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Sometimes, scientists ask deep, probing questions that cut to the very core of the universe's greatest mysteries. And sometimes, they wonder about how ostriches' and emus' penises work. And sometimes, that apparently prurient research can lead to new insights into how birds and reptiles evolved apart. More »
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You've seen the spam. You've heard legends. But is there any actual science behind the promise of penis enlargement? Quite a lot, it turns out. Here's what we've learned from thousands of years of experiments that have attempted to address whether life would be better if that special organ were just a little bit bigger. More »
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The venom of the Brazilian wandering spider has some seriously nasty effects, causing victims to lose control of their muscles, slowly lose the ability to breathe...and, if the victim is male, get an erection that lasts longer than four hours. More »
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Deep sea fish assimilating males for extra sperm, flies frozen mid-coitus for 20 million years, and a walrus's penis bone... it's all part of "Sexual Nature", a new exhibition at London's Natural History Museum that spotlights the many awesomely strange forms that animal intercourse can take. Let's go on a Valentine's Day stroll through the animal kingdom, shall we? More »
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Many members of the earwig insect family have two penises, but you'd never know it from observing their sex lives. Most earwigs are exclusively "right-penised", which raises an important question: why bother having two penises if you only use one? More »
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Medical science finally has an answer to an age-old, all-important question: how do you free a trapped penis from a PVC pipe? Our male readers may want to keep this paper handy...you know, just in case. More »
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Hiromi Ozaki's Penis Cybernetique is a prosthetic John Thomas that rises and falls with the user's heart rate. It emulates what it's like to sport a penis, albeit one that was rendered on an Atari 2600. NSFW for geometric nudity. More »
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If there's one thing a rabbit needs, it's well-functioning genitalia. Scientists have successfully regrown rabbits' damaged penises, letting these rabbits do what rabbits do best. And their research could have important implications for generating human tissues as well. More »
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Kiddies, I remember the days when flying penises could only attack public figures in virtual world Second Life. Who doesn't remember the day when virtual real estate mogul Anshe Chung, the richest lady in Second Life, was attacked during a virtual press conference by giant virtual penises (left)? Clearly, Russian protesters haven't forgotten. A group of pro-government rabble-rousers sent a peniscopter (right) into the air recently during an anti-Putin speech from former chess champ and political activist Victor Kasparov. More »
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Frank Henelotter, the exploitation genius who brought you Frankenhooker, Brain Damage, and the Basket Case trilogy, is finally showing his new flick, Bad Biology, at film festivals. At the Philadelphia Film Festival, where Bad Biology premiered, Henenlotter told the audience that his goal was to make a movie that was "just wrong." Henenlotter fan Shepard Wong posted about the plot of this movie, which will lay to rest the question of what can come next after Brian Yuzna already brought you a zombie penis vs. zombie rat fight. More »
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Yesterday we talked about the battle of the genitals in science horror films, and today I've got the best example of a horror movie penis ever created. It's the zombie rat vs. zombie penis moment from Beyond Re-Animator, the third in a series about a mad doctor (played with vigor by Jeffrey Combs) with a glow-in-the-dark serum that turns dead people into mind-controlled zombies. This flick takes place in a Spanish prison, where our mad doctor has been zombiefying everybody, including the rat-like warden and a zillion prisoners hanged for rioting. In this scene, the zombied warden tries to molest a zombied lady, while a zombied rat watches hungrily. More »
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The Weinstein Company released the final movie poster for Superhero Movie today, and it features Pamela Anderson's boobs, Leslie Nielsen wearing a "With Great Power Comes Hot Bitches" sweater, and not one but two penis jokes (check out Storm's lightning and Dragonfly's popcorn). We're all for parodying superheroes and science fiction, but when it devolves into beer hat jokes and shots of people being embarrassed that their underwear is on display, we doth protest. It would be easy to discount this film if Meet The Spartans hadn't just made $18 million in its opening weekend. If this one grosses anywhere near that, we fear for the fate of our species. More »
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Aliens Vs. Predator 2: Requiem will be unwrapped in theaters on Christmas Day, unleashing strange alien design and horror everywhere, but that shiny-headed killing machine is more than 30 years old now. It wasn't created from scratch for the original Alien in 1979, but was based on two paintings created by H.R. Giger several years before. More »
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