I am sure there is no shortage of women who would volunteer to be the
driver.

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Cold Water <[email protected]> wrote:

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> drivers<http://mindhacks.com/2010/12/28/road-kill-for-hot-lady-drivers/>
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> via Mind Hacks by vaughanbell on 12/27/10
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> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/563603271/>
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> In 1960, the *American Journal of Psychiatry* reported on “an unusual
> perversion”, in a case <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14405114> of a
> man with “the desire to be injured by an automobile operated by a woman.”
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> The patient, a man in his late twenties, reported a periodic desire to be
> injured by a woman operating an automobile. This wish, present since
> adolescence, he had by dint of great ingenuity and effort, gratified
> hundreds of times without serious injury or detection. Satisfaction could be
> obtained by inhaling exhaust fumes, having a limb run over on a yielding
> surface to avoid appreciable damage or by being pressed against a wall by
> the vehicle.
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> Gratification was enhanced if the woman were attractive by conventional
> standards. Injuries inflicted by men operating automobiles or other types of
> injury inflicted by women had no meaning. He experienced pleasure from the
> experience, thus establishing the symptom as a perversion rather than a
> compulsion.
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> Although psychiatry no longer uses the word perversion (problematic sexual
> compulsions are now called 
> ‘paraphilias<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia>‘)
> the introduction to the case study says, in a rather understated way, that
> “some perversions, while representing formidable psychopathology, are also
> tributes to the complexity of the human mind.”
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> The article additionally notes that the patient “was ashamed of his symptom
> but somewhat proud of its unusual nature.”
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> Link <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14405114> to PubMed entry for
> case study.
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