Not Seeing Is Still Believing

Sexual images affect your brain, even if you can’t consciously see them:

In an experiment, 40 men and women were shown erotic images that had been manipulated to bypass conscious detection. The participants consisted of both heterosexual and homosexual individuals. …

In general, the erotic images attracted or repelled attention depending on the gender of the nude model and also the sexual orientation of the subject. For example, heterosexual males tended to perform better on the pattern task when it followed the presentation of an invisible female nude than a male nude. Gay males, in contrast, showed more enhanced performance when exposed to invisible male nudes compared to female nudes.

“We didn’t predict that,” study team member Sheng He of the University of Minnesota told LiveScience. “We just wanted to see if invisible images can attract your attention or not.”

For women, the results were more mixed. Heterosexual females performed better after exposure to invisible male nudes, but their performance didn’t necessarily worsen when exposed to female nudes.

The performances of homosexual and bisexual females were somewhere in-between heterosexual male and heterosexual female groups.

Take-away message: No matter what the woman in your life says about erotica, she probably likes seeing some southern exposure.

What color is your pubic chute?

Here’s one of the oddest sex-related stories I’ve seen in a while: A wealthy socialite is marketing a line of pubic-hair dyes called Betty. Here’s how she explains what the name means:

“I was at a party last night where I took Betty as a gift for somebody. They opened it up and were like, ‘Oh my god, is that blah-blah dye?’ I said, ‘It’s color for the hair down there.’ ‘What’s it called?’ ‘Betty.’ ‘So it’s for your … ?’ ‘It’s for your betty.’ From that point on, everybody just started talking about their betty. It happens all the time. They’ll say, ‘Wow, I just found a gray hair down there,’ or, ‘I haven’t seen my betty in 20 years, but I feel like I want to do something with my betty.’”

“Do I have a betty?” I ask.

“Of course, men have betties, too. Everyone’s got one!”

Sorry, but I do not want my manifestation referred to as “betty.” “Moose” would be fine. “Archie” isn’t bad. I’d settle for “Jughead.” But the Louminator is not a betty.

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