While female orgasms were most commonly experienced during foreplay, copulatory vocalizations were reported…most often…with male ejaculation …[indicating] that there is at least an element of these responses that are under conscious control, providing women with an opportunity to manipulate male behavior to their advantage. – Gayle Brewer & Colin Hendrie
This has been rather a quiet week, which is good because it’s allowed me to get ahead on my work, and to adjust my schedule for being out of town next week (I’ll explain where I’m going one week from today). This “Links” feature has almost finished its circuit; next week it will once again be adjacent to the TW3 column, and two weeks after that it will be back to its accustomed place on Sunday (where it will remain except when some special occasion displaces it). Radley Balko was top dog again this week, contributing all the links down to the first video; that was provided by Satoshi Kanazawa, and examines an interesting problem in probability which fooled me until it was explained (and even then required some thought). The second video isn’t nearly as intellectually challenging, but may be harder to accept emotionally for many Americans; it’s a short recording of a protest based on a principle I have myself stated to Grace (who is a quarter Choctaw) many times. The links between the videos were supplied by Michael Whiteacre, Brooke Magnanti, AL 360, Jack Shafer, Amy Alkon, Popehat, Mike Siegel and Jesse Walker, in that order.
- The dildomaker.
- Trends in dog naming.
- What Mars would look like with oceans and life.
- The cost of one single example of scientific illiteracy: 8 million lives.
- “As gun control has moved to the forefront of national debate, California’s program is being studied as a potential model.”
- Florida man attempts getaway from bungled hardware store robbery in golf cart stolen from nearby nudist camp.
- Man still forced to pay “child support” for son who died at age 3 in 1988.
- I’ve always been fascinated by weird Cambrian animals.
- Here’s a scientific study of why women fake orgasms.
- Deer can’t read signs because Obama kills babies.
- A military analysis of the Battle of Hoth.
- Medieval LOLcats.
- “I don’t wanna go to Disney World.”
- Breaking news on the death of the universe.
- Cops browbeat 10-year-old into “confessing” to sex crimes.
- US Supreme Court grants dogs the power to issue search warrants.
From the Archives
- Older men have always sought younger women, and young women have always been willing to capitalize on it.
- Control freaks won’t be satisfied until every conceivable behavior of “sex offenders” is criminalized.
- Sex isn’t the only thing busybodies attack with ridiculous exaggerations and addiction rhetoric.
- Preacher calls hooker with intent to preach at her, gets robbed instead.
- Religious justifications for bestiality laws give way to “abuse” rhetoric.
- And now for something completely different: a man with half a head.
- A reporter actually asks an escort for opinion on “sex trafficking” law.
- My previous columns for Mardi Gras and Valentine’s Day (Lupercalia).
- A report on the progress of the Swedish rot, with a focus on Ireland.
- “Sex trafficking” mythology is an inspiration to unscrupulous creeps.
- Aussie doctor declares “dirty whore” panic “absolute total rubbish”.
- An actress demonstrates how little our professions have diverged.
- Israeli politicians promote Swedish model despite 59% opposition.
- Pardis Mahdavi on “trafficking” hysteria as a global moral panic.
- French people discover that escort services exist, panic on cue.
- A word from noted “sex trafficking” expert Tommy Flanagan.
- Another article about single mothers turning to sex work.
- A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- Georgia declares prostitution worse than death.
- Cop hilariously compares whores to vampires.
- The incredible credulity of Sudhir Venkatesh.
- To be anti-choice is to be anti-life.
- Do as I say, not as I do.
- Kelly James vs. the TSA.
- The sky is falling!