Sunday, January 18, 2009
"Wealthy men give women more orgasms"
This story raises a lot of interesting questions, none of which I am stupid enough to spell out on this blog:
Scientists have found that the pleasure women get from making love is directly linked to the size of their partner’s bank balance.
They found that the wealthier a man is, the more frequently his partner has orgasms.
“Women’s orgasm frequency increases with the income of their partner,” said Dr Thomas Pollet, the Newcastle University psychologist behind the research.
He believes the phenomenon is an “evolutionary adaptation” that is hard-wired into women, driving them to select men on the basis of their perceived quality...
“They could promote emotional bonding with a high-quality male or they could serve as a signal that women are highly sexually satisfied, and hence unlikely to seek sex with other men,” he said. “What those orgasms are saying is ‘I'm extremely loyal, so you should invest in me and my children’."
Biting my tongue, but that's no reason for you not to comment!
14 Comments:
By 
, at
Sun Jan 18, 08:22:00 PM:
Well, I looked at the calendar, and it's not April 1, so, well, er, maybe it's, er, true, or something. Wow, "hard wired", man, there's a punchline there, for sure.
My wife wants me to ask for a raise.
By 
Dawnfire82, at
Sun Jan 18, 08:39:00 PM:
Or perhaps the kind of men that are better in bed are the same kind of men that are more likely to be successful in life.
By , at
Sun Jan 18, 08:40:00 PM:
Recall what Henry Kissinger said about power being the ultimate aphrodisiac.
One factor in female's evaluating their mates is the male's ability to provide for a family. Richer= sexier in that sense, evolutionarily speaking.
By , at
Sun Jan 18, 09:37:00 PM:
This is so obvious you would think "research" wouldn't be necessary.
By , at
Sun Jan 18, 10:00:00 PM:
"The study is certain to prove controversial, suggesting that women are inherently programmed to be gold-diggers"
That's controversial?
By Stan/Tx, at
Sun Jan 18, 10:05:00 PM:
Are the guys that did the research for this report the same ones that did the thing with the Mentos and Diet Coke? If so, they should stick to the Mentos and Coke; it made more sense.
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Sun Jan 18, 10:35:00 PM:
So pills that expand our wallets would be a better idea? I sense an emerging market here.
By Sara (Pal2Pal), at
Sun Jan 18, 11:13:00 PM:
Or men who think the size of their bank accounts makes them better lovers so they treat women (even their wives and girlfriends) as whores to be bought (or wined and dined) for sexual pleasure at their will, and they get what they pay for ... women who lie to them and tell them "it was the best I've ever had." Over and over and over again.
This is the biggest bunch of BS I've read in a long time. Guys, don't buy into this, learn to be a patient and unselfish lover and your gal will have all the orgasms you and she could want.
By Viking Kaj, at
Mon Jan 19, 12:32:00 AM:
By , at
Mon Jan 19, 12:33:00 AM:
Could we please stop hating the rich? Some of my best friends are rich.
Speaking as one of the super un-rich I can tell you from personal experience that money worries over the span of my 25 year marriage did not help in the bedroom. 25 years of Laughlin NV, instead of Las Vegas and vacations at home instead of Barbados. Don't even get me started on the subject of babysitters. How can anyone doubt that the rich have it better? They can elect to be poor way easier than I can elect to be rich, but few of them go that route.
By Neil Sinhababu, at
Mon Jan 19, 01:06:00 AM:
I don't know if this study was properly controlled. As tyree suggests, it's possible that women aren't so much turned on by wealthy men as calm about their financial situation and thus able to relax and enjoy the sex.
A proper experiment would've involved giving women lots of money first so they wouldn't be tense about their financial condition. Then they'd have sex with lots of different guys and rank them. In addition to being more scientifically respectable, this would have been awesome.
By , at
Mon Jan 19, 01:12:00 AM:
In the vein of John Wayne's famous quote, "Life is tough, but it is tougher if you are stupid". I would guess that being rich makes just about everything in life better. As I wrote, very few of the rich become voluntarily poor, although there is no shortage of worthy people to which their money could be given. I have a great idea, someone could give me $20 million or so and ask me i five years if I was happier.
It is worth a shot.
By , at
Mon Jan 19, 01:13:00 AM:
"The female orgasm is the focus of much research because it appears to have no reproductive purpose. Women can become pregnant whatever their pleasure levels."
There has been research that explores this -- not, incidentally, through interviews which in the area of sexuality are well known to be fraught with self-reporting bias -- and it has been shown that the female orgasm probably does aid reproduction.
Conception can occur without orgasm, but is thought to be more likely with orgasm. (They have "internal" video, which is pretty cool, that shows the cervix literally dipping into the pool of semen -- kind of like a "drinking bird" -- during orgasm.)
As for this study? 1,534 Chinese women can't be wrong. Seriously, though, the take-away if you read the article is, in Dr. Pollet's words, "More desirable mates cause women to experience more orgasms." Groundbreaking stuff.
How about this possibility? More desirable men are able to attract more desirable women who have had a larger complement of "body-positive" sexual exeperiences and are thus able to achieve orgasm with greater consistency.
(Did you notice, since you always like the eponymous researchers/authors: Prof. Buss (meaning "kiss") who wrote The Evolution of Desire?)
By GreenmanTim, at
Mon Jan 19, 07:04:00 PM:
Richard Corey by Edwin A. Robinson
WHENEVER Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king,
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
