Davian behavior is a scientific term of art referring to copulation with a dead conspecific. It was first observed in ground squirrels and was named after an old limerick:
There was an old miner named Dave
who kept a dead whore in his cave
You have to admit
He hadn’t much wit
But look at the money he saved!
—Wikipedia entry on Davian behavior.
Seriously, zoologists?
In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon relates an anecdote attributed to Abulfeda that Ali, on the death of Muhammad, exclaimed, O propheta, certe penis tuus cælum versus erectus est (O prophet, thy penis is erect unto the sky).
Edward Gibbon, what the hell is your problem.
Don’t Masturbate. From my photoshop files. This one is pretty stupid but it was fun.
Is it just me, or is this basically the plot of Twilight, but with gay men, in real life?
Bugchasing (or bug chasing) is a slang term for a subculture of individuals who allegedly pursue sex with HIV infected individuals in order to contract HIV. Bugchasers may seek HIV status for a variety of reasons.
Bugchasers seek sexual partners who are HIV positive for the purpose of having unprotected sex and seroconversion; giftgivers (also gift givers) are HIV positive individuals who comply with the bugchaser’s efforts to become infected with HIV.
So, one guy seeks out a partner who will “change him”. The transformation involves an intimate, penetrative act. And in the end, the transformation renders him technically dead. OK. I have to go lie down now.
SMASH THE EROTIC STATE!
Sexual capital or erotic capital is power possessed by an individual as a result of his or her sexual attractiveness to others. It is one among other types of capital, including social capital, symbolic capital, and cultural capital.
The concept builds on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of capital. Green defines erotic capital as accruing to an individual due to the quality and quantity of attributes that he or she possesses which elicit an erotic response in another, including characteristics associated with physical appearance, affect and sociocultural styles...
Sexual capital is convertible to other forms of capital, as when actors parlay erotic capital into financial capital or social capital (e.g. Marilyn Monroe), or when attractive employees get raises and social connections from bringing in more customers by virtue of their looks.
Saint Agatha of Sicily admires her amputated breasts, having been cut off during her martyrdom.
