Male macaque monkeys pay for sex by grooming females, according to a recent study that suggests the primates may treat sex as a commodity.
“In primate societies, grooming is the underlying fabric of it all,” Dr. Michael Gumert, a primatologist at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, said in a telephone interview Saturday.
“It’s a sign of friendship and family, and it’s also something that can be exchanged for sexual services,” Gumert said.
U.S. scientists are examining whether they can capture the energy driving human sperm to propel nanoscale robots to deliver medicine.
By analyzing stages in the biological pathway sperm cells use to generate energy, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine researchers said they hope to recreate that process artificially to deliver medicine to targeted sites in the body, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Liberals call it a “hate crimes prevention” bill, but conservatives denounce it as “anti-Christian” legislation.
Whatever you call it, the bill is back—reintroduced by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) on Tuesday. Liberals are pressing for passage, and conservatives are pressing President Bush to veto the bill if it reaches his desk.
“If there was ever a bill which needed to be vetoed—this is it,” said Traditional Values Coalition Executive Director Andrea Lafferty.
“Most Christians might as well rip the pages which condemn homosexuality right out of their Bibles because this bill will make it illegal to publicly express the dictates of their religious beliefs.”
Lafferty and other conservatives argue that the bill will “elevate homosexuality”—a type of behavior, they stipulate—to the same level as race and other characteristics that can’t be changed.
Women are being filtered out of high-level science, math and engineering jobs in the United States, and there is no good reason for it, according to a National Academies report released on Monday.
A committee of experts looked at all the possible excuses—biological differences in ability, hormonal influences, childrearing demands, and even differences in ambition—and found no good explanation for why women are being locked out.
“Compared with men, women faculty members are generally paid less and promoted more slowly, receive fewer honors, and hold fewer leadership positions,” the Academies said in a statement.
“These discrepancies do not appear to be based on productivity, the significance of their work, or any other performance measures.”
Female minorities fare the worst, the study found. And the expert panel said the discrepancies are costing the country many talented leaders and researchers and recommended immediate and far-reaching changes to change the balance.
Nervous public speakers should first have penetrative sex to ease the stress, according to a UK study.
But masturbation is unlikely to have the same effect, the study published in the latest issue of the journal Biological Psychology suggests.
Professor Stuart Brody, a psychologist at the University of Paisley, compared the impact of different sexual activities on blood pressure when a person later undergoes a stressful experience.
Brody asked 24 women and 22 men to keep a diary of their sexual activities for two weeks.
The volunteers then underwent a stressful ordeal that involved making a speech in public and doing mental arithmetic out loud.
Volunteers who had had penetrative sex during the previous week or so had the least stress, and their blood pressure returned to normal fastest after their test.
Penetrative sex was far more effective in this regard than masturbation or oral sex.
?Tis soon the season of red roses and dark chocolate, a time for declarations of undying love. Noble beasts, many Homo sapiens aspire to faithfulness ?til death do us part. But does this dedication come naturally?
Federally funded sex education programs that preach abstinence have been misleading and scaring children according to a congressional study. Yes, your tax dollars are going towards programs that say that 50 percent of all American teenage gay men are HIV positive or that touching somebody’s genitals can get you pregnant. Another program says that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide. 13 different abstinence programs were studied which the Bush Administration is paying $170 million for in 2005.
From EliteTV
Teenagers raised by lesbian mothers show no developmental differences compared to those brought up by heterosexual parents, according to the first large national study in the US.
From New Scientist
Check out this demonstration of various Kama Sutra positions animated.
via FutureHi
A very westernized look at tantric sex for the male.