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[Bella]

Erotic images can turn you blind

"Researchers have finally found evidence for what good Catholic boys have known all along ,Äì erotic images make you go blind. The effect is temporary and lasts just a moment, but the research has added to road-safety campaigners,Äô calls to ban sexy billboard-advertising near busy roads, in the hope of preventing accidents.

The new study by US psychologists found that people shown erotic or gory images frequently fail to process images they see immediately afterwards. And the researchers say some personality types appear to be affected more than others by the phenomenon, known as ,Äúemotion-induced blindness,Äù.

David Zald, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Marvin Chun and colleagues from Yale University in Connecticut, showed hundreds of images to volunteers and asked them to pick a specific image from the rapid sequence. Most of the images were landscape or architectural scenes, but the psychologists included a few emotionally charged images, portraying violent or sexually provocative scenes.

The closer these emotionally charged images occurred prior to the target image, the more frequently people failed to spot the target image, the researchers found.

We observed that people failed to detect visual images that appeared one-fifth of a second after emotional images, whereas they can detect those images with little problem after neutral images,,Äù Zald says."

Read More: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7845  [NewScientist]

[LMNO]

The strangest thing happened...

I saw bellas avatar, but I can't for the life of me remember what she posted...

[Bella]

The strangest thing happened...

I saw bellas avatar, but I can't for the life of me remember what she posted...

::halo::

[fluffy]

penguins 1
humans 0

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/09/27/falklands.penguins.reut/index.html?section=cnn_topstories

[fluffy]

A Texas Grand Jury indicted House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Wednesday, forcing one of the most powerful Republicans in the government from his post.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12764361.htm

[LMNO]

No shit?


::runs to check the feeds::

[fluffy]

no shit
delay has been forced to step down as maj leader in the house
hehehehe

[LMNO]

[insert one of the FC dancing icons here]

[Cain]

Wow, impressive  

[DJRubberducky]

There ya go.

[Cain]

Its ony temporary though (unless he's guilty)

[fluffy]

Its ony temporary though (unless he can't buy his way out)

fixed that for ya

[Cain]

Its ony temporary though (unless he can't buy his way out)

fixed that for ya

I stand corrected.

Not for the squeamish Fetuses found at Bogata airport

[BADGE OF HONOR]

   

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

LDS Church bans oral sex

Editor:

I am writing in response to Tara Thompson's letter to the editor, "Ignorant people should not put down 'prudes,'" Sept. 27.

I might be a dirtbag, but uninformed? That really harshes my afterglow.

That "certain religion" used to be my religion. More than 20 years of attendance, a temple marriage and a couple years at BYU taught me quite a bit.

You claim there is no doctrine that specifically spells out what a married couple can or cannot do behind closed doors.

However, a letter from the first presidency to all bishops, stake presidents, etc. regarding interviewing for temple worthiness specifically addresses this issue.

In the section that addresses impure or unholy practices between married persons, the letter clearly states, "The First Presidency has interpreted oral sex as constituting an unnatural, impure, or unholy practice."

It's dated Jan. 5, 1982 and is signed by the first presidency.

Heady stuff. I personally would have softened the message with a snappy slogan like, "Church Blows-So You Don't Have To."

If the ban has been lifted, please let us know. I would hate to think there are LDS couples out there unnecessarily avoiding good times.

Gordon Swift

Junior, Chemistry