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Why the guys in the
band get lucky?
In a study in Finland, eight male volunteers
underwent brain scans while they were having
orgasms. (Must have been a fun study.) Overall
bloodflow in the brain decreased during orgasm,
but it skyrocketed in the right prefrontal
cortex--as it does in creative people (like
musicians) when they do their creative thing.
Now, exactly why did you give up those guitar
lessons?
Why she cries out, "Oh
God!" when she's having an orgasm?
It almost certainly doesn't have anything to
do with you. In addition to its duties as an
orgasm assistant, the right hemisphere has also
been called the "God" area of the brain. When
scientists stimulate the right hemisphere, their
subjects have more religious or spiritual
experiences. So it's not too much of a leap to
guess that when she moans, "Oh, God," in the
throes of sexual ecstasy, she may be connecting
pleasure to a deeper spiritual place in her
brain. Music and dancing can jump-start the
right hemisphere, which means the nuns at your
high school were right to discourage it.
Why her orgasms are
like Paxil, only much more fun?
Sexual climax has an antidepressant effect.
Orgasms cause intense activity in the deep
emotional parts of the brain, which then settle
down when the sex is over. Antidepressants calm
the same part of the brain. This calming effect
may be why people who regularly have sex
experience less depression.
Why oral sex is also
like Paxil: It works better if she swallows?
Prostaglandins, fatty acids found in semen,
are absorbed by the vagina and may have a role
in modulating female hormones and moods. I also
feel duty-bound to report that women who perform
oral sex on their mates are less likely to
suffer from preeclampsia, a condition that
causes a dangerous spike in women's blood
pressure during pregnancy. Plus, sperm carries
TGFbeta, a molecule that can boost the
activities of her natural killer cells, which
attack the rogue cells that give rise to tumors.
Don't make her beg. Offer.
Why foot massage is
foreplay?
When you rub the arch of her right foot, you
affect her about 30 inches higher, and a little
to the left. The foot-sensation area of the
brain is next door to the clitoral (and penile)
region, which may be a big reason that women are
so focused on shoes--yours and hers. Carrie
Bradshaw was on again, off again with any number
of men, but her Manolos endured. And perhaps now
we know why Imelda sought solace in 1,060 pairs
of shoes. But even if you're not a Filipino
dictator, you can make this work for you. "There
are 36,000 nerve endings in the foot," says
Kathleen Miller-Read, a massage therapist and
spokeswoman for the American Massage Therapy
Association. "By exploring these, you can find
sore spots all over the body." If your
girlfriend has her feet crammed in high heels
all day, she's bound to have aching toes and a
sore back. Use your thumb and forefinger to
gently pull, twist, and rub below her toes. For
her back, focus on the heel of her foot, moving
your knuckles in a circular motion all over the
heel. She'll let you know when it's working.
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