Non-verbal Communication

February 9, 2005 7:28 AM

Nursing moms are aphrodisiacs, but if you're lonely tonight, don't let it get you down.
posted by mcgraw (20 comments total)

That just doesn't seem fair. The partner of a nursing mother is often getting very little, if any, sex. Yet, the partner of a woman sniffing her milky perfume gets more than ever before?

That stinks. Heh.

Anyway, there is still great skepticism about the field that McLintock seems to have helped to found.
posted by Cassford at 8:04 AM on February 9, 2005

Yet, the partner of a woman sniffing her milky perfume gets more than ever before?

It's ok -- 9 months from now he won't be getting any either.
posted by selfmedicating at 8:31 AM on February 9, 2005

The woman 'sniffing her milky perfume' has increased sexual motivation (according to her answers on a questionairre). That doesn't always translante into getting more booty.
posted by raedyn at 8:31 AM on February 9, 2005

It's ok -- 9 months from now he won't be getting any either.


I don't see why not.
posted by agregoli at 8:38 AM on February 9, 2005

Sold! I will by ten bottles of your boob sweat!
posted by Arch Stanton at 8:45 AM on February 9, 2005

n ~ 20, ha. Questionaire, ha. An abstract that leaves out any numbers, let alone their statistical significance. A supremely questionable choice of control pads. Multivariate analysis included just to obfuscate things. Fishy statistics and a rather cryptic presentation of the numerical results in the paper (pdf) itself. We would destroy this thing in journal club.

I say NEEE.
posted by drpynchon at 8:53 AM on February 9, 2005

Teenage reading of John Updike's 1960's novel Couples permanently seared "Nursing moms = SEXY" into my monkey brain.
posted by mooncrow at 9:19 AM on February 9, 2005

Sheesh.

My wife has been feeding for almost five years straight now (relax, that's for two kids). For sure it's sexy. But unless I'm offering a backrub, she doesn't want me to touch her.
posted by stinkycheese at 9:55 AM on February 9, 2005

I did the math and found that we have the smartest people here of all threads so far, today. Congratulations, everyone, and thanks for the info and input.

*shakes champagne bottle, sprays bubbly indiscriminately*
posted by mcgraw at 10:24 AM on February 9, 2005

W. T. F.?
posted by mcgraw at 12:58 PM on February 9, 2005

Uh, mcgraw? What do those links have to do with this post?
posted by agregoli at 2:26 PM on February 9, 2005

*shakes champagne bottle, sprays bubbly indiscriminately*

Maybe you just need to link to sites that require registration.
posted by AlexReynolds at 2:31 PM on February 9, 2005

Agregoli: Nothing, that's Mcgraw's MO.
posted by Bugbread at 2:43 PM on February 9, 2005

Check out his FPP history.
posted by rafter at 2:46 PM on February 9, 2005

Ah. How stupid.
posted by agregoli at 2:48 PM on February 9, 2005

McGraw's post is easy. Virginia is protecting us from scalping and sex offenders by taking care of the problem where it starts.
posted by Arch Stanton at 6:01 PM on February 9, 2005

There's usually a subtle connection between McGraw's apparent non-sequitur links.

I can't figure out his latest, but mcgraw's ability to present things from a viewpoint ninety degrees away from the pedestrian is both refreshing and challenging. mcgraw rocks!
posted by orthogonality at 1:07 AM on February 10, 2005

I like you, agregoli, and wish we got along better.
posted by mcgraw at 6:21 AM on February 10, 2005

I don't see how we don't get along? Your post was extremely pointless - I call them like I see them.
posted by agregoli at 7:20 AM on February 10, 2005

Well, what I meant to say with that W.T.F. post was just "wow, what a crazy world", that's all. Went to a couple news sites and the latest stories were those stunning links. Yes, they weren't relevant to this fpp. You have good reason to criticize that post, as you have chosen to do.
posted by mcgraw at 7:25 AM on February 10, 2005