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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.
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...
If she was not attractive, why would he even be in there? Unless of course it is right after the bars close.
Oh wait . . .
Bars = alcohol
alcohol = drunk
ugly girls = cute girls
Now I've got it.
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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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In other news, men find sex more enjoyable with a woman who they find attractive instead of a "been-around-the-block-20-times, looks like the love child of Chewbacca and Worf, old battle-axe" woman.
... I can see a problem with this study if applying it's conclusions to people. I imagine the amount of sperm has to do more with being extremely turned on and not just attractiveness, you can be with a beautiful girl and not be that turned on because you don't get along that well, and you can be with an average girl who you connect with on a fundamental level that turns you on way more then the prettier girl.
Does the speed vary depending on inner beauty too?
The best part of this article is the tag "!newsfornerds".
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Interesting, allthough I'm pretty sure that Santax's balls do not make that difference.
nature does its best to let you make beer-goggle copulation decisions
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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Or vice versa, if I read the article correctly...
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This article was pretty interesting; for example the possible link between this and fertility rates. If there is indeed a link, it's going to come as a slap to the face for some couples having trouble. I also found it pretty interesting that sperm quality can be improved by daily masturbation.
"My crime is that of curiosity."
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.
Yeah, and? It's also been established that other male mammals, including humans, can reply with something call semen displacement (circumsized males need not apply, some restrictions may apply, see mate for full rules and details) Women aren't without their biological defenses either; Concealing ovulation, various vaginal defenses, such as lack of secretions leading to a lower likelihood of fertility, etc., etc.
But really people, is it so freaking hard to just take us out to dinner, kiss our neck afterwords in an intimate and quiet environment, and actually DO the foreplay (and for those in longer-term relationships, not have it become formulaic?) Because if the sex sucks, it isn't going to matter how much scientific knowledge you have about the mating process -- it doesn't change the fact that it will still end in tears for you! *mutters* They can tell me down to the molecular level how conception works, but they can't even get the damn condom out of the wrapper and a bra off without completely ruining it...
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Don't worry, I don't need to pull out because you're ugly.
Then why is the world full of so many ugly people?
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with a sperm race? With betting! A perfect blend of OTB and Miss Universe.
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That is, if you are a 13 year old "virgin".
in the animal kingdom and in humans, you need to talk about testicle size
testicle size is a very good indicator of how monogamous females are. for example, chimpanzee females are very promiscuous. therefore, male chimpanzees have huge testicles. why? well, if the idea is you have to leave some offspring in this world, the only valid route you can take to ensure that with promiscuous females is to have a huge ejaculate load, to literally flood out competing males' sperm
it follows then that attractive females, with more frequent mating possibilities, require more "output" to ensure your reproductive success. so, biologically, it may not be a matter of aesthetic pleasure leading to greater sperm volume, but simply a matter of fear: you need to dump a huge load to make sure your sperm outcompetes all the other mating opportunities an attractive female can command
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I wonder what the evolutionary mechanics are to this. Why race to an attractive woman's egg more than an unattractive one? Seems that from a male perspective, it doesn't matter who the recipient is as long as the generic material is transferred, so men should always give it 100%. So we then arrive at the idea that men hold back on ugly partners. Now, why put yourself at a competitive disadvantage for unattractive women? What kind of evolutionary penalty is there? Does our reproductive system recognize that prettier people make for more successful future generation's mating? This would I believe be a new discovery in genetics and evolution. That our selves are organized just not for the immediate generation but successive generations as well.
Additionally, what does this mean for intercultural, interracial dating, where different societies find other societies' traits as attractive or repugnant?
Any other ideas on why giving it your all might not produce a favorable genetic distribution?
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I really hope they're not projecting their own feelings and biases into the equation here. For this experiment to have any scientific value, there must be an objective measure of attractiveness, one with a proper definition and units (including a calibration standard). Can someone please tell me, for humans, what this measurement is based on, what the units are (Helens? the amount of beauty required to launch 1000 ships - but beauty is not attractiveness) and, most important, who the calibration reference is?
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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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Ah shit. Premature again...
Thus, Peter North thinks every single woman is a total babe.
Coincidentally(?) another study (American Naturalist) claims more attractive MALES releasing fewer sperm (they don't mention any correlation as to the attractiveness of females). Not quite the same thing but related.
Found this article at ScienceDaily.com, a great website by the way. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709095425.htm
attractive people seem to have more dates!
