I’m over at SciAm Blogs today, and for the next few days, blogging the fabulously weird IgNobel prizes!! The ceremony was last night, and now I’m doing in depth analyses of all of the winners, and we’re starting with…weirdest first. The IgNobel winner in public health, the reattachment of the penis, unless of course, it […]
Today’s post is some seriously OLD science. Old science and WEIRD science, coming to you courtesy of Mt. Sinai hospital in NYC, 1913. And it’s also the WEIRDEST conjunction of this: And this: That Sci has ever seen. Gerster AG, Mandlebaum FS. “XI. On the Formation of Bone in the Human Penis.” Annals of Surgery, […]
It was ALL OVER the internet (check out Observations of the Nerd for some particularly good coverage), of course you know I HAD to blog it, right? Sadly, it got taken over in the first week by the Oxytocin weeks of DOOM (oh, it was doom, there were a lot of late nights that week, […]
This post brought to you by Ben and Jerry’s Dublin Mudslide Ice Cream. Because the Twitter people are like little devils on my shoulder, making me eat the cake… So Sci was going to do her final oxytocin post on another study in humans for oxytocin levels during male masturbation, but you know, you’ve seen […]
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. […]
Editor’s Selection Icon Who would have thought Sci would be running a normal pub-med search, for something COMPLETELY not weird science material, and come across…this? Truly, it was meant to be! This case report is probably one of the weirdest things I’ve seen all week, and kept Sci scratching her head as to the possible […]
This is a story of what happens when you combine a man, a sexual encounter, a pen, and a complete and thorough ignorance of human anatomy.
penises are interesting. If they weren’t, I wouldn’t write about them half so much. And when they get “broken”, they are even MORE interesting. And hard to fix.
However, for all that we have fifty million words for “penis”, “sex”, and “hard-on”, there are actually still doubts about how things like erection actually WORK.
So we know that beetles are capable of displacing sperm from the other males that came before them. But what about the males of other species? What about…Humans?