For Valentine’s Day, Zach and Kelly talk whether or not brazilian waxing is causing the extinction of pubic lice, and about how housework influences the frequency of sex.
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Is brazilian waxing causing the extinction of pubic lice?
Popular press coverage
Bug Girl – debunking the pubic lice are going extinct claim: here and here
Scientific articles/letters
Waxing common amongst undergrads
Did the “brazilian” kill the pubic louse?
Housework and sex
Scientific article: Egalitarianism, housework, and sexual frequency in marriage
Erectile dysfunction and income inequality
I wonder if the data set allowed a comparison of chore overlap. As in, perhaps it was less about gender roles and more about disagreements over shared chores.
I can find Science… Sort of and The Titanium Physicist on the xbox store for my Windows 8 phone. But you are not there and that isn’t good. Can you fix?
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I’ll look into this. Thanks!
As to the potential knowledge loss should pubic lice go extinct: I can’t recall now where but I read an article that said that the divergence of head lice from pubic lice helped establish when we started wearing clothes. Our hairless midsections developed and segregated the species for long enough to get divergent evolution.