better to wear socks in bed after all

[rchadd]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4111360.stm

"When they gave the couples socks to wear, about 80% of the couples were able to achieve orgasm compared with 50% previously in this staged environment."

[fredster]

Call me old fashioned, but WHO CARES?

[shmokes]

Well, anyone with an active interest in pleasing his parter in bed...

Is this not an interest you share?  If not, then yes I call you old fashioned, and I mean that pejoratively.

[fredster]

I repeat.  Who cares?

[RayB]

I took the advice and wore a sock, but what do I do with the second one?
 

[DrewKaree]

So wearing socks shows you're taking an active interest in pleasing your woman?  If it gets to the point that SOCKS are the deciding factor, you've got a lot more problems than the temperature of your feet

[DrewKaree]

Oh, and you can let us know what it feels like....staring at my working chassis for 25"  Wells Gardner Monitor I won on e-bay 


 

[JB]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4111360.stm

"When they gave the couples socks to wear, about 80% of the couples were able to achieve orgasm compared with 50% previously in this staged environment."

As a random observation, this is taken out of context.

When lying on an MRI bed being "manually stimulated" by your partner, socks help.

Hospitals have never been known for being particularly warm and inviting places.

[Bones]

I took the advice and wore a sock, but what do I do with the second one?
 

Clean up.

[Dexter]

LOL!! Ah yes, nothing like a bit of harmless smut to start the day 

[HaRuMaN]

Oh, and you can let us know what it feels like....staring at my working chassis for 25"  Wells Gardner Monitor I won on e-bay 


 

Now that's just mean...    

[paigeoliver]

Could it possibly just be the fact that most people are not USED to being stimulated while wearing socks, and the fact they are wearing socks makes the experience different, therefor more exciting.

Although truthfully, I am not sure how much more different than being strapped up to an electrode thing you can get.

[Bones]

If your from New Zealand and wear woolen socks you can pretend your foot is up a sheep

[fredster]

The study is flawed.

I mean, there's nothing in there about trampolines and chicken suits.

[shmokes]

So wearing socks shows you're taking an active interest in pleasing your woman?  If it gets to the point that SOCKS are the deciding factor, you've got a lot more problems than the temperature of your feet

Let me be more clear:

My answer was to the question of "who cares [about a study that strongly suggests that a specific variable -- cold feet -- decreases the likelihood of female orgasm by 37%]?"

37% is a big number.  I guarantee that if you believe that you have a 100% success rate in bringing your partner to orgasm (assuming your partner is female), your partner is a skilled actress.  If the results of the study in the lab translate to similar results in the bedroom, then it is quite likely that cold feet would be the deciding factor in many instances.  As I said, the difference between 50% and 80% is pretty big. 

I don't think your conclusion logically flows from your premises; if, as you say, "socks are the deciding factor," you don't have a lot of other problems --  on the contrary, you have isolated the problem.  If her feet are warm and she still doesn't climax, then you've got problem other than cold feet.

Also, keep in mind that I am talking about the article -- not about the subject line of this thread.  The article talks about more than just socks.  It talks about useful psychological aspects of sex. 

Put simply, this is a study that results in useful information for anybody with an active interest in pleasing his partner in bed.  The socks stuff is useful.  So is the other stuff. 

Y'all are crazy.  Here's how I imagine Fred, Drew and I would react to a study showing that Leem Oil functions as an effective, organic pesticide:

Fredster:  Who Cares?
Shmokes: People who take an active interest in growing produce...
Drew:  If pests are the deciding factor of whether your produce is growing you have a lot more problems than pests...
   

[AmericanDemon]

or baby oil and a waterbed without sheets.

[ChadTower]

Try biodiesel, it burns cleaner.

[Stingray]

Try biodiesel, it burns cleaner.

**Stingray is very, very sorry that he chose a split second before reading that post to take a big swig of limeade. Boy that stuff burns when it shoots out your nose**

-S

[fredster]

Put simply, this is a study that results in useful information for anybody with an active interest in pleasing his partner in bed.  The socks stuff is useful.  So is the other stuff. 

You are sooooo the sensitive modern man.
ROTFLMAO

There are still no mention of the parrot / west seas pirate suits.

Or Taquila for that matter. 

[ChadTower]

Or of the fact that half the guys are sick of their wives and imagining the nurse in the booth, and half the wives are lazy in bed.

[DrewKaree]

...a study showing that Leem Oil functions as an effective, organic pesticide:
   

I have my applicator's license, and I never even knew they made an effective orgasmic pesticide! I've gotta get me some of th.....what?  OOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH! 

[JB]

So wearing socks shows you're taking an active interest in pleasing your woman?  If it gets to the point that SOCKS are the deciding factor, you've got a lot more problems than the temperature of your feet

Let me be more clear:

My answer was to the question of "who cares [about a study that strongly suggests that a specific variable -- cold feet -- decreases the likelihood of female orgasm by 37%]?"

37% is a big number.  I guarantee that if you believe that you have a 100% success rate in bringing your partner to orgasm (assuming your partner is female), your partner is a skilled actress.  If the results of the study in the lab translate to similar results in the bedroom, then it is quite likely that cold feet would be the deciding factor in many instances.  As I said, the difference between 50% and 80% is pretty big. 

I don't think your conclusion logically flows from your premises; if, as you say, "socks are the deciding factor," you don't have a lot of other problems --  on the contrary, you have isolated the problem.  If her feet are warm and she still doesn't climax, then you've got problem other than cold feet.

