AFFIRM SCIENCE

As a Urologist specializing in sexual medicine, I chuckle every time I watch the Tour de France.  These amazing athletes with superhuman cardiovascular systems race up mountains to get the Maillot Jaune, otherwise known as the Yellow Jersey.  They receive this winner’s jersey on a podium flanked by two attractive French beauties.  The funny secret is that the winner likely can no longer feel his genitalia and would be useless to these Femme Fatales.  Let’s find out why.  Humans were designed to sit on their ischial tuberosities, also known as ‘the sit bones.’  The ischial tuberosities are padded by muscle...

Have you ever watched the TV show Naked and Afraid? The premise is that a man and a woman—both physically fit and expert in wilderness survival—are dropped into a remote location to see if they can survive for 30 days.  If you’ve had a chance to catch the show, you know that we’ve never once seen these attractive young contestants having sex, even though they are alone in the jungle. And did you ever wonder why this might be the case?  Well, it may be because even though they are naked, they are also afraid. Fear creates a hormonal outflow of adrenaline...