I Love You Carl!

I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die,
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars grow old.

~ by William Shakespeare ~

Love, Erin

Oral Sex Causes Cancer?

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Certain cases of mouth cancer appear to be caused by a virus that can be contracted during oral sex, media reported, quoting a new Swedish study.

People who contract a high-risk variety of the human papilloma virus, HPV, during oral sex are more likely to fall ill with mouth cancer, according to a study conducted at the Malmo University Faculty of Odontology in southern Sweden.

"You should avoid having oral sex," dentist and researcher Kerstin Rosenquist, who headed the study, told Swedish news agency TT.
HPV is a wart virus that causes many cervical cancers, including endometrial cancer (in the uterus).

Comparing 132 patients with mouth cancer with a control group of 320 healthy people, Rosenquist found that 36 percent of the cancer patients were carriers of HPV while only one percent of the control group had the virus.

The main factors that contribute to mouth cancer, most commonly contracted by middle aged and older men, are smoking and drinking alcohol, scientists agree.

"But in recent years the illness has been on the rise among young individuals and we don't know why. But one could speculate that this virus (HPV) is one of the factors," Rosenquist said.

Her findings confirm other international studies in recent years.
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I sure HOPE that isn't true!!


May Your Heart Find Love-
Countess

Recipe For Forever

Gather all of the ingredients together, So that they are close at hand!
Get a clean cloth and wipe the bowl clean of any lingering *dust* from the past.





Take MATURITY, RESPECT, and FRIENDSHIP, and stir gently.
Add unlimited amounts of COMPASSION and KINDNESS, And mix well.
To this, add CARING by the handfuls, and fold in TRUST.
Continue stirring gently, adding LISTENING, HONESTY, and large amounts of COMMUNICATION.
Slip in some DREAMS, GOALS, And firm pieces of KEEPING PROMISES.
Bake in a home filled with PEACE, BEAUTY, and SERENITY.
Before you taste the finished product, sprinkle liberally with PATIENCE, LOVE, and a touch of SPICE.
Serve very hot, with IMAGINATION on the side.

Author Unknown


May Love Find Your Heart-
Countess

What Kind of Kisser Are You?

You're a Romantic Kisser

For you, kissing is all about feeling the romance You love to kiss under the stars or by the sea The perfect kiss involves the perfect mood It's pretty common for kisses to sweep you off your feet

What Kind of Kisser Are You?

May Love Find Your Heart -
Countess

Boobie-Thon starts Today!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

Today starts the Fourth Annual Blogger Boobie-Thon!
This is a great event to help raise money for the fight against Breast Cancer!

Women submit pictures of your bare boobies, painted or creativly covered.

Men they are taking pics of your Boobies too! Send in pics of your Pectorals.

I didn't know this until I saw it on the site, but LOTS of men die from breast cancer too!

Click on this link to read the article about Breast Cancer in Men! Male Breast Cancer.

The bare breasted pics will be shown to people who pay a donation of $50.00 or more!

There is even a High Rollers Club for those who donate more than $50.00. They get access to all the pics from 2003, 2004, and 2005!

Come one people, submit your photos to help the cause or donate money to the cause.

Pass the word around about the Boobie-Thon!

You can also Help Fund A Mammogram -->> Fund A Mammogram or click on the banner on that site to help the cause for Free.

Women remember to check yourselves often for lumps. Know what you feel like so you know what is not normal for you.








May Love Find Your Heart -
Countess

Orgasms are a Turn-OFF for Women

25 June 2005
NewScientist.com news service
Michael Le Page

FOR women, it seems, sex is a big turn-off. A scanning study has revealed that many areas of the brain switch off during orgasm - including those involved in emotion.

"At the moment of orgasm, women do not have any emotional feelings," says Gert Holstege of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His team recruited 13 healthy heterosexual women and their partners. The women were asked to lie with their heads in a PET scanner while the team compared their brain activity in four states: resting, faking an orgasm, having their clitoris stimulated by their partner, and clitoral stimulation to the point of orgasm.

As the women were stimulated, activity rose in one sensory part of the brain but fell in the amygdala and hippocampus, areas involved in alertness and anxiety. During orgasm, activity decreased in many more areas of the brain, Holstege told a meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology in Copenhagen this week. Only one part of the brain, in the cerebellum, was more active in women during orgasm. The cerebellum is generally associated with coordinating movement.

The findings appear to confirm what we already know: that women cannot enjoy sex unless they are relaxed and free from worries and distractions. Looked at from an evolutionary point of view, it could be that the brain switches off the emotions during sex because at such times reproduction and survival of the species become more important than survival of the individual.

The team has already done a similar study with 11 men, which revealed far less deactivation during orgasm than in women. However, Holstege says the results are probably unreliable because PET scanners measure activity over 2 minutes - and in men it's all over in a few seconds.

From issue 2505 of New Scientist magazine, 25 June 2005, page 14

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May Love Find Your Heart -
Countess

Tears Of Crimson Blood

My Heart cries hot tears of crimson blood,

My Soul aches at being torn from it's twin,

My Mind screams with rage & confutsion,

My body has lost it's longing & desire it once felt,

I'm in the eye of a tornado & if I move one way or the other I will surly die,

There is nothing to do except wait out the storm & hope I survive.

Copyright ©2005 Countess Demetria