Sex in the Psychology and Political News Recently

Ye Olde Blogge is vulnerable to sex as clickbait as everybody else, so when I started seeing multiple sex-related articles coming through my subscriptions and notifications, I turned my head. I figured if it got me to click on it, it might could just get you too. So, I’ll annotate each article and let you decide if it is worth the read. Then, we’ll discuss it in the comments!

SCIENTISTS FIND LINK BETWEEN ADHD, DEPRESSION AND HYPERSEXUALITY

I guess there had to be some kind of payoff for mental health disorders, right? Who knew it would be self medicating with fornicating?

Italian — jeez, in our day and age, we can’t even make the obvious joke, amirite? — researchers found a correlation between four fairly common mental health issues:

• ADHD: While it is most often thought of as a disorder of children, it often lasts into adulthood. It involves having difficulty with extended attention, impulse control, and being constantly moving or talking. Moving is moving, knowhatimean?
• DYSTHYMIA: I took some liberties here and changed their depressive symptoms to dysthymia which is a long-lasting low-level depression. The world is a grey meaningless blob. It involves most of the depression symptoms only not as “bad,” if you will. If you feel bad most of the time, you might could just try cheering yourself up with a little self pleasure.
• HYPOMANIA: If dysthymia is a shallower depression, hypomania is a lower mania. You still have noticeably elevated energy, activity, and emotions, but just not as bad as mania. It was already known that mania was associated with increased sexual expression, so no surprise here.
• HYPERSEXUALITY: All right, settle down, hypersexuality refers to excessive thoughts, desires, and behaviors relating to sex. It isn’t necessarily doing the full nasty. In fact, your average incel could be considered hypersexual. Hell, this whole study could have had incels as their participants.

These guys found that when people with ADHD reported that they had MORE sexual thoughts when they were either in hypomanic or depressive states. Hunh. I think what they’re saying is that when you’re depressed or hyper, you have a lot of sex fantasies. And, if you start out with poor impulse control and increased distractibility, well, it’s always spring and your thoughts are always turning to…

SCIENTISTS FIND LINK BETWEEN ADHD, DEPRESSION AND HYPERSEXUALITY

Scientists Find Link Between ADHD, Depression and Hypersexuality

CONTROVERSIAL NEW RESEARCH FIND THAT BISEXUALS ARE A BUNCH OF RASCALS

You’re thinking that bi folks are getting more, aren’t ya? Well, as it turns out, that just might could be the fact of the matter. In a fairly complex way, a couple of evolutionary geneticists looked at the genetics of people claiming to be bisexual and compared them to the behaviors of people claiming to be gay or lesbian.

Let’s all keep in mind that genetics isn’t destiny. We’re still hella complex so everything doesn’t boil down to nature vs nurture.

That said they found similarities in the genetic profiles of bisexual and gay and lesbian people. The variation that correlated with bisexual men (not women), though, was a penchant for risk-taking behavior. It shouldn’t surprise you that it also correlated with reproduction. Hunh. Go figure.

CONTROVERSIAL NEW RESEARCH FIND THAT BISEXUALS ARE A BUNCH OF RASCALS

CONTROVERSIAL NEW RESEARCH FIND THAT BISEXUALS ARE A BUNCH OF RASCALS

SCIENTISTS FIND THAT GETTING NAUGHTY HELPS PROTECT AGAINST COGNITIVE DECLINE

Now, there’s a pick up line, right?

In this study of over 1500 individuals aged 62 and older and having a sexual partner in their lives, they found that the folks who were getting them some every week had better cognitive functioning than those who were having longer periods between their sexual liaisons. The difference was most striking with those folks who hadn’t gotten any in the past year.

Now, here’s the real kicker. When you hunt through the crosstabs, you find that those folks 62 – 75 who were SATISFIED with their sex lives had enjoyed the benefits of cognitive protections, while those who weren’t as satisfied, didn’t. The participants who were over 75 were just glad to be doing sumpthin, I reckon, and that was enough to keep ’em sharp.

SCIENTISTS FIND THAT GETTING NAUGHTY HELPS PROTECT AGAINST COGNITIVE DECLINE

SCIENTISTS FIND THAT GETTING NAUGHTY HELPS PROTECT AGAINST COGNITIVE DECLINE

Biden, 81, says the key to his marriage is ‘good sex’: How Joe infuriates Jill, his wife of 47 years, with VERY risqué joke to staff about their private life (even though they aren’t shy about PDA)

Maybe Ol’ Handsome Joe has more cognitive protection than any of us knew.

While we’ve all seen the way that they look at each other — and don’t we all need someone in our lives that looks at us the way Joe and Jill Biden look at each other — and the little PDA that they got going on, the kisses, hand holding, and arms around each other. According to Joe, it’s all real. He reportedly has said that good sex is the key to a successful marriage.

We’ve all seen the horrific kisses and physical interactions between DeSantis and his wife in his brief stint on the national campaign trail. We all saw Melania swat Trump’s hand away from her when he was outside of the bounds of the pre-nup.

And, you know, Trump has been married how many times and is in what kind of cognitive decline? Maybe it is time to start believing what we’re seeing and hearing.

Biden, 81, says the key to his marriage is ‘good sex’: How Joe infuriates Jill, his wife of 47 years, with VERY risqué joke to staff about their private life (even though they aren’t shy about PDA)

Biden, 81, says the key to his marriage is ‘good sex’: How Joe infuriates Jill, his wife of 47 years, with VERY risqué joke to staff about their private life (even though they aren’t shy about PDA)

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This image was generated using Poe’s StableDiffusionXL bot using the prompt, a picture of a woman in a sexy newspaper Halloween costume