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Can virtual sex make you smarter?

2010-07-23 14:41:34.365634+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments

Sexual Experience Promotes Adult Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus Despite an Initial Elevation in Stress Hormones. Based on that, Andrea Kuszewski asks "since sex makes you smarter, can virtual sex do the same?.

[ related topics: Sexual Culture Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Physiology ]

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#Comment Re: made: 2010-07-23 21:48:51.377977+00 by: andylyke

virtually

#Comment Re: made: 2010-07-24 09:32:17.892099+00 by: DaveP

The author assumes that virtual sex would be pleasurable.

I think there's still a technology gap to be crossed before I'd grant that assumption.