Entries from Here's Why tagged with 'sex'
Semen makes women happy
Play now Imagine if semen contained mind-altering and addicting chemical signals that made you feel good! Suggestive research that the neurotransmitters are absorbed quickly and act on the brain for hours. My information came from email discussions with Gordon...
Molecular Condoms
Play now The Smart Semen-Triggered Vaginal Microbicidal Vehicle works a little like Vaginal Contraceptive Film, except that it also prevents AIDS....
Sex and Vitamin C
What is it that reduces stress and anxiety, and makes you sexier? What helps your heart, and makes you slimmer? Dr Brody has discovered the strange connection between vitamin C and sexual behaviour. Ian Woolf pops a vitamin pill...
Rape reduced by Erotica?
Professor Anthony D'Amato has written a research paper showing a suggestive correlation between the dramatic decrease in the incidence of rape in the USA and the increase in the availability of erotic materials in his paper "Porn up, Rape...
Women are right
James Roney at the University of California, Santa Barbara, US and his colleagues at the University of Chicago believe their research shows that women judge a potential mate accurately by his face. Ian Woolf checks out why talking with...
Sexy Lettuce
Italian ethnobotanist Giorgio Samorin has solved the puzzle of why lettuce sap has been used in ancient Rome to dampen sexual desire, and in ancient Egypt to inflame sexual desire. In ancient Greece and Rome, the milky sap from lettuce has been used as a sedative and painkiller. In the 1st Century AD, the Roman army used it to drive out sexual dreams of soldiers. Pliny the Elder wrote about its ability to dampen sexual desire a hundred years later. However archaelogical evidence also shows that it was used as an aphrodisac in ancient Egypt, in an offering to the fertility and sexuality god Min. For more than a hundred years archaeologists have wondered why a vegetable used to calm dreams was associated with the exuberant sexuality of Min. Samorin tested the hormone-like phytochemicals in lettuce sap, and found that the effect depends on the dose. The milky sap comes from cutting the stem of the plant. A small dose of one gram of lettuce sap, causes the calming and pain killing effects to appear, because of the presence of lactucin and lactucopicrin. At the higher doses of two to three grams, the stimulating effects of cocaine-like tropane alkaloids dominate, acting like an aphrodisiac. So the Romans had a small amount of lettuce sap to calm down, and the Egyptians used a larger dose of wild lettuce sap, to get excited. Further tests are needed to confirm Samorin's results at of the Civic Museum in Rovereto. Luckily Lettuce is legal, grows wild in several countries, and is safe to eat.
Rejection really hurts
ABC's Catalyst reports http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1195656.htm a story about how the pain of a broken heart is felt in the same region of the brain, the anterior cingulate cortex, as physical pain. In the evolution of humans as social animals, rejection from...
Grapefruit got me pregnant
AVOID EATING GRAPEFRUIT AND DRINKING GRAPEFRUIT JUICE WHILE BEING TREATED WITH THIS MEDICINE There was a big splash for a day in the news recently about this label, so it seems a good time to set the record straight....
Never Was A Cornflake Guy
Never Was A Cornflake Guy(1.2Mb mp3) [This article is reproduced and discussed at @forums Kellog and clitoridectomies and also at the Finnish forum jippii.fi] Woody Allen once said "Masturbation is just sex with someone you love." This story started with...
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