17 Sexy Science Facts To Liven Up Parties

12. You Don't Need A Brain To Ejaculate

Now, it might not come as a surprise to some people, but there are certain points in a man's life when he doesn't need to use his brain at all - one of these is during ejaculation.

Ejaculation, it turns out, is a reflex controlled by a centre in the spinal column called the spinal ejaculation generator which, as well as sounding like the name of the latest hipster bar to open in that abandoned warehouse, coordinates the whole ejaculation celebration without having to run it past the brain, but informs it of the other signals of pleasure related to it.

11. The Smell Of Pumpkin Turns Guys On

People spend all kinds of money on various perfumes in the hope of making themselves smell acceptable to potential mates, but if you want to bag yourself a man, then perhaps you should be smearing yourself in pumpkin instead.

The Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation of Chicago conducted a study "to investigate the impact of ambient olfactory stimuli upon sexual response in the human male" and found that pumpkin, for whatever reason, got the dudes' blood pumping in the genital region, more than anything else - especially when mixed with the scent of lavender.

You guys are weird.