10 FUNNY Body Connections: What Your Hand Says About Your Penis, And More

Your body parts are joined in ways you never imagined. For example, did you know the length of your index finger could secretly reveal your penis size? While most of these links sound strange, knowing about them could pay dividends down the line. Here are 10 crazy body connections that just might save your life.

1. What your voice says about your height: Researchers recently found that listeners can accurately determine the relative heights of speakers just by hearing them talk. Credit the frequency of "subglottal resonance," a sound produced in the lower airway of the lungs that gets progressively lower as height increases. Ever wonder why your tall buddies talk so low? Now you know.

2. What your eyes say about your brain: The small vessels behind your eyes could reveal how healthy your brain is, according to a recent report in Psychological Science. Researchers found that people with wider veins scored worse on IQ tests in middle age, which should give you another reason to get your peepers checked yearly.

3. What your skin says about your blood pressure: Wrinkles aren't just a sign of aging-they could also portend ticker trouble, a study says. When researchers separated people into groups based on cardiac disease risk and analyzed the youthfulness of their skin, those with the fewest wrinkles had lower blood pressure and lower heart disease risk.

4. What your hand says about your penis: We dare you to not look at your hand after reading this! Men whose index fingers are shorter than their ring fingers tend to have bigger penises, according to 2011 Korean research. That's because the testosterone guys get exposed to while they're still fetuses controls both penis and finger lengths, the researchers say.

5. What your fingers say about your cancer risk: A longer index finger might also put you at a lower risk of prostate cancer, according to a study in the British Journal of Cancer.

6. What your legs say about your erection: Suffering from restless leg syndrome (RLS)? You may have more serious problems than a case of the jimmy legs, finds a recent study from Harvard Medical School. Researchers found that men who had at least five RLS episodes each month were 50 percent more likely to develop erectile dysfunction than guys without fidgety limbs. Both conditions are linked to low levels of the feel-good chemical dopamine, which might be one potential explanation.

7. What your teeth say about your mind: A 2012 study suggested your ability to chew might predict your risk of dementia. But don't get too worried if you have trouble chomping: The researchers don't know if mental decline leads to poor dental care and less bite force, if difficulty chewing impacts the brain, or if it's simply just a random correlation.

8. What your pulse says about your heart: The flexibility of your aorta may soon be measured by checking the pulse in your finger, according to researchers. Your aorta is a major artery that, when stiff, can increase your risk of dying from heart attack or stroke. That could be good-and much more comfortable-news, since right now doctors have to check your pulse in the femoral artery deep in your groin to screen for aortic stiffness.

9. What your sleep says about your eyes: People with sleep apnea are almost twice as likely to develop glaucoma-an eye disease that can lead to blindness-within five years, finds research from Taiwan. When you aren't breathing at a normal rate, the loss of oxygen triggers damage to the optic nerves, or causes abnormal levels of gases in your blood-both of which could lead to glaucoma.

10. What your lips say about your memory: If you're one of the millions of people who get cold sores, that pesky outbreak on your lip could put you at an increased risk for Alzheimer's and dementia, according to a study. Researchers followed adults between the ages of 59 and 79 for eight years and found that those with a higher infectious burden-meaning they'd been exposed to a higher-risk virus, such as herpes simplex virus 1 and 2-were more likely to have worse cognition.

Signs He Wants You Only For Sex

If the thought that your relationships have nothing to do with love already hit you once or twice and you suspect that you are just being used for sex, this article is for you.

Signs that your man may needs you only for sex.

Have you ever met his friends?

If not that could be a very large red flag for you. If he is truly in the relationship because he is happy with you and is proud to be with you, there is no reason that he wouldn't want you to get acquainted with his friends.

Your relationships are one-sided

If you think back, can you remember a time when he did something for you or are you the one that is always cooking, cleaning, and buying him things but there is never the courtesy of reciprocation.

He says compliments only about your appearance

You like to hear that you are beautiful or smoking hot, but what about compliments to your personality of something that you do that is cute? If your guy only compliments your looks then you may want to start looking elsewhere.

He is never around when you need him a lot

When you really need support or someone to lean on and you are in a relationship you will usually go to your significant other. But what if he is never around? If he doesn't want to be there for the emotional happenings than he shouldn't be there for the bedroom happenings either.

You are only role-playing during sex

If the only thing you ever do in bed is role play then you just may be being used. If he is always trying to pretend that you are someone else other than yourself he may not really be liking your for who you truly are.

WOW! Sex Might Actually Make You Smarter

Forget mindfulness meditation, computerized working-memory training, and learning a musical instrument; all methods recently shown by scientists to increase intelligence. There could be an easier answer. It turns out that sex might actually make you smarter.

