Everything about Sexual Desire at The New York Times

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Everything about Sexual Desire at The New York Times

A special edition of the NYT Science Times.�Some of it is self-evident, but it's always a fun topic.

I think one common assumption of the researchers has something wrong, though, at least�for young men. For young men, the question should be what turns them off, not on: they're always on, otherwise.

It's amusing to read in the NYT about "hearty tumescence," but I thought the funniest quote was this:

�Listening to Noam Chomsky,� said a psychologist in her 50s, �always turns me on."

Good grief.�Under what rock�did they have to�look to find someone who would say that? But�at least she didn't say that her favorite was Al Gore with his hockey stick.

Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 08:45 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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The Times article was definitely tumescence-free. It needed some photos like yours.

#1 Art C. on 2007-04-10 10:01 (Reply)

This article has so many funny lines!

Noam Chomsky! WTH? Personally, I think they made that one up out of whole cloth.

And this paints a very interesting scenario....'Another may be tough to get started, but once galvanized �will not lose sexual arousal even if the ceiling comes down,'.

And this.....'Still another may be saddled with both a feeble sexual accelerator and an overzealous sexual inhibitor, an unenviable pairing most likely correlated with a taste for beige pantsuits and the music of Loggins and Messina.'

And then there is 'the tragedy of the male sex drive'????...'Men are theoretically ever anxious to share that bounty with others, a state of perpetual readiness that Roy F. Baumeister, a psychology professor at Florida State University, described as �the tragedy of the male sex drive.'

And this made me laugh out loud too...."As one married male photographer and editor in his mid-50s said, �Jeez, when I was 20, I couldn�t walk straight,�

I think the NYT needs a new anthem. How about "Crazy On You".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92k2hS55rwI&mode=related&search=

#2 Patina on 2007-04-10 22:27 (Reply)

Ha, good stuff Patina. Seems they could do a better job on the descriptors. But then, they sell papers don't they.

#3 Luther McLeod on 2007-04-11 00:03 (Reply)

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