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n an analysis of relationship surveys, UI sociologist Anthony Paik found that average relationship quality was higher for individuals who waited until things were serious to have sex compared to those who became sexually involved in “hookups,” “friends with benefits,” or casual dating relationships.
But having sex early on wasn’t to blame for the disparity. When Paik factored out people who weren’t interested in getting serious, he found no real difference in relationship quality. That is, couples who became sexually involved as friends or acquaintances and were open to a serious relationship ended up just as happy as those who dated and waited.
via sciencedaily.com
The Book of Mormon the Musical
11-Apr-11
Why Feminism Is the Anti-Viagra
11-Apr-11
Our mammalian brains come wired with very ancient sexual preferences, quite prominent in the most popular forms of male and female erotica preferred by Homo sapiens. Men are aroused by being dominant and by submissive women, women are aroused by being submissive and by dominant men. In the bedroom, inequality beats equality.
If you suspect this is some kind of stealth agenda for justifying belligerent or misogynistic male behavior, read on, for there is a fascinating neural caveat. One of the most startling findings from our desire research is this: men and women’s brains each come wired with the neural circuitry for both sexual dominance and sexual submission. When Nature builds our brains, it installs both the “male” and “female” subcortical circuits, but apparently only links one of these circuits to the arousal system. Scientists can trigger lordosis in male rats by activating their dormant submission circuitry, and can trigger masculine mounting in female rats by activating their dormant dominance circuitry.
via psychologytoday.com
Chocolate bowl
10-Apr-11
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Via Tara Brannigan.
Older Parents Are Happier
10-Apr-11
But the most striking findings revolved around parenthood and age. Whether it is a function of exhaustion, bickering over diapers or something inherently unpleasant about raising little children, the data doesn’t say, but parents under 30 are decidedly less happy than their child-free peers. Then, once parents hit 40, the relationship reverses and people with children are cheerier than those without.
The more, the merrier, too — at least for older parents. For people under 30, happiness declines with each additional child. Young parents of two are unhappier than young parents with one, and young parents of one child are unhappier than young people with no children. But with parents between the ages of 40 and 50, the number of children has no impact. And after 50, each child brings more joy.
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Via Sean Hastings.
he good news is that you are unlikely to keel over and die directly as a result of sitting. Sitting kills as an indirect result of the physical adaptations it causes. As your body adapts to sitting and becomes less well suited for other activities, like standing and walking, you increase your likelihood of a major injury. Having tight, weak muscles may still be sufficient to get you through your typical day — shuffling from work desk, to car, to couch, to bed — the danger is when the unexpected happens. When you slip, trip, or otherwise have a sudden need for your body to perform, you need a strong, flexible, reactive body to be able to catch yourself safely. Everyone trips, everyone slips, the unexpected is guaranteed to happen eventually, and if you are too tight and weak to catch yourself you end up falling and breaking something like your hip or arm, or throwing out your back. These injuries can directly kill you or cause a severe degradation in your quality of life. The most frustrating is when the injuries cause you to tighten up even more and you further limit your physical activity — starting the downward spiral that leads to further injury and physical decline.
via magicalrobot.org
Via Vytas Sunspiral.
Teen Girl Scientist Monthly – Safari
08-Apr-11
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I am a 91-year-old bodybuilder
07-Apr-11
via guardian.co.uk
“Then at 85 I had a crisis. I looked at myself in the mirror one day, and saw an old man. I was overweight, my posture was terrible and there was skin hanging off me where muscle used to be. I looked like a wreck. I started to consider the fact that I was probably going to die soon. I knew I was supposed to slow down, but I’m vain. I missed my old body and wanted to be able to strut across the beach, turning heads.
I was already rowing six times a week, and there didn’t seem any harm in pushing myself a bit harder to rebuild my muscles. So in my late-80s I joined a bodybuilding club.”