Thursday, September 02, 2004

A Feeble Attempt In a feeble and shamless attempt to have this weblog banned at Panera, I offer the following from the Scotsman: IT’S a scientific fact: human brains are programmed for orgasms - with or without the actual sex act. Perhaps nobody listening to football commentators will be surprised by the news, claimed to have been proven by one of the lecturers at this week’s Orkney International Science Festival. Dr Robert Lomas - a solid-state physicist and an internationally known author on religious symbolism - says that evolution has allowed humans to develop the sex-free orgasm. "It’s the same reward mechanism that encourages us to share our DNA," said Dr Lomas. "But it can be achieved without the physical act of copulation." Only humans have this power to induce mental ecstasy, and it’s a complex set of responses that can be achieved by learned behavioural patterns or triggered by hyper-arousal during peak experiences, he says. "At times of hyper-arousal, our brains are designed to freeload on the behavioural reward that encourages us to reproduce," he said. "And that is another name for orgasm." File under SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX Stuff That Don't Fit Anywhere Else. 7:23:23 PM