Page 8 - Sex Facts

Want to seem nicer? Embarrass yourself in public!

Scientists in Berkeley made an experiment in which they taped people talking about embarrassing moments in their lives. Other people watched the videos and then rated the stories based on how embarrassed they are. Then, they asked them to rate how nice the people telling the stories were.

The people who told embarrassing stories, and seemed flustered recalling them were rated as nicer as the people who told the stories, but maintained a straight face. Those people were rated as selfish and untrustworthy! The reason behind this phenomenon might be that we instinctively think that people who get embarrassed easily will go out of their way to make sure others don't get embarrassed.

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Two Yankee pitchers traded LIVES!

If this sounds strange, it's because it is. In 1973, Yankee pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich called a press conference where they announced that they had traded families. The men were going to swap wives, children and even pets.

The two men had been inseparable since 1969, and the families had spent a lot of time together. One time, during a double date, they joked about wife-swapping. According to the report, the swap occurred during the summer of 1972, and then made the change official in October of that year, and they made their press conference the year after.

The trade ended up working better for Peterson, because he's still married to his swapped wife, and had 4 kids. Kekich divorced soon after.

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There are almost 3 times as many male prostitutes than female ones in Sweden!

Scientists are a little taken aback by their recent finding of Swedish sex workers. The Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs published a study yesterday that found that 2.1% of Swedish males aged 16 to 25 had prostituted themselves in 2012. This is compared to 0.8 percent of women.

The scientists cannot figure out why guys outnumber girls. One possible theory is that most of the males are young gay men who have an easier time accepting their sexuality if they do it in exchange for something. Even more interesting is that 21.9% of those interviewed thought it was acceptable for people to be paid for sex.

And before you think that it's older people who are giving these young’uns their business, it seems that about half of the clients for those under 26 were also themselves under 26.

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Female OKCupid users find 80% of men to have below-average attractiveness!

OKCupid, the free online dating site, comes out with a lot of interesting statistics on their users. This is an interesting one, because it affects something a lot of people are sensitive about: how they look.

They ran some numbers on how male and female users of their site rate members of the opposite sex. When men rated women on a scale of 1 to 5, they found that Men tended to rate women on a pretty standard curve: a woman had an equal chance of being rated extremely ugly as she did extremely beautiful.

However, when they ran the numbers for females, they rated 80% of guys as worse than medium-looking. They have harsher standards than men! Check out the blog post for more info

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A college student sold her virginity for $780,000!

Catarina Migliorini of Brazil is making headlines for auctioning off her virginity for $780,000. The winner of the bid is a Japanese man only known as Natsu. The auction caught the eye of bidders from not just Japan and Brazil, but also the US, Australia and even India. 

To avoid any legal problems, the one-hour session with the girl will take place on an airplane flying over international waters. Romantic, no? The auction was organized by an Australian filmmaker who's making a documentary about it. Again, romantic, no? 

Lest you call her an offensive name, the girl says she will donate 90% of the money to charities that are building homes for the poor in her native state in Brazil. However, her sister has disputed this claim. 

Catarina is not the only one who's doing this for the Australian filmmaker, 21-year-old Alexander Stepanov also participated in the documentary, but his v-card only managed to raise $3,000. Ironically, the lucky lady lives in Brazil. 

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