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originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
And if you think that's how all schools handle it (just let anyone in who says they feel like a girl today), you are as delusional as the OP.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Note my links above. The first one is about a girl letting 25 boys have sex with her in a rest room. Rape isn't the only reason to segregate boys and girls.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: namelesss
Actually read the thread. We're talking about little kids here.
The condition is known as “prosopagnosia” / “facial agnosia”, or in less medical terms: “face blindness”. (“Prosopagnosia” actually literally means: “face ignorance”. “prosopon” = “face”, “agnosia” = “not knowing” or “ignorance”).
Once thought to be incredibly rare, with only 100 or so documented cases up until the last decade or so, it’s now thought that around 1 in every 50 people suffers from this condition; though for most, they just have a really hard time recognizing people by their faces. For instance, in one study, a person with this condition was shown a picture of Elvis Presley and thought it was Brooke Shields.
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A man's physical response to porn—faster heart rate, increased bloodflow, erection—is preceded by a deeper neurological process, which scientists have attempted to capture through brain scans. The results have varied widely. "There are so many moving parts in this equation," says William Struthers, Ph.D., a biopsychologist and the author of Wired for Intimacy. "How old is the man? Is he involved in a sexual relationship? Is he regularly masturbating? People think sex is always the same. It's not. You look at food very differently when you're hungry compared with when you've just finished a meal."
Even so, a few broad themes have consistently emerged. First is the cognitive component—visual processing, attention, and reward. "Pornographic images seem to activate a man's visual system in a manner that goes beyond just looking at trees or even people," says Struthers. "It's almost like a high-definition signal compared with a standard signal." Once this signal—Tori Black in the nude, say—hits the male antenna, the mesolimbic (reward) system kicks in, producing a rush of feel-good dopamine.
This can reinforce the behavior much in the same way that drugs like coc aine would—which is perhaps the most widely exploited argument against porn. "Guys freak out when they think porn might be 'rewiring' their brains," says Struthers. "The reality is, our brains are regularly being 'rewired'—we wouldn't learn anything otherwise." Perhaps more troublesome is what occurs after that pleasurable surge: the activation of brain regions tied to motivation, which drives men to seek sexual release.
www.menshealth.com...