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Showing posts with label phallus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phallus. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Form Follows Function...?


Possibly more than you wanted to know... or consider :

This piece from "Scientific American," reports certain evolutionary biology hypotheses and testing to account for the particular shape of the human penis (which differs significantly from our primate relatives)... a fair amount of conjecture, with a smattering of experimentation :

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secrets-of-the-phallus

A tad reminiscent of Robin Baker's book, "Sperm Wars."

There has been a small spate of popular books out recently on the never-ending favorite topic of human sexual behavior, including:

"Bonk" by Mary Roach, and "How Sex Works" by Sharon Moalem