All rights reserved. Are they intended to actually wound the female during mating? Do they help the male fly to scrape out the sperm of his rivals? All of these explanations have been put forward, and it seems that all of them are wrong. The spines are nothing more than biological Velcro. We know this thanks to Michal Polak and Arash Rashed, who shaved male flies with a laser to see if their sexual performance would be affected.
Study reveals sexual tactics of male flies by shaving their genitals with a laser
This fixation is even more pronounced in this modern age of the super-sized everything. Bigger seems to automatically mean better. Men are naturally competitive, and penis size seems to be one more thing to lose sleep over. What is lost on most men is that size does not make you better at pleasing a woman in the same way that bigger fists do not make a better boxer.
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Sex as a concept is a beautiful thing. But there are many things that can go wrong during intercourse, and the results can be, for lack of a better word, gross. This goes for all kinds of sex — straight, gay, bad, funny, good, awkward, etc. This article, however, speaks on the gross things that men deal with during sex. While women may be more likely to discuss such sexual atrocities as gag reflexes, missing condoms, and delayed semen leakage sorry , this is an opportunity for men to discuss the topic.
Just because vaginas get gynecologists and annual exams and all that jazz doesn't mean you can just forget about your penis health. In fact, there are a lot of problems that can arise if you don't look after your penis properly. So to find out more about how to keep your penis as healthy as possible, BuzzFeed Health spoke with two board-certified urologists: Dr. Here are some common mistakes, bad habits, poor hygiene practices, and behaviors they'd suggest ditching ASAP.