Also, keep in mind that I am talking about the article -- not about the subject line of this thread.  The article talks about more than just socks.  It talks about useful psychological aspects of sex. 

Put simply, this is a study that results in useful information for anybody with an active interest in pleasing his partner in bed.  The socks stuff is useful.  So is the other stuff. 

A. The socks took the percentages up on both males AND females. It was a gender-neutral adjustment.
B. As I said, the study wasn't about socks. It was about what goes on in the brain during orgasm. 


To my knowledge, no study has been done to determine the effect of socks on orgasm, though this study yielded is some data regarding the effect of socks on orgasm for people being manually stimulated while their heads are in MRI machines, which is not a normal sexual environment by ANY stretch of the imaginiation.
...
Actually, I'm sure someone out there has an MRI fetish, but the vast majority of the populace will never be engaging in any form of sex act while in an MRI machine, making the data somewhat useless for real-world applications.

[DrewKaree]

BYOMRI?

[shmokes]

To the best of my knowledge I'm having a conversation with straight men and to the best of my knowledge I am a straight man, so I am talking about the results as they apply to us.

And I'm aware that the environment is not the usual one for sexual stimulation and indicated as much when I qualified my statements with...

Quote from shmokes: "If the results of the study in the lab translate to similar results in the bedroom..."

Intuitively, I doubt that there is some variable introduced by the lab environment that negatively affects a person's ability to acheive orgasm that would be mitigated by socks.  The fact that a person was in an MRI doesn't necessarily invalidate the data.  You are, in essence, saying that any data derived in a lab rather than the real world is "useless".  It would be one thing if they said, "one group of people was tested without socks in a labratory with their heads in an MRI, and another group was tested with socks in their bedrooms with their heads on a pillow," and tried to attribute the difference to the socks.  That's not the case.  All of the test subjects were in the same environment, but the socks group got off more frequently.  It's pretty strong data, assuming there isn't some other contaminating information we don't know about like a sample size of three people or something.

[DrewKaree]

Quote from shmokes:

You shouldn't quote yourself, it makes you look foolish.  Instead, refer to yourself in the third person, as your status on the earth practically demands it.  I believe you have your own gravitational pull, and we are all simply revolving around you.

[danny_galaga]

Quote from shmokes:

You shouldn't quote yourself, it makes you look foolish.

[SOAPboy]

Heh.. gf wears em, i dont..
 

[fredster]

I took the advice and wore a sock, but what do I do with the second one?

Use it as a blindfold...

[shmokes]

Quote from shmokes:

Don't quote my name in vain.  I will smite thee so hard it will make thy head spin.

[DrewKaree]

I SO suckered you into quoting me

You're becoming a parody of yourself....with a gravitational pull.  You might smite the socks off of me, but I don't need the socks as long as I've got my homemade MRI machine and sterile lab environment. 

[shmokes]

But....you only said I shouldn't quote myself.....I was quoting you.

...being god is hard.

[fredster]

You're becoming a parody of yourself....with a gravitational pull.

No, it's not gravity, it just SUCKS.

[Dexter]

Peter Griffin: "Christians don't believe in gravity"

[ChadTower]

Use it as a blindfold...

Use it as a gag.  Put a tennis ball in it and swing it around.  Put it over your head and rob a store.  Keep your change in it.

[shmokes]

You're becoming a parody of yourself....with a gravitational pull.

No, it's not gravity, it just SUCKS.

That would be clever if gravity sucked (figuratively or literally)

[ChadTower]

Pull, suck, yank, tug, jerk... he's got them all down.

[JB]

To the best of my knowledge I'm having a conversation with straight men and to the best of my knowledge I am a straight man, so I am talking about the results as they apply to us.

Fair enough.

Arguably it'd be useful to a straight man that had trouble climaxing too.
But I'm just being stupidly nitpicky now.

And I'm aware that the environment is not the usual one for sexual stimulation and indicated as much when I qualified my statements with...

Quote from shmokes: "If the results of the study in the lab translate to similar results in the bedroom..."

Missed that. Apologies.

Intuitively, I doubt that there is some variable introduced by the lab environment that negatively affects a person's ability to acheive orgasm that would be mitigated by socks.  The fact that a person was in an MRI doesn't necessarily invalidate the data.  You are, in essence, saying that any data derived in a lab rather than the real world is "useless".  It would be one thing if they said, "one group of people was tested without socks in a labratory with their heads in an MRI, and another group was tested with socks in their bedrooms with their heads on a pillow," and tried to attribute the difference to the socks.  That's not the case.  All of the test subjects were in the same environment, but the socks group got off more frequently.  It's pretty strong data, assuming there isn't some other contaminating information we don't know about like a sample size of three people or something.

As I said earlier, hospitals are not exactly known for being warm and comfortable places.


I was under the impression that MRI rooms in particular were kept somewhat chilly.

From there it makes sense that something that traps body heat would help make someone more comfortable, thus, shall we say, enhancing the mood.
But the validity of such data across the board would be questionable. Though I don't doubt it'd help for bathrooms(just don't slip!), it'd likely be of somewhat less use if you were in a bed.


Other variables to consider... you're essentially being masturbated in public. Personally, that'd make me a bit fidgety.
Dunno how socks would affect this one, though.


I'd just like to see the data generated in a less... exotic... setting before drawing any real-world conclusions.

[Bones]

Bones got lucky last night and I now submit my own results to the database.

Last night I wore socks to bed (thick white fluffy ones) and I am pretty sure Mrs Bones faked the 5th.

[ChadTower]

Tried it a couple times this week so far... no difference.  Maybe I should point the A/C away from ---my bottom---.