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Sperm Travels Faster Toward Attractive Females

A new study has shown that even sperm can be superficial. Researchers found that males of many animal species, including humans, can adjust the speed and effectiveness of their sperm by regulating the amount of seminal fluid they produce during copulation. The determining factor on that amount of fluid seems to be whether the male finds the female attractive.

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  1. Research by sopssa · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've actually done some research on this aswell. On majority of times when I found a good clip, I had to clean my monitor. This didn't happen when the clip was bad or the women on it unattractive. Hmm, wonder where they sell speedometers...

    1. Re:Research by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe the moderators misread it; perhaps their monitors were grimy.

    2. Re:Research by clone53421 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I was going to respond to this story and point out that the title should probably read "Sperm travels faster INSIDE attractive females", but in your case it's probably better as it was originally put.

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    3. Re:Research by khellendros1984 · · Score: 5, Funny

      And close your eyes and mouth. I really can't stress that enough.

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    4. Re:Research by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Speak for yourself. I have a fetish for plain and ugly women. I walked into a public library the other day and almost lost it right there.

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    5. Re:Research by The+Faywood+Assassin · · Score: 2, Funny

      The goggles, zey do noh-zing!

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  2. Too small a sample size. by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 4, Funny

    I, for one, find their statistics sub-par and wish to volunteer my services for further study into the effect of having sex with attractive females on sperm behaviour.

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    1. Re:Too small a sample size. by Kiaser+Zohsay · · Score: 5, Funny

      Unfortunately, it will probably be a double-blind study, so you've got a fifty-fifty shot at winding up in the control group.

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    2. Re:Too small a sample size. by Arancaytar · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is Slashdot. You take what you can get.

    3. Re:Too small a sample size. by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 5, Funny

      *shrug* I don't mind. I've had enough of the placebo...

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    4. Re:Too small a sample size. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      *shrug* I don't mind. I've had enough of the placebo...

      McFly, this is your wife. I think we need to have a talk.

  3. lol by syrinx · · Score: 5, Funny

    The best part of this article is the tag "!newsfornerds".

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  4. Re:Speed vs inner beauty by sopssa · · Score: 5, Funny

    You would think so, considering thats only what the sperm sees.

  5. Re:For animals yes,,, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    also, don't forget about anal

  6. Re:HUH? by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you're saying that the goggles actually do something?

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  7. How do they know? by DesScorp · · Score: 3, Funny

    How does a sperm "know" if a female is attractive? Or are we talking about money shots from porn films here?

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    1. Re:How do they know? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Please do not end a conversation about sperm and human glands with the word "Cheers!"
      That is all.

  8. HE SHOOTS! by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    HE SCORES!

    Or vice versa, if I read the article correctly...

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  9. This is bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Combined with this research, which shows that ugly men release more sperm, the chance of conception appears to be highest when a stunningly attractive woman sleeps with an truly ugly man. Somebody please think of the children.

    1. Re:This is bad by SaDan · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hrm... I have cute kids, and my wife is pretty decent on the eyes as well.

      Shit. I'm the ugly one. :-(

  10. Re:Fertility by DinDaddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I also found it pretty interesting that sperm quality can be improved by daily masturbation.

    Why? Everything is improved by daily masturbation.

  11. Wonder if this will work. by wilburx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't worry, I don't need to pull out because you're ugly.

  12. Some sperm will even find you in a pool.. by Nukenbar · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is, if you are a 13 year old "virgin".

    1. Re:Some sperm will even find you in a pool.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." -- Mark Twain

  13. Re:Doesn't make sense by spun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ugly people mate, too. They just mate with other ugly people. In other news, ugly men produce more sperm. Hot guys know they'll be donating a bunch of sperm to a bunch of willing ladies, while ugly guys apparently know they won't be getting many chances, so they've got no reason to hold some swimmers in reserve.

    Ah, the wonders of nature.

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  14. Re:For animals yes,,, but... by Zakabog · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is knows as the Hottie-Frigid paradox. The most scorching hot women are nearly certain to be lousy in bed.

    Spoken like someone who has given up all hope of having sex with an extremely attractive woman. Unless she's bored, or really new to sex, it's highly unlikely that she'll be any worse at it than any other girl.

  15. In other words... by Ragnarok21 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...drink until she's cute, but stop before the wedding.

