Battle of the Beetle Sexes
Human sexuality tends to provide us with enough complexity on its own, but the occasional glance at the rest of the animal kingdom helps put everything in perspective. Yep, according to a new study,...
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Who knows what women want? Nadine Hugill and Bernhard Fink of the University of Göttingen, that’s who. The German researchers exposed female test subjects to video clips of 40 different heterosexual...
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Parasites Gave Us Sex — Now that’s a Headline
Internal parasites: the hidden facilitator of every innocent, third-grade kiss. (Vicky TGAW/Creative Commons License) Yes, the next time you find yourself appreciating the finer qualities of sexual...
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Ninety is the New 30 — If You’re a Giant Galapagos Turtle
In this illustration from 1850, a Galapagos turtle's pal Ron tries to coax him at spear point into going out on a Saturday night. But seriously, he's catching him to bring back to Queen Victoria....
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More Robots to Manhandle Human Corpses
Work it harder make it better do it faster makes us stronger more than ever hour after our work is never over. (Image courtesy FNSNF) Yes, if the prospect of corpse-eating warbots wasn’t enough, Swiss...
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Blow Your Mind: Tyrannosaurus Sex!
Oh baby. (Catherine/Creative Commons) You probably don’t want to think about your childhood dinosaurs getting it on, but the sexual lives of prehistoric creatures is an important area of...
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Pass the Infected Caterpillar Himalayan Viagra
Parisitic fungi bliss. (ICHIRO/Photodisc/Getty Images) Researching Tibet is like reading about some fantastic other world, where psychonaut monks chart the realms beyond death and body breakers offer...
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Blow Your Mind: Evolution and the Orgasm Wars
"The Nightmare" by John Henry Fuseli. Is this the orgasm fairy? (Universal History Archive/Getty Images) What would aliens make of the human orgasm? Far more than a mere reproductive incentive, this...
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Warhammer 40K: 25 Years of Orks in Space
This special edition Crimson Fist figurine invokes one of the first published visions of the 40k universe.(Games Workshop) This Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of Warhammer 40k, which is sort of a...
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Monster of the Week: Jason Voorhees (and the sound of sex)
Jason listens for the sounds of sex. (New Line Cinema) You probably dismiss Jason Voorhees as just another rampaging psychopath, one with an intense desire to murder nymphomaniac teens. And indeed, the...
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Why do males experience NPT?
I’m of course talking about nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT), often experienced as a waking (and perhaps unexplained) erection. However, the stiffening in question is not the work of devilish...
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Behold a New Entry in the Slug Kama Sutra
Do not attempt. Detailed caption below. (Royal Society Publishing) We covered the twisted, beautiful sex lives of slugs in our Valentine’s Day episode last year. I even made you some lovely cards. But...
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Are parasites making me sexy?
She’s got parasites, and she knows how to use them. (©Charlie Nucci/Corbis) Let’s face it, ladies: If at all possible, you’d like to have it going on this weekend. Yet as effortless as some gals make...
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Why Parasites Don’t Turn Us Into Sex Zombies
The ultimate human motivator? (© MAISANT Ludovic/Hemis/Corbis) Parasites use a host of ingenious and bizarre methods to hijack a host organism, all in order to continue their life cycles. They...
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Sex-Reversed Cave Bugs Pack Spiny Female Penises
Here they are in action. (Current Biology, Yoshizawa et al.) And you humans think you’re so kinky and inventive. Meet the Brazilian cave insects of the Neotrogla genus. We’re talking four distinct...
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What might an alien third gender consist of?
“Bacchus, Venus and Ariadne” by Jacopo Tintoretto (Wikimedia Commons) Humans live in a bilateral world of male and female genders. As such, the notion of a third gender turns everything on its head....
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Giant Sperm in an Age of Flesh-Eating Kangaroos
The giant sperm from “Chillerama.” (Image via Badmovies.org) Travel back in time 17 million years and you’d find quite a horror show of Australian wildlife: flesh-eating kangaroos, toothed platypuses...
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Supernormal Stimuli & Three-Breasted Women
Actress Kaitlyn Leeb in the 2012 “Total Recall” remake. (Image via Film Actually) The human organism is drawn by certain naturally-occurring stimuli to carry out various functions in our genetic...
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Transcendence on the Rack: The Yoga of Pain
The noble eight-lash path? (Cultura RM/Steve Prezant/Getty) Julie and I originally discussed the idea of “transcendence on the rack” during the 2011 podcast episode of the same name. We contemplated...
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The Bikini Model Made Me Do It
Death by bikini? (CSA Images/Mod Art Collection/Getty) Can you blame a traffic accident, theft or murder on a bikini magazine? Well, you can try. And there’s even a little science to back up your...
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