That's according to Charlotte de Backer, PhD, a lecturer in the media and communication studies department at England's University of Leicester.

Why should people in relationships care about singles' romantic life? Perhaps they are "aware, to some degree, of [other people] who may serve as potential mates and as threats," de Backer says in a University of Leicester news release.

Gossip is at the heart of de Backer's graduate thesis in communication studies. In the thesis, de Backer calls gossip "chocolate for the mind," since "gossip is tempting and first boosts our happiness but can turn out bad [in] the long run."

The thesis, posted online, includes a study of relationship gossip in 84 undergraduate students at Belgium's University of Antwerp.

The students were about 19 years old, on average. Roughly half of them were in long-term relationships when the study was conducted in 2004-2005.

First, de Backer asked the students to imagine that they were about to get hired to work in an office. Next, she gave them a brochure to read about their imaginary future co-workers.

The brochure contained gossipy details from a fictional employee in the same imaginary office.

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

The fictional co-workers included "Stephanie," who was described as a single, rebellious, attractive graphic designer; "Carine," a jealous secretary; "Jean-Paul," the soon-to-be-divorced boss; and "Ricardo," a handsome graphic designer described as a "party boy."

The students read the profiles for 10-15 minutes. Then de Backer distracted the students giving the students an unrelated survey.

After the students completed the survey, de Backer surprised them with a pop quiz on their imaginary co-workers.

The quiz results show that, contrary to de Backer's predictions, single students weren't more likely than students in long-term relationships to remember gossip about characters of the opposite sex.

In addition, male and female students tended to remember whether their imaginary female co-workers were described as being physically attractive.

The students didn't appear to pay as much attention to whether their imaginary male co-workers were physically attractive.

The study doesn't prove that the students viewed their imaginary co-workers as potential boyfriends or girlfriends. More studies could provide further details on exactly what parts of relationship gossip are most tantalizing, de Backer suggests.

The Power Stretch is somewhat a form of the Length Xtender, except with a twist so to say. The reason I developed this exercise is because there was such a high demand by my clients to be able to make their testicles hang lower from their penis. The reason this was important is because it made you look more "hung" in the locker room or in the gym shower. Many men have a fear of showering at the gym because their testicles clung so close to their penis that it caused their penis to "point" instead of hang. This made their already small penis appear even smaller.

STARTING OUT:
Perform a good Hot Wrap around your penis and testicles for 5 minutes and dry with a soft towel after complete. Gently stretch out your penis and your testicles skin for several minutes until all the "tight" spots are well pliable and easily stretchable. Grasp around the base where your testicles meet under your penis. Squeeze lightly and your testicles should be tight together while you have the connecting flesh bound in your fist (your testicles should be on top of your fist and the connecting flesh should be inside your fist). Pull lightly down stretching your skin and connecting tissue. You should feel a light uncomfortable feeling in your testicles and inside your stomach. This is where you should stop pulling. Ease up, and pull again, over and over again for a few minutes. This will help lengthen the connecting tissue of your testicles and promote more blood to them, enhancing size and ejaculation volume.
Next, give it a rest and massage your testicles and the spaces in-between them for a few minutes to keep the blood flowing and the skin pliable.
Now, grab around your testicles like above and get a firm but comfortable grip. Take your other free hand and grab around your penis just below the head like in the Length Xtender. Now, pull down on the hand grasping around your testicles and up on the hand grasping your penis. You should feel a good stretch on the flesh that connects your testicles to your penis. Feel a good stretch and hold for a 10 count. Rest for a few seconds and continue 5 more times.
Rest for a few minutes and massage your testicles. Lightly slap your penis against your leg as well to get the blood flowing again.

THE EXERCISE:
• Start out again just like above, warming up and stretching out the skin.
• Grasp around your testicles and your penis again just like above and begin stretching. Stop when you feel a good stretch and hold for 20 seconds.
• After the 20 seconds, relax for a few seconds and grasp around your testicles and penis again.
• Stretch again only this time pulling your testicles to the left and your penis to your right. Feel a good stretch and hold for 20 seconds.
• Rest for 10 seconds.
• Stretch again only this time pulling your testicles to the right and your penis to your left. Feel a good stretch and hold for 20 seconds.
• Rest for 10 seconds.
• Stretch again only this time pulling your testicles down and your penis up. Feel a good stretch and hold for 30 seconds.
• Finish with a Hot Wrap for 5 minutes.

Many men perform this exercise daily for up to 30 minutes. You can use your own discretion on how long is enough for you. This exercise will lengthen your penis in both the flaccid and erect state and will cause your testicles to hang much lower, both in the shower and during intercourse. Listen to your body and don't squeeze or pull hard enough to cause pain or discomfort. Always perform a Hot Wrap to properly warm and to finish with. This will help prevent injury from over exercise.

This exercise is to be done ONLY by men who have already practiced and exercised all of the topics in our "Intro's" section of our manual. This exercise is quite intense and if you haven't exercised the topics in our "Intro's" section you are running a greater risk of forming bruising or blood spots on your penis.

