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Posts Tagged ‘sex & the brain’

A New, Effective Treatment for Restless Leg Syndrome: Orgasm

Spasms. Burning sensations. Sleep deprivation. To those suffering with restless leg syndrome (RLS), these are nightly afflictions. New research suggests that orgasm—by any means possible—may be a good way to alleviate the condition.

RLS is a neurological disorder that afflicts upwards of 10% of people in the U.S. and Europe: As RLS-sufferers try to sleep, their legs experience burning, tickling, aching, and itching sensations; these uncomfortable feelings build up until the leg spasms out of control. This cycle repeats throughout the night, writes news.com.au Technology Editor Peter Farquhar, and “it’s not unusual for people who suffer RLS … to describe it as torturous.”

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April 2nd, 2011 Tags: alternative medicine, restless leg syndrome, RLS, sex & the brain
by Patrick Morgan in Diseases, Injuries, & Other Ailments | 36 Comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

Very Serious Scientific Study Asks: Which Dance Moves Drive Girls Wild?

Researchers say they have uncovered the dance floor moves to make the ladies go wild–at least if you’re a naked, faceless, non-gendered avatar. After recording 19 men, aged 18 to 35, with a 12-camera system as they danced in a laboratory, the researchers projected each man’s individual moves onto a computer model and asked 39 women what they thought.

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September 8th, 2010 Tags: dance, human origins, sex & reproduction, sex & the brain, Top Posts
by Joseph Calamia in Sex & Mating, Top Posts, Where We Came From & Where We're Going | 7 Comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

Is Eco-Shame the New Political Correctness?

The back of a gas/electric hybrid carIf you surfed through Yahoo!’s home page this morning, you may have noticed the good news for Toyota Prius-driving men everywhere. A study by General Motors announced that 88 percent of women polled said they’d rather talk to a guy who drives a new fuel-efficient vehicle than a gas-guzzling sports car.

But hold on a second before you run out and buy a hybrid, because that number could be suspect. Self-reported survey data is known for being notoriously problematic; people want be liked, even by strangers they’ll never meet again, so they’re more likely to say what they think will impress the questioner. Green may be in style, but what the GM study may really being showing, unfortunately for heterosexual male tree-huggers, is not that women everywhere want to talk to, date, or marry environmentally responsible men. Rather, it could be that they know they’re supposed to want that.

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June 3rd, 2008 Tags: sex & the brain, vehicles
by Andrew Moseman in Pollution Solutions (& Disasters), What’s Inside Your Brain? | 1 Comment | RSS feed | Trackback >





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