  16. Sperm? They Can be Superficial? by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does the article posting mean this in a topological meaning? :-)

    I take that to mean on the chest and face. (.Y.)

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  17. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah shit. Premature again...

  18. More Seminal Fluid == Male Thinks Woman is Hot? by StaticEngine · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thus, Peter North thinks every single woman is a total babe.

  19. From the article: by drunken_boxer777 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Males may alter the velocity of sperm they allocate to copulations by strategically firing their left and right ejaculatory ducts, which can operate independently," they explained.

    "I know what you're thinking. 'Did he fire one ejaculatory duct or two?' Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya?"

  20. Re:Doing the Dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It took me three tries to realize you weren't being literal.

  21. Re:if you are talking ejaculate volume by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...you need to talk about testicle size

    And testicle count. A common misconception is that human males only have two, when they actually have three. This is because the center testicle is hidden in a fold of scrotum between the other two. Women who are interested should check this out with their husbands and boyfriends tonight.

  22. Re:For animals yes,,, but... by atraintocry · · Score: 5, Funny

    she's entirely vacant

    In her defense, she appears that way in her movie and TV work as well.

  23. Re:Thanks Captain Obvious... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    5. Female

  24. Re:and what makes a female rat attractive? by notarockstar1979 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Helens? the amount of beauty required to launch 1000 ships

    And burn the topless towers of Ilium. Therefore 1 picoHelen is equivalent of enough beauty to put a rubber duck in the bathtub and light a scented candle.

  25. Re:Thanks Captain Obvious... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    6. Human

  26. Re:if you are talking ejaculate volume by Meumeu · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...you need to talk about testicle size

    And testicle count. A common misconception is that human males only have two, when they actually have three. This is because the center testicle is hidden in a fold of scrotum between the other two. Women who are interested should check this out with their husbands and boyfriends tonight.

    [citation needed]

  27. Re:From the department of duh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow - WTF is this discussion doing on slashdot?!?

    Making really interesting reading for your potential future employers.

  28. Re:and what makes a female rat attractive? by mcgrew · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you tried to find an "objective" measure of hawtness (realizing part of your point is that you can't), but the subject's metric differed, then you might find no correlation

    I've found that with age, my idea of attractiveness has changed greatly. When I was young, the skinnier a woman was the more attracted I was, but these days skinny girls don't turn me on at all. Now I prefer slightly overweight to slightly underweight, and fat to skeleton-thin.

    When I was 15, a thirty year old looked like an old hag, at 40 an identical woman was hot, now I'd feel like a child molester if I went to bed with almost any 30 year old.

  29. Re:For animals yes,,, but... by bitt3n · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is knows as the Hottie-Frigid paradox. The most scorching hot women are nearly certain to be lousy in bed.

    every girl I've had in my bed has been lousy, but to be fair, most of the louses were there to begin with

  30. Re:For animals yes,,, but... by Razalhague · · Score: 2, Funny

    dead fish fuckers

    That's necroikthyophiles, you insensitive clod!

  31. Says who? by raehl · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spoken like someone who has given up all hope of having sex with an extremely attractive woman. Unless she's bored, or really new to sex, it's highly unlikely that she'll be any worse at it than any other girl.

    Spoken like someone who has either never had sex with not-so-attractive women (you're missing out!) or not had sex with extremely attractive women (you're missing out!) or someone who has not had sex with women (not that there's anything wrong with that!)

  32. Re:From the department of duh? by bitt3n · · Score: 3, Funny

    I find the best way to remove a bra is to make sure that things are moving smoothly and then say, "Lose the bra".

    I prefer to use that as a pickup line. To each his own I guess.

  33. Re:Being married for 15 years, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown.

  34. Re:From the department of duh? by gnick · · Score: 2, Funny

    Future employers? I posted that from work. I'm making interesting reading for my current (and hopefully not soon-to-be-former) employer!

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  35. Re:Doing the Dog by MindlessAutomata · · Score: 2, Funny

    I "did the dog" once. Never again. Fleas everywhere.

  36. If she's very, very attractive by reboot246 · · Score: 2, Funny

    sometimes the sperm are in such a damned hurry that you don't even have time to get inside.

  37. Obligatory by istartedi · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean like this?

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  38. New Study: Beer makes sperm travel faster! by randy+of+the+redwood · · Score: 3, Funny

    If drinking makes women more attractive, and attractive women make sperm travel faster, it follows that...

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