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frandroidSwingers clubs legal, top court rules [from thestar.com]
Yay! Not that I'll be found in a swingers club, but maybe Bill O'Reilly can seize this and freak out a little bit. Or maybe Pat Robertson. Now we can be sex-crazed canuckistanis!
Speaking of sex...
Researchers at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Open University in the U.K. found that creative people can have more than twice the number of sexual partners as non-creative people.
The researchers believe people who make art and poetry are in effect drawing attention to themselves, which translates into more sexual encounters.
"We found that people who create poetry and art are attracting members of the opposite sex by displaying their works," said Daniel Nettle, the lead author of the study. "It's a creative peacock effect."
The researchers asked 425 people about their sexual history, mental health and level of creative production. The results showed that artists and poets had been with four to 10 sexual partners, whereas non-creative people had been with only three. As well, the number of sexual partners increased with the amount of creative production.
Not only are artists having all the sex, they may be transmitting schizophrenia to future generations.
By cross-referencing the results of creative people with those of schizophrenics, they were able to identify a link between creativity and mental illness. Which, Nettle said, explains why schizophrenia continues to exist in spite of the low reproduction rates of the people who suffer from the condition.
The sexual prowess of artists ensures that both creativity and mental illness will persist in our gene pool. "You'd imagine the genes (that cause schizophrenia) would become rarer and rarer and eventually disappear, but (since) the same temperament is also found in lots of people who are attractive and charismatic — people who are likely to reproduce — then that solves the puzzle," Nettle said.
[from this article, at Artists, Sexual life of]
Yay! Not that I'll be found in a swingers club, but maybe Bill O'Reilly can seize this and freak out a little bit. Or maybe Pat Robertson. Now we can be sex-crazed canuckistanis!
Speaking of sex...
Researchers at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Open University in the U.K. found that creative people can have more than twice the number of sexual partners as non-creative people.
The researchers believe people who make art and poetry are in effect drawing attention to themselves, which translates into more sexual encounters.
"We found that people who create poetry and art are attracting members of the opposite sex by displaying their works," said Daniel Nettle, the lead author of the study. "It's a creative peacock effect."
The researchers asked 425 people about their sexual history, mental health and level of creative production. The results showed that artists and poets had been with four to 10 sexual partners, whereas non-creative people had been with only three. As well, the number of sexual partners increased with the amount of creative production.
Not only are artists having all the sex, they may be transmitting schizophrenia to future generations.
By cross-referencing the results of creative people with those of schizophrenics, they were able to identify a link between creativity and mental illness. Which, Nettle said, explains why schizophrenia continues to exist in spite of the low reproduction rates of the people who suffer from the condition.
The sexual prowess of artists ensures that both creativity and mental illness will persist in our gene pool. "You'd imagine the genes (that cause schizophrenia) would become rarer and rarer and eventually disappear, but (since) the same temperament is also found in lots of people who are attractive and charismatic — people who are likely to reproduce — then that solves the puzzle," Nettle said.
[from this article, at Artists, Sexual life of]
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Date: 2005-12-22 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-22 06:28 am (UTC)You need to exhibit your work, that's what. =)