LiveScience.com: Soft Core Science

Recently eaten: Salmon baked with tomatoes, garlic, and soy beans
Recent annoyance: Inclement weather

I have noticed in my web travels that LiveScience.com continues to report on the steamier stories in the natural world. Take a gander at some of these suggestively titled articles:

Well Endowed Fish Get the Girls
The article notes that " The studs with larger gonopodia, which is what scientists call male fish sex organs, can't swim as fast as their less impressive counterparts, so they're more likely to get eaten by predators." I can only make animal sacrifices to the tooth fairy that this is true in humans and I can snag me one of them slow-moving guys with a huge "gonopodia."

Suvival Skills: Why Sex is Good
Was there ever any doubt?

The Downside to Virginity Pledges
Aside from the obvious, here's another reason that virgins are gross:"Young people who make pledges of virginity begin having sex later and have fewer sexual partners. But oddly they are infected with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) just as often, a new study found."

Well-fed Crickets Seek Sex Incessantly, Die Young
Remind you of your last Saturday night at Lucky Bar?--"The nonstop pleading -- more times every night than their lean counterparts -- caused the well-fed males to burn out. But probably not before the mission could be accomplished." This explains so much.

Crickets Invade Nevada
The title sounds innocuous enough until you find out that these are MORMON crickets. Gee, Mormon crickets, who have been prodigiously copulating with their many polygamous mates, have spawned millions of baby buggers have taken over Nevada? Sound like a prophecy from the religious right? I think so.

And finally, I have been dreaming about this aqua-erotic shot they posted of a sexy shark. The gleaming white teeth, that soft-focus effect from the ocean water...I lie in bed all night sweating, my heart pounding thinking of its smooth, slippery sharp teeth sinking into my flesh. Eep!