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We have a bit of a soft spot for men and women in lab coats who study nookie for a living--after all, they're the bread and butter of this blog. But sometimes we wonder just where science ends and "science" (or wishful thinking) begins...

1. German scientists publish a study claiming that ten minutes of staring at a woman's boobs each day can prolong a man's life by five years. Apparently that slob in the La-Z-Boy who's drooling over the latest issue of Hustler is actually giving himself a cardiac workout equivalent to 30 minutes at the gym. Heres the thing, dudes: The New England Journal of Medicine may have bought it, but we guarantee your girlfriend won't.

2. Apparently women who play computer games have sex more often than women who don't. Oh yeah, and this totally unbiased study was conducted by a gaming rental company.

3. Playing hard to get makes you unattractive on the pick-up scene. While we'd love to see the needy and insecure of this world taking home the hottie, we have to go straight to the source and say: not according to The Pickup Artist it doesn't.

4. 19 percent of men have rubbed one out in the bathroom stall at the office. This earns the dubious honorific because we have no way of knowing which of them washed their hands after emerging from the stall and we will thus never again shake hands with a male colleague without reaching for the Purell.

5. Researchers find that "friends with benefits" set-ups are sometimes neither friendly nor particularly beneficial.  This study makes the dubious list not because we doubt its veracity but because: Didn't we all figure this out during freshman year of college?

6. Ovulating strippers make more tip money than those who have Aunt Flow in town (or those on the Pill). We buy it, sure--we're just a little suspicious of the motives of the grad student who first said, "Hey, let's study lap-dancers!"

7. Forget gaydar--your sexual orientation can be determined by your hair whorl.

8. According to a poll conducted on behalf of Axe grooming products, 39 percent of women have worn a naughty costume for Halloween. Which leads us to wonder where exactly the rest of the survey respondents spend the holiday, given the amount of flesh typically on display each October 31.

9. Researchers at the University of Texas spent five years cataloging the 237 reasons why people have sex and discovered that ''I was attracted to the person" is the number one reason for both men and women. Other big favorites were ''I wanted to express my love for the person,'' ''I was sexually aroused and wanted the release'' and ''It's fun.'' And this is groundbreaking research for whom, exactly?

10. At the beginning of this year, we reported that the Centers for Disease Control found that anal sex is rapidly becoming a regular feature of hetero couples' horizontal activities. While we stand by the research, apologies to each and every woman who--according to Gawker--received an email from her boyfriend as a result of this article with the subject line, "See, honey?"


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Em & Lo, more formally known as Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey, are the self-proclaimed Emily Posts of the modern bedroom.

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