Researchers in United States and South Korea recently found that sexual activity in mice and rats improves mental performance and increases neurogenesis (the production of new neurons) in the hippocampus, where long-term memories are formed.

"Sexual interaction could be helpful," researchers wrote, "for buffering adult hippocampal neurogenesis and recognition memory function against the suppressive actions of chronic stress."

So growing brain cells through sex does appear to have some basis in scientific fact.

But there's some debate over whether fake sex - pornography - could be harmful. American neuroscientists recently argued that excessive porn viewing, like other addictions, can result in permanent "anatomical and pathological" changes to the brain.

Whether or not porn "addiction" literally damages the brain, even brief viewing of pornographic images does interfere with people's "working memory" - the ability to mentally juggle and pay attention to multiple items. A study published last October in the Journal of Sex Research tested the working memory of 28 healthy individuals when they were asked to keep track of neutral, negative, positive, or pornographic stimuli. "Results revealed worse working memory performance in the pornographic picture condition," researchers concluded.

One myth about sex - or perhaps it's just a joke? - is that "testosterone poisoning" makes young men stupid. Actually, a 2007 study measured the level of testosterone in the saliva of prepubertal boys, including some who were intellectually gifted, some who were average, and some who were mentally challenged. Boys of average intelligence had significantly higher testosterone levels than both mentally challenged and intellectually gifted boys, with the latter two groups showing no significant difference between each other.

But if having sex can make people smarter, the opposite is not true: being smarter does not mean you'll have more sex. Smarter teens, in fact, tend to delay their initiation of coital activities.

In old age, too, cognitive abilities affect one's chances of getting lucky. A study published just last month found that older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), often a forerunner of Alzheimer's disease, were only about half as likely to have engaged recently in sexual activity as were their cognitively healthy peers. Of those with MCI, just 32.5 percent had recently engaged in sex, compared to 62.3 percent of those without MCI.

Perhaps, however, the dream of getting smarter through sex is just an alluring fantasy. Neuroscientists have reported that while many activities can increase the rate at which new brain cells are born, only effortful, successful learning increases their survival.

Sex To Bring Back The Spark In Your Marriage

Marriage without sex is wide-open to temptation. Don't kid yourselves that you can be 'best friends' and your marriage will last. Sooner or later, temptation will arise, either from a partner's co-worker, another member of the church choir or a neighbor.

The drive to have sex is powerful, and it will be satisfied, one way or another. When your relationship lasts for a while, your lovemaking will change. As you get closer, passion no longer grows automatically out of the excitement of the new and unknown.

Rather than allowing your energy to subside, you can allow your lovemaking to change and grow, deepening as your partnership does. These suggestions will help you create a variety of experiences together.

Quickies: These are ways you have sex when you don't really have time for a full, leisurely romantic evening. One of you giving oral sex before you leave for work, petting to climax in the car at a drive-in movie, using vibrators to have orgasms without a lot of foreplay late at night, taking a nap and having a "quickie" before rushing off to a party.

Sneaky Sex: This has the added excitement of "forbidden fruit" - having silent sex behind locked doors while the children are watching TV, sneaking lovemaking in your childhood bedroom while visiting your parents, visiting your partner at work and having quickie sex on the couch in a locked office.

Romantic Sex: This is the full-blown variety; candlelight, dinner, quiet talking, dressing up, perhaps a lovely hotel room, or a romantic dinner for two when you have time alone at home. Especially good for anniversaries, Valentine's day, or anytime your relationship needs a boost.

New Couple Sex: Recreate a scene from your dating days, as closely as possible - the time you met at church and couldn't wait to get home and make love, the flowers you used to bring home as a surprise, or saying all the silly, wildly in-love things you said then.

Make-up Sex: After you've had an argument or a struggle, and forgiven each other, lovemaking can be extra tender and memorable.

Comforting Sex: When one of you is sad or stressed, the other is especially caring and soothing, doing all your favorite things to comfort and relax you.

Relaxing Sex: This is the kind to do on a weekend morning, when you have no obligations, and can laze around, have breakfast in bed, and make love for as long as you want; no pressure, no hurry and no demands on each other.

Reassuring Sex This is affection and intimacy intended to reassure a partner who is temporarily insecure, or designed to reaffirm your mutual love and commitment to each other. It is often accompanied by many verbal declarations of love and explaining again why you are so important to each other.

