Volume 124 Issue 113
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
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--not enjoy sex the first time. 60 percent of women say they did not enjoy sex the first time.
Michelle MacBain, Kansas City, is a graduate student in Communication Studies. She studied Psychology and Human Sexuality at KU and the University of Amsterdam.
Email questions to michelle@michellemacbain.com
Michelle's Sex Trivia:
- Upper Paleolithic art dating back 30,000 years depicts people using dildos to pleasure themselves and others.
- When a drone (a male honey bee) mates with a Queen bee, its abdomen is ripped open during copulation and it dies soon after.
- Women who went to college are more likely to enjoy receiving and giving oral sex.
- The fear of having, seeing, or thinking about an erection is called ithyphallophobia.
- Kinsey reported that sex reduces stress, and that people who have fulfilling sex lives are less anxious, less violent and less hostile.
- Aphrodite, the goddess of sexual intercourse, emerged from the foaming semen of her father's castrated testicles.
- In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.
- It was considered elegant for aristocratic ladies of the 16th century to let their pubic hair grow as long as possible so it could be pomaded and adorned with bows and ribbon.
- The condom is said to be named after the Earl of Condom, a British physician at the court of Charles II who was asked by the king to design him something to keep him from developing syphilis. The oiled sheep intestine was a big hit.
- Humans aren't the only species that partake in oral sex; cheetahs, hyenas and goats all go down too.
- In Harrisburg, Penn., it's against the law to have sex with a truck driver in a toll booth.
- Three out 1,000 men (0.3 percent) are well endowed enough to fellate themselves to orgasm.
- Half of the men raised on farms have had a sexual encounter with an animal.
- The clitoris is the only organ in the human body that has just one purpose: pleasure.
- Average length of penis when not erect: 3.5 inches; Average length when erect: 5.1.
- Women with a Ph.D. are twice as likely to be interested in a one-night stand than those with only a Bachelor's degree.
- 30 percent of women more than 80 years old still have sexual intercourse either with their spouse or boyfriend.
- Porpoises enjoy group sex.
- The most recorded orgasms in an hour by researchers at the Center for Marital and Sexual Studies in Long Beach, Calif, was 134 by one woman and 16 for a man.
- Those most likely to have unsafe sex without asking about their partner's sexual history are the Swedes (64 percent don't ask), followed by the Japanese, Norwegians and South Africans (all 58 percent) the US falls in at 47 percent.
- The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
- 14 percent of men said that they did not enjoy sex the first time.
- The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by the Egyptians in 2000 B.C. After the realization that the dung was useless, it was replaced with elephant droppings.
- One of the most famous transvestites in history was Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, a diplomat in service to Louis XV. He lived to the age of 83, having spent 49 years as a man and 34 as a woman.
because they are more motivated and ravenous when they play teams that BCS schools.
It's hard for a big name program like Kansas to get motivated to play against a mid-major team even if it's for a trip to the Final Four, as fans saw last season. Not to discredit VCU's performance against Kansas, but Kansas played its worst game of the season, shooting 35.5 percent from the court, 9.5 percent from behind the arc and a paltry 53.6 percent from the free-throw line. Statistically, Kansas was awful, but the team's effort and energy was just as bad. The Jayhawks were simply flat and lethargic. They simply overlooked and undermined Cinderella
If Kansas played against a BCS school instead of a mid-major in last year's Elite Eight game, I firmly believe that they would have played much better and advanced to the Final Four.
The Jayhawks have what it takes to go all the way, but they also did last year. Cinderella is waiting, and Jayhawk Nation hopes that her slipper won't fit this time around.
on Kansas City and the big 12 tournament.
— Edited by Tanvi Nimkar
The Jayhawks earned the tournament's top seed for the ninth time in its 16-year existence and are looking to capture their 13th Big 12 tournament championship.
"Going into the season, a lot of people didn't have faith in us because we lost so much last year," junior guard Travis Releford said Monday afternoon. "But if you think about it, all the guys that are playing, we've been here a while. We know what coach wants and we know how to run the system."
A head-scratching loss to Davidson in December made Bill Self question just how good his team was, but a 16-2 league record and eighth consecutive conference regular season championship re-asserted Kansas as the cream of the crop in the Big 12.
Releford said the team has had something to prove since the beginning of the season because of doubting fans.
"I haven't been defending how I was at the start of the season and I feel that going into post-season that I can step it up a lot more," Releford said. "He knows that I can be that guy that can step up and stop someone on the opponent's team."
He's stressed the importance of finding a "defensive stopper" on numerous occasions and admitted his words were a message to a few players.
The team is 19-2 since that loss to Davidson but Self thinks the team still has room for improvement heading into postseason play.
Self said great defense was all about a person's mindset, not something a team can just decide to practice one week and magically get better at. He thinks Releford, junior guard Elijah Johnson and senior guard Tyshawn Taylor can all improve defensively.
But the month of March brings more than just on-court adjustments.
"I think distractions have
"It would be great," Self said. "Because that means we won two games."
Edited by Katie James
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In the short term, the biggest distraction might be the talks of a possible meeting between Kansas and Missouri in the tournament championship Saturday night.
things I probably worry about
more than anything else."
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Junior guard Travis Releford drives into the lane during the second half of a game against Missouri earlier this season. The Jayhawks could face the Tigers again in the Big 12 Tournaments.