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To: JakeStraw who wrote (10609)	7/8/1999 12:56:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

You're not alone with those sex fantasies - study By Ian Karleff TORONTO, July 8 (Reuters) - An awful lot of men and women fantasize about having sex with strangers, flaunting it all in public or being seduced by an "innocent," according to a study done at a Canadian university. "We found that many men and women who have had thoughts of doing things, that if they actually did them, would be illegal," said Cheryl Renaud, co-author of the study, published by researchers at the University of New Brunswick in the spring issue of The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. In the study, 292 heterosexual undergraduate students between the ages of 17 and 45, split almost equally between male and female, were surveyed on their thoughts about 56 sexual fantasies. "Everybody had positive sexual thoughts and 97 percent had negative sexual thoughts," said Sandra Byers, a psychologist at the University and co-author of the study. More than 90 percent of men and women had pleasant fantasies about having intercourse with a loved one, kissing passionately, making love outside of the bedroom, and removing someone's clothes. The researchers found that although more than 20 percent of both sexes reported fantasies about partner swapping, whipping or spanking someone, or forcing another adult to engage in a sexual act, men thought about these activities about twice as often as women. More than 45 percent of both sexes said they had fantasies about either seducing an "innocent" or being seduced as an "innocent," the definition of which was left to respondents. Researchers also found that sexual fantasies were not always positive experiences. In terms of fantasies that elicit unpleasant emotions, over 60 percent of men and women reported disturbing thoughts of being embarrassed by failure of sexual performance, having sex with an anonymous stranger and being overwhelmed by the advances of a stranger. The researchers concluded that while it's normal for humans to have a wide array of sexual thoughts, more research is needed to determine the link between thought and action. Renaud said the survey was a good sample for sexuality research, but cautioned against generalizing the results. ((Ian Karleff, Reuters Toronto Bureau 416-941-8102 e-mail toronto.newsroom@reuters.com)) REUTERS * end of story *

To: JakeStraw who wrote (10609)	7/13/1999 9:58:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 62549

Want a good laugh at my expense? I use a 40 gallon container on wheels, similar to a large plastic garbage pail, to condition water before I do water changes on my fish tanks. I use a pump that pumps about 1200 gallons of water an hour to pump the new water into the fish tanks. After I add the water conditioner and PH buffer I turn on the pump to circulate the water in the container. I didn't check to make sure the end of the hose leaving the pump was pointing down. I plugged in the pump then got a back and face full of water. If anybody had witnessed it they would have died laughing. I was lucky not to get electrocuted when I unplugged the pump. The plug wasn't wet but I certainly was.