Posted on 02/24/2006 4:03:14 AM PST by texas booster
*** And you thought you just weren't doing it right ***
A swift one off the wrist - easy, convenient, refreshing - but just not the same as the real thing, perhaps.
Reporting in the journal Biological Psychology, researchers have now found a basis in physiology for the niggling dissatisfaction.
Levels of the hormone prolactin are lower after masturbation than intercourse. Prolactin makes us feel satisfied by counteracting the arousal messenger dopamine.
The levels of prolactin in the blood of subjects who committed an act of self-pollution after watching grumble flicks were just one fifth of those who had had actual sex in the lab. Still, either way, nice work if you can get it.
The scientists say the difference also explains why men may need a "recovery period" after forming The Beast with Two Backs, but can happily nip to the loo for five minutes, make the bald man cry, then get straight back to work.®
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File this one in the "obvious" file
For this type of work, I'll volunteer to be the lab rat.
What if your partner was Howard Dean? Still gonna volunteer?
I wonder how much this cost to learn.
Basically it's telling you why it's not as good when you grasp it yourself.
By the way, all "acts of self-pollution" should be reported to the EPA.
I wonder how big was the government grant for this study???
Yeah but you don't have to buy it dinner,
Kind of like voting third party...it just isn't as good as the real thing.
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Oh, and you also increase your level of the arousal hormone Dopamine, guaranteed.
Laws against masturbation should be immediately passed. And go to the Supreme Court.
Its already against the law to choke chickens.
BTTT
No. I'd hold out for Laetitia Casta.
Well, of course. If you're niggling it, you're doing it wrong.
Teen age boys are filling out the forms in triplicate as we speak.
I wonder if online submission is allowed?
Well DUH!
And you'll go blind, too.
I've never had bad hand.
LOL! Keep holding on.....
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