Fantasy Sex: Act out all the silly, forbidden or exciting fantasies - nurse and patient, two little children "playing house", master or dominatrix and slave, stripper and customer, extraterrestrial alien and abductee, famous movie star and adoring fan, your two favorite characters from a soap opera, novel or movie, or anything else you can imagine. This is a great time for costumes, masks, sexual toys, leather outfits, or whatever enhancements you enjoy.

Secrets To A Happy Relationship

For a lot of people, the most important thing in the world is being in a relationship. There's security in it: you're loved, you have a partner, and you're no longer out there in the world, single, trying to make sense of the bizarre messages you get on dating sites. Being in a relationship is great! But it's also hard work, and being happy all the time takes a lot of patience and effort.

One of the largest studies of relationships ever has finally reported its findings. Conducted over a two-year period that encompassed 5,000 people of all relationship statuses, ages and sexual orientation, the research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, reveals some pretty interesting keys to keeping your relationship happy.

Let's break it down for you

Don't have kids: Once you're married the questions about when you're going to have a baby start. It's as if it's just the mandatory next step in this whole thing called life, and any mother will tell you it's the greatest thing in the entire world. However, couples that have chosen not to have kids feel most "satisfied" overall, and more valued by their partner. Although the study did find that the most miserable of the group are women who don't have a partner or child, and the happiest of everyone are mothers, this is about happiness in relationships.

Say "thank you": It might seem really insignificant, but when you thank someone, whether it's your partner or someone else, you're showing your appreciation. People like to feel appreciated. If you take two people with great manners and who make each other feel appreciated, you're looking at a relationship full of bliss.

Give compliments: People like to know that they look good or have a talent for something. Complimenting people makes you feel good, and gives them an ego boost. Happy people make for happy relationships.

Have some experience: The study found that those who had already done the long-term serious relationship thing were actually better at their next relationship. We learn from our past mistakes and bring it with us to our new experiences - how can that not be a recipe for greatness?

Don't be a middle-aged man, but do be a woman 34-years-old or younger: According to the study, the happiest men in relationships were those who were either younger or older; those guys in the middle weren't as cheery about their relationships. As for ladies, society doesn't make aging easy, so if you're under 34 now, make mental notes as to what makes you happy about your relationship and carry it with you into your later years.

Be in a same-sex relationship: Apparently, straight couples don't like to put in as much as work as gay couples, which leads to both components feeling less positive about their relationship. It was also found that straight couples are least likely to say, "I love you."

If you have kids, don't get married: Lastly, it was found that unmarried parents are a little bit happier than those who tie the knot. Just because you have a child with someone doesn't mean you have to walk down the aisle! Do what's right for you, and right for the happiness of your relationship, not what people tell you is "right."

Acid Victim Naomi Oni's Alleged Attacker Caught. It Was Her Friend!

A jealous university student threw sulphuric acid over her friend in an attack inspired by the horrific assault on Katie Piper, a court today heard.

Mary Konye, 21, disguised herself in an Islamic veil showing only her eyes, and followed Naomi Oni home in East London before allegedly dousing her in the corrosive acid. Ms Oni, 21, who worked at Victoria’s Secret lingerie shop, suffered horrific burns on her face and chest, lost her hair and eyelashes and was left scarred for life in the alleged attack on December 30 2012.

Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that Konye, who was studying business and finance at Hertfordshire University, had been close friends with Ms Oni since secondary school.

But she was envious of the shop worker’s good looks, and the pair had rowed in the past leading Konye to attack her with acid previously, it is alleged.

Konye knew Ms Oni had been deeply 'moved' by Katie Piper, a model and TV presenter who was badly scarred and left blind in one eye after she was attacked with acid in an ambush arranged by her ex-boyfriend, Daniel Lynch.

Knowing this, Konye decided to launch the copycat attack, jurors were told.

The court heard Ms Oni left work at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford, East London, at around 11.30pm with several colleagues.

But she was oblivious to the fact she was being closely followed by Konye wearing a full niqab, a hooded black coat, gloves and a grey bag, jurors heard.

CCTV showed the university student had 'lingered waiting to see the victim' at Stratford and 'tailed' her home always making sure to keep a few steps behind her, the court heard.

On the phone to her boyfriend throughout the journey, she stopped off at takeaway to pick up some food and got the 368 bus to her house.

Unaware she was being followed, she got off the bus at Lodge Avenue, a few hundred yards away from her house.

But she suddenly became aware of a presence behind her and spun around to see someone in a niqab who lobbed a glass of acid at her.

Gareth Patterson, prosecuting, told jurors that Konye had threatened to attack Ms Oni with acid on another occasion after the pair rowed.

He said: 'Naomi will tell you about her friendship with the defendant.

