Someone called 'Head In Clouds' said "Is there any relation between the music you listen to and your sexual life? Or is just an abusive statement?" ummm ... I think it kinda is an abusive statement. But, nevertheless, I attach the following article a freind e-mailed me a year or so ago. (Take as a given that The Smiths and B&S have a *similar* sort of fanbase .....) STUDY PROVES SMITHS FANS NOT GETTING ANY A study conducted by anthropologists at the University of Michigan has revealed what many music listeners have long suspected: that teen fans of U.K. eighties band The Smiths have sexual intercourse about one-tenth as often as other teens. "It's not that they don't want to have sex," said Professor Marvin Mitchelson who led the study "It's more a case of their persistent melancholy and lack of self-esteem, which makes them completely unattractive to their peers." The study reveals that while the average teen loses their virginity at or around the age of 16, and have varied sexual relations approximately 10-15 times a year, Smiths fans tend to retain their virginity until at least their second year of college, while those who are having sex do so an average of two or three times a year (but they cry through the whole experience). "These fans spend their time idolizing dead movie stars, sipping tea, wearing fuzzy sweaters and visiting poets' graves. They then go home, and they cry and they want to die," Mitchelson explains. "You can understand why their leader (Morrissey) claimed to be asexual." Local 17 year-old Smiths fan Brian Orzaball said the study findings didn't really surprise him. "I was sort of seeing this girl Becky from the Drama Club for a little while," said Orzaball. "The thing is, she really needs to concentrate on her school and her poetry right now, and doesn't really have time for a relationship." Orzaball added that he "would really like to get some", but acknowledged that the prospects don't look good for at least the rest of the school year. There. And now ..... THERE IS NO NEED TO MAIL ME, VIA THE LIST, OR OFF-LINE, WITH A JUSTIFICATION OF YOUR SEXUAL PROWESS. I will not take kindly to any e-mails saying things like "I like B&S and I'm a huge great stud" or "I slept with 28 men/women last night" etc. The above is supposed to be *funny*. So there ..... Lawrence +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+