Doing a perfectly legit search

[Roadstergal]

I come across this:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15738693&query_hl=2

Best peer-reviewed study title I've come across yet.  Pantablo and Pandy, were you in on it?

[pandy]

Oh RIGHT!! Perfectly legit (read: innocent), my left foot!!  :nana:

As for whether or not we were in on it, it was a double-blind study, so we couldn't see each other, silly!  :mrgreen:

[pantablo]

Oh RIGHT!! Perfectly legit (read: innocent), my left foot!!  :nana:

As for whether or not we were in on it, it was a double-blind study, so we couldn't see each other, silly!  :mrgreen:

uh, +1.

"...commonplace fleshy phenomena. Our study probes this discrepancy."

I dont know what any of you are talking about. :kiss:

[pandy]

And I certainly don't recall any probes! Sheesh!  


:lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[pantablo]

yeah, you'd remember that! :mrgreen:

[pandy]

Hmph! I most certainly would!  


I mean  :nana:

:mrgreen: <--- I wish there was a "rolling on the floor laughing my can off" emoticon here  

[yamahonkawazuki]

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:


Flirting on the internet and the hickey: a hermeneutic.

Alapack R, Blichfeldt MF, Elden A.

Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. richard.alapack@svt.ntnu.no

Nowadays, erotic behaviour in cyberspace is customary. Online dating is a million dollar industry. Within the everyday politics of erotic-romantic relationships, however, males and females still blush in each other's presence, caress tenderly and trade hickeys. Mainstream social science researches cyber-behaviour voluminously, but totally ignores commonplace fleshy phenomena. Our study probes this discrepancy. What does it mean that virtual sex is winning the current war between desire and technology? Why is the 'flesh' becoming increasingly marginalized? To accomplish our aim, we use a phenomenological-hermeneutic method. Our basic results are two narratives: (1) interpretations about Internet flirting; and (2) descriptive finding about the hickey. Then, in order to reach general conclusions, we interpret the two studies in light of each other. It is a double hermeneutic. The two target phenomena share the similarity of manifesting the same "lovemap," "solicitation and allure." But they also differ sharply. Internet flirting exemplifies "mirror enchantment"; whereas the hickey showcases a phenomenology of the eyes, touch, dialogue and physical presence. We explain Western culture's preference for technology to the neglect of 'live' embodiment as manifesting a repetition of Platonic-Christendom's contempt for the flesh and horror of passionate tenderness. Our culture, on the cusp between modernity and post-modernity, displays dread concerning the flesh by obsessive concerns with safety-security and with modulating excesses. Are not absolute control and perfect security, however, merely illusions? We showcase the positive aspects of seemingly unsafe values: psychological vulnerability, daring, and risk.

[pandy]

One thing I *don't* get is their reference to erotic behaviour on the net in an article about netflirting. Flirting on the net isn't erotic! It's just good clean fun!  :nana:

[dmanben]

Damn,  I've been using PubMed for all the wrong reasons.  Screw electromobility shift assays and promoter bashing I want in on those studies.

[yamahonkawazuki]

One thing I *don't* get is their reference to erotic behaviour on the net in an article about netflirting. Flirting on the net isn't erotic! It's just good clean fun!  :nana:

. or could be dirty fun? lol :kiss:

[pandy]

or could be dirty fun? lol :kiss:

pffft...that's for boyz...we grliez are pristine.  :nana:  :mrgreen:

[yamahonkawazuki]

uh-huh sure y'all are lol rotflmao  :lol:  :nana:    :kiss:

[pandy]

<----look at that shiny halo! That proves it!  :mrgreen:

[yamahonkawazuki]

hmmmmmmmm the juries still out on that one  :mrgreen:    :kiss:  :nana:  :kiss:

[pandy]

The jury came back LONG ago, but don't believe a WORD that pack of liars says!!!!!!!  :mrgreen: