It just seems intuitive that people who undergo plastic surgery to make themselves look better probably contain a higher proportion of people whose self esteem depends on being attractive to the opposite sex, and that as they get older their satisfaction with life is likely to diminish. Michael Jackson needs to be put on permanent suicide watch, I guess.

Although breast implant surgery is relatively common and relatively safe, it is still a huge decision to go under anesthetic, under the knife, and pay a large amount of money too, so women who have this surgery must have very high hopes, which won't always be fulfilled. The tits may look better, but the husband may still stray.

As I have several dental crowns, and more pending I would love to see a study on any correlation between dental work and suicide, and in particular as to the proximity of post dental suicides to receipt of the bill.

On a further personal note, as a connoisseur of the female form, it is usually very obvious when breasts have been enhanced (yes, Victoria Beckham) and the resulting cartoonish, hemispherical globes are not particularly appealing (I don't think). The mental effect of the surgery on others is like seeing all those members of congress wearing thick rugs on their heads without a grey hair in sight. It is magnificent, but you wouldn't want it in your family.

... of The King and I for you to watch together, then swoon over how sexy Yul Brynner is. Then drag him off to bed and perform ike a wild thing. Within a week he will have shaved his head (and goodness knows what else) for good and this issue will never arise again.

The next thing we know, Broadsheet will be telling us that all the children in Lake Wobegon are not above average.

Here are some explanations for the discrepancies, roughly in order of significance.

a. All men are born liars, especially when it comes to sex.

b. More men than women are born homosexuals.

c. Both a and b are true.

d. Some men use prostitutes to inflate their body count.

e. There are more male sex tourists than women.

f. Many women lie.

g. Statistical methods of collecting data are all screwed up. One would expect the number of women who have had one male partner to be the same as the number of men who have had one female partner, but you cannot determine this from the numbers, because the CDC puts 0 and 1 in same group, which is absurd. So the only difference between a virgin and a non virgin is that they have had sex? Well, duh!

Amerigo: "One would expect the number of women who have had one male partner to be the same as the number of men who have had one female partner"

Why? There is nothing that would make this necessarily true. I certainly would not expect it, and know, definitely, of at least one case that would upset your proposed balance.

I was wrong. But now would you expect more singleton women to have had sex with promiscuous men, or more singleton men to have had sex with only one promiscuous women? Probably the latter. but then we come right back to the initial issue that the numbers don't add up.

Most men have above average sex, and most women below average. It's a mean old world when you cross the median.

Viagra is the greatest marital aid known to the human race, because it enables men to have sex with women whom they cannot stand the sight of.

One of the main reasons for male infidelity is the desire to experience sexual arousal again before death. Hence Viagra (and analogous drugs) is a fine prophylactic for infidelity.

At least that is the theory. In practise, I suspect a lot of men who try Viagra with their wives immediately remember exactly why they stopped having sex with her in the first place and turn their gaze elsewhere.

However the whole point of advertising products is to fool people into buying them, and if Pfizer can get women to nag their husbands to ask the doctor if a prescription of Viagra might be good for them, then that could be good for sales.

Now do we get it?

OK, I guess I am stupid, but I don't really understand this LW. Why would one write for oneself? The whole point of writing is to communicate something to others and hopefully to influence them, inspire them, change the way they think--or at least teach them something, or give them a new way of seeing.

In fact you can't write well without thinking about who you are writing for. It can't be done.

Writing as a form of verbal masturbation, a spinning of the mental wheels, a form of exercise for the hands and fingers? Oh, well.