Dr McKee said porn users reported it had taught them "to be more relaxed about their sexuality" and marriages were healthier, while porn made people think about another person's pleasure and made them less judgmental about body shapes.

See also analysis and reaction to the study.

Posted by GeeTee at August 16, 2004 05:48 PM | TrackBack 0

3) There is only one linguist at MIT. That linguist is named Noam Chomsky. At each university containing linguists, there is exactly one linguist who agrees with Prof. M. about some things and disagrees with him about others. If there are other linguists at other universities, they must either agree with Prof. M. about everything, or disagree with him about everything.

Posted by GeeTee at August 16, 2004 04:45 PM | TrackBack 0

From a bit of looking around, it seems that plain butt as in idiomatic intensifier is mainly used with qualities are that are negative, or at least can be seen as negative. Thus "butt expensive", "butt cheap" (even when that is sometimes good), "butt stupid", but not (as far as I can tell from googling) "butt intelligent" or "beautiful" or "good". By contrast, kick-butt seems mainly to go with positively-evaluated properties.

Posted by GeeTee at August 16, 2004 03:46 PM | TrackBack 0

"We always stop there and show people the Farthest North Spruce Tree and explain that (spruce) trees don't grow that far north in the world anywhere else," said Conklin, a guide for Coldfoot Camp, a truck and tourist stop 60 miles down the road.
Conklin wasn't prepared for what he would see next.

Posted by GeeTee at August 16, 2004 03:24 PM | TrackBack 0