An “expert” on living to become a centenarian had some rather uneducated answers as to how people might live longer and how they might end up dealing with topics such as sex.
Well, first off there was a segment about cloning and how that could yield an increase in age through genetic manipulation, yet they failed to mention how nearly every cloned animal dies of some terrible disease or birth deformity, typically sooner rather than later. It gets better.
Then, at the end of the Barbara Walters’ Special, the woman with the show’s namesake asks an honest question about aging. How might an increasingly aging population approach the topic of sex. His ingenious answer: men tend to die younger than women, so we may be seeing more lesbianism in older women.
Uh, yeah… right.
In conclusion, don’t kick the village idiot out of town, and don’t allow him to get an education, because he just might try to use it.
Why did I watch that crap? What a waste of time. At least I had a great laugh, until I realized it was a news hour and not a comedy of sorts 😛
More news of the unusual
This comes from the History Channel show Modern Marvels where the Episode High Tech Sex aired.
At the end of each segment before the commercial they give you a bit of useless information related to the episode such as these:
During the 1920’s vibrators were so popular that a book was written on the topic and within it described the best way for a woman to ride a train so as to make the most of the ride. It was a best seller, so much so, that 27 editions were produced.
The first vibrators were created in the 1860’s to combat hysteria in women. Doctors used them to free women of the mental problem. Doctors were thrilled to have these instruments handy instead of manually bringing about, what we now know as an orgasm. Though, it was taken seriously as a way to cure hysteria with no sexual intent involved. So messed up.
Since this was during the Victorian Age, which is the most recent time of extreme sexual restriction in society, when contraception was made illegal by the US government in 1873, it seems to make sense. It gets better, contraptions meant to restrict a man from having an erection were created, for it was thought that a finite amount of semen was contained within each man, and so a loss of it could cause incidence of laziness, inability to father a child, and loss of vitality and strength. Most young men, as well as those in asylums, were likely candidates for these leather straps, chains, and sometimes even mechanical devices, some of which had sharp parts known as “pricks” that would immediately stop any arousal.
Man I’m so glad I was not around then!
Nathanisms 