Page 14 - Sex Facts

The vibrator was invented before the vacuum.

To be clear, this is on a consumer level. Vibrators were first used for medicinal reasons in 1878, and didn’t become consumer available products until 1900. It was ten years before the electric vacuum became an available consumer product.

The vibrator was actually the fifth electric home appliance. Only the sewing machine, fan, tea kettle, and toaster were consumer products that came first. It took a decade before the iron and frying pan would come along as consumer products too!

Most of these “vintage” vibrators are powered by A.C. electric power (about 80% of them). You can view some of the models at the source, but be forewarned that you should only visit it if you’re old enough to know what a vibrator is. Despite that, it’s a completely safe for work gallery.

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The Obelisco of Buenos Aires had a condom draped over it on world AIDS day 2005!

The Obelisco, is a national historic monument and icon of Buenos Aires. The monument was built to commemorate the fourth centenary of the first foundation of the city. They needed to make the Obelisco’s surroundings more appealing, so the government of the city started the project Punto Obelisco. 

They created a zone around the monument full of LED signs. Now, the Obelisco area is always associated with lights and the nightlife, so it has become similar to Picadilly Circus in London or Times Square in New York. Over the years, the monument has endured quite a bit of vandalism. 

In the 1980s, an activist group poured paint down the monument from the top windows. After that, they put up a fence that proved to be very helpful in preventing vandalism. In November of 2005 they repainted the monument “Paris stone” hue, which was said to be a major improvement from the original white. 

Then, in December of 2005, the Obelisco was cloaked in a pink condom to celebrate world AIDS day. 

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According to OKCupid, 80% of people who identify themselves as bisexual on their site are not really bisexual.

According to a site-wide study by Okcupid.com, only 23% of the people who identified themselves as bisexual messaged both genders. According the study, 41% of “bisexuals” sent messages to only men and 36% of “bisexuals” sent messages to only women. 

This suggests that, at least for OK Cupid users,  bisexuality is a “hedge” for gay people or is by straight people to appear more sexually adventurous. 

Here's a few more interesting thing they found: 

• People on average, say they're two inches taller than they really are.
• People exaggerate their income by 20%
• The more attractive a profile pic is, the more likely it is to be out of date.

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Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos was cancelled mid air during the first episode!

I suppose the existence of a series called “Australia’s Naughtiest Home Videos” is more of the “OMG fact” here than its cancellation. The show was a one-off special spinoff of “Australia’s Funniest Home Videos.” 

Rather than showing babies falling of tricycles or dogs jumping off roofs, the show depicted videos of sexual situations like a little girl grabbing a kangeroo’s scrotum and two people caught having sex in the middle of a park.

Like the 1969 American TV show Turn-on, it was taken off the air part-way through the broadcast of its first and only episode. “Australia’s Funniest Home Videos” received many racy of risqué videos that could not be sent back to the viewers according to the show’s policy, and had to be kept by the station. 

The producers decided to compile these videos into a one-off special aimed at an adult audience. The videos included animal genitalia, humans or animals engaging in sexual intercourse, people who accidently get disrobed, etc. When the network owner was informed about it, he saw it and called the studio operators to say; “Get that sh*t off the air.”

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There is a dress that becomes transparent when the person wearing it becomes aroused.

Are you the kind of person who finds it’s hard to express yourself? Well the new Intimacy 2.0 may help in making your feelings more transparent. This fashion/technological breakthrough measures the heart-rate of the wears and adjusts its transparency accordingly. 

In a bar-like situation, a conversation with a charming partner that causes the wear’s heart to race may cause the dress to show more skin whereas one with someone who is dull and boring may keep everything behind curtains. 

Its designer, Daan Roosegaarde constructed it out of leather and smart e-foils that are opaque. This dress is another unconventional addition to fashion, alongside dresses made from chocolate and paper. 

The Intimacy 2.0 has already won a string of awards and created explosive media buzz. This dress does explore the merger between fashion and technology like the new Google glasses exploit, but on the less obvious side, it also shows how fashion is essentially a social tool, and how styles adjust themselves to the social climate. 

While it covers up our bodies, clothing is meant to give others a glimpse into what lies underneath, which in turn facilitates social interaction. In our age of efficiency and sexual/romantic freedom, this dress may lead to more straightforward and quicker beginnings to relationships. 

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