Cat Parasite Makes Humans Horny

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Scientists discover a cat parasite can make women sexier and men more reckless and dumber. I often say, germs rule the world. It also is probably why bimbos and Favios flourish. Who wants sex with a dour duchess? Evidently this bug reproduces by getting us to have sex like crazed cats in heat.

&hearts Courtesy of Blues:

By Jane Bunce

A COMMON parasite can increase a women's attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says.

About 40 per cent of the world's population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, including about eight million Australians.

Human infection generally occurs when people eat raw or undercooked meat that has cysts containing the parasite, or accidentally ingest some of the parasite's eggs excreted by an infected cat.

The parasite is known to be dangerous to pregnant women as it can cause disability or abortion of the unborn child, and can also kill people whose immune systems are weakened.

Women should not clean out kitty litter boxes when pregnant. Also, people have been known to die of cat scratches. This is due to pre-existing weaknesses. Still, it has to be considered. All animals carry dangerous germs and this includes humans. A human bite is worse than any other animals' except if it is rabies. And humans with rabies can bite, too.

"Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter attention spans. They are also more likely to break rules and take risks, be more independent, more anti-social, suspicious, jealous and morose, and are deemed less attractive to women.

"On the other hand, infected women tend to be more outgoing, friendly, more promiscuous, and are considered more attractive to men compared with non-infected controls.

So this parasite makes women sexier and men dumber? Sounds like Mother Nature is having a lot of fun. Actually, this is how all germs and other single celled organisms survive: they pass themselves around by making their victims want to do things that make them spread further just like rabies makes its victims want to bite anything they see.

Parasites affect the behaviors of many creatures. There is a very wide variety of parasites in nature, many of them have evolved alongide their 'hosts' and some are so intertwined, neither organism can exist without the other. Many survival behaviors of various creatures are atuned to preserving and spreading their parasites.

One curious feature of many parasites is how they control behavior. Grazing animals will eat the parts of the plants the parasites prefer, for example. What is eaten is prefered by parasites so if they lodge in the stomach or intestines as so many do, they create desires for foods that benefit themselves. Some parasites completely take over their host's minds and occupy the entire body, leaving a shell.

The world of parasites is very interesting because of this ability. It is no surprise to learn that a parasite that excites certain behaviors in cats does the same to humans. Our biology as well as psychology is very intertwined with the animals we domesticate. Humans love to think we have 'free choice' and we 'decide' how we will be yet everyone knows they are prey to their own inner impulses that are controlled only after tremendous effort.

the sexual attributes of this particular parasite which probably came out of Egypt, are heavily intertwined within our religions, our society, everything. When the Egyptians domesticated cats, they instantly fell in love with them. Museums preserve the many tiny cat woman statues which were icons of sexual domestic happiness. Wearing a tight skirt, big ear rings and carrying a basket of eggs, she was the embodiment of easy going, happy sex.

One not so curious fact about all sexual diseases is, they enhance sex. This is why clap itches. The desire for more sex overwhelms bearers of sexual diseases. Perhaps the evolution of sex itself is based on this sort of irritation that can't be relieved without passing the germs (semen) to another?

No wonder young girls think sex is dirty. Eeew.

&hearts Humans and dogs have evolved social skills together.

Genetics aside, a new behavioral study shows that dogs have developed a better ability to understand human behaviour than wolves or chimpanzees - at least when it comes to finding food hidden by people.

A team led by Brian Hare at Harvard University, US, found that dogs raised with little human contact were better than wolves raised by people at reading human cues about which of two containers held food.

Even puppies as young as nine weeks old out-performed adult chimpanzees at the task.

It isn't just dogs, cats can read faces. And unlike their wild cousins, they show facial expressions. I know it is often a look of disgust unless one is servicing the cat's needs properly. Actually, my cat Fluff can make big baby eyes when he wants to be picked up. When we want him to vacate a chair, he gives an expression that clearly communicates annoyance.

One thing I notice with all my domesticated animals is they all strive to read my face, my voice and gestures. It isn't merely taming, they can read me with deadly accuracy. This includes when I am distressed about something. If they think it is something not due to themselves, they are very solicitous and loving.

If they figure out I am upset about them tipping over the garbage cans or messing up the bed or knocking down one wall of the stable, they watch me approach with wariness, ready to take off. If I direct my ire on only one of them, the other animals of all species, horses, dogs, cats, chickens or sheep, will draw closer to watch with fascination. They will literally trip me up, trying to get a nice, close look.

The very cells in our bodies are cobbled together from various organisms that at the beginning of life, melded together. And so it continues: parasites, germs, bacterium, all the oldest life forms mold our own bodies, behaviors and desires.

Next time you see someone having problems, you can literally say, 'What is bugging you now?'

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Comments

[DeVaul]

Great article, Elaine. Many are completely unaware of the endless interconnectiveness of all living things these days.

We really know very little about the world around us -- only enough to survive. Perhaps that is all we were ever meant to know in this World.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

It was a fun cartoon to draw, too. Heh.

[blues]

Yeah tell me about it DeVaul. I know thousands of things I was never even meant to begin to know. On the other hand, the wisdom of not-knowing is the entrance to shamen. That was a damn thoughtful comment, DeVaul. I would never expect to see it on 99% of the blogs I visit.

By the way, my entire theory of anti-grammar (on anti-grammar.com) depends on the notion of an active system of "arbitration" among radically conflicting system of logic (I am very partial to second order logic — it works like magic — though it's all unprovable Godel-wise). That's to say, you just cannot produce a Euclidean axiom system (as exists in inorganic chemistry) in a natural set of systems like a molecular biological system, because such systems have logically incompatible structures that must be mediated by heuristic, not axiomatic, mechanisms. (In biochemistry, such incompatible systems are mediated by very proactive nucleic acid/ protein calculators. Silicon based computers are way behind in this respect.) Of course, Chomsky and the rest of the non-theorists are continuing to look for axiom systems in language. Lots of luck!

[blues]

Those two cats have "classic" written all over them!

[Rouser]

But which brain-wasting parasite is it that is affecting W. ? ;)

[blues]

No ordinary parasite! It's the bloody Reptilians!!!

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

The parasite is called 'The Devil that is Death' by the Skull and Bones. Note how Kerry is also afflicted with it.

[ArthurCorgi]

Elaine,
We once had a black cat named Pearl. She was a harlot. Management always names her black cats after singers. We had Satchmo, too.

It is a wonder I am not crazy.

[larry, dfh]

Dogs seem to me to be the descendants of coyotes rather than wolves.

[JSmith]

You have a cat, don't you, Elaine?

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

I have four cats. Heh.

[Core]

Nice read. I got a good chuckle out of the 'animals tripping you up to get a look at when you were angry at just one,' bit.

It was very interesting to read about that parasite..

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sharp point of view, thanks for share it with us

[Mike Dale]

This's weirda! I think that I need to bring some cats home! lol

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hahaha omg this is amazing, I guess that now many people wants to get "sick" hahaha good luck with that, I guess that this have some kind of "price" to pay.

[recoil springs]

It's a test. But what i know is it's still not proven 100%.

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Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright.

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If you wish to be the best man, you must suffer the bitterest of the bitter.

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Curiosity killed the cat.