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1. The word funky is derived from the Ki-Kongo lu-fuki, meaning “positive sweat” of the sort you get from dancing or having sex, but not working. (via Sex at Dawn)

2. We play tonsil hockey to collect genetic information about our partner. The more different the DNA than our own, the higher the attraction we feel. (via The Social Animal)

3. Studies in strip clubs have found that dancers’ tips plunge 45 percent while they are menstruating. (via The Social Animal)

4. Chances are likely you pick up new hobbies or strengthen old ones while in a relationship. Your brain is less on the defense to stressors and naturally begins to explore other, less romance focused interests. (via The Brain on Love)

5. Ever notice any pain during sex? We didn’t think so. Famous sex researcher Alfred Kinsey claimed fevers and muscle aches briefly abate. (via Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex)

6. Men’s sperm contains a bit of spermicide, not intended to kill his own soldiers, obviously, but to annihilate the seed of any who come after him. (via Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex)

7. Cheese crumbs spread in front of a copulating pair of rats may distract the female, but not the male. (via Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex)

8.  At the top of the women’s turn-on list was, mysteriously, a mixture of cucumber and Good ’n’ Plenty candy. It was said to increase vaginal blood flow by 13 percent.  (via Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex)

9. A study at the University of Pennsylvania found that women feel more relaxed after inhaling extracts of male underarm sweat. (via Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?)