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Comment author: WrongBot 24 July 2010 03:28:18AM 9 points [-]

Men viewing erotic material suggestive of sperm competition (two men with one woman) produce ejaculates containing a higher percentage of motile sperm than men viewing explicit images of only three women.

(Ryan and Jethá, 231, referring to research by Kilgallon and Simmons)

Comment author: Sniffnoy 24 July 2010 04:52:13AM 4 points [-]

I'm finding it a bit hard to draw that conclusion from this when there's no precisely-one-male-present condition, and I don't see any mention of any experiments that did do that in the actual article, either. It could just be due to the presence of a male, and not the number of them.

Perhaps more importantly, it's also not clear that what pornography men like should correlate with what causes them to produce more motile sperm!