Quote of the Day thinking seems like two things – a powerful engine (good memory, fast computation, abstractions) and a steering wheel (avoiding cognitive biases, noticing when beliefs are ince...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/04/25/interesting-analogy-from-someone-with-very-different-view/
I have interviewed a number of women on the topic of monogamy and/or the lack of it in their relationships. Numerous women told me things which indicate to me it was virtually impossible for them...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2024/03/24/confirming-evidence-of-my-hypothesis/
Another study in support of Dr. Joe’s Cure for Everything (see also these posts): Numerous studies have noticed that loneliness and social isolation are associated with cognitive decline in lat...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2023/10/23/dr-joes-cure-for-everything-improves-cognitive-function/
I used to be a scientist at a government laboratory. I found this amusing. Via Aella @Aella_Girl: There is more than a little truth in that.
Quote of the Day We have horrific double standards when talking about polyamory vs. monogamy. relationship issues in polyamory get blamed on the poly; relationship issues in monogamy dont even ge...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2023/08/31/an-alternate-point-of-view/
TV network slammed for airing a 15-person orgy: ‘I can’t believe this is on’ I wasn’t aware of a social etiquette rule about the number of people at an orgy. So, is a 14-person orgy okay ...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2023/05/28/would-just-14-people-been-acceptable/
Quote of the Day A new study in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy sought to investigate the relationship between sexual values and sexual incongruence as well as the effects of religiousness o...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2023/02/26/dont-make-impractical-sex-rules/
Really? The fear of the use of nuclear weapons by Russia against Ukraine looms over the current crisis, but some Ukrainians have found a… creative solution. A large group of Ukrainians has deci...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2022/10/10/they-are-doing-it-wrong/
HIV integrates its genetic material into the genome of a host cell, meaning available therapies just can’t remove it. A team of scientists at Temple University and the University of Nebraska Me...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2021/09/26/quote-of-the-day-annalee-armstrong/
Interesting: An analysis of data collected across 10 world regions suggests that men’s self-esteem is more strongly tied to their sexual success than women’s. The findings were published in t...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2021/09/19/self-esteem-correlated-with-number-of-sex-partners/
If you inch towards suggesting that people who do something other than monogamy might not be miserable or that they might have some advantages, they were just so hostile to that. I found that rea...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2020/08/06/quote-of-the-day-terri-conley/
This is almost unbelievable: People can predict with modest accuracy whether a man (but not a woman) has cheated before based solely on the appearance of his face, according to a recent study pub...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2019/06/28/looks-indicate-which-men-have-cheated/
Infidelity Lurks in Your Genes We have long known that men have a genetic, evolutionary impulse to cheat, because that increases the odds of having more of their offspring in the world. But now t...
Via a tweet from UR a Smart Ass, Carl @cleflore23: However much truth is in this statement I suspect this is good way to drive your odds of having sex asymptotically close to zero.
Most people in sexual partnerships end up facing the conundrum biologists call “habituation to a stimulus” over time, a growing body of research suggests that heterosexual women, in the aggre...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2019/02/19/quote-of-the-day-wednesday-martin/
Technology is advancing extremely rapidly. More and more jobs can be done by automation. This should come as no surprise: Male sex robots with unstoppable bionic penises are coming this year Davi...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2019/01/05/you-knew-it-was-coming-3/
Justin Lehmiller wrote a book, Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life. I participated in his research survey but haven’t read the book...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2018/11/12/democrats-sex-and-violence/
Interesting article in Psychology today. Most Americans Have Tried Unconventional SexThe popularity of unconventional sex raises questions about what’s “deviant.” … Imagine a playground f...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2018/10/27/the-sexual-playground/
I think everyone should get as much sex as they can. JodieOctober 23, 2018
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2018/10/24/quote-of-the-day-jodie/
I haven’t read this yet. It sounds interesting: An elementary mathematical theory based on “selectivity” is proposed to address a question raised by Charles Darwin, namely, how one gender o...
https://blog.joehuffman.org/2018/09/08/progressives-dont-want-you-to-read-this/