MachineMachine /stream - tagged with sex http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net Female Orgasm: An Evolutionary Journey http://bigthink.com/ideas/40123/female-orgasm-an-evolutionary-journey-think-tank-big-think Female Orgasm: An Evolutionary Journey http://t.co/g4iRpEoL via @bigthink #sex #feminism #evolution #controversial? ]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:21:12 -0700 http://bigthink.com/ideas/40123/female-orgasm-an-evolutionary-journey-think-tank-big-think F**k Statistics http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/107011 Statistical analysis of OKCupid profiles exposes some sexually fascinating revelations:

- Herbivores like giving oral more than omnivores
- Twitter users are more likely to masturbate today
- Christians and Atheists are just as likely to claim they have never masturbated - The correlation between men who prefer gentle sex & use of the word 'boating'

I f**king love statistics ]]> Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:05:11 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/107011 Another kind of logic http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/7229748980

Another kind of logic

(hat tip to (((1/f))))

]]> Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:51:00 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/7229748980 The artists who crossed the line http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-artists-who-crossed-the-line-2222639.html The group first came to prominence in February 2008, two days before the carefully choreographed elections that brought President Dmitry Medvedev to power. About 12 activists, one of whom was a pregnant woman, entered the Biology Museum and staged an orgy.

Meanwhile, the group's leader and chief ideologist, the bearded Alexei Plutser-Sarno, donned a top hat and unfurled a banner that said: "Fuck for the Teddy Bear Heir!" The slogan played on Mr Medvedev's surname, which is derived from the Russian word for "bear", and poked fun at what the group said were "farcical and pornographic elections"… ]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:29:03 -0700 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-artists-who-crossed-the-line-2222639.html Getting Over the Code Delusion http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/article_detail.asp?id=570&css=print It’s true that the code, as it was understood at the height of the genomic era, had some grounding in material reality. Each of the four different letters stands for one of the four nucleotide bases constituting the DNA sequence. And each group of three successive letters (referred to as a “codon”) potentially represents an amino acid, a constituent of protein. The idea was that the bases in a protein-coding DNA sequence, or gene, led to the synthesis of the corresponding sequence of amino acids in a protein. And proteins, folded into innumerable shapes, play a decisive role in virtually… ]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:17:00 -0700 http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/article_detail.asp?id=570&css=print Neanderthals really were sex-obsessed thugs http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/8104939/Neanderthals-really-were-sex-obsessed-thugs.html Neanderthals really did act like Neanderthals, new research suggests, as our early relatives were found to be more aggressive, competitive and promiscuous than modern man. Scientists examining fossils have discovered that Neanderthals were exposed to more testosterone during development which is likely to make them more unreconstructed in their behaviour. That means they were more likely to start fights over mates and hierarchy in the group and more likely top have multiple partners. The team from Liverpool, Oxford, Southampton and Calgary Universities, studied the fossilised finger bones of extinct apes, Neanderthals and hominins – extinct members of the human family… ]]> Wed, 03 Nov 2010 01:30:00 -0700 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/8104939/Neanderthals-really-were-sex-obsessed-thugs.html Finding the Neanderthal within ourselves http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/22/finding-the-neandert.html Like a disowned half-brother the Neanderthals keep hammering on our door, forcing us to face inconvenient truths.

In the nineteenth century, fossil remains of powerful, thickset, short-necked human-like creatures with massive skulls and protruding brow ridges were found in Europe and recognized as belonging to an extinct species very closely related to us.

It turns out these "Neanderthals" (named after the German valley where the first examples were excavated) left the human homeland in Africa about 300,000 years ago. They migrated north into Europe and had sole possession of our continent for 250,000 years… ]]> Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:12:00 -0700 http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/22/finding-the-neandert.html Porn for the Blind http://pornfortheblind.org/ Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge. ]]> Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:27:00 -0700 http://pornfortheblind.org/ Our Neandertal Brethren http://www.michaelshermer.com/2010/08/our-neandertal-brethren/ According to the late Harvard University biologist Ernst W. Mayr, the greatest evolutionary theorist since Charles Darwin, “species are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively isolated from other such groups.”

Reproductive isolation is the key to understanding how new species form, and many types of barriers can divide a population and split it into two different groups: geographic (such as a mountain range, desert, ocean or river), morphological (a change in coloration, body type or reproductive organs), behavioral (a change in breeding season, mating calls or courtship actions), and others. After isolation,… ]]> Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:27:00 -0700 http://www.michaelshermer.com/2010/08/our-neandertal-brethren/ Sleep Talkin' Man http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/ My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead of night musings, I thought it was only fair to share them with the world. ]]> Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:24:00 -0700 http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/ Spiders On Drugs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:47:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc&feature=youtube_gdata My Ten Favorite Fetishes http://www.nerve.com/personalessays/Saknussemm/my-ten-favorite-fetishes-a-lifelong-sex-researcher-on-his-most-unusual-discoveries/ Having studied sexual fetishes for twenty years (which is itself a kind of fetish), I'm long past the investigation of shoes, pain, vomit and rubbing up against people on the subway. My first real job out of college was working as the circulation manager for the Spectator, a Bay Area adult-entertainment publication, which was fueled by classified advertising — often for very distinctive "services" and interests. While there, I became acquainted with a number of memorable characters: Peg Leg, a one-legged call girl with a very full dance ticket (and some remarkable prosthetic attachments); The Coach (gym shorts, silver whistle,… ]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:46:00 -0700 http://www.nerve.com/personalessays/Saknussemm/my-ten-favorite-fetishes-a-lifelong-sex-researcher-on-his-most-unusual-discoveries/