Monday, March 16, 2020

Per capita meat consumption in Switzerland has been rather consistent for decades, although the percentage of vegetarians has risen to 14 per cent according to a recent survey

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Mann, S. and Necula, R. (2020), "Are vegetarianism and veganism just half the story? Empirical insights from Switzerland", British...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Is there anything more affected, aggressive, & relentlessly concrete than a Parisian intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.

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Is there anything more affected, aggressive, & relentlessly concrete than a Parisian intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisi...

"Society is woman’s protection against rape, not, as some feminists absurdly maintain, the cause of rape"; the rapist is a man with too little socialization rather than too much

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"Society is woman’s protection against rape, not, as some feminists absurdly maintain, the cause of rape"; the rapist is a man wit...

Androphilic women’s vaginal, vulvar & clitoral responses tend to be gender-nonspecific, meaning that their genital responses to male and female sexual stimuli are relatively similar

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Assessing gender-specificity of clitoral responses. Kelly Suschinsky, Samantha Dawson, Meredith Chivers. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexua...

Trends in Time Spent Alone in Finland: Between 1987 & 2010 the time spent alone increased by 124 min per day, due mostly to structural factors, such as aging and an increase in the number of single households

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Disconnected Lives: Trends in Time Spent Alone in Finland. Timo Anttila, Kirsikka Selander & Tomi Oinas. Social Indicators Research, Mar...

We men are different, able to separate sex & emotion, gladly going to temptation, promiscuity, & disease, able to seek "ecstasy in the squalor of public toilets, for women perhaps the least erotic place on earth."

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We men are different, able to separate sex & emotion, gladly going to temptation, promiscuity, & disease, able to seek "ecstasy...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

People comfortable with closeness who were single or sexually or relationally dissatisfied reported greater sexual nostalgia (fantasies with past partners); chronic sexual nostalgia detracted from satisfaction

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Sexual Nostalgia as a Response to Unmet Sexual and Relational Needs: The Role of Attachment Avoidance. Amy Muise et al. Personality and Soci...

Few Greek tragedies fully conform to the humanist commentary on them; modem criticism has projected a Victorian & Protestant high seriousness upon pagan culture that still blankets teaching of the humanities

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Few Greek tragedies fully conform to the humanist commentary on them; modem criticism has projected a Victorian and, I feel, Protestant high...

Sex therapies believe guiltless, no-fault sex is possible, but sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges

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Behaviorist sex therapies believe guiltless, no-fault sex is possible, but sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where moralit...

Lonely, Poor, and Ugly? How Cultural Practices and Forms of Capital Relate to Physical Unattractiveness

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Lonely, Poor, and Ugly? How Cultural Practices and Forms of Capital Relate to Physical Unattractiveness. Christian Schneickert, Leonie C. St...

A large number of observers were completely unaware of drastic color manipulations (hue rotation, desaturation) of the images shown to them; much of our experience of a colorful world seems to be a confabulation

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Cohen, Michael, and Jordan Rubenstein. 2019. “How Much Color Do We See in the Blink of an Eye?.” PsyArXiv. July 28. doi:10.31234/osf.io/enyw...

Women's use of intimate apparel as subtle sexual signals in committed, het. relationships: Women report wearing sexier underwear the day taking the survey if they anticipate sexual activity that same day

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Women's use of intimate apparel as subtle sexual signals in committed, heterosexual relationships. Lyndsey K. Craig ,Peter B. Gray. Marc...
Friday, March 13, 2020

Forgetting in relation to trauma and victimhood can be complicated and controversial, with some victims preferring to retain their painful memories, even at a personal cost

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Punishing the Crime of Forgetting. Emily V. Shaw, Elizabeth F. Loftus. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Volume 9, Issue ...