WARMING UP:
A good warm up is needed before engaging in this exercise so that you will experience greater results, enjoyment, and ease of performance during the exercise. Start out by performing a Hot Wrap for about 5 minutes, then dry off thoroughly with a soft towel.
Using your choice of lubrication, message your penis by grabbing on top and on the bottom with your fingers and thumb, and gently slide it forward until a partial erection has been achieved. Once you have reached a partial erection you may begin Jelqing. (Once again, the correct way to Jelq is to grab all the way around your penis with your forefinger and thumb, and squeeze tight, then sliding your hand forward all the way to your head) Perform the Arabic Jelq method for 15 minutes, really concentrating on your penis elongating and stretching every time you milk forward. Watch your penises head expand every time you milk forward, concentrating on the blood filling every space within your penis. Do this continually without stopping.
After the 15 minutes have passed, perform 50 Kegels to warm up your PC muscle, holding the last one for 10 seconds. You are now ready for

The Power Jelq:
After warming up as described above, reapply your choice of lubrication to ensure a nice long session without having to stop to reapply. Now, as we discussed in The Arabic Jelq Method Intro, the proper way to do Jelq is to milk from base of your penis to bottom of the head with each stroke lasting approximately one second until you milk with the opposite hand. With The Power Jelq, each stroke should last 3-5 seconds with a good strong Kegel every 10 strokes to force more blood into the penis. This exercise is very simple and should be performed at least 5 times a week for at least 30 minutes continuous without stopping.
Here's a simple Power Jelq workout plan:
• Warm up for 15 minutes performing a Hot Wrap for 5 minutes and a Length Xtender for 10 minutes.
• Attain a partial erection and begin an Arabic Jelq session for 15 minutes to really expand your erectile tissue and prepare your penis for the Power Jelq.
• After 15 minutes of Arabic Jelqing, reapply a healthy amount of lubrication. You are now ready for a Power Jelq workout.
• Begin just like you do when performing Jelq, only this time perform a strong PC Flex and watch as more blood suddenly fills your penis when you flex.
• As soon as you see the sudden increase of blood when you Kegel, Jelq down slowly taking about 3 seconds to reach the base of your head.
• As you Jelq down slowly, you should feel a tingling sensation in your head. This tingling is your blood spaces expanding with blood as you Jelq down.
• Perform the 3-second slow Jelq 9 more times then perform another strong PC Flex. Follow with an immediate strong Jelq and feel the expansion as you reach the base of your head. Continue with this pattern for 30 minutes.

Remember, 9 strong Jelqs then a strong PC Flex & Jelq. Follow this pattern over an over again for 30 minutes. After the 30 minutes is over, your penis should feel extremely worked and look very "pumped". Perform a Hot Wrap for 5 minutes to end your workout.
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Since this exercise is very intense and a critical part in the enlarging aspect of our manual, it is very common for some men to cause red colored bruising, blood spots, or purple dots on their penis. If such marks appear on your penis, do not worry because they are quite normal and harmless. If there were pain from the marks, it would be wise to take a few days off and let your penis heal. Remember that properly warming up before engaging into intense penile exercise will virtually eliminate the chance for painful bruising from the exercise Program. Continually revise our manual and make sure you are doing all of the exercises the right way. Also, just performing one of the exercises will not give you the results that you are striving for. You must incorporate the exercises of interest to you together in a complete workout and you must use this workout daily. I spend about and hour and a half each day on these particular exercises. Some of you say that you don't have enough time during the day to do them. I say that is B.S., and I guarantee the average man spends much more than 3 hours per day on things that do not matter, such as watching sports, television, or excess sleeping. You need to decide where your time is better off spent.

The purpose in penis enlargement the right way is to enlarge the Corpora Cavernosa and all surrounding spongy tissue that fills with blood when you get an erection. If you start out performing the exercises cold, you will experience more blood spots and bumps than you would if you prepared your penis for the physical workout it is about to undergo. Just as you should warm up your body and muscle tissue before you workout, the same should go for your penis. This will prepare your penis for the workout ahead by making the blood spaces in the Corpora Cavernosa hot, which expands the tissue and makes it more flexible and spongy. This exercise is called the hot wrap warm up, and should be done before and after every workout you do to your penis and testicles.

First off, start out by taking your penis in the flaccid state and grabbing around the head firmly, but not hard enough to cause pain. Now, pull out with medium force, feeling a stretch at the base and the middle of the penis. Release every 10 seconds and repeat 10 times. For a few of the stretches rotate your penis in a circle, 10 times to the left, and 10 times to the right. This exercise will stretch out your penis and help prepare for the workout ahead. After you feel that your penis has been stretched out thoroughly, message yourself to a partial erection. Now, we call this warm up technique the "hot wrap" because you utilize a hot washcloth to expand and warm the tissue in your penis and testicles. BUT, there are other effective if not more effective methods of warming up that you may wish to utilize instead of the using a washcloth. Regardless, we are going to explain the washcloth technique first, then list the others last.

Here we go:
After stretching out your penis as outlined above, get a large wash cloth and soak it under hot water for a minute or so. Stand in the tub and wrap the washcloth around your penis and testicles. This will feel HOT and you will be tempted to pull it away, but persevere because the hot sensation will subside very quickly. Now, sit on the edge of the tub with your feet in the tub so that you will be comfortable and the water dripping from the cloth will run into the tub and not the floor. Hold this cloth onto your penis and testicles for 2 minutes, and repeat the process 5 times to ensure the cloth keeps its heat. This warm up is done to promote and keep blood within the penis, keeping the blood spaces larger and more flexible. This will aid in faster progress and size gain, as well as promote good blood circulation.

Another way to warm up with this general type of idea is to submerse in a hot bath or hot tub, whichever you have access to. After performing the stretching warm up, fill the bathtub with hot water, filling it just high enough to submerse yourself up to your waist. If you have a hot tub, turn the temperature up to 104 degrees and submerse yourself the same way as the tub. Once in and adjusted to the heat, stretch and message your penis, pulling it out and rotating it within the tub. Do this for 10-15 minutes before getting out. Do not stay in too long due to the fact that the temperature should be a great deal higher than normal. Prolonged exposure to this kind of heat will cause heat exhaustion and dehydration. Whichever technique you choose to perform to warm up, ALWAYS do it before and after your workout. This will ensure faster, better results with less chance of spots, bumps, and injury from an unprepared Corpora Cavernosa.