Bill  wrote:

> Hey Guys; is it just me or what?
> 
> Over the course of my life I have noticed a phenomenon which occurs
> when I start to  come down with an illness. Not when I have a full
> blown sickness, but just at the insipient stages where I'm just
> starting to feel ill.
> I've noticed I become,,, err,,,umm,,, how should I say it,,, well I
> become amourous?,, no I should say it, outright horney!
> 
> I believe there are 3 possible reasons for this (1 evolutionary)
> 
> 1.  It may be just a physiologic effect due changeing blood chemistry
> or hormones and thus just a fluke.
> 
> or
> 
> 2.  I suspect there could be an evolutionary benefit. Which is that in
> our evolutionary past, any organism that becomes ill from a pathogen,
> would benefit reproductively if it took one last kick at the cat so to
> speak. Many organism succumb to illness, and it might be natural
> selection at work which favors any organism that might spread a few
> more genes around at this critcal stage while it's still able to do
> so.
> 
> or
> 
> 3. Maybe it's just me??
> 
> How about it guys?????

It's just guys. Any change will trigger horniness. Getting out of bed.
getting into bed. Reading abstruse scientific papers. It goes away at
40, though, so hang in there...
-- 
John Wilkins
DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?
wilkins.id.au
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