Humans Pay for Sex for Millions of Years

We regard prostitution as extremely immoral and as degrading the human beings. But it seems this is much older than we would believe. In our evolutionary history, we could trace this to more than 15 million years ago. A new research reported in New Scientists reveals that even in monkeys males pay for sex. Only that, as macaques do not have money, their currency is grooming. Read More »

Top 10 Cunnilingus Tips

It is hard to imagine a phD researcher in the science of cunnilingus. It’s even harder to believe there would be federal funded researches in the issue. And when you think that this issue can make unhappy so many thousands of couples…

In the end, the salvation comes from Internet and specialized sites, where women can pent their frustrations and take the bull by the horns. This is your salvation, dudes!

1.The tongue must be relaxed. Pointed tongues are too harsh and in fact desensitize. Use the whole face and do not be hesitant with the tongue. The chin rubbing on the vagina opening increases pleasure. Read More »

Addiction to Video Games Is Just Like Drug Addiction

Being addicted to love can be extremely real. In fact, many obsessions such as the one some people have for sex, food or video games act just like drug addictions. You may have noticed some similarities between them, but the reactions taking place in the brain of the people addicted to gambling or video games are similar to those encountered in the brains of the alcoholics and cannabis addicted people.

Parents may helplessly witness how their children change habits becoming, from a normal kid, a miserable, withdrawn person, skipping school, being always angry when confronted, and stealing from family and friends to fuel their obsessions. And this personality and behavioral change can last for years. Any difference from a cocaine addict? Read More »

Cold Bastards Sleep Better

Are you going through some stressful situation in your life? In this case, that can ruin your good night’s sleep even 6 months after your problems are solved…This is the result of a five-year long research led by Dr. Jussi Vahtera, of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki, Finland, made on a sample of 16,627 men and women with normal sleep and 2,572 with disturbed sleep. At the beginning of the research, each subject was assessed for anxiety, regarded as a general feeling of stressfulness connected with symptoms of hyperactivity.

The team focused on the connection between post-onset life events (like death or illness in the family, divorce, financial difficulty and violence) and sleep impairment during the five years monitoring. The data revealed a strong connection between proneness to anxiety in cases of negative life events and sleep impairment. Read More »

What Makes Us Optimistic

Being a shiny happy person has to do with something in your brain. More specifically, with the centers that have just been discovered by a team at the New York University. Generally, humans have great expectations from the future: overcoming the average level of success, living longer and being more successful and healthier, tending to shadow negative thoughts like getting a divorce, having a professional or financial failure, or developing cancer.

The same brain areas impaired in depression have been found to be linked to the boost of optimism. This was determined through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while subjects were analyzing possible future life events (like “winning an award” or “the end of a romantic relationship”).

“When participants imagined positive future events relative to negative ones, enhanced activation was detected in the rostral anterior cingulate and amygdala, which are the same brain areas that seem to malfunction in depression. Read More »

Why Are Women More Prone to Addictions?

We know that testosterone makes men aggressive and muscular, while female hormones turn women into protecting “mothers” but also more vulnerable to addictions. But a new Yale research shows that it’s not all about hormones; genes too are involved in shaping the sex-related behavior and the females’ proneness to addiction could be linked to genes located in the sex chromosomes.

“This is the first time that any behavior has been associated specifically with sex chromosomes independent of gonadal hormones,” the lead author Jennifer Quinn of Yale University told AFP.

Female mammals (including women) are known for long to be more likely than males to get habit-forming behavior, including addiction. Sex-specific hormones, secreted by gonads, explain just partially the difference. Read More »

What’s The Reflex?

Why does the cat always land on all four legs? Why do we keep on breathing, even if we sleep? This is the result of reflexes – automatic reactions that are not consciously controlled.

Reflexes can be varied, from simple like retreating hand in contact with a hot object, to more complicated ones, that help us maintain the balance. We are born with many basic reflexes, which we forget as we learn new activities. The reflex is triggered unconsciously by a certain stimulus.

A reflex has a three-segment path: analyzer (a sense organ or the skin), a nervous center, and an executer, muscle or gland. Conscious actions are not reflexes, as there is an analysis stage in between, the response being influenced by experience, mood, wishes, and so on. This means that at different moments, a stimulus will induce various reactions, but the same reflex.

A conscious reaction is more powerful than a reflex: we can keep our hand over a hot stove, but only with a conscious effort. Thus, the reflexes are quick methods that protect us against harmful stimuli. Some important reflexes, like breathing, can be consciously impeded just for short periods of time. Read More »

Why Do Married Men Have A Lower Sex Drive?

Don’t blame it on the age, it’s marriage the one that makes a man less…male. Married/father males have been found to have significantly lower testosterone levels, as found by two new studies made at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and led by anthropology professor Peter Gray. These researches are amongst the first carried outside North America, and studying facts from a cross-cultural perspective.

“As the scientific community begins to understand more about the biology of man, the better able we are to examine other psychological and behavioral outcomes, including the elevated risk of postpartum depression among men and the potential negative effects of testosterone supplementation on paternal investment and care”, said Gray. Read More »

10 Tips for a Better Memory

You may forget where you have parked the car, what you did yesterday and the birthday of your best buddy. How many times you were trying to prepare yourself for an exam and you couldn’t learn anything? If you’re young, they say you’re in love or your mind is wandering; with the age they say you’ve turned into…crap.

1.Feed your brain. If it lacks or receives in small amounts what’s necessary for the neuronal functioning, your memory will not ‘function’ at its best. Eat many fruits and green leafed vegetables, rich in vitamins, antioxidants and minerals. Bilberries, blackberries, fish and fish oil, eggs, spinach and almonds are also recommended.

2.Do some exercise. It improves circulation, including that of the brain, which boosts brain functioning. Cardiovascular exercises, made over long periods, are of great help in reducing the number of brain cells lost because of aging. Read More »

Meditation Improves Attention and Reaction to Stress

Is meditation really beneficial? The integrative body-mind training (IBMT), a type of meditation, has been tested by a team from Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, China, and University of Oregon on college undergraduate Chinese subjects, assigned to 40-person experimental or control groups.

The control group received five days of relaxation training, while the tested group five days of IBMT training, the team focusing on how the subjects’ attention and responses to stress are influenced.

Both groups were tested before and after these experiments for attention and reactivity to mental stress (provoked by mental arithmetic). The IBMT group displayed higher improvement than the control group in an attention test assessing the subjects’ capacities to deal among stress stimuli. Read More »