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Ladies, Be Thankful: Male Fruit Flies Need Their Penises To Be Spiky For Sex
January 7th, 2010 | 
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When there’s so much serious, life-changing scientific research being done in the world, people often accuse SlantedScience of being obsessed with sex and genitals, like a horny fifteen-year old boy. Partly that’s because we give the majority of stories to local high school kids to write (they’re really cheap), but mostly it’s because when scientists study these subjects they tend to come up with some really bizarre shit.
And after all, it ’s important that science’s less-exposed areas (such as bats having oral sex and slow-motion video of ehajculating duck penises`) get an airing now and again.
So we come to this: biologists at UC Berkley have just published the results of their work, which show that when a laser is used to shave the tiny spikes off a fruit fly’s penis, the fly was left almost unable to service its female counterparts.
Curing cancer can wait: let’s have more of this, please. Read the rest of this entry »
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Testosterone Myth Debunked: It Makes People Fairer, Not More Aggressive
It is a widely-held belief that testosterone turns men into wild, aggressive beasts. But a research paper just published shows that the ‘male hormone’ does no such thing. In fact, scientists show, a quick dose of testosterone actually makes women behave more fairly in a laboratory-controlled game.
We foresee some heated discussions tonight at dinner tables everywhere. Read the rest of this entry »