'In particular she will tell you how in the past they had an up and down relationship and how the defendant had admitted to her that on one occasion in anger she threatened to throw acid at Naomi.

'There was a reason why the defendant would have chosen to make such an unusual sort of threat.

'In the past the two of them had discussed a young woman called Katie Piper.

'She was a woman who had acid thrown at her and that attack had been reported in the media.

'Naomi and the defendant had discussed this and it appears that the defendant knew that Naomi had been particularly moved by Katie Piper’s ordeal.

'Naomi stated that she and the defendant had fallen out in the past and says that there was an occasion during a row when she called the defendant ugly.

'She says that they were later back on speaking terms and importantly, that the defendant said to her that she (the defendant) had been so angry at the time that she had said to someone else, a friend of the defendant’s called Kamilah Andrews, that she (the defendant) wanted to throw acid at Naomi.

'Naomi believed that the defendant had realised just how upset she had been by Katie Piper’s horrible ordeal.'

Mr Patterson said: 'She could not see the face of the person, just the light-brown coloured skin around the eyes.

'She believed it was a female. The woman was staring at her.

'All of a sudden Naomi felt a liquid being thrown into her face. She screamed and immediately felt her face burning.

'She could smell her skin and hair burning. She immediately ran home.

'Naomi’s boyfriend Ato Owede was still on the phone with her at the time of the attack. He describes how he was chatting with her when suddenly he heard his girlfriend scream.'

The liquid immediately burnt through her skin and clothes and left her face blistered.

Screaming and shouting 'acid' she ran to her house in Dagenham and desperately tried to wash the harmful liquid off before being rushed to Broomfield Hospital for specialist treatment for her burns.

Her house was packed with relatives who were staying for the Christmas and New Year holiday and frantically tried to help the young shop worker wash the acid off.

The skin on her face and part of her neck has turned white and peeled off, and there was also burning to her nose, cheeks and chin, right wrist, hand, stomach and left thigh.

She had to spend a month in hospital undergoing intensive treatment for her injuries.

Specialist cops who deal with chemical spills tested the clothes and a pool of water at Ms Oni’s home.

They found that her burnt out clothes and the pool of water all had a ph level of 1 - the most acidic.

Her cardigan had 'melted, producing a black tar-like material' and had a 'pronounced acrid smell'.

They believe she was doused with sulphuric acid, which is used in the chemical industry and found in batteries and drain cleaners.

Konye, who was arrested on February 22 last year, denied carrying out the attack or ever threatening to throw acid at Naomi.

Mr Patterson said: 'She described the victim as being very attractive and said she believed the victim had wanted to work in make-up.

'She said they had had quite a few fallings out, including one very big one, however she said she did not remember ever saying she was going to attack Naomi with acid.

'She denied being in any way jealous of the victim’s looks.'

He added: 'She agreed that she and the victim had previously spoken about the acid attack on Katie Piper.'

But she denied carrying out the attack or knowing who did it.

Jurors were told there is mobile phone evidence placing Konye on the same bus as Ms Oni.

Wearing her long hair down and a purple top and black cardigan, Konye, of Canning Town, East London, sat in the dock passively and repeatedly stared at the floor during the hearing.

She denies throwing or casting a corrosive fluid with intent to burn, maim, disfigure, disable or do grievous bodily harm.

The case was adjourned......

From Dailymail

Wow! Woman Rushed To Hospital After Painful 3 Hour Orgasm!

 

For one Seattle woman, a mind-blowing orgasm sent her to heaven - and then to the emergency room.

DailyMail reports Elizabeth had just had sex with her partner Eric, but well after he climbed out of bed, Liz was hitting new peaks of pleasure.

About an hour into her epic climax, Liz started to panic.

By the second hour, the panting woman was rushed to hospital where medical staff thought she was in labor. 
Liz's orgasm lasted for over three hours before she finally found relief.

The young couple shared their bizarre story during last night's TLC show 'Sex Sent Me to the ER'.

Liz, who didn't give her last name, recounted how she tried everything from jumping to drinking to 
shake the ache. 

'I started hopping up and down to see if that would do anything,' Liz said about her first frenzied hour.  

I started trying to drink wine to see if that would calm down my system. I tried just about every possible thing I could do to stop having an orgasm.'

Eric drove his partner to the ER, where, he recalled, some people stared and shared their insights.

'As much of a relief as it was to have her in the hospital, now there were eyes on me and I was still feeling very tense and uptight and uncertain about what was going on and what was going to happen,' Eric said.

Liz's orgasm continued for another hour in the hospital before it finally waned.