From: "Steve Harris" <SBHarris123@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: sci.med Subject: Re: female orgasm: what's the point? Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 01:22:54 -0700 Message-ID: <a46tef$kau$1@slb0.atl.mindspring.net> "Carey Gregory" <antispam8@attbi.com> wrote in message news:ql1c6uccmem8lnsd5nrvciko2ap1rap3gq@4ax.com... > "Steve Harris" <sbharris@ix.RETICULATEDOBJECTcom.com> wrote: > > > >From the viewpoint of evolution, just one more example of the Cooledge > >Effect. > > Okay, I'll bite. What the heck is the Cooledge Effect? Answer: Put a bull in with a new heifer in season and you get action. Put in another heifer and you get more action. You can keep doing this essentially for heifer and heifer, except they always have to be fresh heifers. Put a previously serviced one in, and nothing happens. The bull knows, and he can't or won't perform. Works the same way in rats and many other mammals :) This is known to behaviorists and sociologists as "the Coolidge Effect" (sorry for the misspelling) from the old joke in which President Calvin Coolidge and his party, and the first lady and her party, are being given separate tours of a chicken farm. At one point the first lady asks if the rooster is able to have "relations" more than once a day, and is told that he is able to have them dozens of times in a day. The first lady says "Would you mention that to Mr. Coolidge?" Later it's the president's turn at the same tour stop. "Your wife wanted me to mention to you that the rooster is able to have relations dozens of times in a day." "Oh? Same hen?" "Oh, no, that wouldn't work. Different hen each time." "Ah. Mention that to Mrs. Coolidge." This is what was once colloquially known as "barnyard humor." SBH From: "Steve Harris" <SBHarris123@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: sci.med Subject: Re: female orgasm: what's the point? Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:32:24 -0700 Message-ID: <a477sf$jth$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net> By the way, I nominate this thread title for the silver medal on best troll topics. Gold is still held by the guy who wants to know why there are baby-changing stations in men's restrooms, where women never go. SBH |