Basics: Guest Post 3: Sperm maturation and ejaculation

What you all were waiting for has finally come! Yeah. Sperm maturation and ejaculation OK!! So the last time I was over here at Neurotopia we were talking about sperm in their infancy. We discussed spermatogenesis — how we got from a diploid spermatogonial stem cell to a haploid spermatid — and then spermiogenesis — […]

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Friday Weird Science: Ejaculation 1, 2, 3…

Well well well. Here we are. It’s Friday. And we’ve been talking about SPERM ALL WEEK. What to do…what to do… Nel-Themaat et al. “Quality and freezing qualities of first and second ejaculates collected from endangered Gulf Coast Native rams” Animal Reproduction Science, 2006. Heh. So it turns out that the people who wrote the […]

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Friday Weird Science: Sex Therapists and the Expectations

We hereby take a break from the female reproductive cycle to ask: How’s your sex life? How do you FEEL about your sex life? More importantly, how does your SEX THERAPIST feel about your sex life? Corty EW, Guardiani JM. “Canadian and American sex therapists’ perceptions of normal and abnormal ejaculatory latencies: how long should […]

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Friday Weird Science: Creative Uses of the Stopwatch

For Sci, the weird science tends to come in spurts (heh heh…heh). There will be times when I am literally digging through Pubmed trying to find ANYTHING ODD AT ALL, and then there are times, like now, when people are tweeting and emailing and g-chatting and all but screaming in my ear with the weird. […]

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Oxytocin: Let’s hear it for the boys!

Sci will be honest. The migraine continues apace. But the oxytocin, it must be blogged. And the migraine medication, it makes Sci loopy! Given what I’ll be blogging today, that might not be a bad thing… I’ve already gone through some of the basics of oxytocin, and the famous effects that oxytocin has on females. […]

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