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Funny!! Another thought,stimulation without gratification is STRESSFUL. Get the point? HA HA!!!!! -----Original Message----- From: Joao Paulo Carvalho <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 5:26 PM Subject: Sexual fantasies >This is from N.Y. Times : :-) > >----- > Sexual fantasies may be better than aspirin for reducing pain, a >Johns > Hopkins University study has found. > > In the study, 40 college students were asked to hold their hands in ice >water > for as long as they could. Earlier, they had each been asked to imagine >sexual > situations that they rated as maximally pleasurable or less stirring. >One group > was asked to envision the "preferred fantasy" during the ice immersion; > others, "nonpreferred fantasy" or an emotionally neutral act like >walking to > class. > > The students who most liked what they were thinking about were able to > keep their hands submerged for an average of three minutes, compared >with > slightly less than a minute for the others. Those in the preferred >fantasy > group also scored lower on other pain measures, said the study's author, >Dr. > Peter Staats, chief of the university's pain medicine division. Results >were > presented at a conference in October and formally released this month. > > In a 1996 study, Dr. Staats found that students who were told to >concentrate > on words with positive connotations showed greater endurance for cold >than > those thinking of negative words. Last year, he came across an article >in The > National Enquirer summarizing that research. "Except that every time we > used 'positive word,' they said 'sex,' " Dr. Staats recalled. "I got a >kick out of > that, and thought that would be a very strong positive emotional state >that we > could test." > > The results, he added, should remind physicians of "the power of > suggestion." > > "The effect was certainly more powerful than aspirin and in some cases >more > powerful than mild narcotics," said Dr. Staats, who specializes in >placebo > effects. >------------------- > >Now folks you have learned another way to aliviate your pains .... :-) >Cheers , > >Joao Paulo - Salvador,Bahia,Brazil >[log in to unmask]