Incidentally

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I wish to make a wholehearted public declaration (and possible disclaimer) about my attitude toward sex and men. I love them both and actually think the two (plus me) go very nicely together. My sense of humor is not meant to be malicious--I actually think it's kind of endearing when a man guards and protects (and attempts to exploit) his ever-recurring "last erection". Horny men can be very sweet. In fact, I don't know if I can think of a man who hasn't been sweet when he wanted some. No, I'm sure it's a scientific fact that all normal, thinking, horny men even make it a point to be sweet. A well-known Mayo Clinic study shows that it's literally hard-wired into their genetic code. It is referred to as the Precoital Benevolence Response and is caused by testosterone absorption by the male brain.



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current mood: relaxed
current music: Sheila Take a Bow-- The Smiths

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10:50 pm - The thing about testosterone vs girlie hormones
It is a well-known fact, that if all possible, cheap men will avoid becoming involved with a woman just before her birthday--and/or Christmas. Not like I'm making any reference to my own life (even though I blow out candles when most of America carves turkey).

Another well-known fact is that a man will always behave as if every erection is somehow his last. His attitude becomes very serious and his behavior is often downright desperate! Many men also perceive this condition to be a medical emergency.

There is a scientific reason for this: The bloodflow normally received by the brain is shunted to the nether regions (blood supply=erection) thus depriving the grey matter of needed circulation. As a protective mechanism, the brain shuts down most activity (aside from basal metabolism and penile perception). Experts have coined this as TMIDREP (Transient Male Intellectual Defecit in Response to Erection Phenomenon).

A team of Nobel Prize-winning Swiss scientists proved this to be factual in 1975 in a double-blind study wherein a group of male participants were given sexually stimulating visual material (i.e., Playboy, Hustler, Jugs) to study and then were challenged with various simple tasks. The more arousing the material, the lower the men scored at solving even the simplest intellectual problems. Most developed varying degrees of amnesia as well as distortion of time-space perception; several found that their normal sense of aesthetics seemed to become measurably more leniant (which may explain the "all women are beautiful at last call in bars" complex).

Interestingly, all of the participants were convinced that the erection in question was the very last they would have before dying, regardless of age or health status.

The test subjects were then allowed to reach orgasm (by means of direct manual manipulation by attractive female volunteers); afterward the men were then restested. In every case, cognitive ability returned and most men were functioning at normal IQ one hour post-orgasm.

All but one participant in the study requested that they be restested in order to be certain of the results. ("I'll be damned! Another last erection!!") On a final note, this condition is not limited to men--many women have also reported a similar lapse of reasoning ability during sexual arousal. The author concurs, as this has happened to her more than once.

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