bonk me #1.

Argh! I love this book so so much! Mary Roach is a hilarious woman. When I grow up I want to be just like her (with Shaun Micallef or Don Draper as my husband - oh listen to the girl that never considers marriage). Some interesting points that I need to research further/find facinating:

- There are 11,250 sex related sudden deaths in the US annually, on par with Hep C, brain cancer and food poisoning
- sudden death during sex is more common with a prostitute
- Kinsey used a tootbrush (bristle end) for masturbatory purposes
- sex has the power to stop stutters temporarily, and enables you to lose peripheral vision. It can also relieve leg stiffness and muscle spasms in cerebral palsy sufferers for an average of eight hours using a rectal probe electroejaculator.
- 70% of women fail to orgasm through intercourse without clitoral stimulation
- 1 in 5000 women are born without a vagina so some doctors fashion va-jay-jays out of intestines or rectums (why would a man NOT want to sleep with you if you have a rectina?)
- the clitoris is in the va-jay-jay of a domestic sow (how unfair!)
- if the distance between your clitoris and urethra is less than the width of your thumb you are more likely to come
- shorter women and women with smaller breasts have been shown to orgasm more easily
- neoclitoris = transgendered clitoris made up from a stitched-in-place nub of penile glans tissue
- G spot comes from Ernst Grafenberg who first wrote about this "erotic zone"
- Denmark's National Committee for Pig Production recommends sexually stimulating the pig during artificial insemination since there is a 6% higher success rate in such pigs. There is a Five-Point Stimulation Plan which details how this should be done. Some inseminators even jump onto the back of the pigs to stimulate the real life experience of copulation. There is even a vibrator known as the The Reflexor that can bring about orgasm in the sow though few farmers use it (only 1%). The Government has issued an explanatory dvd showing exactly how the sows should be stimulated. The movie itself sounds majorly amusing - the man in the dvd gets the sow off whilst the cameraman focuses on a ring on the farmer's left hand. I mean, sure, he's married so there's nothing suss. CLEARLY.
- 26-28% college age rural males have had "some animal experience to the point of orgasm" according to Kinsey, ps, I love Kinsey
- one study came out that said that women who use condoms are more depressed than those who don't. They suggested that the ejaculate may have some happy effect on women. The pill, however, does quench sexual urges forcing women into a "permanent menopause". How bizarre-o. Perhaps if you're on the pill, you don't feel so mightily disappointed because your libido is quietened? Thus why the 'no condom' women are happy people? Too many weird factors come into play. I rule this study RIDICULOUS.
- masturbation can be a way of medicating menstrual pains and backache. Perhaps you're simply taking your mind off the pain/disturbance? I find masturbation helps when you feel like crapola. POINT: everyone should masturbate more for health reasons.
- Apparently marijuana and Ritalin can increase your chances of reaching orgasm. Few studies have been done on this, however. I can imagine it would be difficult to get funding for an "illegal" substance.
- Women who cheat have sex more with their boy toy in the middle of their cycle.
- A study in Chicago discovered that the smell of cologne, cherry and barbeque meat actually decreased vaginal blood flow. Cucumber and candy smeels increased blood flow by 13%.

to be continued brudderzzzzz...