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Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:00 pm
by _Runtu
My middle son is reading a book about handwriting analysis called, appropriately enough, "Sex, Lies, and Handwriting," which you can preview from Simon and Schuster:

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Sex-L ... wse_inside

He showed me the section "From the Erogenous Zone to the Twilight Zone," which included the following:

What does it mean if a guy's large down there?

Huge lower loops signify a huge appetite--for physical, sexual, or material gratification. But a huge lower zone does not necessarily mean someone is a good lover. Large loops are about quantity, not quality.

Here's the handwriting of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon Church). Notice the enormous lower loop in the J in his name "Joseph," as a sign of his oversized libido. In fact, Mr. Smith did like the ladies. He married thirty-three of them.

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Smith married Emma Hale in 1827. Six years later, he married his second wife, 16-year-old Fanny Alger, who was working in the Smith household as a maid. Smith later claimed that an angel with a mighty sword came to him and told him to take another wife, or die. So he took another, and then another, and another.

The angel would return many times. Smith's brides ranged in age from fourteen to fifty-eight and included five pairs of sisters, a mother and daughter, and eleven women who were already married. Outside of a small circle of family and church elders, only a few in the Mormon community knew of Smith's polygamous marriages.

That was to change in June 1844, when a group of disenchanted followers, claiming that Smith had attempted to steal their wives, published a newspaper critical of Smith. When Smith tried to squash his critics by smashing their printing press and encircling them with Mormon militiamen, his heavy-handed tactics backfired. The governor of Illinois had Smith arrested and jailed. A few days later, an armed mob rushed the jail. Shots were fired. As Smith fell from a second-floor window, he cried out, "Oh Lord, My God!" Joseph Smith was dead at the age of thirty-nine.


My son thought it was kind of funny to see Joseph Smith used as an example of someone with an enormous libido, but I suppose it fits.

Re: Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:07 pm
by _Morley
Damn, Runtu. Now you've got me looking at the lower loops in how I write my name.

Re: Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:26 pm
by _MrStakhanovite
standard anti-Mormon lies, brought up by the mainstream liberal media to support the pseudo-science of hand writing analysis.

Re: Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:32 pm
by _The Nehor
Oh crap, my handwriting indicates I have an even more oversized libido. I guess that means I have to marry at least 34 women? I better start lowering my standards now.

Re: Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:35 pm
by _stemelbow
Whatever...That lower loop is tiny compared to the lower loops I write. I thought the joke was going to be the Joseph Smith' writing showed tiny lower loops.

just sayin....

Re: Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:39 pm
by _Runtu
No joke. My son and I both thought it was amusing that they used Joseph Smith as an example.

Re: Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:59 pm
by _stemelbow
Runtu wrote:No joke. My son and I both thought it was amusing that they used Joseph Smith as an example.


dangit I'm always having to explain my jokes. Yes, my daddy told me that means they aren't very good. Oh well.

Re: Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:04 am
by _jon
So, just for clarity:

Joseph Smith 'married' significant numbers of women.
Joseph Smith 'married' girls as young as 14 years of age.
Joseph Smith 'married' sisters.
Joseph Smith 'married' mothers and their daughters.
Joseph Smith 'married' nearly a dozen women who already had living husbands.

The fact that a study of his handwriting draws conclusions that support the above historical facts is not being 'anti-mormon'. It's just pointing out an uncomfortable truth - Joseph Smith had a liking for the single ladies, and the single girls, and the married types...