by Captain Skellett | Oct 15, 2009 | Sex and Reproduction, The Realm of Bizzare
This has always stuck in my mind from a book I read – I think it was The Mists of Avalon (awesome book btw). In it, a pregnant woman swears she can smell moonbeams when she’s pregnant, and they make her feel sick. So today I’m wondering, does...
by Captain Skellett | Sep 23, 2009 | Sex and Reproduction
Ahoy there, welcome to another Reproduction Wednesday! Can you believe it’s been a week since the last one? It feels like it has been MUCH longer because I have been VERY busy. My acting group presented our performance “Pub People” on Monday and it...
by Captain Skellett | Sep 16, 2009 | How Things Work, Sex and Reproduction
Todays installment of Reproduction Wednesday is about having too many chromosomes. The scientific term for this is aneuploidy, and the pirate term for this is “thar be too many etchings on yer peg leg!” Peg leg being a euphemism, in this case, for genetic...
by Captain Skellett | Sep 9, 2009 | Sex and Reproduction
About 15% of couples trying to conceive experience infertility. Possible causes are faulty ovulation, blocked tubes, old ova, swimmers which don’t swim, and erectile dysfuntion, to name just a few. Possible solutions run the full gambit from old wives tales to...
by Captain Skellett | Aug 21, 2009 | Recent Research, Sex and Reproduction
It’s a gel, it’s a solid, it’s CHEMICAL CONDOM! (Not shown above, above is something weird and I don’t recommend it) Still in the experimental stages, researchers at the University of Utah have designed what may one day be a chemical condom....
by Captain Skellett | Jul 24, 2009 | How Things Work, Sex and Reproduction, The Realm of Bizzare
Hats and eyepatches off to Sci of Neurotopia for writing the funniest post I have read this year. I’m still shaking in my boots with laughter! The post is about Priapism. What is it? Well, it’s a sustained erection, and when I say sustained I mean...
