info - Driving compared to sex (clean)

["Lin, Gary" <Gary.Lin@wang.com>]

FYI.  Also, could someone pass the credit card info on to the Passat,
Beetle, and any other VW lists.

AND YOU WONDER WHY YOU LIKE BOTH DRIVING AND SEX:  (quoting Marsh & Collett
of Oxford, in their book "Driving Passion: The Psychology of the Car") "The
passion most clearly linked with the automobile ... is purely sexual ... As
a human body accelerates, nerves and muscles all over the body react.
Signals are sent through the spinal cord, which in turn increases muscle
tone, particularly in areas such as the neck, that are most affected by
acceleration forces.  This vastly increases the body's state of arousal."

"The central nervous system translates this arousal into a number of
emotions.  For some people it is pure fear.  Others perceive this basic
emotional state as intensely pleasurable.  The fear and the state of
alertness are still there, but they have been mastered.  Acceleration is
under one's control, and the result is a flush of emotion that some liken to
orgasm."

Gary Lin