Mooney - Useless sexual trivia : tastefully prurient facts about everyones favorite subject

Its the little sexual factoids that make life, as well as any dull dinner conversation, so interesting. The next time you find yourself at a party discussing the merits of separation of church and state over the guacamole, you can comment that the word avocado actually comes from a Nahuatl word meaning testicle, and then watch the conversation switch into overdrive. With the following factoids, youre sure to be a hit at the next family reunion.

The term scumbag originally referred to a used condom.

Menstrual cramps have been known, in rare cases, to induce orgasm.

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For some reason, the more years of formal education, the more wet dreams a man is likely to have.

Women are most likely to want to commit adultery when theyre ovulating.

Australian women, according to statistics, are the most likely to have sex on the first date.

The name of Wyomings Grand Teton peak literally means big tit.

In the original Grimms Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, the prince rapes her while she sleeps and then leaves before she wakes up.

Most wedding traditions have to do with sex. The purpose of a flower girl as well as unmarried bridesmaids was to increase the sheer abundance of virginity, necessary to ward off demonic forces naturally drawn to such an event. The honking of car horns, the clinking of glasses, and the throwing of rice and other seeds of life was to ensure successfulprocreativesex. And the throwing of the bridal bouquet actually symbolized the loss of virginity.

Women who went to college are more likely than high school dropouts to enjoy both the giving and receiving of oral sex.

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Catholic girls were told never to wear patent leather shoes because they would reflect what was up their skirts.

No wonder we think its evil: the word masturbation comes from a Latin word meaning to pollute oneself.

Its been proven to be harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive.

However, adults are more likely to tell a lie in bed than anywhere else.

Most men cant remember the names of all their sex partners.

The word avocado comes from the Spanish word aguacate, which in turn is derived from the Nahuatl word ahuacatl, which meant testicle. Youll probably never look at guacamole the same way again.

In all likelihood, a boy couldnt get a girl pregnant with his first ejaculation, as it takes one to three years afterward for a males ejaculate to become potent.

A William Shakespeare euphemism for a couple having sex was making a beast with two backs. He also called the female genitals charged chambers and birds nests.

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In April 1970, Gloria Sykes won a judgment of $50,000 against San Franciscos transportation system for her injuries sustained in a cable car accident. Her claim wasnt for physical harm like a broken leg, though she did get two black eyes and several bruises. The main crux of her argument revolved around the fact that she was now a nymphomaniac: she once had sex fifty times within a five-day period.

The eyelid and the skin of the scrotum are the only parts of the male body that contain no subcutaneous fat.

Its believed that the purpose of pubic hair is to trap the scents released by the secretions in the pubic region. (Ditto for armpit hair.) For what purpose? Reportedly the secretions serve as an erotic stimulus to the opposite sex.

In eighteenth-century France, a woman named Madame Ventre, who lived in Marseilles, had a fully functioning, lactating breast that stuck out of her left thigh just below the waist.*

* Extra breastsa condition called polymastiaare rare, but not entirely unheard of. In 1886 there were two women who each had ten breasts, all of which secreted milk, and in 1894 there was a case reported of a man who possessed eight breasts.

The term venereal disease was coined in the sixteenth century and originated from the Latin phrase morbus Veneris, the sickness of Venus, goddess of love (which is the eu-phemistic way of saying goddess of sex).

Semen contains minute quantities of more than thirty elements, such as fructose, ascorbic acid, cholesterol, creatine, citric acid, urea, uric acid, sorbitol, pyruvic acid, glutathione, inositol, lactic acid, nitrogen, vitamin B12, various salts, and enzymes.

In the world of porn, its the women who make more money, typically $500$1,000 per film, depending on star power and the acts involved, while men usually earn $500 or less, depending on star power (which, of course, can push the pay for either sex into several thousands).

Its not mere hooey when they say that people love chocolate; the same chemical responsible for the ecstatic highs of love and sexual attraction, phenylethylamine, is found also in chocolate.