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Do Nerds Have Better Sperm?
mcgrew writes "The question of how we loveless nerds managed to not be bred out of the species genome may have been answered. According to New Scientist, we have better sperm. According to the article, men who scored high on a battery of intelligence tests boasted high counts of healthy sperm, while low scorers tended to have fewer and more sickly little guys. ... Though the connections between brains and sperm were 'not awesome, they're there and highly significant.' All things held equal, good sperm and good brains go together." Don't start gloating yet. Another recent study found that the gene that makes you good at Halo also makes you a premature ejaculator. A study of 200 Dutch men found that those with a premature ejaculation problem all had a version of a gene that controls the release of serotonin. These men seem to "have very quick reflexes. They may be excellent at playing tennis or computer games." Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.
The taste test!
What good is this if nerds never get a chance to use sperm?
Nuclear engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.
The movie "Idiocracy". Admittedly it's not exactly like the movie, however I can see this as going in a much similar fashion (It does explain the current state of things a bit).
It's Natural Selection at it's finest.
The women, while trying to subconsciously pick the best mate, inadvertently shoot themselves in the foot, as Mr. Cage Fighter is packing sickly soldiers, with a mission to degrade the gene pool.
Meanwhile Mr. Physicist is in possession of a load that may one day help save humanity. But alas, it may never be used...
Oh, Irony.
Microsoft - The best ad campaign Apple ever had.
Okay seriously I read that as SPAM.
I'm all freaked out now. My freudian slips are working in reverse.
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
All right, look, ladies. There's been studies showing that nerds are better lovers, care more about you, we're rich, and now we've got better sperm and will get you better kids, plus we're really interesting to boot. Now would somebody finally go out with me already, damnit?!?
Demanding constant attention will only lead to attention.
While I usually refer to myself as a geek, rather than a nerd (geek = nerd + personality [IMHO]) this is one that hits home with me. I've been married 2 years now and been trying to conceive for 3+ with no luck. Testing has determined that I have an abnormally low count (healthy in all other respects) and no current cause has been identified.
So no, being a geek/nerd DOESN'T mean you have better sperm, you INSENSITIVE CLOD!
If by "better" you mean having a chance to enter a vagina, then... No.
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
Condensated and concentrated over years without a proper release, its insemination powers know no bounds!
They barely ever get to use it. They probably live longer too. The Taoists have a whole internal mind/body philosophy that involves holding onto the sperm and recycling the energy through the body to reach enlightenment.
Team Fortress 2? An RTS? I'm guessing you mean FPS. Real-Time Strategy games don't tend to require lightening-fast "reflexes", at least for the skill levels of those 99% of players.
Actually, it means you aren't using enough lube.
-Peter
Somewhat of a blend between masculine and feminine body build, yet that all is determined how I shave or grow my hair. I don't use any "make-up" and never had any bouts with the puberties that other one-gender people have fought with. My voice is neither masculine or feminine, which makes it easier to pronounce words without problem, etc.
Now, in terms of gender physiology that is odd and explainable:
I have a penis and under-developed testes, just off from a clitoris and vagina leading to a womb with fertile ovaries. This is a verry rare condition, where there are in-fact women born with two wombs, and men born with two or more testicles and pens. I am lucky however, because my testicles are inactive -- if they were, the chemical imbalance would have seriously hurt my young development. So to this day, I meditate and focus my mind, anticipating when if my testicles descend and become active in parallel with my ovaries and womb.
The doctors said that I have stunted gondads/male-testes that will only be fertile if corrective surgery allowed them to descend out of my body cavity. They are currently lodged in the walls of my vagina.
Don't laugh that I was born a woman first, because some people that have these extra organs may have had an incomplete twin attached to them. I was evaluated and found not to have overtaken a twin -- I'm a double hermaphrodite. I don't buy a Mac and Turtle-neck shirt, I don't watch Furry movies, and don't like your jests. I am lucky to be alive.
seeing as how I'm very bright (super sperm) and I'm awesome at halo (they'll be spread everywhere very quickly). Unfortunately my halo skillz aren't going to help me support all my illegitimate children. My brain would, but it's too busy making me feel depressed about my premature ejaculation to do me much good right now.
Don't start gloating yet. Another recent study found that the gene that makes you good at Halo also makes you a premature ejaculator.
Well, premature ejaculation isn't counterevolutionary, but it does diminish the pleasure for nerd and nerdette.
However, modern science has come up with drugs. Viagra isn't just to get it up for your aging wrinkled wife who has become too fat and ugly to fuck without chemical help. It also allows you control. You can make sex last pretty much as long as you want it to.
Two of four women I've used viagra with had orgasms and fell in love with me. A third of the four hasn't afaik fallen in love but did say she had an orgasm (but of course she could be lying).
The fourth was a hooker. Don't waste your viagra on a hooker!
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