Wow... sometimes I think students take us too seriously... but then I remember that most of the time I wish they'd take me more seriously.
David
At 01:10 PM 9/20/2006, you wrote:
David- It is indeed humorous. On the other hand, you may have a student ask if that means the hypothalamus isn't involved in sex between a married couple!
Think I'm being facetious? After missing the item on a test, a student once explained to me that they had understood that, since it involved fornication (what it said in the PowerPoint!) that the drive for extra-marital (or pre-marital) sex was from a different site in the brain than sex within marriage (when you couple (sorry!) this with what many folk understand about the research on differences in the hypothalamus in gay men and women this really isn't surprising). As you might guess, this student was from a fundamentalist background. He has since grown to see this incident as quite humorous. I just wonder how many student there are wandering around repeating just such a story because of the slight ambiguity we present (not that I'm for the use of the other term in a class setting). Much as I like innuendo and subtlety, sometimes it doesn't work and even backfires occasionally is my point, I guess. :)
Tim
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- I always look up in mock-shock at their "dirty minds" and tell them "the fourth F stands for fornication... why what else could it be?"
- At 12:52 PM 9/20/2006, you wrote:
- The hypothalamus is involved in the 4 fs:
- feeding,fighting,fleeing,and sexual behavior.
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