When sex really sucks: hard luck stories from the cutting edge of love
God knows what we would do if we hadn’t all those clever scientists around, to help us sort things out:
In a scientific study concerning the selection of mates, participants were asked before the session to fill out a questionnaire about what they were looking for in a mate, listing such categories as wealth and status, family commitment, physical appearance, healthiness and attractiveness.
After the session, the researchers compared what the participants said they were looking for with the people they actually chose to ask for another date.
Men’s choices did not reflect their stated preferences, the researchers concluded. Instead, men appeared to base their decisions mostly on the women’s physical attractiveness.
The men also appeared to be much less choosy. Men tended to select nearly every woman above a certain minimum attractiveness threshold.
Well, call me a bugle and blow me!
So, now we know who will most definitely win next year’s Nobel prize in the ‘Discoveries of Universal Hindsight’ category – yes, indeed, the famous ‘Duh!’ award.
Men like good-looking women… Who’d have thought?
Well, the feminist movement did, for one – and on the whole they don’t approve.
And speaking of feminism: here’s what Zoe Williams wrote about the subject, some time ago, in the Guardian:
The sine qua non of feminism is battling for collective rights, anything else is just capitalism with tits.
Now, before you go all cave man & cave cat on me with your ‘I don’t like feminists!’ whining, there’s an awful lot of truth in what Zoe wrote - as a certain South Australian farmer learned, to his considerable cost…:
A South Australian farmer held hostage in Africa for 12 days in an internet bride scam has returned home, saying he’s lucky to be alive.
Des Gregor, a 56-year-old from Hoyleton in SA’s midnorth, arrived at Adelaide Airport tonight after being freed from his African captors who were ultimately duped by police.
Mr Gregor travelled to the landlocked west African nation of Mali last month to meet his supposed bride and collect a dowry of $100,000 in gold.
But on his July 27 arrival, he was kidnapped by an organised scam gang, beaten, stripped, had his cash and credit cards taken, and was held hostage at an apartment in Bamako, the capital of the third world country.
The wheat and sheep farmer was told he would have his limbs hacked off with a machete unless he arranged a $100,000 ransom.
Capitalism with tits indeed…
Of course, men get into trouble with, over, through & because of women all the bloody time – and not just in that first ’selection of mates’ phase.
Some of the worst troubles can start much, much later:
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A woman set fire to her ex-husband’s penis as he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka, Moscow police said Wednesday.
Asked if the man would make a full recovery, a police spokeswoman said it was “difficult to predict.”
The attack climaxed three years of acrimonious enforced co-habitation. The couple divorced three years ago but continued to share a small flat, something common in Russia where property costs are very high.
So, it might, after all, be wise not to select your mate purely on the basis of good looks. In other words, if you’re dating online and the woman looks like [pick a film star of your choice] but the caption reads, ‘Slightly claustrophobic smoker with a fiery temperament’ just give her a miss.
It might save you a lot of extremely painful explanations to the fire brigade at a later stage.
By the way, it’s not only love that breaks your heart – or causes genital grief.
So, remember, please, whatever you do, don’t go and piss off your doctor…:
Doctors’ unions in Romania have criticised a decision to make a surgeon pay £100,000 in damages after he lost his temper and hacked off a patient’s penis during surgery.
Surgeon Naum Ciomu, who had been suffering from stress at the time, had been operating on patient Nelu Radonescu, 36, to correct a testicular malformation when he suddenly lost his temper.
Grabbing a scalpel, he sliced off the penis in front of shocked nursing staff, and then placed it on the operating table where he chopped it into small pieces before storming out of the operating theatre at Bucharest hospital.
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