Scintillating science of the week comes from our friends in the beautiful city of Groningen, Netherlands, where Weekender once played in a really, really bad concert in a squat called Glasfabreik.
Anyway, Gert Holstege of the university there has spent his time writing papers about how watching pornography shuts down part of your brain. Live Science asked him about it.
“If you look, for example, at your computer and you have to write something or whatever, then you have to look specifically and carefully at what you’re doing because if you don’t, it means you make mistakes.
“But the moment you are watching explicit sexual movies, that’s not necessary, because you know exactly what’s going on. It’s not important that the door is green or yellow.” We don’t think he’s actually talking in euphemism here, by the way.
Groove out, dude
Anyway this research indicates that activity in the brain regions, which are associated with anxiety, dip considerably. This also works vice-versa, so keep the atmosphere chilled and groovy and you never know whether you might get lucky. And there are few better places to do that than in Groningen, which is populated by exceedingly cool and gorgeous people. Honestly, you should try and get over there. Talking of not using your brain, a new JD Power survey indicated that 20 per cent of people who own cars would probably spend US$3,000 to add fully-autonomous self-driving technology to their next motor, thus presumably leaving your hands free for other important things, such as turning up the sound on your television on which you are conducting important research, for example.
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