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@3 - from the article: "Gallup controlled for variables including method of contraception, frequency of sexual intercourse, as well as the women's perception of their relationship."

Anyway, this is old news - it's from 2002. It'd be more convincing if another study had confirmed it since. But if women become convinced my naughty bits hold the cure to their depression, I don't feel particularly inclined to convince them otherwise.

And Dan, you've lost. It's cum. Don't worry. It happens. Languages change, and I know that sometimes, it's hard to take. I still get mad when I see Myanmar on a map instead of Burma, or when someone says they speak Farsi instead of Persian, but those are a couple of linguistic battles that I'm on the losing side of. Just give in.

I would guess that "Cum" is a NSFW headline (isn't it? Sort of?), whereas "Come" clearly is not, and once you start reading the article, well one gets the gist.

"Cum" is a letters-to-Penthouse affectation. I've never signed off on it.

Paragraph two seems to somewhat contradicts paragraph 1.

Paragraph 1: "women who do not use condoms during sex are less depressed and less likely to attempt suicide than are women who have sex with condoms"

Paragraph 2: "women who routinely had intercourse without condoms became increasingly depressed as more time elapsed since their last sexual encounter."

Then again, as a teen my sexual bible was Penthouse, so take it all with a grain of salt.

No wait, that last one is mine.

C'mon, psychologists, think outside of the damn box! The rest of the world does exist, after all!

Irony of ironies. You've always found the Penthouse spelling ribald compared with "come?" I equate the latter, "softer" spelling with the watered down "sex" as a term for pussy in women's erotica books.

"He slowly entered the flower of her sex."

There, now doesn't that make you feel nauseous? True vulgarity.

This study begs for a double blind randomized controlled follow up. Necessary equiment: female participants; turkey baster; semen; faux-semen (for control group); birth control; psychiatric measure.

If the double-blind randomized follow-up is administered orally, could a Medication Donor with a vasectomy be used as the control? Is there any evidence in the literature to suggest that it's the Live Swimmers, and not just Plain Vanilla Seminal Fluid, that wriggle their cheerful ways into their targets' serotonin sweet-spots?

I don't like the word "pussy", either - its use in erotica does not turn me on, and even if "sex" is a little watered-down, I much prefer it. To me, "pussy" connotes something dirty or derogatory (what is the etymology of that term, anyway?), and in my experience, guys use it MUCH more often than girls do.

From the wonderful and addictive Online Etymology Dictionary:

pussy (2)

slang for "cunt," 1879, but probably older; perhaps from O.N. puss "pocket, pouch" (cf. Low Ger. puse "vulva"), but perhaps instead from the cat word (see pussy (1)) on notion of "soft, warm, furry thing;" cf. Fr. le chat, which also has a double meaning, feline and genital.

Earlier uses are difficult to distinguish from pussy (1), e.g.:

"The word pussie is now used of a woman" [Philip Stubbes, "The Anatomie of Abuses," 1583]

But the use of pussy as a term of endearment argues against the vaginal sense being generally known before late 19c., e.g.:

" 'What do you think, pussy?' said her father to Eva." [Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 1852]

Pussy-whipped first attested 1956.

And if you want a really derogatory word, look at the origins of "pudendum." It's one of the few I refuse to use.

@23: You're right, that wasn't a word I whipped out that often anyway, but I'll likely avoid it from now on.

* Multicollinearity occurs when variables are so highly correlated with each other that it is difficult to come up with reliable estimates of their individual regression coefficients. When two variables are highly correlated, they are basically measuring the same phenomenon or construct. In other words, when two variables are highly correlated, they both convey essentially the same information.

** In statistics, a sequence or a vector of random variables is heteroscedastic if the random variables in the sequence or vector may have different variances.

Re: cum/come -- "cum", for me, is the noun; "come" is the verb.

As for the vasectomized, I am afraid you are not eligible. It is the semen, not the sperm, that contains the hormones et al. No, I am afraid the faux-sperm will be needed - use your imagination and what you can find in your parent's kitchen!

P.S. Your website is hilarious.

@28 (Giffy) - I wonder how big a response you would get if you posted that on Craig's List...

i luv 2 cum, lol!!!1