Authors: Desmond Ayim-Aboagye, Mercy Tekpertey.
Objectives: This study aims to investigate whether sexual intercourse before disputation could capacitate individuals to perform better. This might help us to dispel the view that a neurological disorder is not behind audience fear.
Method: This investigation used the field experiment method (uncontrolled) to collect empirical data. It was to investigate if sexual experience before the defense could motivate graduates to perform better in their defense. The field experiment was not observational learning but experiential moments where graduates would account for their experiences. All told, 22 college graduates who had just completed their dissertations and were about to defend them gave their time to participate in the investigation. We assigned the sample in the experiment to 11 members in the experimental group (9 women and 2 men) and 11 members in the control group (10 women and 1 man). The mean age was 26.9. There was the need to have a third condition/group who were the three neurological disorder patients. The experimental group had sexual intercourse early in the morning (between 4.00 a. m. and 8.a. m.) before coming to face the crowd at 9.00 a. m. The control group, on the other hand, ate a nice favorite food before they came to meet the audience. The confidential aides' testimonies gave the third group (condition) experiences of sex since many adherents who were women had corroborated the numerous occasions they took place. Since the experimental and control groups did these acts right in their home environments before coming, we provided them some additional reminders of these sensual experiences by providing them bottles of wine, snacks, and coffee or tea to augment their emotions and feelings before the defense. Additionally, we lighted candles and played taperecorded music, which was romantic instrumental music.
Results: Women in the experimental group felt relaxed with sex. It helped them to reduce their anxiety. Some of these persons experienced tension reduction and relaxation during the defense. Some control group members felt dizzy and calm with the wine which was given to them before the commencement of their defense. Though they did not have the manipulation with sex, the food eating did not make them hungry, as they could concentrate. For the third condition, sex was the symbol of relaxation and tension reduction even though many people attributed its use to juju or charms that helped these individuals to perform better in the podium and pulpits. For these individuals who had neurological symptoms, sex was a means to treat their secret chronic pain, which they were suffering. Their constant sex addiction gave us the impression that without these behaviors, they could have broken down early. Thus it was used to protect their unhealthy states which were plagued with pain, seizures, frustration, brain attack, which could release in public if they were to experience excessive tension while in the crowd.
Conclusion: This field experiment revealed that there are tension reduction and relaxation when some individuals have sex. Yet with the neurological patients, it is the reduction from tension and chronic neuropathic pain that they sought. It was not crowded fear that motivated them to be obsessed with sex.
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