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Sex Makes the Brain Grow
Asylum for All Mankind ^
| July 30, 2010
| Jeremy Taylor
Posted on 08/03/2010 6:43:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.
In an experiment involving lab rats, sex was correlated with adult brain growth.
Since previous studies have shown that stressful, unpleasant situations can hinder brain growth, researchers from Princeton University wanted to see if stressful but pleasurable situations -- like sex -- would achieve the opposite effect. So, they divided male lab rats into three groups: The rats in one group were given sex partners daily, the second group got set up with female companionship once every two weeks and the third group got nothing at all.
The rats that had regular sex showed adult brain growth, as well as an increase in the connections between brain cells. As a possible effect of their larger brains, the sexually experienced rats were less anxious and quicker to eat food in an unfamiliar environment than the un-sexed rodents.
If you can't figure out a way to use this study to get more action from your wife or girlfriend, you really need to be having more sex.
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KEYWORDS: braingrowth; humans; rats; sex; study
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To: csmusaret
David Letterman played in that?Cameo?
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posted on
08/03/2010 7:05:40 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Isn’t that Letterman in the bottom right corner of the pic?
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posted on
08/03/2010 7:08:30 PM PDT
by
csmusaret
(A government that can dictate how much water flows into a toilet is a powerful government indeed.)
To: csmusaret
Isn’t that Letterman in the bottom right corner of the pic?Maybe?
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posted on
08/03/2010 7:10:17 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: csmusaret
Did a google search on “Letterman cameo mars” Got nothing...
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posted on
08/03/2010 7:15:49 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I guess all those ‘effing’ idiots are really just all talk...
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posted on
08/03/2010 7:33:19 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Lazamataz
That explains Laz.
Love you, Laz!
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posted on
08/03/2010 7:34:25 PM PDT
by
Jemian
(If the republicans want to win, they need to run a conservative.)
To: MAD-AS-HELL
But did they study those rats that masturbated a lot?Aside from the Three Blind Mice?
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posted on
08/03/2010 7:35:06 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I always play the dumb blonde to Mr. Gun’s brilliant brain.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Not tonight, I have a headache.
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posted on
08/03/2010 7:55:30 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
To: MAD-AS-HELL
But did they study those rats that masturbated a lot?You mean the blind ones with the hairy palms?
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posted on
08/03/2010 7:56:24 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Michelle Obama: the woman who ended "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.")
To: central_va
so, can I do it until I need glasses ?
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posted on
08/03/2010 8:12:37 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Never buy a putter until you first get a chance to throw it)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The [male] rats in one group were given sex partners daily, the second group got set up with female companionship once every two weeks and the third group got nothing at all. The [male] rats that had regular sex showed adult brain growth, as well as an increase in the connections between brain cellsHmmm.. Gives new meaning to the phrase "to give a rat's a**"...
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posted on
08/03/2010 8:18:49 PM PDT
by
LibFreeOrDie
(Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
To: Gamecock
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posted on
08/03/2010 8:23:44 PM PDT
by
earlJam
To: Kirkwood
Before.
After.
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posted on
08/03/2010 8:31:02 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Sex Makes the Brain GrowI read the article. Apparently it is referring to your actual brain brain. Go figure...
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posted on
08/03/2010 8:32:26 PM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(For the record, McCarthy was right.)
To: Onelifetogive
Go figure...God gave man enough blood to operate his brain & penis......just not both at the same time.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Why didn’t they test the female rats? Hmm.
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posted on
08/03/2010 8:42:02 PM PDT
by
ReneeLynn
(Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I once had a girlfriend who thought that something else got bigger the more we had sex...I miss that girl.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
08/03/2010 8:58:10 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
(Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Alas poor Yorick! He never got none, Horatio.
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posted on
08/03/2010 9:18:10 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
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