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.

Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a “strange odor,” local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.

Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said.

Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache.

“Boiling water started coming out of the crater and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby. Residents are very concerned,” he said.

Now, my non-experienced thinking is this is one of two possibilities.  First, and most likely, it’s fumes caused by the intense heat of the meteorite.

Second, and more intriguing to me, is it could be some virus from a far off galaxy.  Pretty cool huh?  Pretty unlikely tho.

A third possibility of course, it could be some man-made experiment where a meteor was planted with a mutated gene and it crashed back to Earth.