Science and Sex

[dr_mabeuse]

The Ig Noble prize for medicine for ’98 was given to a team of reserachers that took the first magnetic imagining pictures of a man and woman engaged in coitus. They took the platform out of an MRI machine and managed to fit two people into the tube.

What’s interesting is that the base of the man’s erect penis extends back into his body a considerable ways, so it almost looks as though both man and woman are being penetrated. The penis plus internal stalk have a pronounced “boomerang” shape.

The award for chemistry in ’99 went to a team of Italian researchers who compared blood levels of serotonin between normal controls, people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, and people in love, who had not yet sexually consummated. They found striking similarities between the obsessive-compulsives and the people in love.

People in love who had lived together for 6 months failed to show these elevated levels, and their blood serotinin levels were indistinguishable from normals.

Science marches on (walking funny, to hide its erection)

---dr.M.

 

[Guest]

Nobel, Schmobel! Jeez, Mab., I could have told the world that being in love is as obsessive-compulsive as one can get.

nobler* Perdita


*not a typo

 

[raphy]

Nobel, Schmobel! Jeez, Mab., I could have told the world that being in love is as obsessive-compulsive as one can get.

Ain't that the truth

Raph, who is sure he said something like that to one of perdita's comments in another thread recently, too.

 

[shereads]

engaged in coitus...base of the man’s erect penis extends back into his body a considerable ways, so it almost looks as though both man and woman are being penetrated. The penis plus internal stalk...

The award for chemistry in ’99 went to a team of Italian researchers who

Screw the Italians. I want to hear more about coitus.

People in love who had lived together for 6 months failed to show these elevated levels, and their blood serotinin levels were indistinguishable from normals.

Any corresponding studies of elevated blood seratonin levels in laboratory rats that are in love?

 

[SummerMorning]

Don't be silly! Rats are always in love, so their blood serotonin levels are naturally elevated!

 

[shereads]

Rats are always in love, so their blood serotonin levels are naturally elevated!

Are you speaking of the courtly type of rodent love typified by Mickey and Minnie Mouse (he had no gonads, and was careful to keep the evidence on display by wearing a vest, shoes, gloves, but no pants) or sexual love?

For some reason, I don't think of rats as incessant lovers. "Fucking like minks" is a familiar expression; I've also heard the word "bunnies" substituted, and sometimes "stewardesses."

 

[lewdandlicentious]

Conversation

Ah yes, good old scientific, intelligent and informative conversation.

"Coitus (fucking) in space"

"Rats"

and

"Fucking like rabbits (Stewardesses/Minks/bunnies)"


Fuck, I love it here!!

 

[Quasimodem]

. . . Any corresponding studies of elevated blood seratonin levels in laboratory rats that are in love?

When did they develop rat psychologists to differentiate between normal rats, and obsessive-compulsive rats, so they know which rats are to be compared to the lover rats' group, and which to the control rats' group?

Having noted the frenzied gnawing activity of most rats, it is my opinion – subject to scientific verification – that from birth, all rats are normally obsessive-compulsives.

 

[SummerMorning]

Micky is a mouse...now if Minnie is a rat - I don't know, but she does have the kind of skirt that seems awfully easy to flash, doesn't she?

 

[Quasimodem]

Micky is a mouse...

Good old Mickey has had the Hollywood Treatment.

Check his earliest performances. He was originally called Mortimer, and has obviously had a nose-job.

Besides, any cultural icon who lives in a Theme Park, has a high squeaky voice, and habitually wears white gloves – either singular, or pairs – obviously has rats in his garret.

 

[Gary Chambers]

Don't be silly! Rats are always in love, so their blood serotonin levels are naturally elevated!

Q- Why do politicians wrap rodents in duct tape?

A- So they won't explode when they fuck them.

Sorry, couldn't resist that.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

There was the famous Italian study done in the '80's in which rats were exposed to disco music. The researchers reported an increase in observable homosexual behavior. (I'm not making this stuff up.)

