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POPS71-year-old avoids jail over horse sex Truly Bizarre..."he cannot have unsupervised contact with anyone under 18 and is banned from owning or being around animals unsupervised." Both the owner and the victim suffered stress......wtf?
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POPSLife: A medical condition Medical historian, Dr Louise Foxcroft agrees, pointing to ill-defined conditions such as female sexual dysfunction and to the erectile hardness scale promoted by the producers of Viagra which she claims "is a creation of fear and anxiety".
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POPSRAPE Charges for Zionist President. New one worse?! International Women's Day was appropriate for renewed RAPE charges against the former Zionist president. The present lecherous Peres is heading with his totally inappropriate behaviour with the US Secretary of State, Mrs Clinton. See the video and judge if they have replaced a rapist with a dirty old lecherous man!!!
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POPSchild abuse & silent witnesses Child abuse 'impacts stress gene' Child abuse has long-lasting effects Abuse in early childhood permanently alters how the brain reacts to stress, a Canadian study suggests. Analysis of brain tissue from adults who had committed suicide found key genetic changes in those who had suffered abuse as a child. It affects the production of a receptor known to be involved in stress responses, the researchers said. The Nature Neuroscience study underpins the impact of stress on early brain development, experts said. Previous research has shown that abuse in childhood is associated with an increased reaction to stressful circumstances. Whilst these results obviously need to be replicated, they provide a mechanism by which experiences early in life can have an effect on behaviour later in adulthood Dr Jonathan Mill But exactly how environmental factors interact with genes and contribute to depression or other mental disorders in adulthood is not well understood.
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POPSthe art of seXercise The term 'pornographic' is a generic one and not a legal one. It comes from the Greek meaning 'harlot' and 'graphos' meaning 'writing'. a portrayal of erotic behaviour designed to cause sexual excitement'. Erotic art traces history of sex. 'Sex and joy' The curators made a point of only including works which show sex between consenting adults. There is nothing which suggests violence or sex with children. However, a classically educated viewer would know that Rembrandt's Jupiter and Antiope (1659), shows the prelude to a rape. According to legend, the god Zeus (the Romans' Jupiter) was so entranced by the beauty of Antiope, a Theban princess, that he disguised himself as a satyr and raped her. So what was the point of making the point of only including works which show sex between consenting adults.... just because a dutch master drew a sexual image. My own soundtrack to this clip would be kate perry-i kissed a girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-K1y4xoyJg xx
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POPSWoman Thy Name is Lust! Hope I have your attention. Great article, stimulating (!) and fun to read. Also offers a good focused example of human behaviour studies that unravel complexities by conceptual attention to the meeting of cultural and chemical factors.
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POPSDoes Sex Addiction Have Any Basis in Science?
Some how those who fall victim to an addiction are unable to resist impulses to engage in a specific behaviour..No matter how inconvenient this may become beyond a certain limit.Are they genetic?...But beyond these clear-cut cases, defining addiction from a neurological standpoint becomes more and more difficult. Sure enough, both shooting cocaine and having an orgasm stimulate your mesolimbic system by a sudden release of dopamine, but so does scoring a goal in a soccer game, going on a rollercoaster ride, skiing, diving, dancing, or watching a movie. In fact, it may be argued that every single action that we can describe as pleasurable involves the activation of this system. But if we can potentially become addicted to anything (or anything pleasurable, at least), where exactly do we draw the line between healthy pleasure-seeking and addiction? Moreover, it goes without saying that most people regularly engage in some form of sexual activity (or in drinking or TV-watching, for that m
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POPS'Beer goggles' are real - it's official As well as changing perceptions of attractiveness, alcohol also encourages us to engage in behaviour we would otherwise avoid. In a study by Robert Leeman of Yale University students reported they were more likely to engage in risky sexual acts after drinking - which could be due to alcohol lowering our inhibitions through a direct effect on the brain or by providing a convenient excuse for such behaviour.
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POPS What Genes Remember Surprising that the research should still be needed when every second thing wrong with us is being blamed on inherited genes.
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POPS20 Things You Didn't Know About Sex
6 Barbary macaques have a distinctive way to get their mates to make a sperm donation: yelling. If the female does not shout, the male almost never climaxes. 7 How do we know this? German primatologist Dana Pfefferle watched a group of macaques, counting the females’ yells and the males’ pelvic thrusts. She says this work is “quite weird, but it’s science.” 8 Here in the US of A, that kind of stuff ends up on YouTube. 9 Because Barry White sounds terrible underwater: Fish can produce a variety of noises with their bones, teeth, and gas bladders. Grant Gilmore of Estuarine Coastal and Ocean Science Inc. says that male fish probably use some of these sounds to woo females. 10 The spiny anteater, an egg-laying mammal native to Australia and New Guinea, has a penis with four heads, but only two fit into the female at once. 11 The tiny male paper nautilus, an octopus, impregnates the much larger female by shooting his penis (a modified tentacle) into her—and leaving it there.