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Is there something more fundamental here? From the study, if it is true that ejaculation is better if the man finds the woman attractive and/or is highly turned on and it is more likely that the man is more turned on with a new girl (assumption ofcourse) than the same boring spouse that he sleeps with every night, does this mean that man was fundamentally a creature of instinct than commitment and that for better reproduction he should mate with more females than be married to one or something like that ?
I can't for the life of me remember the study, or who the man was that was considered the most un-appealing, but there was a study done that measure aesthetics, and then judged celebrities based on their "scientific aesthetic value" and from what I can remember of the study, it was actually based on something more than the "Schwing" factor.
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In my younger days, quantity was more important and I would often "do the dog". This had several advantages. They were eager because they didn't get much attention paid to them. So not much work (or money) was needed to woo them. They would also be eager to please and would do things that the hot girls wouldn't (think swallow). Now I find that there was another great reason for doing the dog. My swimmers weren't as eager and it saved me a lot of child support money.
Yes, I am old enough to remember going bareback and not worrying (or even knowing) about AIDS. It is a different world now.
Isn't that discovery already demonstrated eloquently in bukake porn?
"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?"
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Hey baby, you make me produce faster sperm! giggidy.
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Haven't they done cross-cultural studies that tie attractiveness to specific physical characteristics that appear linked to successful child bearing & rearing? Specific bust/waist ratios, etc? Wouldn't it make some kind of sense that the body would invest more resources in a reproductive partner though to be a better child bearer?
The study *I* want to read isn't "Why do hot girls get fucked more?" --- we know that, but we don't know why we put up with all the narcissism and bitchy attitude for the nominal improvement in sex and a palpable dent in our wallets.
How can they be sure they got accurate results?
Q: Did you have sex with this woman?
A: Yes.
Q: How much seminal fluid was there?
A: Uh, a lot. Yeah. I'm like a ThirstBuster nozzle on game day.
Q: Did you find her attractive?
A: N-- uh, what? Of course! I dig hunches.
I think this is a new low, and for samzenpus, that's a difficult feat.
Sturgeon was an optimist.
Hey baby, you're so hot, you make my sperm go supersonic! giggidy.
Aw come on, it's friday and you post this story? How could I not DP! (giggidy)
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It could be on a MEAN top OHHHH GRAphical angle...
Next up: "Well-balanced sperm produces happier babies... Happy babies grow to produce happier, cuter offspring..."...
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... is that Peter North finds women really, really, really attractive?
You are of limited experience. I, for one, know better.
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Scientists have done surveys of people all over the world, from all different cultures. They asked men, "If you were stranded on a desert island with only one woman, what should she look like?" and showed the guys silhouettes of various women. They showed the same pictures to women and asked, "Which lady do you think the guys will pick?" Men like curvy women, while women, for some reason, think men want emaciated looking girls.
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In promiscuous species, a male has a seminal fluid budget to spend carefully, there's every reason in the word to weight the amount produced by the expected fitness of the offspring. Humans are not that promiscuous, which is why our testicles are not as big as say bonobo who need a large sperm budget to go through their day.
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Less attractive chicks are, on average, better in bed than more attractive chicks. By a significant margin
The conclusion should be pretty obvious - people don't like to work unless they have to, and the uglier the girl is, the more she has to.
This message spoken by someone with a large enough sample size to draw a statistically significant conclusion.
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!)
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I have to say, I am having the same experience (with the exception that I never liked skinny/flat girls). As I get older, girls who I would have had no problem sleeping with when I was younger (e.g. 16 years old), would now just seem somewhat creepy. The formula given in xkcd is quite accurate in my experience.
Just because you fail as a spouse doesn't mean the rest of us do. Of course what do I know I just teach the stuff and am in an enviable marriage...
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This kind of research is really useful, men will finally want to have sex with attractive women.
There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown.
thats why I'm not an illigitimate father...
The first part of the FA says that my sperm will go faster if I think the woman is attractive. Ok. But then they say that smoking marijuana will slow my sperm down! Now wait! If I think the woman is attractive after I've smoked because she looks like a Frito ... which effect is stronger?? Did they test for that?? Does one does one effect cancel the other?? C'mon guys!
This is sloppy research. We are not impressed.
Considering the nature of the parent's post it is doubtful that they will understand your joke...or have the foresight to google it. It is good to know that someone uses the phrase though, I tried telling the joke to co-workers once...I gave up.
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You're describing premature ejaculation.