There was also a study to find out if methylene chloride—which they used to use in de-caffeinating coffee—was carcinogenic. They force fed rats the equivalent of the methylene chloride they would get from drinking between 500,000 and 750,000 little rat-sized cups of decafe a day and found no evidence of carcinogenicity. The stuff was still banned under the Delaney clause, which forbids the use of any substance found to cause cancer in any organism in any dose. (Under the Delaney clause, there are hundreds of natural foods that should be banned because of naturally occuring carcinogens, such as mushrooms, peanuts (contain traces of aflatoxin: the most potent carcinogen known), bean sprouts, and tofu.

---dr.M.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Are you speaking of the courtly type of rodent love typified by Mickey and Minnie Mouse (he had no gonads, and was careful to keep the evidence on display by wearing a vest, shoes, gloves, but no pants) or sexual love?

For some reason, I don't think of rats as incessant lovers. "Fucking like minks" is a familiar expression; I've also heard the word "bunnies" substituted, and sometimes "stewardesses."

I don't think I have ever seen Mickey Mouse when he wasn't wearing pants or shorts. When he started, as Steamboat Willie, he wore little red shorts with red suspenders and yellow buttons. Are you thinking of Donald Duck? Minnie used to wear a short dress, usually with polkadots, and lacy bloomers, and a lot of lipstick and a hair ribbon. Or am I thinking of Daisy Duck

 

[shereads]

Having noted the frenzied gnawing activity of most rats, it is my opinion – subject to scientific verification – that from birth, all rats are normally obsessive-compulsives.

Here's an actual scientifically verifiable fact that I'm not even making up:

Rats and other rodents have to gnaw, because their teeth grow constantly.

 

[Guest]

Box, Steamboat Willie was in black and white.

Perdita

 

[Boxlicker101]

Box, Steamboat Willie was in black and white.

Perdita

I know that, Dita, but I have seen colored drawings of Mickey in stories when I was a lot younger and he was dressed the same way as he was in the movie.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Mickey got pants, Donald got none.

Disney's blatant Mouseism is well known

---dr.M.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Goofy has pants, sweater, vest, shoes and a hat. I don't even know what kind of a critter he is.

 

[Quasimodem]

. . . Minnie used to wear . . . and a lot of lipstick . . . Or am I thinking of Daisy Duck

I hope it was Minnie, if it was Daisy, just imagine the size of that lipstick bill!

. . . Rats and other rodents have to gnaw, because their teeth grow constantly.

Yes, I have heard that, too, but isn't that EXACTLY what you would expect an obsessive-compulsive to say about their obsession?

 

[shereads]

here was the famous Italian study done in the '80's in which rats were exposed to disco music. The researchers reported an increase in observable homosexual behavior.

I remember that study, Dr. Mabeuse. There was one rat in particular who wasn't able to achieve an erection without repeated playings of the Thelma Houston classic, "Don't Leave Me this Way."

Had the study not run out of funding, there were plans for a controversial program to "cure" the outed rats by confining them to unfashionable "suburban ranch-style accommodations and subjecting the animals to continuous doses of the Roger Miller single, "Dang Me."

 

[Quasimodem]

. . . there were plans for . . . continuous doses of the Roger Miller single, "Dang Me."

Thank God that experiment was terminated!

Otherwise, a whole generation of rats would have been lost to posterity, gnawing their way into mobile homes, eating fermented cheese squeezings, and sodomizing each other senseless.

 

[Boxlicker101]

According to Shereads

I remember that study, Dr. Mabeuse. There was one rat in particular who wasn't able to achieve an erection without repeated playings of the Thelma Houston classic, "Don't Leave Me this Way."

Had the study not run out of funding, there were plans for a controversial program to "cure" the outed rats by confining them to unfashionable "suburban ranch-style accommodations and subjecting the animals to continuous doses of the Roger Miller single, "Dang Me."


They should have gotten the American religious right to fund it. They are about the only people who believe that homosexuality can be "cured" and the members tend to be fairly well off, and willing to spend for such a worthy cause.

 

[SummerMorning]

Goofy is a dog...I think. That's why he gets along with Pluto so well...

As to science - work is underway to create chimeric animals by implanting human stem cells in animal fetuses, resulting in animals with organs that would not be rejected when transplanted into humans.

Now just imagine all those poor men looking at "Penis Enlargement" ads getting a xenotransplant from some fun barnyard animal...on the other hand I don't want to think about it too much.