Studies, Seacrest and Towels

Read a study yesterday that discussed sexuality and, more pointedly, what most visually 'excites' the different genders. No shocker to find that men were most aroused by nude snapshots of the opposite sex. We're pretty simple creatures, we men. Food, sleep, sex.

Surprisingly, though, the study found that females were more interested in nude female pictures than in those of men. In fact, it ranked second on the list for women. (I should note that any and all photos of Rosie O'Donnell were excluded from this study.)

So what did the study find most excites women? Curiously, a picture of a man vacuuming.

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There must be more than one Ryan Seacrest (does he have an evil twin, a la Roman Brady on "Days of Our Lives?"). To note, the guy hosts "American Idol," runs a production company, is the DJ on a national morning radio show and is Jenn's version of Tom Brokaw on "E! News Daily." Additionally, I believe he served me pancakes at Kerbey Lane last Saturday and made balloon animals at my grand-niece's second birthday party in July.

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Perhaps somebody can help me out with this one. As the owner of a mom-and-pop gym, I wash, eh, several thousand towels a year. No problem there, 'tis the nature of the beast, especially since the Statesman ran a story this week listing gyms as essentially the dirtiest places on earth (I'd thought Courtney Love's mouth would rank ahead, for many reasons). But, with two kids and a couple of parents who sweat a bit each day, that makes for a quartet of showers at the Mudd house each night.

My question - do these family towels, which jockey for washer-and-dryer time on a nightly basis, really need to be laundered after EVERY use? After all, aren't bath towels technically even CLEANER after using them? Consider: we scrub up in the shower and polish up the towels with our clean bodies (using water and everything!). Using this philosophy, I always had the cleanest towel in the frat house by semester's end.

Don't get me started on the usefulness of throw pillows on the bed.