Rats In Polyester Pants Have Less Sex

[Amby 490]

Dr. Ahmed Shafik wears three-piece suits with gold watch fobs and a diamond stickpin in the lapel. His glasses are the thick, black rectangular style of the Nasser era. He owns a Cairo hospital and lives in a mansion with marble walls. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize. I don’t care about any of this. Shafik won my heart by publishing a paper in European Urology in which he investigated the effects of polyester on sexual activity. Ahmed Shafik dressed lab rats in polyester pants.

There were 75 rats. They wore their pants for one year. Shafik found that over time the ones dressed in polyester or poly-cotton blend had sex significantly less often than the rats whose slacks were cotton or wool. (Shafik thinks the reason is that polyester sets up troublesome electrostatic fields in and around the genitals. Having seen an illustration of a rat wearing the pants, I would say there’s an equal possibility that it’s simply harder to get a date when you dress funny.)

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/may/29-the-sexual-frustration-of-rats-in-polyester-pants

Another linky for Joyce from CNBC

http://www.cnbc.com/id/24482051

[HAL 9000 96]

Fascinating study.

* Goes down to Rat colony to distribute Rat Polyester Pants *

[Amby 490]

Fascinating study.

* Goes down to Rat colony to distribute Rat Polyester Pants *

[Niels Bohr 72]

How can rat be compared to humans in terms of sex. Rats when they mate, the male goes on a rampage and hump for hours.

[Jasman0717 9]

[mawilson 2,133]

How can rat be compared to humans in terms of sex. Rats when they mate, the male goes on a rampage and hump for hours.

You mean, you don't?

[Amby 490]

How can rat be compared to humans in terms of sex. Rats when they mate, the male goes on a rampage and hump for hours.

It was a pointless study and that's why I find it so funny. The guy funded it himself. Apparently he also did a study on farting while having sex and called it flaturia.

I don't remember my pubmed ID so if someone else has access here's the flaturia study which also cracks me up http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16912854

[msu17 0]

One of my jobs in college was watching hamsters have sex. It was fascinating They should have rat lingerie.

[HAL 9000 96]

I officially love this thread. Thank you, Amby, for bringing it up. I will use this as inspiration when I want to breed mice downstairs. Get them soft candlelight, good music, and I will have cigarettes and wine available in their cages.

Ditto to mawilson's question to Niels Bohr.

[Amby 490]

ok found my pubmed id and sadly there isn't anything more

I officially love this thread. Thank you, Amby, for bringing it up. I will use this as inspiration when I want to breed mice downstairs. Get them soft candlelight, good music, and I will have cigarettes and wine available in their cages.

Ditto to mawilson's question to Niels Bohr.

I think we should dedicate this thread to crazy studies

[almaty 19]

i am waiitng for the local porn shop to sale the dvd

[Ban Hammer 13,335]

of course they didn't have sex, they couldn't get the dayum pants off.

[Amby 490]

[Mononoke28 135]

Don't polyesther pants make you itch down there because of the friction? They give new meaning to "I have ants my pants".

Diana

[Amby 490]

the guy did it more than once...

To study the effect of different types of textiles on conception. A total of 35 female dogs were divided into five equal groups: four test and one control. Each of the four test groups was dressed in one type of textile underpants made of either 100% polyester, 50/50% polyester-cotton mix, 100% cotton, or 100% wool. The pants were worn for 12 months. The dogs were followed during this period and for 6 months after removal of the pants by measuring the serum oestradiol 17beta and progesterone and by mating. Electrostatic potentials were also measured on the textile-covered skin. Eight bitches wearing polyester-containing textile showed diminished serum progesterone in the oestrus of the oestrous cycle, and did not conceive on mating or insemination. Five months after pants had been removed, serum progesterone of the eight dogs had normalised, and they conceived. Electrostatic potentials were detected on the skin of all dogs dressed in polyester-containing textile. The low serum progesterone and non-conception of the eight dogs could point to anovulation and failure of luteinisation. It is suggested that the electrostatic potentials detected on the skin create an 'electrostatic field' that inhibits the ovarian function. However, the effect proved to be reversible.