I Bet You Didn't Know...

This section is dedicated to giving you fun and interesting facts about sex and relationships, a large part of which is focused on the anatomy, physiology, and psychology of men and women. 

1) Ecstasy or MDMA, was originally used during relationship counseling sessions as a way to remove inhibitions and help create emotional bonding between the couple. NO SHIT!!! Of course it does! Have you ever seen someone on ecstasy?!! They're touching everything in site and telling complete strangers that they love them. 

2) The female clitoris contains over 8,000 sensory receptors. So if you're a man and your lady tells you the only way she can get off is either by you going down on her or using a vibrator, now you know why.

3) The average person burns about 200 calories in a 30 minute span of sexual intercourse. Unfortunately for most, the average duration of sexual intercourse only lasts seven minutes. So I guess you're really only burning like.... 50 calories when all is said and done. 

4) One of the reasons couples relate sex to intimacy is because of oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone in the brain that modulates the feelings of bonding. Since it is often released abundantly during sex it is referred to by many doctors as the “love hormone.” 

5) Chocolate contains high levels of theobromine and phenethylamine, which increase serotonin levels. This explains why chocolate is referred to as an aphrodisiac, even though scientific confirmation of its effects as a sexual stimulus still remains unproven. But hey, if it gets you laid and she’s none-the-wiser, it won’t hurt her to be a victim of the placebo effect. It’s kind of like when adults think they’re drunk even though they’ve been consuming non-alcoholic beer.

6) Viagra is actually called sildenafil citrate and was originally used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), which is known to cause heart failure and weakness in the lungs. It wasn't until one of the male patients on the medication noticed that he couldn't get his major rager to go down that the pharmaceutical company's took note of its inherent uses and decided to market the product to treat floppy cock syndrome.

*See blog article "Standing At Attention"

7) It's estimated that between 30 - 40 million men in America experience erectile dysfunction randomly if not frequently. So for any males out there that think that it's happening to just you, you're not alone. 

8) Presently there are approximately 65 million Americans walking around with an STD. Only about 1/4 of those who are infected are aware of it. Think about that the next time you think about having unprotected sex.

9) This fun fact is dedicated to all of the females out there- Mascara was originally made from guano. A.K.A. bird-shit.  That's right. You can try to rationalize it all day to make yourself sleep better at night, but the fact remains, when you apply your mascara you're rubbing refined poop into your beautiful, long eyelashes. And people wonder how they got "pink eye". Well, there's your answer.

10) Erotophobia – fear of sexual love. This one is common among the entire Catholic Church. FYI erotophobia is commonly related to coitophobia. The sad, hapless, sons-of-bitches in the world that suffer from this will probably always be virgins. I'm only guessing here, but I suppose a man suffering from this thinks that if he sticks his penis inside of a woman, he's never getting it back. What a crime. 

11) Anthophobia – fear of flowers. I only find this one rather humorous because I can't help but imagine some poor, ignorant guy trying to be romantic and give the woman in his life flowers as a romantic gesture, only to then discover that she has Anthophobia when she runs away screaming, arms flailing. Seriously, you know that shit would be funny.

12) In Kenya there is a group known as the Pokot tribe . If a man in the tribe does not satisfy his wife to the point of orgasm the women will rally together secretly, come up behind him, tie him up, beat him, and then they all proceed to urinate on him. They do this as a way to humiliate the male partner and teach him a lesson about maintaining his marital duties by satisfying his wife sexually. The lesson here is simple. Do a job well or don't do it at all.

13) The expression “hung like a bull” or “hung like a horse” is more than just a recent metaphor. In fact, the Hindu book the Kamasutra actually categorizes men according to their penis sizes. Men with a penis size of approximately 6.75 inches are listed as “bull-men”, and men with a length of approximately 9 inches are labeled as “horse-men”. Unfortunately men that fall below 6.75 inches are given the title of “hare-men”. That's fucked up. Just because a man has a smaller wang he ends up being compared to a rabbit instead of a bull.

14) Men aren't the only ones that can ejaculate when they cum. Women can also ejaculate a fluid from what are known as the Skene's glands. This form of ejaculation in females is known by the much more common name, “squirting” and is pretty fucking fantastic, in my opinion. It gives a man the reassurance that his woman didn't fake her orgasm.

15) The soft area above the female vagina where hair grows is known as the “Mount of Venus”. Venus was the Roman goddess of love and fertility; so it makes sense. Not to mention, I don't know a lot of men out there that would argue against the fact that they love vagina. 

16) On rare occasions of men with uncircumcised penises the foreskin can be too tight when the male is sporting wood. Obviously, this results is in a painful experience. The painful experience is technically known as phimosis.

17) Cryptorchidism is the actual medical term for a when a man’s testicles fail to descend properly at birth. I’m assuming the term “The Balls That Don’t Fall Disorder” was already taken. 

18) The head of a penis is actually called the “glans”. The little ring that goes around a man's dick where the head ends and the shaft begins, that's actually called the corona. Yeah, think about that the next time you go to take a drink of America's favorite Mexican imported beer.

19) Prostate cancer among the highest causes of cancer deaths in men in the United States. Over 150,000  new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed in the U.S. every year. That means no matter how uncomfortable men are with the idea of having another man shove his finger in his ass, any man over the age of 35 needs to make an appointment to have it done anyway. It's better than death. 

20) Auto-erotic asphyxiation, which is when someone attempts to cut off oxygen to their brain by strangling or hanging themselves, was originally created by doctors and administered as a way to treat erectile dysfunction. Obviously, this was before the little, blue pill that men use today. The idea was noted by physicians when men that were executed by hanging were serving up massive hard-ons during and after the hanging. 

21) The male testes produce about 50,000 sperm every minute. That's nothing! Believe it or not, men actually release close to 300 million sperm every time they ejaculate. That's funny because it only takes one sperm cell to successfully fertilize the female egg for a successful pregnancy. That means the other 299, 999, 999 sperm cells probably got lost because they are just like men in general, refusing to stop and ask for FUCKING DIRECTIONS! Yes, men are privative creatures, aren't we?

22) Autofellatio is term that describes a form of masturbation when a man is able to suck his own cock because of unusually long penis length or flexibility. That brings to mind two very important questions: 1. Is it gay if a man is sucking his own dick, or is it just masturbation? And... 2. Based on this new evidence, why aren't there more men practicing yoga? 

23) May 28th is National Masturbation Day. In fact, the entire month of May is National Masturbation Month. So, I'm guessing the people that beat off every other day of the year are not sure what day we celebrate National Masturbation Day and they want to make sure and pay homage to the respectful holiday. That has to be what it is, right? Or no... My mistake. It turns out masturbation is just really fun, safe sex with someone who will never cheat on you. That's what it is.

24) August 26th is National Women's Equality Day, celebrating the day in 1920 when women were given the right to vote because of gender equality. That's not the fun fact though, although it is important to note. No, the fun fact is that Go Topless Day falls on the closest Sunday to August 26th every year. This holiday was probably created to serve as irony because going topless in public is based on gender. For this reason we, the great people of the United States of America should stand up and let the women of the U.S.  to SHOW US THEIR TITTIES!!! Equal rights, indeed. You have my vote and I salute you.

25) Fuck for Forest (FFF) is an non-profit organization designed and created to represent sexuality, liberation, and donates proceeds to ecological projects targeted at saving endangered environmental areas. No, this is not a joke. It is 100% legit. The proud volunteers of this organization are out there showing it all off and fucking like rabbits to save mother nature. And it's clear, with ongoing projects in multiple countries like Brazil, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Peru that this group shows that they are growing all the time. Well played, my horny tree huggers.