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in the animal kingdom and in humans, you need to talk about testicle size
testicle size is a very good indicator of how monogamous females are.
Very true. My wife has HUGE testicles, and she's always flirting with other guys.
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Would the result be the same if it was a less attractive partner, but one who was still a great turn on? Like a plain looking woman who can talk at length about the Uncertainty Principle and knows where your buttons are....
By the way, this isn't about being "superficial" this is about enhancing the likelihood of healthier, arguably better members of the species passing on genes. Nature isn't superficial... it's pragmatic. Superficial is a word invented by ugly people to hurt the feelings of better looking people. It's not my fault i like big boobs, slender waists and bright blue eyes. i didn't choose that.
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sometimes the sperm are in such a damned hurry that you don't even have time to get inside.
I was doing it five times a day... The poor girl getting the end of day encounter got a thimble full no matter how good looking she was or wasn't. The morning girl always got a full two table spoons ...
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Thanks to eating disorders most chicks are reasonably good looking these days.
Then why are we all knocking up the bar skanks instead of our actual hot girlfriends!? Sheesh....stupid PBR...
I still can't tell from reading the article whether this means the sperm just leaves faster or if the sperm actually swim faster once they've landed. I wouldn't be too shocked if it just shot out faster - being more attracted to someone could easily result in a faster money shot. I can't understand how this would make a difference though, seems like they still have a long way to swim, and the vaginal walls probably would probably block most of the shot anyway, they still have a long way to swim. Other factors like length, or depth at time of ejaculation seem like they would be much bigger factors.
On the other hand, the sperm actually swimming faster seems remarkable. Maybe someone can clarify, does the amount of seminal fluid determine the rate the sperm swim or the velocity of the sperm leaving upon ejaculation, or both?
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Not exactly my preferred mind-picture of "open source", thank you.
"The plural of anecdote is not data" is more succinct, and doesn't require knowing the joke (and making a leap through a murky analogy--unless you are calling non-skinny women cows, in which case it's an allegory).
On the upside though, your way has the bonus that you can make fun of the GP for being too dumb to get it.
One of the three jokes known to Christopher, the protagonist in the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, concerns the preciseness with which mathematicians apply the term "at least one." As told by Christopher (Haddon 2003, p. 142), the joke runs as follows. "There are three men on a train. One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician. And they have just crossed the border into Scotland (I don't know why they are going to Scotland) and they see a brown cow standing in a field from the window of the train (and the cow is standing parallel to the train). And the economist says, 'Look, the cows in Scotland are brown.' And the logician says, 'No. There are cows in Scotland of which at least one is brown.' And the mathematician says, 'No. There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown.
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Listen, my own Grandmother relied on anecdotal data, and she lived to be 117 years old!
That said, life is anecdotal...
Data is a construct by which we may delude ourselves with the notion that our intellect can transcend experience.
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You mean like this?
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
More arousal and longer buildup means more ejaculate. Also a factor is the time since last orgasm. There are also various medical conditions and anomalies that can have an effect there too. I'd say that arousal probably has the least to do with it out of those three factors.
And either way, it's not the sperm deciding to travel faster when inside an attractive woman, it's that they can travel more easily when they are in more seminal fluid which is released in larger quantities in certain situations.
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If drinking makes women more attractive, and attractive women make sperm travel faster, it follows that...
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1) How did they judge the sexiness/hotness of fish? Did one of the scientist's say "Whoa! Look at her dorsal fin! This one's super sexy, throw her into the tank". Perhaps the male fish went for the ugly and easily accessible ones, and the sperm traveled faster in those?
2) How is this supposed to have anything to do with humans?
3) Why didn't Discovery News elaborate on the methods?
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
That just leaves more women with nice big round asses for Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy.
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that my sperm would run backwards???
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
Another study says attractive males release fewer sperm per mating.
So the conclusions are:
attractive women = faster sperm
attractive men = fewer sperm
While that may explain Ron Jeremy, I think that these studies show that the scientists have too much time on their hands, so to speak.
But the real question is, do they stalk them longer too?
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Researchers found that males can adjust the speed and effectiveness of their sperm by regulating the amount of seminal fluid they produce during copulation
While I belong to the men species, I thought, in all fairness, that we have to add something here. The more aroused the female is, the more vaginal lubrication fluid she secretes. This fluid makes a more aqueous environment favorable to sperm mobility. Meaning, the more a man is attractive, the more the female will help sperm mobility.
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Well It gave me a good laugh
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