Don't Like Public Speaking? Here's Your Solution

[LoKyBuckeye]

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Update: Thursday, January 26, 2006. 9:22am (AEDT)

Researchers say sexual intercourse can help calm the nerves in stressful situations. (ABC TV)

Sex calms nerves before public speaking: study

Forget pretending you are talking to one person or concentrating on a single point in the audience - having sex is good way to calm nerves before giving a speech or presentation.

But Stuart Brody, a psychologist at the University of Paisley in Scotland says it has to be full sexual intercourse to get the best results.

He studied nearly 50 men and women who recorded their sexual activities for two weeks and analysed its impact on their blood pressure levels when under acute stress, such as when giving a speech.

He discovered the volunteers who had sexual intercourse were the least stressed and had blood pressure levels that returned to normal more quickly than people who engaged in other types of sex.

But people who had abstained from sex had the highest blood pressure response to stress.

Even after taking into account stress due to work or other factors, the range of responses to stress were best explained by sexual behaviour.

"The effects are not attributable simply to the short-term relief afforded by orgasm but rather, endure for at least a week," he told New Scientist magazine.

He believes the release of the so-called "pair bonding" hormone oxytocin might explain the calming effect.

- Reuters

 

[Thump]

I remember in grad school we had to take this music ed. class and one of our assignments was to lead our class in the singing of a song.

I was petrified, so what did I do, I got 10 of my classmates to head to BW3's before class and we proceeded to get loaded.

Man that made singing a LOT easier.

 

[Wingate1217]

So that has been my problem all these years. I can see it now. "Baby, but I am giving a speech in an hour!"

Wife: "Another one? That's four for today!"

 

[exhawg]

Ah so that was Clinton's secret!!! :p

 

[BuckPshrink]

As always, the press screws (sic) the story up. One must have full intercourse ON STAGE prior to the speech. But they tend to remain extremely nervous boinking in public....

 

[Deety]

Spspspeaking in ppppublblblblic? Not a pppproblblblblem.

 

[BB73]

Would jerking off behind the podium while you're speaking work?

 

[BuckBackHome]

I just spent the last two days at a conference. I have come to the conclusion people in my profession, who speak to the public every day, suck at giving speeches. I do not mind speaking in public as long as I am not supposed to follow a script.

 

[Buckeye86]

Bush needs to get laid.

 

[Golferdow01]

Would jerking off behind the podium while you're speaking work?

I bet Lewinsky would hide in the podium and give Bill a quickie while he was speaking, unless it was the State of the Union Address...now that's where she's a viking!

 

[LoKyBuckeye]

Would jerking off behind the podium while you're speaking work?

not the same thing... we'll have to do a study on it to find out.

 

[BB73]

not the same thing... we'll have to do a study on it to find out.

Send the request for funds like this: "Public Speaking while Pubic Spanking - A Hands-On Study "

 

[Zurp]

So the hosts of the more fancy seminars with this or that theme are going to hire people to wait off-stage to "help" people prepare for their speeches? Sounds like a good idea to me.