This message has been sent to you for good luck in sex. The original is in a room in Palaiseau. It has been sent around the world nine times.Now sex has been sent to you. The “Hot Sex Fairy” will visit you within four days of receiving this message, provided you, in turn, send it on.If you don’t then you will never receive good sex again for the rest of your life. You will eventually become celibate, and your genitals will rot and fall off.This is no joke! Send copies to people you think need sex (who doesn’t?). Don’t send money, as the fate of your genitals has no price. Do not keep this message. This message must leave your e-mail in 96 hours.Please send ten copies and see what happens in four days. Since the copy must tour the world, you must send it. This is true, even if you are not superstitious.GOOD SEX, but please remember: 10 copies of this message must leave your e-mail in 96 hours or you will not have good sex again for the rest of your life!!!!   

Well, I had to research this one out. After all, sex is my favorite subject and I hate to see any misinformation circulated about it. The following is all ten points that preceded the above quote.

1. Sex is a beauty treatment. Scientific tests find that when women make love they produce amounts of the hormone estrogen, which makes hair shine and skin smooth. 

It is true that women release estrogen during sex. The hormone causes the vaginal walls to separate and secrete lubricant. The cells in the walls also lengthen in preparation for intercourse. However, estrogen is generally present at all times in a woman’s system. But the amount of estrogen in the system has also been linked to a woman’s apparent appeal. Researchers found that women with greater amounts of estrogen are found more attractive by viewers. Don’t let this make you think that those pulp Aphrodites in the magazines are just estrogen machines. Researchers also found that makeup can disguise or enhance the cues produced by estrogen. Further testing showed that women with balanced facial proportions and an apparent healthfulness were seen as more attractive.

• The New Scientist
• Health – Daily News Central

2. Gentle, relaxed lovemaking reduces your chances of suffering dermatitis, skin rashes and blemishes. The sweat produced cleanses the pores and makes your skin glow.

Any activity that causes perspiration will be beneficial. Not only does the high saline content of perspiration cleanse pores, but sweating leaches out of the body toxins collected in the fatty cells below the dermis. Sex just happens to be one of the more pleasant ways to get sweaty. Sex in a sauna could be just the right medicine for what ails.

3. Lovemaking can burn up those calories you piled on during that romantic dinner. 

Okay folks, this one needs to be nipped in the bud. First, any activity burns calories. Second, sex does not burn nearly as many calories as you might think. Two separate calorie calculators gave nearly the same result. I plugged in my 190lbs. and average 20 minute duration and only burned between 23 and 39 calories. When I changed the parameter from moderate sexual activity to vigorous, I maxed out at 45 calories burned. A brisk walk for the same period of time netted me four times the calories burned. Will this cause me to exclude sex from my exercise plan? Hell no!

• Healthy Weight Forum
• Fit Watch
• For Some laughs see:
• Calorie Lab
• Funny-Games
• Calories Burned During Sex

4. Sex is one of the safest sports you can take up. It stretches and tones up just about every muscle in the body. It’s more enjoyable than swimming 20 laps, and you don’t need special sneakers!

Well, I am not going to argue this one. I’ll just say that to tone and stretch muscles, the sex needs to be sustained for longer than a few minutes and more varied than the missionary position guys. Have some fun. Get a couple of Bendy toys and experiment. Planning is important when attempting new silk sheet acrobatics. Also stretching is a must. A leg cramp is a real mood killer.

5. Sex is an instant cure for mild depression. It releases endorphins into the bloodstream, producing a sense of euphoria and leaving you with a feeling of well-being.   

This line should not be misconstrued as a prescription for all depression. The commonsense approach is that if most aspects of your life are in order and going well, but you have the blues one day, then sex can be a good pick-me-up. However, if your perception of life is generally bleak and that feeling persists from day to day, then don’t count on sex changing your perceptions. Depression can be a serious problem and should be diagnosed by professionals. Endorphins do create a sense of well-being, but so do many narcotics. As a matter of fact opioids like heroine act on the same receptor cells as endorphins and have an analgesic affect on our system. Tie the euphoric feelings of endorphins in a system to depression and you have a cocktail for addiction.

• Endorphins: Free Smack! by Jasmine Sailing
• Go Ask Alice
• Endorphin Addiction

6. The more sex you have, the more you will be offered. The sexually active body gives off greater quantities of chemicals called pheromones. These subtle sex perfumes drive the opposite sex crazy!

I haven’t been able to confirm this one. While it is widely agreed that pheromones will increase a person’s sexual attractiveness. There is no research that indicates that more pheromones are released because of sex. Personally, I think if you are getting laid regularly, it will show in your demeanor. Subtle languages tell potential partners that others found you worthy so you are worth their risk, too. A married friend claims that he gets hit on more now than when he was single.

7. Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. IT IS 10 TIMES MORE EFFECTIVE THAN VALIUM.  

Duh. Any guy that has rolled over after sex can tell you this one. Both men a women release a large amount of dopamine into their bodies during sex. This heightens the pleasure response. Prolactin, a hormone also found in men and women, is released to break down the dopamine. The reason that men crash is that our physiology is trying to break down the prolactin. Women secrete prolactin to signal lactation to the mammary glands. Women are biologically capable of dealing with this hormone. Give me a few minutes and I’ll be right back.

8. Kissing each day will keep the dentist away. Kissing encourages saliva to wash food from the teeth and lowers the level of the acid that causes decay, preventing plaque build-up.   

“Kiss me. I am trying to rinse out the piece of beef stuck between my molars.” Dental hygiene is the last thing I want to be thinking about when I am sucking face with a significant other. If I am concerned about this, I’ll excuse myself and have a g
ood rinse.

9. Sex actually relieves headaches. A lovemaking session can release the tension that restricts blood vessels in the brain.   

We already know that sex can relieve stress. As stress is the greatest cause of headaches, it only makes sense that sex relieves headaches. On the other hand, the excitation stage causes blood vessels to dilate so as to allow more blood to head for the genitals. A condition called “coital cephalgia” arises when too much blood is in the brain and muscles around the neck and shoulders are constricted. The condition is not an indicator of health problems and occurs in one of 360 headaches. Believe it or not, men suffer from “sex headaches” more often than women. “Not tonight, honey. I might get a sex headache.” Yeah, like any guy would ever say that. Give me two aspirin and we’ll risk it.

• Eronaut

10. A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.

Okay, this one is pure crappola. There is nothing on the InterWebs to support this line. Moreover, think about it rationally. Who is going to get in the sack with a snot-nosed sneezing machine to test this? Okay, there are a few of you on the fringe. But still, ick!You do enough digging around and you find some pretty interesting things. Many of the above items have some basis in fact. Much like the Legend of Zorro. Also like the legend, more is embellished by the mind than what actually is supported by fact.