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Sexual Attraction - Do You Have The "JeNeSaisQuoi" to Get It?
Sex makes the world go round. But do you have the "JeNeSaisQuoi" to get it?
JeNeSaisQuoi – People who have "it" In anthropological terminology, "it" is described with the word "mana", namely, in the sense of a sum of the most positive human characteristics. The sum of all the things which drive the opposite-sex as well as same-sex people wild. "It" could also be called charisma – either way something the person has, which arouses intense excitement in another person. The trick is actually in the term itself which does not exist in...Sexual Attraction - Do You Have The "JeNeSaisQuoi" to Get It?
Are We Going to Buy Love in a Bottle?
Do you think that love potions exist only in fairytales? It is scientists who now promise us love in a bottle!
Love has a formula Love can be explained as a series of neurochemical events in specific brain centres, claims Larry Young, a professor at University of Atlanta in Georgia, in a renowned scientific magazine, Nature. Human emotions and behavior have evolved from animal kingdom where the hormone oxytocin, which functions as a neurotransmitter in the brain, without doubt, plays an important role in establishing the relationship between a mother and a child. Studies...Are We Going to Buy Love in a Bottle?
Ready to Meet a Girl-Robot?
The girl-robot has a bunch of the same characteristics as a real woman. How close have we come to inventing a luscious female sex robot? The Japanese seem to be pretty far!
We want space fun, so we see the future in movie special effects and computer games. Well, Japanese scientists have taken the first step, as usual, and have developed a girl-robot. These are publicly presented as creatures with girlish personalities and beings that are always available to please their owners. Because there is no stopping scientific progress, we are in for a perfected version of this mechanical girl. Japanese engineers will sooner or later come up with a...Ready to Meet a Girl-Robot?
Do We All Need to Have Sex?
Good old Freud claimed that sex is as important to people as food, water or sleep, and believed that sexual instinct is basis of all human activity. Was he right?
There are two types of people in the world: those who have sex and those who don't. The reasons why the second group don't have intercourse are, of course, different. Some people are not allowed to do it, or are waiting to get married. Some have no opportunity to do it, while others are afraid of sex. If you asked good old Freud for his opinion, he would say that the second group - those who practice abstinence - better watch themselves. It was Freud who popularised the...Do We All Need to Have Sex?
If you do it quick, it will probably be a boy!
The gender of your child is supposed to be determined by the pace of the intercourse.
Will it be a Boy or a Girl? Making love is not only an issue of pleasure and well being but a necessary means of procreation as well. The main purpose of sex is to sire progeny, or so we have been told. Taoists believe that the pace at which sexual intercourse is undertaken determines the gender of the child. This particular hypothesis springs from an eastern philosophical branch that had begun to “lay its spawn” thousands of years ago. However, it isn’t backed by western...If you do it quick, it will probably be a boy!
Why Do Breasts Become Bigger before Menstruation?
A scientific explanation of why breast increase in size and become more sensitive before menstruation.
Hormones are the reason. Higher level of estrogen can cause a histamine-like effect on microcirculation (microcirculation is the blood flow through small blood vessels). Increased breast blood flow some days before the menstruation is the result. Breast volume can increase by 6 to 12 inches! The feeling of tension is caused by proliferation (proliferation is fast division or reproduction of cells) of glands under the influence of estrogen and...Why Do Breasts Become Bigger before Menstruation?
Physicians had to remove a 6.6 stone ovarian cyst
A woman had an ovarian cyst for 12 years and it weighed 6.6 st.
Can you imagine carrying a 6.6 stone cyst in your abdomen? A 32-year old woman from Oklahoma had such a cyst removed. She has carried the cyst in her body for 12 years, before the physician noticed it at all. The fact which contributed to the situation was that all the physicians she saw advised her various diets due to the obvious obesity, as she weighed 34.7 st. They traced the cyst when one of the general physicians determined the woman...Physicians had to remove a 6.6 stone ovarian cyst
