Members of the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Warr Acres, Oklahoma have expressed outrage at the recent installation of a 10-foot tall Crucifix above the altar: Because they say it depicts Jesus with an enormously huge schlong.
The crucifix in question is based on th San Damiano cross, a common Catholic icon that originated in Italy in the 12th century and is widely associated with St. Francis of Assisi and the order he founded, the Franciscans.
“I think it’s an embarrassment to our Lord. I think it’s an embarrassment to our parishioners. And I think it’s an embarrassment to our visitors,” said one old lady.
“I was appalled at the sexualization of Christ.”
“I’m already very sensitive because of the pedophilia issue.”
One of the many tools I use to track and analyze traffic on Diggz.org is a free service from Statcounter.com. One key metric I look at on Statcounter is to determine what search terms web surfers use to find my blog.
A huge percentage of these search terms are the same…so when I saw this, it kinda stood out:
While I don’t have first-hand knowledge, I’m fairly certain Amanda Palmer is all woman, and always has been.
Meet the Roxxxy TrueCompanion. This doll has an artificial intelligence engine programmed to learn your likes and dislikes. She can listen, feel, and speak to her owner.
The doll features five “girlfriend personalities,” including, Frigid Farrah, Wild Wendy, Mature Martha, and more. Users can also built custom profiles online and swap them with friends. The doll goes on sale next week for roughly $7,000-9,000 plus a subscription fee, which is “comparable to a cell plan,” according to Roxxxy’s creator.
Philematologists, the scientists who study kissing, aren’t exactly sure why humans started locking lips in the first place. The most likely theory is that it stems from primate mothers passing along chewed food to their toothless babies. The lip-to-lip contact may have been passed on through evolution, not only as a necessary means of survival, but also as a general way to promote social bonding and as an expression of love.
But something’s obviously happened to kissing since the time of the chewed-food pass. Now, it’s believed that kissing helps transfer critical information, rather than just meat bits. The kissing we associate with romantic courtship may help us to choose a good mate, send chemical signals, and foster long-term relationships. All of this is important in evolution’s ultimate goal—successful procreation.
Female water striders don’t like the bad boys and they don’t even have to reach the age of 30 before they wise up about choices in males.
Water striders are those insects commonly seen skittering hurriedly across the surface of streams but when it comes to romance, male water striders who played it cool mated with more females than did groups of aggressive males, according to a study led by Omar Tonsi Eldakar of the University of Arizona’s Arizona Research Laboratories.
Previous studies have found that more sexually aggressive males are the most successful at reproducing, said Eldakar, now a postdoctoral research associate in UA’s Center for Insect Science, but in the previous studies he says the females were not able to leave areas populated by sexually aggressive males.
By simulating a more natural situation, the current study showed that female water striders moved away from areas where they were being harassed by males. The females preferred to hang out in locations where the males did not pursue females relentlessly.
I don’t think I want to look too deeply at the science behind this, but according to a new book, “Why Women Have Sex”, women cite some rather unexpected reasons, including:
Ever wonder why you are attracted to certain people…or types of people? Perhaps it’s because of how they smell.
To detect pheromones, most vertebrates use the vomeronasal organ (often called the VNO, or Jacobson’s organ). It’s the thing that, when disabled, made female mice attempt to mate with other female mice and also turned male hamsters impotent. Since the early 1990s, scientists have fiercely debated whether or not humans have functional VNOs.
What would it be like to have a working VNO? Think of it as a sixth sense, or a “sex sense,” to complement the traditional five. It could allow men to smell when women are ovulating, and decide whether or not it’s the right time to have sex.
Every person has different markers on the surface of their cells called Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC markers) that indicate immunities or susceptibilities to various diseases. Like fingerprints, your MHC markers are unique. To create the fittest offspring, you need to mate with someone with strengths and weaknesses very different from your own.
That’s why the body advertises its MHC through pheromones in sweat. Research suggests that statistically, humans mate with people with vastly different MHCs more often than not….which probably also explains why you’re not attracted to your cousin. Not even the least bit. Nope. I swear!
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Philematologists, the scientists who study kissing, aren’t exactly sure why humans started locking lips in the first place. The most likely theory is that it stems from primate mothers passing along chewed food to their toothless babies. The lip-to-lip contact may have been passed on through evolution, not only as a necessary means of survival, but also as a general way to promote social bonding and as an expression of love.
