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andydp
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 Posted: 01/26/06 - 10:53 Post subject: Forget picturing your audience naked...
here's new studies to help you in public speaking...
Sex eases stress of public speaking
People nervous about public speaking should first have sex to ease the stress, according to a new study.
However, researchers say it has to be full sex and that masturbation is unlikely to have the same effect.
Stuart Brody, a psychologist at Britain's University of Paisley, compared the impact of different sexual activities on blood pressure when a person later undergoes a stressful experience.
Mr Brody asked 24 women and 22 men to keep a diary of their sexual activities for two weeks.
The volunteers then underwent a stressful ordeal that involved making a speech in public and doing mental arithmetic out loud.
The study, published in New Scientist, revealed volunteers who had had penetrative sex during the previous week or so had the least stress, and their blood pressure returned to normal fastest after their test.
Penetrative sex was far more effective in this regard than masturbation or oral sex.
Those who had abstained completely from any sexual activity had the highest stress levels and blood pressure of all.
"The effects are not attributable to the short-term relief afforded by orgasm but, rather, endure for at least a week," Mr Brody said.
He believes that penetrative sex may release a special "pair-bonding" hormone called oxytocin, which accounts for the calming effect.
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 10:57 Post subject:
thanks to andyp, i don't subscribe to the newspaper anymore and save $25 a month. i've never felt better. thanks andyp!
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 11:21 Post subject:
This is what I do (public speaking  )...sure this may help alittle but the best thing one can do is be PREPARED (for your speech, not the other one)...
That's all I have to say. no jokes.
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airehead
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 11:24 Post subject:
Do people actually get grants to study this?
Or is this some guy agenda to randomly publish reports that sex makes you better at "_______________" (fill in the blanks with anything from quantum physics to dogwalking)
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 11:27 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | Do people actually get grants to study this?
Or is this some guy agenda to randomly publish reports that sex makes you better at "_______________" (fill in the blanks with anything from quantum physics to dogwalking) |
i'd like to see the sampling and confidence interval etc for this.
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 11:30 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | Do people actually get grants to study this?
Or is this some guy agenda to randomly publish reports that sex makes you better at "_______________" (fill in the blanks with anything from quantum physics to dogwalking) |
I bet having sex doesn't make you better at speaking spanish...i'm just sayin...
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airehead
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 11:31 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | airehead wrote: | Do people actually get grants to study this?
Or is this some guy agenda to randomly publish reports that sex makes you better at "_______________" (fill in the blanks with anything from quantum physics to dogwalking) |
I bet having sex doesn't make you better at speaking spanish...i'm just sayin... |
I have heard it is the other way around, my friend. (In my best Ricardo Montalban accent)
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 11:33 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | airehead wrote: | Do people actually get grants to study this?
Or is this some guy agenda to randomly publish reports that sex makes you better at "_______________" (fill in the blanks with anything from quantum physics to dogwalking) |
I bet having sex doesn't make you better at speaking spanish...i'm just sayin... |
I have heard it is the other way around, my friend. (In my best Ricardo Montalban accent) |
I say this a lot, but I really mean it this time.
I have no response to this.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 11:33 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | airehead wrote: | Do people actually get grants to study this?
Or is this some guy agenda to randomly publish reports that sex makes you better at "_______________" (fill in the blanks with anything from quantum physics to dogwalking) |
I bet having sex doesn't make you better at speaking spanish...i'm just sayin... |
I have heard it is the other way around, my friend. (In my best Ricardo Montalban accent) |
You speak Spanish! What does that say about you? 
Spanish lessons in abstentia!
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 11:34 Post subject:
i want to learn italian. all i know is what i learnt from "the broker". and even then i forgot most of it...
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 11:36 Post subject:
¡Riff Raff apesta como monos!
(translation: riff raff stinks like monkeys!) might be my new tatoo...?
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gretriever
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 11:38 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | ¡Riff Raff apesta como monos!
(translation: riff raff stinks like monkeys!) might be my new tatoo...? |
Try it first on your business card.
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shelflifers
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 11:40 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | ¡Riff Raff apesta como monos!
(translation: riff raff stinks like monkeys!) might be my new tatoo...? |
Try it first on your business card. |
"gretriever eats his own poo' is still on my cards though...
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airehead
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Posted: 01/26/06 - 11:41 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | airehead wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | airehead wrote: | Do people actually get grants to study this?
Or is this some guy agenda to randomly publish reports that sex makes you better at "_______________" (fill in the blanks with anything from quantum physics to dogwalking) |
I bet having sex doesn't make you better at speaking spanish...i'm just sayin... |
I have heard it is the other way around, my friend. (In my best Ricardo Montalban accent) |
You speak Spanish! What does that say about you?
Spanish lessons in abstentia! |
Whatever it says about me it says it in Spanish. Good Luck, Senor Riff Raff.
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