After that last cheap blogshot, I suppose I should put something more useful up. How about strengthening international ties by explaining the mystery of “snogging”? Those crazy Brits are always snogging, or talking about it — and it’s never been quite clear to me exactly what that means. I’ve always thought it was a rough synonym for “making out” (or, to use a dying euphemism, French kissing) — but with a more vigorous connotation, sort of like “sucking face” but not quite so crude.

Now all is explained, at Sunday magazine length, in the Guardian Unlimited Observer, and it turns out I’m right:

“And so I had to explain that snogging is a bit like kissing but more aggressive, a bit like sex but strangely far more intimate, and that probably as a result, many people who happily have sex with their partners on a regular basis can’t countenance the idea of snogging them in any way.”

There is lots more. (Original link at archive.org.)

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This sounds like fun:

Scientists last week revealed they had successfully tested a nasal spray, PT-141, that sent ‘healthy, normal women’ into states of high sexual arousal.

‘The crucial point about PT-141 is that it directly targets the brain’s arousal centre,’ said Dr Carl Spana, president of Palatin Technologies, of New Jersey.

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[L]ast week…Professor Raymond Rosen of New Jersey’s University of Medicine and Dentistry revealed results of the first human trials of PT-141. Sixteen healthy women were given the drug and 16 were given a placebo. All were shown erotic videos, while detectors measured blood flow in their vaginas.

The women given placebos hardly reacted while those on PT-141 had pronounced increases in blood flow – results that demonstrate the drug has potential that goes well beyond its use only as a medical aid, though Spana counselled caution. ‘The drug can only be administered as a nasal spray – which isn’t good for seducers. You can’t put it in a drink and sticking it up a girl’s nose is hard to do surreptitiously, after all.

(Original link at Archive.org)

The oinkers over at Men Are Pigs explain the four reasons why sex with your ex is so good. Reason One:

1. Your ex will suddenly be a much better lover. No matter what has really happened since you broke up, she will want to impress you with all the little tricks she has learned while sleeping with everyone else. No matter, who cares. Just let it happen and enjoy.

Meesh in Malaysia offers four health reasons to kiss:

1. Kissing revs of production of saliva and helps wash away bacteria and break down on gum damaging plaque! Yes, so now you have a medical excuse to start sucking face. You will be your dentist’s dream patient. In fact, if he’s hot, you should start sucking his face.

Our lucky friends on the far side of the Atlantic are being treated to a new dramatic television series called “Tipping the Velvet”, featuring explicit lesbian romps on BBC2. Says one of the actresses:

“We did all our love scenes in a bedroom in one afternoon, although I do admit I had to fortify myself.

“We had a couple of glasses of wine and a bar of Galaxy and off we went. It was quite nice actually.

“There’s a bit of oral sex but I’m under the covers so you don’t see a lot. But there is a lot of girl-on-girl action.