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NCBI ROFL: Copulatory vocalizations of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus), gibbons (Hylobates hoolock), and humans.

“The copulatory vocalizations of female baboons (Papio ursinus) are more complex than those of female gibbons (Hylobates hoolock) or human females. Adult males of all these species begin calling later than the female, but subordinate baboon males do not call. Copulatory vocalizations may serve to mutually stimulate the mating partners or to incite male competition. (more…)

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May 18th, 2012 by ncbi rofl in NCBI ROFL, old-skool, penis friday, scientist...or perv? | 1 Comment | RSS feed | Trackback >

NCBI ROFL: Female chimps choose their sex noises depending on the audience.

Female chimpanzees use copulation calls flexibly to prevent social competition.

“The adaptive function of copulation calls in female primates has been debated for years. One influential idea is that copulation calls are a sexually selected trait, which enables females to advertise their receptive state to males. Male-male competition ensues and females benefit by getting better mating partners and higher quality offspring. We analysed the copulation calling behaviour of wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Budongo Forest, Uganda, but found no support for the male-male competition hypothesis. (more…)

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May 10th, 2012 by ncbi rofl in fun with animals, NCBI ROFL, scientist...or perv? | 2 Comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

NCBI ROFL: Women’s sexual and emotional responses to male- and female-produced erotica.

“Whether erotic films made by women are more arousing for women than erotic films made by men was studied. Forty-seven subjects were exposed to both a woman-made, female-initiated, and female centered, erotic film excerpt. Photoplethysmographic vaginal pulse amplitude was recorded continuously. Self-report ratings of sexual arousal and affective reactions were collected after each stimulus presentation. (more…)

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May 4th, 2012 by ncbi rofl in NCBI ROFL, penis friday, scientist...or perv? | 7 Comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

NCBI ROFL: Why Miss Poland is more beautiful than generic med students.

Body mass index and waist: hip ratio are not enough to characterise female attractiveness.

“The assessment of characteristic body features of Miss Poland beauty contest finalists compared with the control group, can contribute to recognising the contemporary ideal of beauty promoted by the mass media. The studies of Playboy models and fashion models conducted so far have been limited to the following determinants of attractiveness: body mass index, waist:hip ratio, and waist:chest ratio, which only partially describe the body shape. (more…)

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April 27th, 2012 by ncbi rofl in feelings shmeelings, NCBI ROFL, scientist...or perv? | No comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

NCBI ROFL: If you want to sell more alcohol, touch your customers.

The effect of waitresses’ touch on alcohol consumption in dyads.

“A total of 96 men and 48 women participated in a study on the effect of touch in the natural setting of public taverns in the United States. Participants in the same-gender (men-men) or mixed-gender dyads were either touched or not touched by waitress confederates. (more…)

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April 20th, 2012 by ncbi rofl in ethanol, NCBI ROFL, penis friday, reinforcing stereotypes, scientist...or perv? | 2 Comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

NCBI ROFL: And the February “no sh*t, Sherlock” award goes to…

Gender portrayals in telephone books for gay community versus Pacific-Bell Yellow Pages.

“Photographic images (N = 2,700) from three 1997 Pacific-Bell Yellow Pages (n = 1,976) and from three 1996-97 gay, lesbian, and bisexual community telephone books (n = 724) were classified into three groups by visible features (definite male, definite female, and gender nonspecific). (more…)

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February 23rd, 2012 by ncbi rofl in duh, NCBI ROFL, scientist...or perv? | 3 Comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

NCBI ROFL: Sexualization of the female foot as a response to sexually transmitted epidemics: a preliminary study.

“The authors reviewed historical literature and hypothesized a relationship between epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases and foot fetishism. They tested this hypothesis by quantifying foot-fetish depictions in the mass-circulation pornographic literature during a 30-yr. interval. (more…)

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February 17th, 2012 by ncbi rofl in holy correlation batman!, NCBI ROFL, penis friday, scientist...or perv?, WTF? | 1 Comment | RSS feed | Trackback >

NCBI ROFL: Probably the most horrifying scientific lecture ever.

How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous brindley lecture

“In 1983, at the Urodynamics Society meeting in Las Vegas, Professor G.S. Brindley first announced to the world his experiments on self-injection with papaverine to induce a penile erection. This was the first time that an effective medical therapy for erectile dysfunction (ED) was described, and was a historic development in the management of ED. The way in which this information was first reported was completely unique and memorable, and provides an interesting context for the development of therapies for ED. I was present at this extraordinary lecture, and the details are worth sharing. Although this lecture was given more than 20 years ago, the details have remained fresh in my mind, for reasons which will become obvious.

The lecture, which had an innocuous title along the lines of ‘Vaso-active therapy for erectile dysfunction’ was scheduled as an evening lecture of the Urodynamics Society in the hotel in which I was staying. I was a senior resident, hungry for knowledge, and at the AUA I went to every lecture that I could. About 15 min before the lecture I took the elevator to go to the lecture hall, and on the next floor a slight, elderly looking and bespectacled man, wearing a blue track suit and carrying a small cigar box, entered the elevator. He appeared quite nervous, and shuffled back and forth. He opened the box in the elevator, which became crowded, and started examining and ruffling through the 35 mm slides of micrographs inside. I was standing next to him, and could vaguely make out the content of the slides, which appeared to be a series of pictures of penile erection. I concluded that this was, indeed, Professor Brindley on his way to the lecture, although his dress seemed inappropriately casual. (more…)

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January 27th, 2012 by ncbi rofl in NCBI ROFL, penis friday, scientist...or perv? | 5 Comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

NCBI ROFL: The effect of women’s suggestive clothing on men’s behavior and judgment: a field study.

“Numerous studies have shown that men overestimate the sexual intent of women based on their clothing style; however, this hypothesis has not been assessed empirically in a natural setting. This small field study measured the time it took for men to approach two female confederates sitting in a tavern, one wearing suggestive clothes and one wearing more conservative clothes. (more…)

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January 24th, 2012 by ncbi rofl in duh, NCBI ROFL, scientist...or perv? | 5 Comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

NCBI ROFL: The best men are (not always) already taken: female preference for single versus attached males depends on conception risk.

“Because men of higher genetic quality tend to be poorer partners and parents than men of lower genetic quality, women may profit from securing a stable investment from the latter, while obtaining good genes via extrapair mating with the former. Only if conception occurs, however, do the evolutionary benefits of such a strategy overcome its costs. Accordingly, we predicted that (a) partnered women should prefer attached men, because such men are more likely than single men to have pair-bonding qualities, and hence to be good replacement partners, and (b) this inclination should reverse when fertility rises, because attached men are less available for impromptu sex than single men. (more…)

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January 20th, 2012 by ncbi rofl in NCBI ROFL, penis friday, reinforcing stereotypes, scientist...or perv? | 5 Comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

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