Human sexuality has always been a popular study for science and the world at large. Researchers and clinicians who focus on sexuality are often able to break through from clinical and academic journals to best-selling books and regular features in magazines. Both Mary Roach and Jesse Bering have achieved this with each of them writing books on human sexuality that became wildly popular with professionals in the field as well as laypeople who simply want to know more about why sex is so much. Fun. By and large, various scientific experience and research are the fuel for these books, but with so many researchers exploring the issue, the resulting studies can be interesting to say the least. Here we’ve gathered together five of the strangest stories try and get a better understanding of why these question were posed in the first place.

Not Getting a Call the Next Day Could be Good for You

One night stands aren’t nearly as bad as people make them out to be. Women worried about getting labelled as being easy and men get worried about feeling guilt over not calling. But the truth is that a causal, no strings attached one night stand could actually be good for you. That was the conclusion of a study by Cornell University and NYU. The trick to this being a health benefit – both partners need to acknowledge that it’s just a bit of fun and then stick with it.

Being a Bot of Jerk Could make You Kinda Hot

Splitting chores like laundry and scrubbing toilets down the middle? Notice maybe you’re not having as much sex as you once did? Try giving a big F that to the chores for awhile. A study in The American Sociological Reviews found that men who completed traditionally female chores like laundry and cleaning had sex about 1.5 fewer times a month than guys who skipped the housework. Make this information work for you by trying to get out of household chores but making it up elsewhere – like finally fixing that weird patchy stain on the bathroom ceiling.

Dial Back the Soul Mate Business.

There’s a lot of pressure to feel like you have the most epic love story since, for you, it really does feel that way. But couples who place a lot of stock into the idea they are Soul Mates have been found to be generally less happy than couples who say they’re in love but that Soul Mates might be stretching it a bit. The experts think that placing that type of intensity into the relationship can make it harder to deal with the normal ups and down of any relationship since each person expects so much from the other emotionally.

It’s Possible That Hips Really Don’t Lie

The infamous Shakira song “Hips Don’t Lie” may be more than just a favourite dance floor anthem. A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California-Santa Barbara teamed up to look at a group of more than 16,000 women. Hey compared the women’s hip to waist ratio along with their intelligence scores on a number of difference cognitive tests. The results? They found that curvier women with waists that measured out to be about 70% of their hip measurements were a bit smarter than their less curvaceous counterparts. And, as a nice correlation, it turns out that the Hips-Don’t-Lie Queen herself, Shakira, is a certifies genius according to Mensa International reports, and has an IQ of 140.

Dead Men tell No Tales, But Can Get Off

And in the creepy but true category, scientists discovered that a corpse can be brought to orgasm with the right kind of electrode. The key to the impressive but disturbing feat, according to brain death expert Stephanie Mann is to stimulate the sacral nerve which is located at the bottom of the spine, near the pelvis. As long as that area was still being oxygenated – which can happen during brain death – then it could be stimulated in order to result in an orgasm. Something to file under the ‘Hope You Never Need to Know That’ category.