// posted September 10, 2006 by Lou Schuler
Several readers sent me links to the story about the Detroit Lions assistant coach who got busted twice for DWI; the first time, according to the initial news report, while naked. I was all set to post it — you don’t often get a chance to blog about naked NFL assistant coaches — but then I heard on ESPN radio that he wasn’t really naked. The host, if I recall correctly, said he was wearing underwear and a vest. There went my blog meat. I could write about guys in their underwear any day of the week.
But then my wife sent me this one, which has all the hallmarks of premium blog chow: Not only is there a naked person, but the story takes place in a red state and involves law-enforcement personnel:
The police chief, the mayor and a councilman from a small, southwestern Oklahoma town resigned Friday,…
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// posted August 15, 2006 by Lou Schuler
Here’s evidence — as if we really needed it — that the man-woman thing is designed to be out of synch:
Researchers from Germany found that four years into a relationship, less than half of 30-year-old women wanted regular sex.
Conversely, the team found a man’s libido remained the same regardless of how long he had been in a relationship.
Naturally, there’s an evolutionary explanation:
Dr. Dietrich Klusmann, lead author of the study and a psychologist from Hamburg-Eppendorf University, believed the differences were down to human evolution.
He said: “For men, a good reason their sexual motivation to remain constant would be to guard against being cuckolded by another male.”
But women, he said, have evolved to have a high sex drive when they are initially in a relationship in order to form a “pair bond” with their partner.
But, once this bond is sealed a woman’s sexual appetite declines, he added. He said animal behaviour…
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// posted August 11, 2006 by Lou Schuler
Toward the end of my vacation, I heard news of this study, which shows that teens who listen to music that portrays women as sex objects or men as heroic seed-spreaders will tend to have sex at earlier ages.
The study doesn’t say so, but I suspect that sort of music also encourages kids to dress like village idiots and engage in any number of IQ-lowering behaviors.
I know this sort of news is supposed to get middle-aged people like me in a red-assed uproar, but I remember my teen years well enough to shrug it off. Some kids are going to do crazy shit, and my guess is that those kids are likely to gravitate toward thump-thump-thump music in the first place. There still might be a stimulus-response effect, but we all know that some fuses are shorter and more easily sparked than others.
But here‘s an ironic twist…
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// posted May 16, 2006 by Lou Schuler
The Washington Post has a special report this morning on teen sexuality. But if you’re expecting a fear-and-loathing, “these kids today are demented” kind of report, you’re in for a shock. The collection of stories compares attitudes about teen sex in Europe and the U.S. and finds that the Europeans have a healthier outlook.
Try this for starters:
Pierre-Andre Michaud, chief of the Multidisciplinary Unit for Adolescent Health at the University of Lausanne Hospital in Switzerland and a leading researcher in European teen sexuality, dismisses the idea — widely held in the United States — that sex constitutes risky behavior for teens. In an editorial in May’s Journal of Adolescent Health, he wrote:
“In many European countries — Switzerland in particular — sexual intercourse, at least from the age of 15 or 16 years, is considered acceptable and even part of normative adolescent behavior.” Switzerland, he noted, has one of the world’s…
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// posted May 8, 2006 by Lou Schuler
This will come as a shock, but it seems some young people aren’t taking their “virginity pledges” too seriously. Not the “virginity” part, anyway:
More than half of the adolescents who make the signed public promises give up on their pledges within a year, according to the study released last week.
Virginity pledges were introduced in the early 1990s as part of the Christian Sex Education Project. Their adult champions hail the promises, which rest solely on the individual’s word, as being a major step toward reducing teen pregnancy and raising moral values.
By some estimates, at least 2.5 million adolescents around the world have publicly vowed to postpone sex until marriage. They include virgins, as well as those who have had sexual experiences but who swear to refrain from further activity. …
For the Harvard report, researcher Janet Rosenbaum analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a survey…
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// posted May 4, 2006 by Lou Schuler
Slate’s Liza Mundy finds the bad news in declining teen-pregnancy rates:
Between 1990 and 2000 the U.S. teen pregnancy rate plummeted by 28 percent, dropping from 117 to 84 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19. Births to teenagers are also down, as are teen abortion rates. It’s an achievement so profound and so heartening that left and right are eager to take credit for it, and both can probably do so. Child-health advocates generally acknowledge that liberal sex education and conservative abstinence initiatives are both to thank for the fact that fewer teenagers are ending up in school bathroom stalls sobbing over the results of a home pregnancy test.
What, though, if the drop in teen pregnancy isn’t a good thing, or not entirely? What if there’s a third explanation, one that has nothing to do with just-say-no campaigns or safe-sex educational posters? What if teenagers are less fertile than…
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// posted April 28, 2006 by Lou Schuler
Last summer, I wrote a proposal for a book that would challenge many of the assumptions we hold about health, fitness, nutrition, and sports. My coauthor, an exercise physiologist, and I had both read Freakonomics recently, and we both thought our field of expertise was ripe for the same treatment.
The proposal covered a wide range of topics, some innocuous (why it’s a bad idea for kids to specialize in single sports at early ages) and some deliberately controversial. Every argument would be based on published research that, for various reasons, was ignored by the mainstream media and the most influential people in the worlds of health and fitness.
The most controversial chapter was the one on steroids. We argued that the dangers of steroids have been overblown, while the benefits have been ignored. One of the biggest benefits is that testosterone injections are a pretty good form of male…
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// posted April 19, 2006 by Lou Schuler
When I was browsing around for health and nutrition stories this morning, I was struck by how many stunningly obvious headlines I came across: “Stress causes anxiety!” “Lousy marriages are bad for your health!” “Middle-aged people actually have sex!”
But I settled on this one, because it has the advantage of being obvious in a way we men can appreciate:
Catching sight of a pretty woman really is enough to throw a man’s decision-making skills into disarray, a study has found. The more testosterone he has, the vaguer he will be, according to work by Belgian researchers.
Men about to play a financial game were shown images of sexy women or lingerie. The … study found they performed worse than men who had not been exposed to the alluring images.
The suggestion is that the sexual cues distract the men’s thoughts, preventing them from focusing on their task…
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// posted March 2, 2006 by Lou Schuler
You won’t find this in history books, mostly because it took place before the invention of written language. But scientists now believe the best time to be a man was 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age:
According to the study, north European women evolved blonde hair and blue eyes at the end of the Ice Age to make them stand out from their rivals at a time of fierce competition for scarce males.
The study argues that blond hair originated in the region because of food shortages 10,000-11,000 years ago. Until then, humans had the dark brown hair and dark eyes that still dominate in the rest of the world. Almost the only sustenance in northern Europe came from roaming herds of mammoths, reindeer, bison and horses. Finding them required long, arduous hunting trips in which numerous males died, leading to a high ratio of surviving…
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// posted February 23, 2006 by Lou Schuler
Relax: It’s not you, and it’s certainly not me. But it’s very possibly this guy. From The Smoking Gun:
This country, as you know, is filled with the deranged. And then there’s Travis Frey, a 33-year-old Iowa man who is facing charges that he tried to kidnap his own wife (not to mention a separate child pornography rap). Frey, prosecutors contend, apparently is a rather demanding guy. In fact, he actually drew up a bizarre four-page marriage document — a “Contract of Wifely Expectations” — that sought to establish guidelines for his spouse in terms of hygiene, clothing, and sexual activities.
The contract required his wife to give him three hours a night, which he called “my time,” in which she had to be naked and was not allowed to argue, complain, criticize, or “be distracted from me, by other things.” He also wanted her “to do what you are asked,…
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