Fun Facts

from London's various free newspapers. There is a new study out claiming that women get a natural "high" from talking and shopping, because that's how our brains are structured. Some of the figures quoted:

A woman will speak 20,000 words in an average day; a man will speak 7,000.

Men think about sex every 52 seconds, whereas it crosses a woman's brain only once a day, on average.

British women will spend an average of 8+ years of their lives shopping.

And one that will amuse many of you-- "Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, men have a small country road."

Dr. Louann Brizendine claims that women have larger cortexes in their brains than do men, and conversation stimulates a rush of a dopamine, therefore talking is a natural "high" for women. Men on the other hand, don't get a response from their pleasure centers from talking, and therefore are less social. However, their brains are set up to think about sex more regularly.

Now, I don't know about you all, but I have known some guys in my time who loved to hear themselves talk...so I'm not sure what conclusions I should be drawing here ;)