Truth Collective

A new study shows that children with ADHD may actually benefit from all their fidgeting. My brother was telling me that as a child his teachers and his mother would push and push to get him to stop fidgeting. His mother had other issues, but his fidgeting and other natural child tendencies led her to throwing him into therapy sessions with kids who actually had problems: arsonists, cat killers, drug users, etc. So this was an extreme case, but my point is that there’s a lot of misconceptions about human behavior. You can take jc’s posts about Dan Ariely speaking on cheating and stealing and irrational behavior as perfect examples. It seems we’ve been around for thousands of years, but we’re still so confused about the functions of our own bodies.

From the New York Times

All was different with the women. No matter what their self-proclaimed sexual orientation, they showed, on the whole, strong and swift genital arousal when the screen offered men with men, women with women and women with men. They responded objectively much more to the exercising woman than to the strolling man, and their blood flow rose quickly — and markedly, though to a lesser degree than during all the human scenes except the footage of the ambling, strapping man — as they watched the apes. And with the women, especially the straight women, mind and genitals seemed scarcely to belong to the same person. The readings from the plethysmograph and the keypad weren’t in much accord. During shots of lesbian coupling, heterosexual women reported less excitement than their vaginas indicated; watching gay men, they reported a great deal less; and viewing heterosexual intercourse, they reported much more. Among the lesbian volunteers, the two readings converged when women appeared on the screen. But when the films featured only men, the lesbians reported less engagement than the plethysmograph recorded. Whether straight or gay, the women claimed almost no arousal whatsoever while staring at the bonobos.

As for guys, their “minds and genitals were in agreement.” Damn straight.