A new study claims female infidelity is heriditary:

One woman in five in Britain is likely to be unfaithful to her partner, and we now know what to blame: her genes.

In one of the largest ever sexual surveys, involving 1,600 pairs of twins, scientists discovered that 40% of female infidelity can be explained by heredity….

Tim Spector, who directs twin research at the hospital, said that if genetics had a role in behaviour, then identical twins would always be more likely to share a trait than non-identical twins.

“Twins are the perfect natural experiment, because they do what you cannot do in families, that is, separate out nature and nurture.”

This totally ignores the fact that twins were raised in the same moral environment and thus nurture rather than nature could be at work.

More than 90% admitted to having thought about infidelity at some point.

Thought about it? Thought about it? Only 90%? Come on, I think 10% are lying!

How much safer can sex be when the partners aren’t even in the same city?

This is the control panel for the Sinulator, a device that controls the sex toys connected to your “partner’s” computer.

From Wired magazine:

Here’s how it works. Your Sinulator package includes the transmitter, a vibrator and a receiver. You download the client application from Sinulator.com. During installation, you connect the transmitter to a USB port….

When you’re all installed and have the client running, you attach your toy to the wireless receiver and switch it on. Finally, you go to Sinulator.com and choose a name for your toy. After that, anyone who knows your toy’s name can set your toy a-buzzin’ using the Sinulator control panel. Neither of you has to register or divulge any personal information — not even an e-mail address.

Read the whole thing — it’s halarious. And you learn that “teledildonics” is the name for this remote interaction technology.

Another gender gap has appeared, this time on a poll testing men’s and women’s knowledge of issues in the presidential campaign. On the eight-question quiz administered to 1,845 adults, men were more likely on every question to give the right answer.

The biggest gender gap was on the question asking which candidate supported moving American troops from Europe and South Korea to other places. Sixty percent of the men correctly identified President Bush, versus 43 percent of the women. There were also double-digit gaps on questions about Social Security and taxes.

The smallest gap, 54 percent versus 49 percent, was on a question asking which candidate wants to allow drugs to be imported from Canada (Senator John Kerry).

No wonder they vote for they guy with the best hair. Who gave them the vote anyway? [Just kidding, Honey!]

Backless and strapless, these babies sell for $43 (the bikinis, not the girls):

The new bikinis are designed for sunbathing avoiding the marks caused by straps. They and are held in place with a gel compound at the sides.

There’s a reason as to why men like women shaped like Barbie:

Large-breasted, narrow-waisted women have the highest reproductive potential, according to a new study, suggesting western men’s penchant for women with an hourglass shape may have some biological justification. …

“In Western societies, the cultural icon of Barbie as a symbol of female beauty seems to have some biological grounding,” concludes the team. “I would be the last person to propagate Barbie,” Jasienska notes wryly. “But when you think about the hourglass shape, Barbie is sort of the symbol.”

Ye gods! Yet another reason to hate the 60′s generation: they gave us Twiggy and birth rates are now declining in all western civilized countries.

Damn hippies.

The headline says: Girls have been faster learners for six million years, chimpanzee study shows

Reading the story you learn that the basis of the headline is that female chimps learn to “fish termites” at a much younger age than their male counterparts. You also learn that

Adult females spend more time termite fishing than adult males, which means that the young of both sexes seem to pursue activities at a very early age that are related to their different roles in later life . . .

As there was no comparison to young chimps learning a “male” trait, the headline is misleading — if not an outright lie.

Of course, it could be argued that adult male chimps don’t really do anything other than scratch themselves and be waited on hand and foot by females, thus there is nothing to learn. But that would be a speciest stereotype and I’m sure no one of intelligence would put forth such a theory.

Now where did I put that remote control? Honey, can you get me a Dew from the fridge?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an 18^th century intellectual who was (my professor assures me) the intellectual father of the French Revolution and the foundation for liberalism in America today.

As you can imagine, I’ve rather hated reading Rousseau. But I think that chapter five of “Emile” should be required reading for every little girl in every grade from first through twelfth. An example:

Thus the whole education of women ought to relate to men. To please men, to be useful to them, to make herself loved and honored by them, to raise them when young, to care for them when grown, to counsel them, to console them, to make their lives agreeable and sweet — these are the duties of women at all times, and they ought to be taught from childhood. So long as one does not return to this principle, one will deviate from the goal, and all the precepts taught to women will be of no use for their happiness or for ours.

Preach on, brother! Heh!

Researchers from London University have found that single women enjoy better mental health than their married counterparts, while single men are more likely to seek the help of a psychiatrist than their married counterparts.

Not shown in the study are the obvious facts that married men don’t go to psychiatrists because (1) the greatest portion of their income is going towards keeping a wife happy and (2) their wives tell them they don’t need to go see a professional.

Men did better if they just shacked up while women needed the official marriage prison commitment to feel good.

The researchers also found that serial sexual relationships were good for men, but not women.

Obviously women really are from another planet.

“No pain, no gain” goes the saying, and two scientists now say that “shop ’till you drop” is one of the reasons that women live longer. Shopping involves physical activity (all that reaching for the credit card, no doubt), challenges the brain (“Now, where am I going to put this totally useless item and how am I going to convince my husband that we can’t live without it?”), and maintaining a positive self-image (“Oh yeah, these pants make me look hot!”):

“Women go to the mall, and they have to walk around a lot, oftentimes carrying heavy bags. Secondly, they have to make a lot of decisions: ‘I have to compare this price with that . . . will this particular piece fit in my home?’ When they’re all done, they really feel good about themselves, like they’ve accomplished something,” said Dr McKhann, 70, professor of neurology and director of the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

“Men, on the other hand, are at home sitting in front of the TV trying to help [their football team] along, and that doesn’t do any of the three.”